News archive
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Elections to IMU Executive CommitteeDuring the IMU General Assembly, there was the election to IMU Executive Committee members. It was elected the President, Carlos E. Kenig, the Secretary General, Helge Holden, the Vicepresidents, Nalini Joshi and Loysio G. Nongxa, and 6 Members... (Full article) |
30 Jul 18 | ||
Kontsevich, Witten, and Seiberg Win Three-Million-Dollar PrizeMaxim Kontsevich, Nathan Seiberg, and Edward Witten have each won the US$3 million dollar Fundamental Physics Prize, a new prize that acknowledges accomplishments in fundamental physics and advances in closely related fields. The prize... (Full article) |
14 Aug 12 | ||
European Success Stories in Industrial MathematicsAt a recent event held in Dublin, Ireland, the significant contribution of mathematics to the solving of problems in industry across Europe was highlighted with the launch of the book ‘European Success Stories in Industrial Mathematics’. |
26 Nov 11 | ||
2018 CIMPA Research Schools ProgrammeThe 21 research schools CIMPA 2018 are now set. You can find them here. The registrations are opened. |
3 Jun 17 | ||
Fermat Prize 2013 awarded to de Lellis and HairerThe Fermat Prize awarded once every two years by the Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse has been awarded jointly to Camillo De Lellis for his fundamental contributions (in collaboration with László Székelyhidi) to the conjecture of Onsager... (Full article) |
22 Nov 13 | ||
The EMS condemns Taylor & Francis's attack on freedom of scienceThe European Mathematical Society has become aware of serious mistreatment by the publishing company Taylor & Francis of the Iranian mathematicians Abbas Fakhari and Mohammad Soufi. Their paper "Saturation of Generalized Partially... (Full article) |
12 Dec 18 | ||
Ramanujan Prize 2013: Call for nominationsThe Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) calls for nominations for the 2013 Ramanujan Prize for young mathematicians from developing countries. The Prize winner must be less than 45 years of age on 31 December of the... (Full article) |
13 Nov 12 | ||
World Meeting for Women in Mathematics-WM^2The World Meeting for Women in Mathematics-WM^2 will take place on July 31st, 2018 in Rio just before ICM2018. Those who wish to attend (WM)^2+ICM should look to the Open Arms... (Full article) |
7 Oct 17 | ||
ERC advanced grants to 294 senior top researchers in EuropeWith a budget of just over €660 million, the European Research Council (ERC) is funding 294 top researchers in the fourth competition for its coveted Advanced Grants. This Advanced Grant call attracted 2284 proposals, which is a 13% rise from the... (Full article) |
24 Jan 12 | ||
The IMU Prizes Winners AnnouncedThe IMU prize winners have been announced at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 in Hyderabad, India. Fields Medalists are Elon Lindenstrauss, Ngô Bào Châu, Stanislav Smirnov, Cédric Villani. Nevanlinna Prize winner is Daniel... (Full article) |
19 Aug 10 | ||
Maths Fest 2016 in Canberra, Australia3 events at the Australian National University at Canberra: Advances in Ergodic Theory, Hyperbolic Dynamics & Statistical Law (28 November – 2 December 2016) 60th Annual Meeting of the Australian Mathematical Society (5... (Full article) |
9 Jun 16 | ||
ICMI Award for Michèle Artigue, a really European researcherERME, the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, adresses congratulations both to Michèle Artigue and Frederick Leung for the citation of their ICMI awards, and acknowledges their important contributions to mathematics education... (Full article) |
23 Jan 14 | ||
Prize for Basic Sciences from Spanish Bank to Ingrid Daubechies and to David MumfordThe BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences goes this year, for the first time ever, to two mathematicians: to Ingrid Daubechies and David Mumford “for their works in pure mathematics, which have strongly influenced... (Full article) |
22 Jan 13 | ||
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 | ||
Abel Prize announcement on March 21The President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Nils Christian Stenseth, will announce the winner of the 2012 Abel Prize on the 21st of March. The chair of the Abel committee, Ragni Piene, will then state the reasons for the... (Full article) |
16 Mar 12 | ||
5th World Conference on 21st Century Mathematics, Lahore 2011: Declaration of supportThe 5th World conference on 21st century mathematics took place at the Abdus Salam School of Mathematical Sciences (ASSMS) at Lahore (Pakistan) in the period 9-13 February 2011. Info: http://... (Full article) |
13 Feb 11 | ||
Staff reduction planned at Department of Mathematics at Leicester University, UKThe EMS is very concerned learning about plans for staff reductions at the Department of Mathematics at Leicester University, UK. Due to a challenging financial situation, the university’s administration has put forward plans to dismiss 5% of... (Full article) |
19 Sep 16 | ||
New Editorial Board of the Journal of the European Mathematical SocietyThe Executive Committee of the EMS has appointed a new editorial board of its flagship journal, JEMS. |
27 May 14 | ||
Open Letter to the European Commission
The European Mathematical Society is concerned that in the new European Commission the areas of "education" and "research" are no longer explicitly represented, but instead are subsumed into "innovation and youth". We... (Full article) |
19 Sep 19 | ||
European-Nordic Congress in Lund (S): 2nd announcementThe 26th Nordic and 1st European-Nordic Congress of Mathematicians takes place on June 10-13, 2013 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. The Congress is dedicated to the memory of Lars Hörmander (1931 - 2012),... (Full article) |
6 Mar 13 | ||
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 | ||
Daubechies wins Nemmers Prize 2012Northwestern University has named Ingrid Daubechies the 2012 recipient of the Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in mathematics. The award recognizes Daubechies' passion as an educator and her work on wavelets, which help with data and image processing... (Full article) |
30 Apr 12 | ||
Shaw Prize 2011 awarded to Christodoulou and HamiltonThe Shaw Prize in the Mathematical Sciences 2011 is awarded in equal shares to Demetrios Christodoulou (ETH Zurich) and to Richard S Hamilton (Columbia Univ., NY) for their highly innovative works on nonlinear partial differential equations in... (Full article) |
14 Jun 11 | ||
Abel in BarcelonaOn behalf of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and in collaboration with the Catalan Mathematical Society, the Institute of Catalan Studies is hosting a one-day symposium on the occasion of the meeting of the Abel Committee in... (Full article) |
20 Dec 16 | ||
ERC Farewell from J-P. BourguignonIn 1998 Jean-Pierre Bourguignon stood down as President of the European Mathematical Society. 21 years later he is stepping down as President of the European Research Council. We offer him our profound thanks for these years of service to... (Full article) |
27 Dec 19 |