Oxford Journals & London Mathematical Society Launch Journal

["ISON, Helen" <helen.ison@oxfordjournals.org>]

*Apologies for cross posting*

1 November 2007

Oxford Journals and London Mathematical Society launch Journal of
Topology

Oxford Journals is pleased to announce that papers from the first
issue of the Journal of Topology
[http://jtopol.oxfordjournals.org/], published on behalf of the
London Mathematical Society (LMS) [http://www.lms.ac.uk], are now
freely available online [1]. The Journal of Topology publishes
papers of high quality and significance in topology, geometry,
and adjacent areas of mathematics. Many important and often
unexpected links connect topology and geometry with many other
parts of mathematics, and the editors welcome submissions on
exciting new advances concerning such links, as well as those in
the core subject areas of the journal.

Susan Hezlet, Publisher at the LMS, commented: "We are delighted
to be publishing this journal with Oxford Journals.  As a
not-for-profit society with the aim of making top-quality
mathematics scholarship as widely available as possible, we feel
we have a good fit with Oxford Journals and their mission to
disseminate the highest quality research to the widest possible
audience."

She continued, "The journal is in the hands of an experienced
editorial board comprising some of the world's leading
topologists [2], and we expect that the journal will soon be
recognized as the best place to publish in the field of
topology."

The LMS is Britain's pre-eminent society for research
mathematics.  The Journal of Topology joins three other LMS
titles on Oxford Journals' prestigious and expanding Mathematics
list: Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society
[http://blms.oxfordjournals.org/], Journal of the London
Mathematical Society [http://jlms.oxfordjournals.org/], and
Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
[http://plms.oxfordjournals.org].

Papers from the first issue are available online from today, and
all subsequent papers will be free of charge during the journal's
first year with registration.

ENDS

For further information please contact:
Kate Stringer
Assistant Communications Manager
kate.stringer@oxfordjournals.org
+44 (0)1865 354538

Notes to editors

1. Issue 1 of the Journal of Topology contains the following
papers: On the Farrell-Jones conjecture and its applications by
Arthur Bartels, Wolfgang Lueck and Holger Reich

Dynamics, Laplace transform and spectral geometry by Dan
Burghelea and Stefan Haller

Twisted equivariant K-theory with complex coefficients by Daniel
S. Freed, Michael J. Hopkins and Constantin Teleman

Surgery on nullhomologous tori and simply connected 4-manifolds
with b+=3D1 by Ronald Fintushel and Ronald J. Stern

The tower of K-theory of truncated polynomial algebras by Lars
Hesselholt

Axioms for higher torsion invariants of smooth bundles by Kiyoshi
Igusa

The homotopy coniveau tower by Marc Levine

Heegard genus and Property T(tau) for hyperbolic 3-manifolds by
D. D. Long, A. Lubotzky and A. W. Reid

Artin groups and the fundamental groups of some moduli spaces by
Eduard Looijenga

Axiomatic characterization of ordinary differential cohomology by
James Simons and Dennis Sullivan

2. The Editorial Board is as follows:

Michael Atiyah
Martin Bridson
Ralph Cohen
Simon Donaldson
Nigel Hitchin
Frances Kirwan
Marc Lackenby
Jean Lannes
Wolfgang L=FCck
John Roe
Graeme Segal
Ulrike Tillmann (Managing Editor)

3. The London Mathematical Society (LMS) [http://www.lms.ac.uk],
is the UK's learned society for mathematics.  Founded in 1865 for
the promotion and extension of mathematical knowledge, the
Society is concerned with all branches of mathematics and its
applications.  It is an independent and self-financing charity,
with a membership of over 2600 drawn from all parts of the UK and
overseas. Its principal activities are the organisation of
meetings and conferences, the publication of periodicals and
books, the provision of financial support for mathematical
activities, and the contribution to public debates on issues
related to mathematics research and education. It works
collaboratively with other mathematical bodies worldwide. It is
the UK adhering body to the International Mathematical Union and
is a member of the Council for the Mathematical Sciences, which
comprises the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, the
Royal Statistical Society together with the London Ma! thematical
Society. Read more about the LMS at http://www.lms.ac.uk

4. Oxford University Press (OUP) [http://www.oup.co.uk], a
department of the University of Oxford, is the world's largest
and most international university press. Founded in 1478, it
currently publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a
presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700 people
worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse
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textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a
foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference
books, and journals. Read more about OUP at
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5. Oxford Journals [http://www.oxfordjournals.org], a Division of
OUP, publishes over 200 journals covering a broad range of
subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration
with learned societies and other international organizations. The
collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles,
including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National
Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical
Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. Read more about
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