European Mathematical Society
A learned society representing mathematicians throughout Europe.
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Mathematicians organize boycott of ElsevierMore than 5,700 researchers have joined a boycott of Elsevier, a leading publisher of science journals. The protest grew out of a provocative blog post by the mathematician Timothy Gowers of Cambridge University, who announced on Jan. 21 that he... (Full article) |
15 Feb 12 | ||
New ERC Advanced Grant resultsIn its sixth and last Advanced Grant competition under the EU's Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7), the European Research Council |
27 Sep 13 | ||
Feedback from the EMS on the Implementation of Plan SThe mathematical community has been for a long time on the forefront of establishing an accessible, efficient, fair and transparent scholarly publishing system. The EMS and its Publications and Electronic Dissemination Committee are in favour of... (Full article) |
8 Feb 19 | ||
Lázló Lovász receives the Kyoto PrizeDr. Lázló Lovász, Director of the Mathematical Institute of the Eövtös Loránd University of Budapest and President of the International Mathematical Union will receive the 26th annual Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences from the Inamori Foundation.... (Full article) |
13 Oct 10 | ||
Institut Mittag-Leffler - Call for proposalsInstitut Mittag-Leffler issues a Call for proposals for programs in the mathematical sciences for the academic year 2015/16. |
14 Sep 12 | ||
Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler awarded the 2018 Steele Prize for Mathematical ExpositionThe 2018 Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition will be awarded to Martin Aigner and Günter M. Ziegler of the Freie Universität Berlin, for their monograph "Proofs from THE BOOK". |
16 Nov 17 | ||
Summer school in Mathematics for Economics and Finance, Canazei (Trento) ItalyOrganized by the Italian Association of Math. Applied to Economic and Social Sciences (AMASES) |
6 Apr 12 | ||
MPE2013 moves into Mathematics of Planet EarthOn January 1, 2014, the international project “Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013” (MPE2013) will continue as “Mathematics of Planet Earth” (MPE). The objectives remain unchanged – identify fundamental research questions about Planet Earth and... (Full article) |
11 Dec 13 | ||
The EMS Publishing House is moving to BerlinThe EMS Publishing House is now moving to Berlin. Its headquarters will be located in the TU Berlin mathematics building and will be headed by André Gaul (CEO) and Vera Spillner (Editorial Director). The new EMS Publishing House leadership team... (Full article) |
16 Jul 19 | ||
The Abel Prize 2011 goes to John MilnorThe Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2011 to John Milnor, Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Stony Brook University, New York «for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra.» ... (Full article) |
23 Mar 11 | ||
Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 to be launched on December 7More than 100 academic institutions and scholarly societies have joined in a major world-wide initiative: Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) 2013. This year-long effort will highlight the contributions made by mathematics in tackling global... (Full article) |
6 Dec 12 | ||
Abel in Paris Event, January 28th 2015The Abel Committee will meet in Paris on the 26th and 27th of January. On the 28th of January there will be an "Abel in Paris"-event. All lectures will take place in the Amphithéâtre Hermite at the IHP. The event is free and open to the public.... (Full article) |
6 Jan 15 | ||
Free online access to JEMS for individual EMS membersInstructions: Go to http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/ Go to the member database. Log in, using your member username and password. Go to JEMS... (Full article) |
29 May 12 | ||
Rolf Schock Prize 2014 to Yitang ZhangThe Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Rolf Schock Prize 2014 in the field of mathematics, amounting to 600.000 SEK (almost 70.000 €), to Professor YITANG ZHANG, University of New Hampshire, USA, “for his spectacular... (Full article) |
19 Feb 14 | ||
Call for Applications for Chair at AIMS in RwandaThe Alexander von Humboldt Foundation is calling for applications for a German Research Chair for Mathematics and its Applications at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Rwanda. In the coming years, the research chair will... (Full article) |
9 Dec 19 | ||
Mathematician new Minister of Education, Higher Education and Science in PortugalNuno Crato, professor of mathematics and statistics at the Technical University of Lisbon, took office as Minister of Education, Higher Education and Science as an independent in the cabinet of the Portuguese Government led by Pedro Passos Coelho... (Full article) |
24 Jun 11 | ||
Nominations for next President of the European Research Council solicitedThe independent search committee set up by the European Commission for the selection of the future President of the European Research Council (ERC) is consulting the scientific community on potential candidates. The ERC President will chair the... (Full article) |
4 Feb 13 | ||
Shelah and Coifman awarded Rolf Schock Prizes 2018The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music have awarded this year’s Rolf Schock Prizes. The prize amounts to 400,000 Swedish krona. Rolf Schock Prizes 2018 have been awarded in the... (Full article) |
15 Mar 18 | ||
Preliminary report of the project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?The preliminary report of the interdisciplinary and international project "A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It?", associating the International Mathematical... (Full article) |
26 Feb 20 | ||
Princeton University goes open accessPrestigious Princeton University goes open access to stop staff handing all copyright to journals – unless waiver granted. It will thus prevent researchers from giving the copyright of scholarly articles to journal publishers, except in certain... (Full article) |
30 Sep 11 | ||
New Poincaré Chair at Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP)The IHP at Paris has started a new program called Poincaré chair, financed for the next five years by funds from the Clay Mathematics Institute that had been reserved for the solution of the Poincaré conjecture. The initiative will allow to... (Full article) |
2 Apr 13 | ||
Mateusz Kwaśnicki awarded 2018 EMS Gordin PrizeMateusz Kwaśnicki, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, has received the 2018 EMS Gordin Prize, for his outstanding contributions to the spectral analysis of Lévy... (Full article) |
5 Jul 18 | ||
Decease of Ernest VinbergProf. Ernest Borisovich Vinberg, Moscow State University and Independent University of Moscow, passed away on May 12, 2020, at the age of 82. |
18 May 20 | ||
Decease of Prof. Ludwig FaddeevProfessor Ludwig Faddeev, Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Moscow, passed away on 26th of February, 2017. Renowned mathematical physicist and President of the International Mathematical Union 1987–1990, he obtained the Shaw Prize for... (Full article) |
27 Feb 17 | ||
Nominations Solicited for Blackwell–Tapia PrizeNominations are solicited for the sixth Blackwell–Tapia Prize, which will be awarded at a conference to be held at the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) on November 9–10, 2012. Nominees should be active... (Full article) |
9 Dec 11 |