No 6572
Wednesday 15 January 2020
Vol cl No 14
pp. 180–191
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Council of the School of the Physical Sciences and with the support of the Management and Scientific Steering Committees of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, has agreed to amend the membership and terms of reference of the Management and Scientific Steering Committees for the Institute. The changes broaden the representation of the wider UK mathematical community and are strongly supported by the Research Councils which provide major grant funding to the Institute.
By amending the General Board Regulations for the Institute concerning the Scientific Steering Committee and the Management Committee (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 682) to read as follows:
1. There shall be a Scientific Steering Committee which, while taking into account its national and international responsibilities and its need for expertise across the mathematical sciences including multidisciplinary applications, shall consist of:
(a)the Director;
(b)eleven persons appointed by the General Board after consultation with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (to represent the views of UK Research and Innovation) and such other bodies as shall be determined from time to time in consultation with the Heads of the Schools of the Physical Sciences, Technology, the Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and the Humanities and Social Sciences (a list of such bodies shall be maintained by the Director of the Institute);
(c)two persons co-opted at the discretion of the Committee.
The Deputy Director of the Institute and the Scientific Director of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences shall have the right to attend meetings if they have not been appointed as members.
2. Members in class (b) shall serve for four years from 1 January following their appointment. A co‑opted member in class (c) shall serve until 31 December of the year in which he or she is co-opted or of the year next following, as the Committee shall determine at the time of co-optation.
3. The General Board, in making its appointments to the Committee, shall ensure that there are not normally more than three members from any single institution.
4. The Chair of the Committee shall be appointed by the General Board from among the members in classes (b) or (c). The Chair shall be appointed for a period of not more than three years and shall be eligible for reappointment for a period or periods of not more than three years at a time. The Chair shall not normally be a resident member of the University.
5. The Director or Deputy Director of the Institute shall serve as Secretary of the Committee.
6. The Committee shall meet at least once each year. Six members present at a meeting shall constitute a quorum.
7. The duty of the Committee shall be to advise the Director on all aspects of the scientific work and scientific policy of the Institute.
1. Oversight of the management of the Institute shall be the responsibility of a Management Committee, which shall consist of:
(a)the Director;
(b)the Deputy Director;
(c)the Chair of the Scientific Steering Committee;
(d)the Heads of the Departments of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics;
(e)one person appointed by the General Board, who shall be Chair, provided that the General Board shall have power to appoint as Chair a person who is already a member of the Committee in one of classes (f), (h) and (i);
(f)the Head of the School of the Physical Sciences or a duly appointed deputy;
(g)one person appointed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (to represent the views of UK Research and Innovation);
(h)five persons appointed by the General Board after consultation with the Council for Mathematical Sciences (to represent the views of the UK mathematical sciences community) and such other bodies as shall be determined from time to time by the Heads of the Schools of the Physical Sciences, Technology, the Biological Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and the Humanities and Social Sciences (a list of such bodies shall be maintained by the Director of the Institute);
(i)two persons co-opted at the discretion of the Committee.
The Director may nominate one or more members of the administrative staff of the Institute who will attend meetings.
2. Members in classes (e), (g) and (h) shall be appointed in the Michaelmas Term to serve for three years from 1 January following their appointment. A co-opted member in class (i) shall serve until 31 December of the year in which he or she is co-opted or of the year next following, as the Committee shall determine at the time of co-optation.
3. The General Board, in making its appointments to the Committee, shall ensure that normally at least seven of its members are not resident members of the University.
4. The Deputy Director or a person appointed by the Director shall serve as Secretary of the Committee.
5. The Committee shall normally meet at least once each term. Seven members present at a meeting shall constitute a quorum.
6. Subject to the powers of the Council and the General Board, the duties of the Committee shall be as follows:
(a)to receive the accounts of the Institute and agree the submission of financial forecasts to the School of the Physical Sciences and the General Board;
(b)to advise the Director on any aspect of the management of the resources and operation of the Institute;
(c)to agree, on the advice of the Scientific Steering Committee and the Director, the programme of work of the Institute;
(d)to ensure that the Institute promotes, as appropriate, an interdisciplinary approach to its academic work, and involvement with non-academic bodies;
(e)to ensure that the Institute collaborates with other similar bodies at a national or international level;
(f)to report to other bodies as required.
In fulfilling its duties, the Committee shall have regard to the need to support the Institute’s promotion of research excellence in the mathematical sciences.
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate and with the support of the Advisory Council for the Hamilton Kerr Institute, has agreed that the Advisory Council should become a sub-committee of the Syndicate. The Board has therefore agreed that Regulation 4 of the General Board Regulations for the Hamilton Kerr Institute (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 669) be removed and the remaining regulations renumbered, and the text of Regulation 4 reinserted as new Regulation 5 of the General Board Regulations for the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 666), except that the first sentence has been revised as follows:
[5.] There shall be an Advisory Council for the Hamilton Kerr Institute, which shall be a sub-committee of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate. Its duty shall be to advise the Directors of the Fitzwilliam Museum and the Institute on the most advantageous lines of developing the work of the Institute, and to promote co-operation with other bodies concerned with the conservation of paintings.