Under the terms of this Lectureship, every two years an eminent mathematician in the United Kingdom is selected (by the London Mathematical Society Council in consultation with the NZ Mathematical Society Council) to tour New Zealand for a period of three to four weeks and to give lectures in the six main NZ university centres.
The first Forder Lecturer was Prof. Christopher Zeeman in 1987, and was followed by Prof. Sir Michael Atiyah in 1989, Prof. Peter Whittle in 1991, Prof. Roger Penrose in 1993, Prof. Elmer Rees in 1995, and Prof. Ian Stewart in 1997.
The Forder Lecturer for 1999 is currently being arranged.