The European Mathematical Society

We regret to inform you that Prof. Andrzej Pelczar died on May 18, 2010. Prof. Pelczar was a strong proponent of European mathematics, serving as member of the Executive Committee and Vice President of the European Mathematical Society. He was instrumental in securing the bid for the 6ECM in Krakow, July 2 - 7, 2012. For an obituary (in Polish), please see http://www.ii.uj.edu.pl/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01arti...

The Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) invites proposals for Research Programmes for the academic year 2012-2013.

CRM Research Programmes consist of periods ranging between three months and nine months of intensive research in a given area of the mathematical sciences and their applications. Researchers from different institutions are brought together to work on open problems and to analyse the state and perspectives of their area.

Guidelines and application instructions can be found at http://www.crm.cat/RPapplication.

The 2010 Call for Proposals for ESF-EMS-ERCOM Mathematics Conferences to be held in 2012 is open.
Details about the Call are given in
http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/call-for-proposals.html
For on-line submission of proposals, go to
http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/call-for-proposals/framewo...
Submission deadline is September 15, 2010.

Up to four conferences taking place in one of the participating ERCOM Research Centres will be funded.

The European Science Foundation (ESF) has recently published a Call for outline proposals for the
the first EUROCORES programme in the field of Mathematics, focusing specifically on Graphs in Geometry and Algorithms, and in particular the following topics;

(i) Drawing graphs
(ii) Geometric representations of graphs
(iii) Skeletal structures and spatial decompositions
(iv) Combinatorics of discrete point sets
(v) Graphs of polytopal structures

For further details on eligibility and a copy of the Call text see:

International Centre for Mathematical Sciences

New Scientific Director

The Board of ICMS is pleased to announce that
Professor Keith Ball
of University College London has been appointed
to the post of Scientific Director of ICMS.

Later this year he will succeed John Toland who
was appointed in 2002.

ICMS
15 South College Street,
Edinburgh
EH8 9AA
enquiries@icms.org.uk

On April 26-27 the Consensus Conference of the EMS-ESF Forward Look on Matematics and Industry will be organized in Madrid. This event is part of the official agenda of the Spanish Presidency of the EU.

All information about this event is on the webpage of the conference :
http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/FLMI/Consensus_Conference_Madrid/

The Conference will be aimed at obtaining a more focussed attention to Mathematics by the European decision-makers (in particular in the preparation of the 8th Framework Program) and also by European governments and institutions.

The talks by the 2009 EMS Lecturer, Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton), delivered at the European Women in Mathematics meeting (Novi Sad, Serbia, August 25-28, 2009), can be viewed here.

The lectures from the 14th general meeting of the European Women in Mathematics, which took place in Novi Sad, Serbia, August 25-28, 2009, have been posted on the EMS web site. In particular, the talks by the 2009 EMS Lecturer Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton) can be seen here.

Furthermore, the following talks have been posted:
Jelena Kovačević (Carnegie Mellon University)
Marta Sanz-Sole (Barcelona University)
Reidun Twarok (University of York)

Institut Mittag-Leffler, Stockholm, Sweden, has opened the official call for proposals for new projects for the academic year 2012 - 2013. The deadline for applications is 15 February 2010. Please see the following web site for further information: http://www.mittag-leffler.se/programs/1213/proposals.php

The annual dues for corporate members will be expressed in terms of a unit fee x, fixed by the Council for any one year. Full members in classes 1, 2, 3, and 4 shall pay x, 3x, 5x, and 8x respectively in annual dues. Associate members shall pay an annual fee of x. Academic institutional members shall pay an annual fee of x. Other institutional members shall pay an annual fee of 3x.

The annual dues for individual members shall be expressed in terms of a unit fee y, fixed by Council for any one year.

Darren Crowdy, Professor of Applied Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London has been awarded the ‘2009 CMFT Young Researcher Award’ at the Computational Methods and Function Theory (CMFT) conference 2009.
Professor Crowdy’s conformal mapping research hit the headlines last year when he updated the 140 year old Schwarz-Christoffel formula so it could be used for more complicated shapes and, therefore, in more diverse applications in physics and engineering.

The CIEM (International Center for Mathematical Meetings, in Spanish) is a joint initiative of the University of Cantabria and the Municipality of Castro Urdiales whose fundamental and fundational goal is to promote quality mathematical research, be it in its more basic or its more applied and computational aspects, with special emphasis to multidisciplinar ventures. It is based in the cantabrian town of Castro Urdiales, of indisputable touristic value and conveniently placed in the A8 motorway, 35 km from Bilbao airport and 60 km from Santander.

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Agenda (PDF 37 KB)
Participants (PDF 49 KB)
Minutes (PDF 70 KB)
Treasurer's report (PDF 1,3 MB)

In 2009, sigma – the centre for excellence in university-wide mathematics and statistics support - wishes to award two personal prizes to individuals who have made outstanding contributions in the field of mathematics and statistics support.

Prizes and Eligibility:
One personal prize of £1000 to an individual employed by a UK higher education institution.
One personal prize of £1000 to an individual employed by a higher education institution based outside the UK.

Both award winners will be named: sigma Outstanding Contributor 2009.

The 2009 Call for Proposals for ESF-EMS-ERCOM Mathematics Conferences to be held in 2011 and 2012 is open.
Details about the Call are given in
http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/call-for-proposals.html
For on-line submission of proposals, go to
http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/call-for-proposals/submiss...
Submission deadline is September 15, 2009.

Up to six conferences taking place in one of the participating ERCOM Research Centres will be funded.