**Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics**
Trustees’ Annual Report: 2 March 2023 – 1 March 2024
Charity registration number: 211632
Address: University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD Trustees: Professor J R King Professor C M Linton Professor A N Norris Professor S L Waters
## **Structure, Governance and Management**
The Trust is governed according to the Trust Deed dated 31[st] October 1956 as amended by the Deed dated 19[th] January 2015. The Journal is overseen by the Trustees in consultation with its Executive Editors. Trustees are selected from the Mechanics and Applied Mathematics community by the existing Trustees on the basis of their capacity to facilitate the Trust’s objectives.
## **Objectives and Activities**
The Trust seeks to promote and facilitate scientific research and education in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics. The Trustees have secured a profit share from the Journal’s publishers, Oxford University Press (OUP), in order to provide grants to support activities in keeping with these objectives and thereby to promote the Journal.
## **Financial Review**
The only items of income and expenditure during the year are detailed below:
£71,926 (Profit-share from OUP) £1,200 (Legal fees relating to CIO formation) £50,000 (Grant to IMA for QJMAM Fund) £6,000 (IMA administration fee for QJMAM Fund)
The Trust held £440,461 in cash funds on 2 March 2022 and £455,187 on 1 March 2023. The Trust has no liabilities and no other assets. The Trustees are in agreement that it would be appropriate to convert the Trust into a Charitable Incorporated Organisation and the legal fees above are associated with this ongoing process.
Because the initial payments from Oxford University Press included profit share from earlier years, the Trustees maintain a reserve in order to sustain the level of grants as payments decrease, as well as for contingencies. We are continuing to see increased requests for funding following the removal of COVID restrictions and the decreasing availability of comparable funding from other sources, this being evident in the awards noted below.
## **Achievements and Performance**
The QJMAM Fund for Applied Mathematics exists to support UK research in the broad area of applied mathematics and theoretical mechanics. The Fund makes a grant to the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA, a charity with aims compatible with those of the Trust), who then distribute grants to successful applicants, a payment being made to the IMA for the efficient administration of this process. Applications for grants from the Fund were assessed by a panel comprising senior academics from the Universities of Brunel, Cambridge, Manchester, Liverpool, Nottingham and Oxford, ably chaired by one from Rutgers University:
|Chair:|Professor Andrew Norris (Trustee)|
|---|---|
|Panel members:|Professor Anne Juel|
||Professor John King (Trustee)|
||Professor Stephen Langdon|
||Professor Natasha Movchan|
||Professor Nigel Peake|
||Professor Sarah Waters (Trustee)|
Over the year, there were two widely publicised open funding calls. As indicated above, the funds awarded were subsequently distributed by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, to whom awardees were required to report back on their use. Demands on the fund are increasing, indicating that its value is becoming more widely recognised. A significant proportion of this year’s allocation was devoted to assisting UK researchers in participating in ICIAM (the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics) 2023, this being the most significant conference in the field, usually taking place every four years.
Grant awards (listed below) covered a range of activities. Awardees spanned a range of career stages (with early career researchers well represented), and we believe awards to have been of considerable benefit given the dearth of other suitable funding mechanisms.
|round|name|institution|amount|purpose|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|1|Kamran Pentland|Warwick|900|To present poster at the ICIAM
2023 conference in Tokyo.|
|1|Anna Kalogirou|Nottingham|900|To give a talk at the ICIAM 2023
conference in Tokyo.|
|1|Melissa Iacovidou|Warwick|900|PhD in mathematical
epidemiology. Present poster on
side project stemming from work
at a GMC at ICIAM 2023 in Tokyo.|
|1|Matteo Sommacal|Northumbria|900|Give talk and chair a
minisymposium at ICIAM.|
|1|Simon Finney|Oxford|900|To give a talk at ICIAM 2023.|
|1|Mohammad Salehi|Bath|900|To give a talk at ICIAM 2023.|
|1|Kostas Papafitsoros|QMUL|900|Give talk and chair a
minisymposium at ICIAM and a
talk at AIP in Germany in
September|
|1|Tatiana Bubba|Bath|900|To give a talk at ICIAM 2023.|
|1|George Booth|Oxford|900|To give a talk at ICIAM 2023.|
|1|William Parnell|Manchester|2000|Three pronged collaborative
activities in Colorado in summer
2023.|
|1|Neil Chada|Heriot Watt|900|To give a talk at ICIAM 2023.|
|1|Francesca Scarabel|Leeds|500|To attend a summer school in
Italy in June.|
