EMS e-News 28, вересень 2018 р
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HEADLINES
- The Council meeting
The EMS Council (our society’s highest authority) convened 23-24 June in Prague. It elected Volker Mehrmann as the new EMS President for 2019-2022. Betül Tanbay was elected as new Vice-President, and Jorge Buescu joins the Executive Committee as a member-at-large. The council approved the EMS budget and made a number of decisions, in particular, introduced a system of lifetime membership.
- The Gordin Prize
This EMS Gordin Prize (honouring a mathematician from an Eastern European country not older than 35 years working in the areas where late Mikhail Gordin made contributions) was awarded for the first time at the International Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics in July; the laureate is Mateusz Kwaśnicki from the Technical University of Wrocław.
- The IMU General Assembly
According to tradition, the IMU had its highest meeting before ICM2018. From the two remaining bids for ICM 2022, the delegates chose Saint Petersburg. Carlos Kenig was elected new IMU President, and Helge Holden will serve his second term as Secretary General.
- Fields Medals
In keeping with tradition, the new Fields Medallists were announced at the opening of the ICM, together with the winners of the Nevanlina, Chern and Leelavati Prizes and the Gauss Medal. See http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/about-icm-prizes
(We observe that with Peter Scholze and Alessio Figalli being honoured the EMS’s one-in-six record is maintained: of the 70 EMS Prize winners so far, 12 have now gone on to win the Fields Medal.)
- EMS Newsletter
The latest edition of the EMS Newsletter is online now at http://www.ems-ph.org/journals/newsletter/pdf/2018-09-109.pdf
(More details below.)
NEWS FROM EMS MEMBER SOCIETIES
Bosnian Mathematical Society (BMS)
The 2018 BMS Conference took place at the Department of Mathematics, University of Sarajevo, 12-14 July. The conference was organized by the Universities of Sarajevo and Tuzla and the Mathematical Society of Sarajevo Canton. The conference hosted 60 registered participants from around Europe and beyond. Special sessions included number theory, analysis, difference equations & discrete dynamical systems, topological dynamics, algebra, computer science and mathematics education. There were 39 contributed talks and seven plenary addresses.
Webpage: www.pmf.unsa.ba/bms2018
Cyprus Mathematical Society
EUROMATH & EUROSCIENCE 2019: the 11th Annual Conference for pupils aged 9-18 and their teachers will be held 13-17 March 2019, in Paphos, Cyprus.
The Organizers include the Cyprus Mathematical Society & THALES Foundation in Cooperation with the EMS, Mathematical Society of South-Eastern Europe, CERN, and more. The event is held under the National Auspices of the Minister of Education and Culture of Cyprus and under the Municipal Auspices of the Mayor of the city of Paphos.
Webpages: www.euromath.org, www.euroscience.info
Danish Mathematical Society
Inspired by the EMS’s declaration of 2018 as the year of Mathematical Biology, the Danish Mathematical Society held its annual meeting with Mathematical Biology as the main theme. The meeting took place in Aarhus, 25-26 June, and featured Michael Reed (Duke University) as main speaker.
French Statistical Society (SFdS)
- The SFdS will hold an invited session in early September during the international conference ENBIS-18 in Nancy (France).
Webpage: https://www.enbis.org/activities/events/current/573_ENBIS_18_in_Nancy/
- The SFdS has agreed with ECAS (European Courses in Advanced Statistics, http://ecas.fenstats.eu/) to co-organise a one-week scientific school in each odd-numbered year. The next edition (in October 2019) will focus on Network Analysis, Inference, and Modelling.
Finnish Mathematical Society
Celebration of mathematics: 150 years of the Finnish Mathematical Society, Helsinki, November 30 - December 2, 2018.
The Finnish Mathematical Society celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, making it one of the oldest still functioning mathematical societies in the world. It will mark this milestone with a conference on various fields important to Finnish mathematics. In addition to invited speakers, the meeting will feature a panel discussion on the interaction of mathematics and society, bringing together representatives of industry, ministry of education and science.
Contact: fms150@helsinki.fi
Italian Mathematical Union (UMI)
- There will be a keynote lecture by Alessio Figalli on 3 September 2018, within the Meeting in Applied Mathematics and Calculus of Variations, Rome, 3-6 September 2018
Webpage: http://www1.mat.uniroma1.it/people/garroni/meeting2018.html
- A joint meeting of the UMI, the Italian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the Polish Mathematical Society, will be held in Wrocław