Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics
Trustees, Annual Report..
2 March 2024- 1 March 2025
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 31st October 1956 as amended by the Deed
dated 19th 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 (OUPI, in order to provide grants to support activities in keeping with these
objectives and thereby to promote the Journal.
Financial Review
The only item of income during the year was=
£73,606
{Profil-share from OUP)
There were no ilems of expenditure.. the usual IMA administration fee for QJMAM Fund was paid
during the year but the cheque was not paid in and cleared until after 1 March Iso that two such fees
will show up next yearl. The Trust held £455,187 in cash funds on 2 March 2024 and £528,793 on 1
March 2025. The Trust has no liabilities and no other assets.
Because the initial payments from Oxford Universiiy 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.
Achievements and Performance
The QJMAM Fund for Applied Mathematics exists lo 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 Universily..
Chair..
Panel members..
Professor Andrew Norris (Trusteel
Professor Anne Juel
Professor John King {Trusteel
Professor Stephen Langdon
Professor Natasha Movchan
Professor Nigel Peake
Professor Sarah Waters {Trustee}
Over Ihe year, there were two widely publicised open funding calls. As indicated above, the funds
awarded were subsequenlly distributed by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, to whom
awardees were required to report back on their use. Demands on Ihe fund remain high, indicating that
its value is becoming more widely recognised.

Grant awards (listed below) covered a range of activities. Awardees spanned a range of career
stages (with early career researchers being particularly well represented) and with support for some
important UK meelings being noleworthy. We believe awards lo have been of considerable benefit
given the dearth of other suitable funding mechanisms.
Round
Name
Institution
Amount
Pu rpose
One-day event in Manchester marking
100 years since Sir James Lighthill's
birth, featuring expert talks on his legacy
in aeroacoustics fluid mechanics and Al.
Attending SIAM Conference on Applied
Linear Algebra (SIAM LA24) to present
work.
An international workshop co-organised
by R. Assier (Manchester), D. Hewett
(UCL), A. Gibbs (UCL), S. Olver
(Imperiall and D. Huybrechs (KU
Leuven), taking place at UCL (London)
24-26th June 2024.
Attendi ng 1st European Fluid Dynamics
Conference
EFDCI
Support for women invited speakers and
early career researchers to attend the
20th edition of the Conference on
Complex Systems, held at the University
of Exeter in Se
tember 2024.
Support for Early Career Mathematicians
attendance at the UK Graduate
Mathematical Modelling Camp 2024, 23rd
27th Se
tember, Cambrid
Attending ICtAM 2024 and
accompanying IUTAM satellite meeting to
present work, expand contacts
internationall
and initiate collaborations.
Attending the DPG Spring Meeting to
present work on mathematical models of
artive matter.
Lancaster-sussex collaboration on
acoustics of insects in fli
ht.
Attending KSMBISMB conference to give
a talk.
Participation at MATRIX Workshop on
Parameter Identifiability in Mathematical
Biology and collaborative research visit
to
ueensland Universit of Technolo
Attending ICtAM-2024 to present
research
rou
work.
Presenting at the 1st European Fluid
namics Conference
EFDCI
Attending KSMB-SMB Joint Meeting
(Conference) to present work and
or
anise minis
Osia.
Attending KSMB-SMB 2024 to present
work.
Attending ICTAM 2024 to present a
er.
Collaboration on nonlinear wave
modelling with Onorato (Turin) and De
Santi (IMATI). presenting related work at
host seminars.
One
David Abrahams
Cambridge
2400
One
Francesca Arrigo
strathclyde
400
One
Raphael Assier
Manchester
1500
One
Mark Blyth
UEA
400
One
Federico Botta
Exeter
3000
One
Chris Breward
Oxford
3000
One
Matthew Butler
UCL
400
One
Jan Cammann
Loughborough
400
One
Eduard Campillo-
Funollet
James Casey
Lancaster
400
One
Manchester
400
One
Tyler Cassidy
Leeds
400
One
Igor
Chern avsk
Radu Cimpeanu
Manchester
400
One
Warwick
400
One
Rebecca
Crossley
Oxford
500
One
Carles Falco
Oxford
400
One
Paul Hammerton
UEA
400
One
Ben Humphries
UEA
400

