We are hosting a half-day symposium for scientists, innovators and policymakers to debate the framework within which genius flourishes. Speakers include Chinyelu Onwurah (Shadow Minister for Science), George Freeman (former Minister for Science), Sir Martyn Poliakoff (Faraday Medalist), et al https://lims.ac.uk/event/organising-genius-scientific-progress-and-international-cooperation/

This is the last appointment before September for the London Integrability Journal Club. We will have four 10+5 mins talks by: - Ilija Buric (DESY), "Defect conformal blocks from the Iwasawa decomposition" - Luigi Guerrini (U. of Parma), "A duality for the latitude Wilson loop in ABJM", -Daniele Gregori (U. of Bologna), "Integrability and cycles of deformed N=2 gauge theory" - Enrico Olivucci (Perimeter), "Hexagons in Fishnet theories: direct derivation". Please register at integrability-london.weebly.com if you are a new participant. The link will be emailed on Tuesday.

Collabor8 is a day-long meeting for early career researchers in mathematical and theoretical physics on Thursday 18th February 2016. The purpose of the meeting is to encourage collaboration between PhD students and postdocs from different institutions and research specialisms working in the UK. The meeting will feature short presentations from selected speakers about ongoing research problems, in contrast to traditional longer seminars on completed work. These will form the basis of group discussions, where participants may share their expertise and suggest new approaches. The conference website provides a convenient social network to promote continuing interaction after the meeting. We are delighted that Professor Luis Fernando Alday will be delivering a keynote lecture at the meeting. There is no conference fee, and funds are available to reimburse travel expenses. Further information about the meeting, including the registration form, may be found on the website below. The deadline for registration is Thursday 4th February. http://www.collabor8research.org

Members of the Editorial Board of Classical and Quantum Gravity will be convening for their annual meeting in London in May and will be taking the opportunity to hold a one day conference to present and discuss their latest research. The meeting will cover the broad range of subjects represented on the Board. Some external speakers have also been invited. The details of the program are available here: http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/events/theorphysics/program-25-5-06.pdf (copy link into your browser).

Meeting of the IoP Mathematical and Theoretical Physics Group, to be held at Imperial College on the 10th and 11th of March. Registration requested. Details can be found here: http://groups.iop.org/MP/perspectives.html