Sir Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences


Scientific Steering Committee

The Institute invites proposals for research programmes in any branch of mathematics or the mathematical sciences. The SSC usually meets twice each year to consider proposals for programmes (of 4-week, 4-month or 6-month duration) to run two or three years later. Proposals to be considered at these meetings should be submitted by 31 January or 31 July respectively. Successful proposals are usually developed in a process of discussion between the proposers and the SSC conducted through the Director, and may well be considered at more than one meeting of the SSC before selection is recommended. Proposers may submit a 'preliminary' proposal in the first instance with a view to obtaining feedback from the SSC prior to the submission of a full 'definitive' proposal.

The scientific planning and organisation of each programme are the responsibility of a team of three or four Organisers (aided in some cases by an Advisory Committee). The Organisers recommend participants in the programme, of whom up to twenty can be accommodated at any one time; they also plan short-duration workshops and conferences within the programme, to which many more participants may be invited. Each programme is allocated a budget for salary support, subsistence allowances and travel expenses.

Professor Sir John Ball FRS FRSE (Chair) University of Oxford
Professor KG Binmore CBE University College London
Professor M Broué Institut Henri-Poincaré
Professor EK Burke University of Nottingham
Professor DR Fearn FRSE University of Glasgow
Professor CS Frenk FRS University of Durham
Professor É Ghys École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Professor PJ Green FRS University of Bristol
Professor D Preiss FRS University of Warwick
Professor SR Reid FREng University of Aberdeen
Professor M-F Roy Institute of Mathematical Research of Rennes
Professor JF Toland FRS FRSE (in attendance ex officio) University of Bath; Director, ICMS
Professor LN Trefethen FRS University of Oxford
Professor M Vingron Max Planck
Professor Sir David Wallace CBE FRS FREng Director, Newton Institute


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