One
Xintong Ji
UCL
400
Attending AERC {Annual European
Rheology Conference) 2024 to present
work.
Attending ICtAM 2024 to present work.
Attending ECMTB 2024 (European
Conference on Mathematical and
Theoretical Biolo
to
resent work.
Attending European Conference on
Mathematical and Theoretical Biology
ECMTB
2024 to
resent work.
Collaboration and dissemination of work..
Self-or
anisin
Livin
Matter.
Attending SCICADE 2024 as co-organiser
of a mini-symposium and to present
work.
Attending 19th EMMC conference to
resent work.
Attending and presenting at the INI
workshop on the mathematics of
multi
hase flows with a
lications.
Attending MPDEE 2024 to present work.
Attending the KSMB-SM B Joint Annual
Meeting and the NIMS workshop as
invited s eaker to both.
Research visit to South Korea to attend
KSMB-SMB Joint Meeting and NIMS
workshop as mini-symposium organi5er
and invited s
eaker.
Attending IPMS 2024 to present work.
Support of early career researchers and
PhD students to participate in a
worksho
in Birmin
ham.
Short visit to Aston and Cambridge
Universities to study the propertie5 of
special solutions to nonlinear integrable
PDES.
Attending ENOC 2024 conference to
resent work.
To attend and present at the APS-DFD
2024 Annual Meetin
Support of ECR-Led UK Fluids Network
joint Special Interest Group Meeting..
Biologically Active and Non-Newtonian
Fluids.
To give invited talk at a three-day
workshop on nonlinear water waves in
Kobe Ja
an in Jul 2025.
To present ongoing work on
mathematical modelling of wave and sea
ice interactions at WISE (Waves in the
Sea Environment) held at the University
of Seattle.
To attend the EGU General Assembly
2025 in Vienna and present work on
statistical analysis of quasi-geostrophic
simLJlations in the North Atlantic double-
re.
The visit continues a research
collaboration on nanofluids, with Dr.
Griffiths (Aston University) and Professor
Ga
Universit of Manchester
To visit collaborator, Professor Olivier
Pironneau and his FreeFem team at the
One
One
Ellen Jolley
Dimitrios
Katsaounis
Oxford
St Andrews
400
400
One
Fiona Macfarlane
St Andrews
400
One
Marco Mazza
Loughborough
400
One
Andrés
Miniguano-
Tru
Amir Hossein
Namdar
Daniel
Netherwood
Edinburgh
400
One
Manchester
400
One
Adelaide
700
One
One
Lena Payne
Lorenzo Pellis
Kent
Manchester
200
400
One
Francesca
Scarabel
Leeds
400
One
One
Sebastian Scoti
Xiaocheng
Shang
Bath
Birmingham
400
400
One
Dmitry
Shepelsky
Kharkiv
500
One
Alice Thompson
Manchester
400
One
Andrew
Wilkinson
Edwina Yeo
Open
Universit
UCL
400
One
1200
Two
Mark Blyth
UEA
400
Two
Alberto Alberello
UEA
500
Two
Elnaz Naghibi
East London
500
Two
Sharon Stephen
Sydney
500
Two
Yongxing Wang
Leeds
700

Laboratory of Jacques-Louis Lions (LJLL)
at Sorbonne Universit
in Paris.
Funds to support a three month visit to
Centre de Biologie Structurale (CNRS,
Montpellier) to continue a study on the
mechanics of blood.
Two
Valeria Ciccone
Manchester
1,200
Two
Edward Hinton
Melbourne
1,200
Funds to support four UK-based PhD
students attending the ICMS workshop
'Bridging the gap between mathematical
modelling of lava flows and field
observations,, held in Edinburgh in June
2025.
Based on the ongoing research
collaboration between Dr. Rehan Shah
(an early career academic) from QMUL
and Prof. Gert van der Heijden (a senior
academic) from UCL in the area of
nonlinear solid mechanics, each to
present at ESMC (held in Lyon, France in
Jul 2025
To attend the SIAM Conference on
Applications of Dynamical Systems in
Denver, Colorado in May 2025, to
present recent work on using polynomial
optimisation to prove properties in
dynamical systems, and to meet
collaborators face-to-face.
To provide a regular forum for
mathematical biologists in the UK and
especially early career researchers to
establish themselves as part of this
communit
To support the IMA Leslie Fox Prize 2025
meeting for top young numerical
anal sts at the Universit of Strathcl de.
Two
Rehan Shah
QMUL
1,700
Two
Jeremy Parker
Dundee
1,949
Two
Fabian Spill
Birmingham
2,000
Two
Alex Townsend
Cornell
2,000
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 tolalling £35,649.
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
Signalure..
Full Name..
Position..
Date=
John Robert King
Chair of Trustees
14" December 2025

Annual accounts for.. Quarterly Joumal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics
Charity Number 211632
Twelve-month period ending 1 March 2025
Opening reserves
£455,187
Income
0310712023 Receipt from Oxford University Press
£73,606
Closing reserves at 0110312025
£528,793
supported by
cash at bank at 0110312025
£528,793

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