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BULLETIN Number 70 Winter 2012

ISSN 0791-5578

Contents

Editorial

Notices from the Society

• Officers and Local Representatives 1
• Applying for IMS Membership 2
• Deceased Members 4
• President's Report 2012 5
• Minutes of Annual General Meeting, 28 August 2012 8

The 25th Annual IMS Scientific Meeting, 27-28 August 2012

• report by Ciaran Taylor 13

Reports of Sponsored Meetings

• Algebraic Geometry Conference 2012, MIC Limerick
  February 3-4. Report by Bernd Kreussler 25
• Mini-symposium in Honour of Frank Hodnett, UL
  June 8. Report by Eugene Gath 27
• Tenth Irish Geometry Conference, UCC
  June 13-14. Report by Ben McKay 28
• Nonlinear Dynamics Conference in Honour of Alexei Pokrovskii, UCC
  September 5-9. Report by Dmitri Rachinskii 29

Research Note

• Stephen M. Buckley and Des MacHale:
  Small rings without ideal centres, 41-49

Abstracts of PhD Theses

• Peter Taylor:
  Green's functions in axially symmetric space-times with applications in quantum field theory and the self-force, 33-34
• Anthony Cronin:
  Characterizing the spectra of nonnegative matrices, 35-36
• Ronan Flatley:
  Symbol algebras, involutions and trace forms, 37-38
• Danny Lynch:
  On properties of the Mirimanoff polynomials, 39

Book Reviews

• Thomas Huettemann:
  Richard P. Stanley: Enumerative Combinatorics I (2nd Ed), 51-53
• Vladimir Dotsenko:
  Sara Turing: Alan M. Turing, 54-57
• Robin Harte:
  Julian Havil: The Irrationals, 58-59
• Stephen Buckley:
  Mircea Pitici (Ed): The Best Writing on Mathematics 2012, 60-63
• Marianne Leitner:
  Avner Ash and Robert Gross: Elliptic Tales, 64-67

Problem Page, 69
Edited by Ian Short