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Assaf Naor Receives 2019 Ostrowski PrizeProfessor Assaf Naor, Princeton University, has been awarded the 2019 Ostrowski Prize in Higher Mathematics in recognition of his pioneering achievements at the interface of the geometry of Banach spaces, the structure of metric spaces and... (Full article) |
12 Nov 19 | ||
Book Prize 2019The Italian Mathematical Union (U.M.I) has established a Prize, sponsored by Springer-Verlag, of (gross) € 4000, to honour an excellent, original monograph in any field of mathematics. The applications must be sent to the U.M.I office (Piazza di... (Full article) |
28 Oct 19 | ||
#WomenInMaths Twitter contestIn line with its commitment to gender equality and the promotion of scientific vocations among young women, BCAM launches the Twitter contest #WomenInMaths. The aim of this competition is to choose the name of the center's seminar room, in honour... (Full article) |
30 Sep 19 | ||
EMS e-news 32, September 2019Editorial
Dear EMS members,
Let me welcome you all back after a hopefully relaxing summer, with hopefully also a lot of great scientific activities. A mathematical highlight this summer was definitely the ICIAM congress... (Full article) |
27 Sep 19 | e-News | |
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 | ||
Luigi Ambrosio Awarded 2019 Balzan PrizeProf. Luigi Ambrosio, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy), has been awarded the 2019 Balzan Prize for his astonishing capacity for synthesis that has made possible to create hitherto unimaginable bridges between partial differential... (Full article) |
9 Sep 19 | ||
EMS Mathematics Journalistic Article Competition 2020The EMS announces the competition MJAC-2020 on writing a journalistic expository article of philosophical reflection, investigation and expression of ideas on the subject “Mathematics is Everywhere”, open to students in primary or secondary... (Full article) |
7 Sep 19 | ||
2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics awarded to Alex EskinThe 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Prof. Alex Eskin, University of Chicago, for revolutionary discoveries in the dynamics and geometry of moduli spaces of Abelian differentials, including the proof of the “magic wand... (Full article) |
7 Sep 19 | ||
Call for Proposals for Special Sessions at the Joint AMS-SMF-EMS Conference, Grenoble 2021The Call for Proposals for special sessions for the 2021 AMS-SMF-EMS Joint International Meeting to be held in Grenoble, France, in July 2021 is open. The deadline for special session proposals is April 15, 2020. |
20 Aug 19 | ||
Update on the arrest of Tuna Altinel & report from the courtTuna Altinel, EMS member and Professor at the Université Lyon 1 in France, was imprisoned in Turkey on 11th May. At the time, the EMS issued a statement... (Full article) |
19 Aug 19 | ||
Open call for Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in MathematicsThe National Academy of Sciences has established a newly named Maryam Mirzakhani Prize in Mathematics (formerly the NAS Award in Mathematics, which was established in 1988 by the American Mathematical Society in honor of its centennial). The... (Full article) |
21 Jul 19 | ||
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 | ||
ICM2020 websiteThe website of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022, July 6-14, in Saint Petersburg, is now operational. |
4 Jul 19 | ||
EMS e-News 31, June 2019EditorialDear EMS members,
The last months have been full of activities. Here I would like to mention a few. |
12 Jun 19 | e-News | |
Shaw Prize 2019 awarded to Michel TalagrandThe Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2019 has been awarded to Michel Talagrand, Sorbonne University, France, for his work on concentration inequalities, on suprema of stochastic processes and on rigorous results for spin glasses. |
21 May 19 | ||
EMS Statement on the Arrest of Prof Tuna AltinelLast week the mathematician Tuna Altinel, member of the European Mathematical Society and professor at the Université Lyon 1 in France, was arrested in Turkey after he had his passport extracted by the police. Tuna Altinel was one of the... (Full article) |
14 May 19 | ||
Diderot Mathematical ForumA Diderot Mathematical Forum on "Mathematics & Architecture" will be held on 8th June in 3 cities simultaneously: Helsinki, Porto, & Prague. |
7 May 19 | ||
Reports on Impact of MathematicsSeveral countries have released reports on the impact of Mathematics in society: Socio-economic impact of mathematical research and... (Full article) |
19 Apr 19 | ||
W.K. Clifford Prize Call for NominationsW.K. Clifford Prize 2020 --- CALL FOR NOMINATIONS The W.K. Clifford Prize is an international scientific prize designed to encourage young researchers to compete for excellence in theoretical and applied Clifford algebras, their... (Full article) |
29 Mar 19 | Algebra, Analysis and its Applications, Geometry, Mathematical Physics, Mathematics in Science and Technology | |
The Basque Center for Applied Mathematics - BCAM launches a photography contest to celebrate its 10th anniversaryThe Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics - BCAM has organized several scientific and disseminative activities to commemorate its 10 years of trajectory dedicated to research and knowledge transfer on applied mathematics. Among these activities... (Full article) |
26 Mar 19 | Algebra, Algebraic and Complex Geometry, Analysis and its Applications, Combinatorics, Control Theory and Optimization, Dynamical Systems and Ordinary Differential Equations, Geometry, History of Mathematics, Lie Theory and Generalizations, Logic and Foundations, Mathematical Aspects of Computer Science, Mathematical Physics, Mathematics Education and Popularization of Mathematics, Mathematics in Science and Technology, Number Theory, Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Partial Differential Equations, Probability and Statistics, Topology | |
EMS e-News 30, March 2019
EDITORIAL
Dear members of the EMS, This is a short summary of my vision for the EMS in the next four years. Although the EMS is a well-functioning society, there is always room for improvement and there... (Full article) |
25 Mar 19 | e-News | |
International Prize in Statistics Awarded to Bradley EfronThe International Prize in Statistics has been awarded to Bradley Efron, professor of statistics and biomedical data science at Stanford University, in recognition of the "bootstrap", a method he developed in 1977 for assessing the uncertainty of... (Full article) |
22 Mar 19 | ||
Abel Prize 2019 awarded to Karen UnlenbeckThe Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2019 to Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin, USA “for her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge... (Full article) |
19 Mar 19 | ||
Open Call for Vasil A. Popov PrizeThe call for nominations for 9th Vasil A. Popov Prize is open until January 31, 2020. The prize is aimed to an outstanding young approximation theorist who did not have their terminal degree on January 31, 2014. It will be awarded at the... (Full article) |
19 Mar 19 | ||
Request for comments from the ICM Structure CommitteeThe International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is widely considered to be the premier conference for mathematicians. In the last few years there has been discussion regarding ways in which the process for structuring the ICM and inviting... (Full article) |
23 Feb 19 |