EMS e-News 26, March 2018
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- The Executive Committee’s retreat
The EMS’s Executive Committee (EC) met on 5-7 January 2018 in the Finnish resort of Koli for a one-off retreat to discuss long-term strategy (without the pressure of the overflowing agenda that accompanies regular EC meetings).
- Heading towards the Council
EMS 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 committees for the 8th European Congress of Mathematics (Portoroz, Slovenia, 5 - 11 July 2020). The local organizers updated the EC on their preparations at the recent November EC meeting.
- The Executive Committee meeting
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- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)
Shortly after her fortieth birthday, the first ever female Fields Medal laureate tragically lost her fight against cancer. She leaves a lasting mathematical legacy as well as her husband and six-year old daughter. The EMS expressed its condolences to her family and colleagues. An obituary appears in the latest edition of the EMS Newsletter: http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2017-09-105.pdf
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* 8ECM Preparation
As a part of preparation for the 8th European Congress of Mathematics in 2020, member societies have been asked to propose candidates for members of the congress scientific and prize committees.
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- Scientists call for transparency, openness, and mobility
The EMS has signed an open letter from over forty European learned and professional societies expressing the community’s worries about recent political developments.
http://www.euroscience.org/news/press-release-open-letter/
- The EC meeting
The EMS Executive Committee (EC) held its regular autumn meeting 4-6 November, this time in Tbilisi on the kind invitation of the Georgian Mathematical Society. A number of decisions were taken including the renewal of EMS committees and support for scientific activities in 2017.
The 7th European Congress of Mathematics convened in Berlin, July 18-22. The programme offered a rich menu of plenary and invited talks, minisymposia, and other presentations, including the Hirzebruch and Abel lectures. There were also lectures for students, lectures on mathematical history, accompanied by an exciting social programme.
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- Abel Prize 2016
On 24th May 2016, Sir Andrew J. Wiles (University of Oxford, UK) received the Abel Prize from HRH The Crown Prince Haakon of Norway. The award ceremony was held at the University Aula in Oslo.
http://www.abelprize.no
- The Executive Committee meeting
The Executive Committee will meet on March 18-20 at the Mittag-Leffler Institute. At the top of the agenda will be preparation for the Council meeting this summer, prior to the Congress in Berlin.
The society celebrated its 25th birthday at a one day meeting on October 22, 2015, in the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris. The programme included lectures by Hendrik Lenstra, Laure Saint-Raymond, Lászlo Lóvász and Andrew Stuart, as well as panel discussion with Peter Bühlmann, Maria Esteban, Ari Laptev and Roberto Natalini, moderated by Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. This was followed by a reception at the Town Hall of Paris’s 5th district, the Latin Quarter.
