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Stephen Hawking passed awayStephen William Hawking, Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology of the University of Cambridge, died on 14 March 2018, at the age of 76. He worked on gravitational singularity theorems in the framework of general relativity... (Full article) |
14 Mar 18 | ||
Berndtsson and Sibony awarded 2017 Bergman PrizeBo Berndtsson, Chalmers University (US) and the University of Gothenburg (Sweden), and Nessim Sibony, Université Paris-Sud Orsay (France), have been awarded the 2017 Stefan Bergman Prize for their many fundamental contributions to several complex... (Full article) |
9 Mar 18 | ||
2018 Wolf Prize to Beilinson and DrinfeldThe 2018 Wolf Prize for Mathematics has been awarded to Alexander Beilinson and Vladimir Drinfeld, both of the University of Chicago, "for their groundbreaking work in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and mathematical physics". |
22 Feb 18 | ||
An International Day of MathematicsThe International Mathematical Union has prepared a proporsal to have March 14 declared as the International Day of Mathematics (IDM) by UNESCO. Every year, all countries will be invited to celebrate the IDM in the schools and with the public,... (Full article) |
20 Feb 18 | ||
Public consultation on EU funds in the area of investment, research & innovation, SMEs and single marketIn 2018, the EU Commission will make comprehensive proposals for the next generation of financial programmes for the post-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework, which is the EU's long–term budget. Consultations are taking place in the context of... (Full article) |
14 Feb 18 | ||
Call for satellite conferences for ICIAM 2019The organizers of ICIAM2019-Valencia Congress are pleased to launch the call for satellite meetings. A satellite meeting takes place within a few weeks of ICIAM 2019 on a... (Full article) |
11 Feb 18 | ||
Decease of Prof. Alan BakerProfessor Alan Baker, Cambridge University (UK), passed away at the age of 78, on 4 February 2018. Professor Baker was awarded a Fields Medal in 1970 for his fundamental contributions to the theory of Diophantine equations. |
7 Feb 18 | ||
Seeking input for elaborating MSC 2020Zentralblatt and Mathematical Reviews are seeking the mathematical community input for elaborating Mathematics Subject Classification MSC 2020 |
1 Feb 18 | ||
Nouzha El Yacoubi elected new president of AMUNouzha El Yacoubi, professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, has been elected president of the African Mathematical Union (AMU), for the period 2017-2021. She is the first woman in this position. |
31 Jan 18 | ||
Faisal Prize 2018 awarded to John BallSir John M. Ball, University of Oxford, is the winner of the 2018 King Faisal Prize for Science for his outstanding contributions to mathematics. Ball is Sedleian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Oxford and director of its Centre for Nonlinear... (Full article) |
26 Jan 18 | ||
Call for nominations for Gordin Prize 2018The EMS Gordin Prize is established to honor the memory of Mikhail Gordin. It will be awarded to a junior mathematician from an Eastern Europe country working in probability or dynamical systems and handed over at the International Vilnius... (Full article) |
24 Jan 18 | ||
Antoine Petit appointed President of the CNRSAntoine Petit, professor in Computer Science and director of INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique), has been appointed President of the French CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). |
19 Jan 18 | ||
Decease of Prof. Jean-Louis KoszulThe french mathematician Jean-Louis Koszul died on 12 January 2018, at the age of 97. Jean-Louis Koszul was one of the founders of CIRM and president of SMF in 1978. |
17 Jan 18 | ||
Message from the President, 1 January 2018Dear EMS members, dear friends, Another calendar page turns, and another year heads for the history books. We may have to wait a decade for the next prime numbered year, but many mathematical and mathematics-related events will occur much... (Full article) |
30 Dec 17 | President’s Newsletter | |
Open calls from EMS Committee for Developing CountriesERCE call 5 opens. ERCE (Emerging Regional Centres of Excellence) is a label awarded by the EMS to centres showing an outstanding level in its area of influence in research and education. ERCE centres are selected among those which play an... (Full article) |
29 Dec 17 | ||
EMS e-News 25, December 2017EMS e-News 25, December 2017
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- 8ECM Having collected proposals from member societies, the Executive Committee (EC) has started the process of composing the scientific and prize... (Full article) |
20 Dec 17 | e-News | |
Chang and Atiyah to give the Noether and Abel Lectures at ICM 2018The 2018 ICM Noether Lecturer is Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Princeton University, for her leading contributions to harmonic analysis, geometric analysis, differential geometry and partial differential equations. The 2018 ICM Abel Lecturer is... (Full article) |
17 Dec 17 | ||
ICM 2018 Satellite MeetingsThe ICM 2018 Satellite Events Subcommittee has approved a great variety of conferences and workshops of the highest scientific level as official ICM Satellite Meetings. There will be satellite events all over the Brazilian territory, as well as... (Full article) |
17 Dec 17 | ||
Sylvie Benzoni new Director of the Institut Henri PoincaréSylvie Benzoni will start as the new Director of the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris on 1st January. Founded in 1928, the IHP is a highly prestigious centre of mathematics, an institutional member of the EMS, and an ERCOM Centre (European... (Full article) |
16 Dec 17 | ||
Hacon and McKernan awarded 2018 Breakthrough PrizeThe 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics was awarded to Christopher Hacon, University of Utah, and James McKernan, University of California San Diego, for transformational contributions to birational algebraic geometry, especially to the... (Full article) |
6 Dec 17 | ||
AMS Prizes awardedRobert Guralnick, University of Southern California, will receive the 2018 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Algebra for his groundbreaking research on representation theory, cohomology, and subgroup structure of finite quasi-simple groups, and the wide-... (Full article) |
6 Dec 17 | ||
D. Pérez García awarded Prize Miguel Catalán 2017David Pérez García (Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) has been awarded the Prize “Miguel Catalán 2017”, in the area of Sience, in recognition for his contributions in the area of quantum technologies.... (Full article) |
4 Dec 17 | ||
ICSU and ISSC merge into INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE COUNCILThe International Council of Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC) held their General Assembly in Taipei (Taiwan) on October 22-23 2017, followed by a joint meeting of the two councils, where it was decided that the... (Full article) |
30 Nov 17 | ||
Call for nominations for Ramanujan Prize 2018The Ramanujan Prize is awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country who is less than 45 years of age and who has conducted outstanding research in a developing country. The Prize is funded by the Department of Science and Technology... (Full article) |
30 Nov 17 | ||
European Industrial Doctorate ProgrammAn international consortium of eleven academic and eleven industrial partners has been awarded a "European Industrial Doctorate Program" (EID). Under the title "Reduced Order Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Coupled Systems" eleven... (Full article) |
26 Nov 17 |