Annual Report, AGM 2024 Notice and Voting
The IMA’s Annual Report for Trustees and Members for 2023 merges our two previous annual reports into one document. It retains the new style introduced in 2022 to better illustrate and celebrate the key achievements of the Institute over the last financial year which are, as always, due to the tireless efforts of our volunteers and staff.
2023 was a significant year for the Institute as we prepared for our Strategy Weekend in July. Following an incredible response from our boards, committees, Branches and Early Career Mathematicians (ECMs), we appointed an external expert facilitating team to lead our weekend. There, we focused on gaining collective agreement of the IMA’s key strategic objectives to shape our new strategy.
New activities are well underway. This includes development work on a new online mentoring platform, IMA Exponential, launched earlier this year, highlighting our commitment to increasing our digital offering and supporting members. We also created a new post in the team to support our membership retention and growth, with Jenny May Roberts joining us in September 2023 to deliver our university and industry liaison activities and help identify other ways to support members and the mathematics community.
2022 Gold Medal winner Philip Maini FRS FIMA gave a wonderful lecture at the IMA 2023 Summer Reception in June. We also added a new event to our calendar, a joint lecture evening with talks by the 2023 winners of the Hedy Lamarr and John Blake prizes, with Julia Gog OBE FIMA recognised for Knowledge Exchange and Chris Sangwin FIMA for University Teaching, respectively. This event was also filmed for later viewing via our IMAmaths YouTube channel. Another highlight was the joint 2020 and 2022 Christopher Zeeman Medal winners’ event; Matt Parker and Simon Singh MBE Hon FIMA drew a huge audience to central London and inspired and impressed in equal measure.
2023 also saw the long-awaited return of the IMA Employers’ Forum, kindly hosted by the University of Warwick. It was themed around AI, automation and mathematics in supporting business decisions.
IMA representatives remained actively engaged in externally-led work to support wider mathematics aims, notably providing advice, guidance and support to the proto-Academy for the Mathematical Sciences, Council for the Mathematical Sciences and the Alliance for Data Science Professionals. Not forgetting the next generation of mathematical scientists, staff and volunteers again returned to the Big Bang Fair at the NEC Birmingham and exhibited for the first time at the Greenwich Maths Time and RAF Cosford Museum public engagement events to highlight maths and put the M back in STEM.
Nonetheless, significant external factors affecting many charitable organisations remained omnipresent so we continued to focus on our costs. Following our reduction in leased office space over 2022, attention now turned to Catherine Richards House (CRH). We commissioned an independent options report from third sector property advisory service, Ethical Property Foundation. Their report highlighted a combination of factors, such as the impact of blended working patterns for staff, achieving our sustainability goals and the dilapidated state of CRH. After reviewing the report Council agreed that the executive team could look for new, leased premises in 2024 and undertake a disposal plan for CRH with a view to re-investing funds raised to ensure suitable and sustainable financial returns to underpin the Institute’s charitable goals.
2024 will be an even more exciting year as we mark our 60th anniversary, the 100th anniversary of Sir James Lighthill’s birth and the 20th anniversary of the ECMs. We do hope you can join in the celebrations to mark this exciting time in the Institute’s history!
We hope you enjoy reading the report Annual Report to Members 2023
Rosalind Azouzi, Executive Director
Notice of the Sixtieth IMA Annual General Meeting: 26 June 2024
This year, we are delighted to be able to offer members the option of attending the AGM in person or virtually.
The sixtieth Annual General Meeting of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications will be held on Wednesday 26 June 2024 at 5.15 p.m. at the University of Greenwich, Greenwich, SE10 9LS, and will also be available as an online meeting via Zoom.
Places at the AGM (both in person and virtually) are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. IMA members who wish to register for attendance at the AGM should contact Stacie Lang stacie.lang@ima.org.uk who will provide the required details, subject to availability of places. All registrations for attendance should be made by 16:00 on 21 June.
Further details are avaialble in the AGM Notice 2024
Special Motion Voting – 2025 Membership Fees
The Special Motion on Subscriptions Proxy Voting 2025 will take place via our online voting service provided by our partners, Mi-Voice; For members who have requested a postal vote, these will be sent via mail with instructions on how to submit your vote. We ask that all those who plan to vote on IMA membership subscriptions for 2025 online, do so before 5pm on Monday 24 June.
Election of Council Members – Mi-Voice
This year, there are five (5) places available on Council, for which we have received 13 nominations.
All corporate members of the Institute (Honorary Fellows, Fellows, Members, Associate Members, Affiliate Members and Student Members) are entitled to vote.
Members will have already received voting instructions either
- from Mi-Voice via email from elections@mi-voice.com. Should you be unable to locate the email, please contact support@mi-voice.com and request that your unique voting code is resent.
- via post if you have opted to do so
Full candidate summaries are available from the voting site and can also be found here 2024 Candidate Summaries.
Details of newly-elected Councillors will be announced at the AGM.
