[CvGmt News] Message from the President of the European Mathematical Society
European Mathematical Society
ems-office at helsinki.fi
Wed Jan 22 12:31:41 CET 2014
*The European Mathematical Society
*
*Dear EMS member,*
By the end of this year, my term as President of the European
Mathematical Society will come to an end. This is therefore my last
traditional annual message, and I would like to start it by sending you
all my belated best wishes for a very prosperous and peaceful year 2014.
*Council *
**
A great deal of our activity in the forthcoming months will be focused
on the organization of the Council meeting. This will happen on June
28-29 in Donostia/San Sebastián, by invitation of the Royal Spanish
Mathematical Society (RSME) and the University of the Basque Country.
The Council is the supreme authority of the Society. In its biennial
meetings decisions about future EMS policies are taken, and the
Executive Committee obtains the guidelines for its daily work. Every
member of the Society has the possibility to contribute actively through
the elected delegates. In a few weeks, the formal announcement of the
Council will be published. It will contain an outline agenda and a
request for other agenda items, the request for nominations for
vacancies of delegates of individual, institutional and associate
members, and for appointments of delegates by full members.
Elections of members of the Executive Committee will be an important
item of the Council agenda. Three officers -President, Secretary and
Treasurer- are to be elected. There will be also a vacancy of one member
at large.
A substantial part of the Council meeting will be devoted to the
presentation and discussion of the work done within the eleven EMS
committees. This will not only provide an opportunity to obtain an
account of a diversity of projects, but will also be a forum for
exchanging views and getting inspiration for future initiatives. With
about 110 colleagues collaborating as members of the EMS Committees,
their activity generates an incredible number of very valuable results.
Clearly, the EMS would not have reached the acknowledgement and strength
we enjoy without the solid pillars provided by the Committees.
*Activities in 2014*
Following the Council, the University of the Basque Country will host a
mathematical Congress in Bilbao (June 30-July 4). Under the auspices of
the EMS, and jointly organized by the EMS member societies in Italy and
Spain, The Catalan Mathematical Society, The Italian Mathematical Union,
The Italian Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics, The Royal
Spanish Mathematical Society and The Spanish Society for Applied
Mathematics, it is expected to be a large and very successful congress
where mathematics in its unity will be presented in the format of
plenary lectures and special sessions. As a part of the programme, the
EMS lecture series will be delivered by the EMS Lecturer 2014, Miguel
Ángel Herrero. Alfio Quarteroni will be the EMS distinguished speaker at
the Congress. We invite you to participate actively in this interesting
event.
Contributing to the training of the young generation of mathematicians
constitutes one of the priorities of the Society. The /EMS Summer
Schools/ are designed to fulfil this objective. To increase the already
strong commitment with this highly important objective, a call for
proposals of EMS Summer Schools in 2014 was published in May last year.
As an outcome, three EMS Schools will be organized.
This is in addition to other EMS Summer Schools already planed. Indeed,
since 2008, every year, about three /Summer Schools in Applied
Mathematics/ are organized in partnership with several academic
organizations. For 2014, two of these schools organized jointly with the
ESMTB and CIME have already been announced. The second /EMS-IAMP School
in Mathematical Physics/ will take place in July at the Erwin
Schrödinger Institute. The topic this year is Mathematical Relativity.
Through the EMS Committee Women in Mathematics, the EMS is contributing
to the organization of the /6^th European Women in Mathematics Summer
School/ to be held at the Institute Mittag-Leffler in June.
New synergies derived partly from the changes in the remit of the EMS
Committee for European Solidarity and of the annual meeting of
Presidents of EMS member societies are giving new and interesting
results. An example is the join initiative of the mathematical societies
in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Russia and Turkey to hold a
conference in Tbilisi, under the auspices of the EMS. More concrete
information will be given soon.
The Turkish Mathematical Society has invited the Presidents of EMS
member societies to hold their Seventh Meeting in Istanbul on April 12.