|1|Alexander Wray|Strathclyde|900|To give a talk at ICIAM 2023 and
at Droplets2023 in Beijing.|
|1|Marco Discacciati|Loughborough|900|For two one-week visits, one to
Loughborough and one to Brescia.|
|1|Paul Griffiths|Aston|500|Support for two undergraduate
female students for a summer
project.|
|1|Gabriele Di Bona|Queen Mary|300|Attending CompleNet 2023 in
Oporto to present work.|
|1|Daniel Netherwood|UEA|1000|To present work published in
QJMAM at APS DFD in Washington
DC.|
|1|Marcos Caso-
Huerta|Northumbria|700|Research visit to Waseda
University before attending ICIAM
2023.|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|1|Neofytos
Rodosthenous|UCL|600|To present at SIAM conference on
Financial Mathematics in
Philadelphia.|
|1|Jingsi Xu|Manchester|600|To present work in Mathematical
Epidemiology at NORDITA in
Stockholm.|
|1|Timothy Reis|Greenwich|1000|To help fund a one-week school
on lattice Boltzmann methods for
fluid dynamics.|
|1|Erik Hörmann|Oxford|400|Research visit to the Santa Fe
Institute.|
|1|Silvia Rognone|QMUL|200|To present at CompleNet 2023 in
Portugal.|
|1|Daniel Boutros|Cambridge|600|To attend the Les Houches
summer school on fluids.|
|1|Xiaocheng Shang|Birmingham|300|Partial support for a two-day
Molecular Dynamics workshop.|
|1|Silvia Gazzola|Bath|500|To present at SIAM Optimization
conference in Seattle.|
|1|Martin Walker|Surrey|500|To present at the ASCE
Engineering Mechanics Institute in
Atlanta.|
|1|Giulio Passerotti|Melbourne|500|To visit UEA for a fortnight,
developing machine learning for
ice detection.|
|1|Marica Minucci|QMUL|500|To present at a workshop at the
Niels Bohr Institute.|
|1|Lorenzo Pellis|Manchester|1000|To attend four week workshop on
Mathematical Epidemiology at
NORDITA in Stockholm.|
|1|Rod Halburd|UCL|900|To give a talk at ICIAM 2023.|
|1|Lisa Kruesser|Bath|900|To give a talk at ICIAM 2023.|
|1|Peter Castellucci|Manchester|600|To give a talk at InterPore 2023 in
Edinburgh.|
||||||
|2|Alberto Alberello|UEA|500|Visit to collaborators and
presentations at conferences in
New Zealand and Australia.|
|2|Francesca Arrigo|Strathclyde|800|Support towards the organization
of a workshop on Numerical
Analysis in the Era of Data
Science.|
|2|Sammy Ayoubi|Manchester|700|Attending APS DFD 2023
(Washington DC) to present
research on control-based
exploration of nonlinear
systems.|
|2|Debasish Das|Strathclyde|700|Attending APS DFD 2023 to
present recently published and
ongoing work.|
|2|Rosemary Evans|Birmingham|300|Attending Society for
Endocrinology (SfE) BES
Conference 2023 to present work.|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|2|Tao Gao|Essex|1400|Organising a two-day workshop
on applied and numerical
mathematics.|
|2|Duncan Hewitt|UCL|1200|Attending MATRIX workshop on
Instabilities of Flow in Porous
Media in Australia, April 2023.|
|2|Melissa Iacovidou|Warwick|200|Attending Epidemics9 in Bologna
to present work.|
|2|Demetrios
Papageorgiou|Imperial|900|High Reynolds number flows and
industrial mathematics: A
celebration of Prof. Frank Smith's
contributions.|
|2|Lorenzo Pellis|Manchester|300|Attending the Epidemics9
conference, Bologna, 28 Nov - 1
Dec 2023.|
|2|Silvia Rognone|QMUL|200|Presenting work as an invited
speaker at the in-person Complex
Systems Society Italy 2023 (CCS)
conference in Naples.|
|2|Sergei Sazhin|Brighton|1400|Partial support for Vortex
dynamics in fluids, a workshop in
memory of Felix Kaplanski (1946-
2023).|
|2|Francesca Scarabel|Leeds|500|Attending the Lorentz Center
workshop Towards rigorous
results in state-dependent delay
equations.|
|2|James Shemilt|Manchester|600|Attending APS-DFD 2023 to
present work.|
|2|Mansi Singh|IIT Kharagpur|1000|Collaborative research visit to the
University of East Anglia from
Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur.|
|2|Raphael
Stuhlmeier|Plymouth|1000|Support for the Third Workshop
on Water Waves - Mathematical
Theory & Applications.|
Rigorous assessment of grant applications, together with continued effects of the pandemic, has led to a portion of the funds being held over to subsequent funding rounds (being held by the IMA in a restricted account on behalf of the Trust), the above awards totalling £36,600.
We have been pleased with the uses to which the funds have been put. The Trustees were satisfied that the Journal produced a public benefit over the year.
## **Declaration**
The Trustees declare that they have approved the Trustees’ report above.
Signed on the behalf of the Charity’s Trustees
## Signature:
Full Name: John Robert King Position: Chair of Trustees Date: 27/12/204
Annual accounts for: Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics
Charity Number 211632
Twelve-month period ending 1 March 2024
Opening reserves £440,461 Income 19/09/2023 Receipt from Oxford University Press £71,926 Expense 15/09/2023 Legal fees relating to CIO formation £1,200 20/09/2023 Grant to IMA for QJMAM Fund £50,000 20/09/2023 IMA administration cost £6,000 Closing reserves at 01/03/2024 £455,187 supported by cash at bank at 01/03/2024 £455,187
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