The EMS Council meeting will take place as a virtual meeting on Saturday, July 4, 9.00-13.00 CET with the main decisions (budget, elections, choice of 9ECM venue) being made by an electronic voting process. For the remainder of council business, we will schedule a personal council meeting on the occasion of the meeting for the 30th anniversary of the EMS, which is planned to take place in Edinburgh from 29-30 of October 2020. More information will follow in due course.

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Announcement of the next meeting of the EMS Council

The EMS Council meets every second year. The next meeting will be held in Bled, July 4 and 5, 2020 at Bled at Hotel Kompas Bled. The registration starts on July 4 at 12.00 and ends at 13.45. The Council meeting starts at 14.00 on July 4 and ends at 12.00 on July 5.

 

Delegates

 

Delegates to the Council shall be elected for a period of four years. A delegate may be re-elected provided that consecutive service in the same capacity does not exceed eight years. Delegates will be elected by the following categories of members.

 

(a) Full Members

 

Full Members are national mathematical societies, which elect 1, 2, 3, or 4 delegates according to their membership class. Council decides the membership class and societies are invited to apply for the class upgrade. However, the current membership class of the society determines the number of delegates for the 2020 Council.

 

Each society is responsible for the election of its delegates. To be eligible to nominate its delegates the society must have paid the corporate membership fee for the year 2019 and / or 2020. It is not compulsory but is highly appreciated that the full member delegates join the EMS as individual members.

 

The online nomination form for delegates of full members is below. The deadline for nominations for delegates of full members is 12 April 2020.

 

(b) Associate Members

 

Delegates representing associate members shall be elected by a ballot organized by the Executive Committee from a list of candidates who have been nominated and seconded by associate members, and have agreed to serve. In October 2019, there were three associate members and, according to our statutes, (up to) one delegate may represent these members. Associate members delegates must themselves be members of the EMS and have paid the individual membership fees for the year 2019 and / or 2020.

 

The delegate whose term includes 2020 is Susanne Ditlevsen.

 

(c) Institutional Members

 

Delegates representing institutional members shall be elected by a ballot organized by the Executive Committee from a list of candidates who have been nominated and seconded by institutional members, and have agreed to serve. In October 2019, there were 48 institutional members and, according to our statutes, (up to) four delegates may represent these members. Institutional member delegates must themselves be individual members of the EMS and have paid the individual membership fees for the year 2019 and / or 2020.

 

The delegates whose term includes 2020 are David Abrahams, Alexander Mielke and Luis Vega. The delegate who can be re-elected is Klavdija Kutnar.

 

The online nomination form for delegates of institutional members (including the ones eligible for re-election) is below. The deadline for nominations for delegates of institutional members is 8 March 2020.

 

(d) Individual Members

 

Delegates representing individual members shall be elected by a ballot organized by the Executive Committee from a list of candidates who have been nominated and seconded, and have agreed to serve. These delegates must themselves be individual members of the European Mathematical Society and have paid the individual membership fees for the year 2019 and / or 2020.

 

In October 2019 there were 2847 individual members and, according to our statutes, these members may be represented by (up to) 28 delegates.

 

Here is a list of the current delegates of individual members whose terms include 2020:

 

Jean-Marc Deshouillers

Maria Esteban

Vincenzo Ferone

Alice Fialowski

Luis Narvaáez Macarro

Jan Pospíšil

Primoz Potocnik

Jiří Rákosník

Muhammed Uludag

 

Here is a list of the delegates of individual members who could be re-elected for the 2020 Council:

 

Antonio Campillo

Piermarco Cannarsa

Jose Antonio Carrillo

Carles Casacuberta i Vergés

Bostjan Kuzman

Marta Mazzocco

Vicente Muñoz

Marta Sanz-Solé

 

The online nomination form for delegates of individual members (including the ones eligible for re-election) is below. The deadline for nominations for delegates of individual members is 8 March 2020.

 

Member delegates whose term has expired in some particular status. These delegates cannot be re-elected in the same status, but can be nominated in a different delegate status.

Full member delegates:

Hrvoje Kraljevic
Colva Roney-Dougal
Armen Sergeev
Wacław Marzantowicz
Thierry Horsin

Individual member delegates:

Thierry Bouche
Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel
Krzysztof Ciesielski
Pavel Exner
Paul C. Kettler
Ari Laptev
José Francisco Rodrigues
Marie-Francoise Roy
Robin Wilson

 

Agenda

 

The Executive Committee is responsible for preparing the matters to be discussed at Council meetings. Items for the agenda of this meeting of the Council should be sent as soon as possible, and no later than 30 April 2020, to the EMS Secretariat in Helsinki (ems-office@helsinki.fi).

 

Executive Committee

 

The Council is responsible for electing the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer and other members of the Executive Committee. The present membership of the Executive Committee, together with their individual terms of office, is as follows:

 

President: Volker Mehrmann (2019–2022)

 

Vice-Presidents: Betül Tanbay (2019–2022)

                           Armen Sergeev (2017–2020)

 

Secretary: Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel (2019–2022)

 

Treasurer: Mats Gyllenberg (2019–2022)

 

Members: Jorge Buescu (2019-2022)

                 Nicola Fusco (2017–2020)

                 Stefan Jackowski (2017–2020)

                 Vicente Muñoz (2017–2020)

                 Beatrice Pelloni (2017–2020)

 

Members of the Executive Committee are elected for a period of four years. The President can only serve one term. Committee members may be re-elected, provided that consecutive service shall not exceed eight years.

 

The Council may, at its meeting, add to the nominations received and set up a Nominations Committee, disjoint from the Executive Committee, to consider all candidates. After hearing the report by the Chair of the Nominations Committee (if one has been set up), the Council will proceed to the elections to the Executive Committee posts.

 

All these arrangements are as required in the Statutes and By-Laws, which can be found here together with the web page for the Council: http://www.euro-math-soc.eu

 

The online nomination form for full member delegates: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/90751/lomake.html.

The deadline for nominations is 12 April 2020.

 

Secretary: Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel (s.m.verduynlunel@uu.nl)

 

Secretariat: ems-office@helsinki.fi

 

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