Following the format of the last edition, part of the meeting will be
devoted to discuss how national societies can influence at the national
level suitable policies for mathematics, with special emphasis on
education and knowledge transfer to industry. The meeting will also be a
good occasion for the Executive Committee to get inputs for the Council
agenda.
*EU*
Horizon 2020, the EU Research and Innovation Programme for 2014-2020 was
approved last November and in December the first calls were announced.
Of particular interest for mathematicians are the calls for proposals
for grants of the European Research Council (ERC) and the Marie
Sklodowska Curie Actions (MSC). The ERC website contains clear and
precise information on the calls. In contrast, it is more demanding to
have a quick and informative overview on other EU calls. We plan to
elaborate a simplified version of the most relevant calls for
mathematics for its dissemination, as we already did for the first MSC
calls published last December.
Under the leadership of the EMS /Committee for Applied Mathematics/ and
the /Committee/ /for Electronic Publishing/, in co-operation with other
partners, initiatives to continue the EuDML project and to implement
some of the recommendations of the Forward Look for Mathematics in
Industry, respectively, have been set up. It is our hope that they will
benefit from funding under Horizon 2020.
The last year left us with the excellent news of the appointment of the
second EMS President, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, as new President of the
ERC. With his large experience, international projection and
distinguished profile, Jean-Pierre is in the best position to exert
strong leadership and to further develop an organization devoted to fund
the best curiosity-driven research in every discipline in Europe. We
congratulate him very warmly and wish him much success.
*Future *
In 2015 the EMS will celebrate its 25^th anniversary. We would like to
mark this event with a one-day event devoted to a reflection on the
future of mathematics and its connections with other disciplines and
with the technological developments of the society in this rapidly
changing world. The selected place to have the celebration is the
Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris. I take this opportunity to thank its
Director, Cédric Villani for hosting an event of such special
significance for the Society.
Also in 2015, and for the first time since a reciprocity agreement with
the American Mathematical Society was signed in the year 2000, a joint
/International Mathematical Meeting AMS-EMS with the Portuguese
Mathematical Society (SMP)/ is being organized in Porto, June 10-13. The
selection of plenary speakers has already been done by the Scientific
Programme Committee and soon a call for the organization of Special
Sessions will be announced.
Shortly after the closing of the 6ECM, both the Executive Committee and
the Berlin colleagues in charge of the organization of the /7ECM/
started the first steps of a long run with deadline July 22, 2016. The
chairs of all committees were appointed last year. These are: Timothy
Gowers for the Scientific Committee, Björn Engquist for the EMS Prize
Committee, Mario Primicerio for the Felix Klein Prize Committee and
Jesper Lützen for the Otto Neugebauer Prize Committee. Recently the
members of the Scientific Committee have been appointed and more
organizational actions are underway. Keep informed with news on the
Congress by visiting its website.
The scientific programme of the next ECMs will have a new highlight, the
/Hirzebruch Lecture/. This is by an agreement between the German
Mathematical Society and the EMS, in honour of the memory of Friedrich
Hirzebruch, the first President of the EMS.
Let me end this report by stressing that so much activity could not be
possible without the devoted work and continuous collaboration of many
people with different degrees of responsibility. My deep and warm
gratitude to all them, and to you all for your support.
/Marta Sanz-Solé/
President
The European Mathematical Society
*Links for items mentioned in the message:*
http://www.ehu.es/en/web/fjim2014
http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/EMS-AMC/EMS-Applied_Mathematics_Committee_index.html
http://www.esi.ac.at/activities/events/2014/ems-iamp-summer-school-on-mathematical-relativity
http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~alina/ewm/
<http://www.math.ucsd.edu/%7Ealina/ewm/>
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/index.html
http://erc.europa.eu/
http://aep-math2015.spm.pt <http://aep-math2015.spm.pt/>
http://www.7ecm.de/
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EMS Secretariat
E-Mail: ems-office at helsinki.fi
Phone: (+358) 9 1915 1503
Fax: (+358) 9 1915 1400
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
P.O.Box 68 (Gustaf Hällströmink. 2b)
00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
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