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2010-08-19 | | The International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 has been opened by Shrimati Pratibha Patil, the Honourable President of India. Four Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna, Gauss, and Chern Prize have been awarded. Click here for detailed information about the 2010 Prize winners. The slides (PowerPoint & PDF) contain the citations as well as the names of the members of the various Prize Committees. A video of the Opening Ceremony can be found at the ICM 2010 online streaming archive. |
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| | During the ICM 2010 Opening Ceremony, the International Mathematical Union has inaugurated the server http://www.mathunion.org/ICM which provides access, free of charge, to the articles in all ICM proceedings volumes since the beginning of this series of congresses. IMU is grateful to all publishing houses that have granted the right to digitize these books. IMU particulary appreciates the work of R. Keith Dennis (Cornell University) and Ulf Rehmann (Universität Bielefeld) who have volunteered to digitize the articles. |
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2010-08-17 | | The 16th General Assembly of the International Mathematical Union has been closed. It took place in Bangalore, India, on August 16th and 17th. The following major decisions have been made: |
| | The IMU Executive Committee, the Commission for Developing Countries (CDC), and the IMU members of the Joint International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM) for 2011-2014 have been elected. Ingrid Daubechies will be the next IMU President, click here to view the new IMU leadership. |
| | Seoul, Republic of Korea, has been choosen as the location of ICM 2014, this congress will place in the second half of August 2014. Gyungju will be the location of the next General Assembly. |
| | The Weierstrass Institute Berlin, Germany, will host the permanent office of IMU. The new office will take up its operation in January 2011. |
| | Montenegro became a new IMU Member, Cambodia, Moldova, Nepal, and Oman became new IMU Associate Members, the South-East Asia Mathematical Society became a new IMU Affiliate Member. |
| | The General Assembly has endorsed the document 'Best Current Practices for Journals' produced by IMU´s Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC). |
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2010-06-18 | | The Inamori Foundation promoting academic and cultural development and international understanding, annually awards three Kyoto Prize to those who have contributed significantly in the categories of "Advanced Technology", "Basic Sciences", and "Arts and Philosophy". The laureate for the 2010 Kyoto Prize in the category "Basic Sciences" is IMU President László Lovász for "Outstanding Contributions to Mathematical Sciences Based on Discrete Optimization Algorithms". More details can be found at:
http://www.inamori-f.or.jp/e_kp_lau_thi.html |
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2010-06-15 | | The International Mathematical Union has produced an information brochure with a survey of all current IMU activities. The printed version of this booklet will be distributed to all participants of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 in Hyderabad. |
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2010-03-24 | | The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2010 to John Torrence Tate, University of Texas at Austin "for his vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers."
For more information about the laureate, his achievements and the Abel Prize, visit the Abel Prize website www.abelprisen.no/en/. |
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2009-12-22 | | The Ramanujan Prize Selection Committee has announced that the 2009 Srinivasa Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Ernesto Lupercio, a researcher at CINVESTAV, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico. |
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2009-07-15 | | ICM Videos: The International Mathematical Union is offering now videos that were recorded at the International Congresses of
Mathematicians in 1998, 2002, and 2006. These videos show the opening ceremonies, most of the plenary lectures, and other major events. They can be viewed and are free for download. |
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2009-06-01 | | Chern Medal: The International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the Chern Medal Foundation (CMF) jointly launch a new mathematical prize, the Chern Medal Award, in memory of the outstanding mathematician Shiing-Shen Chern. The Award is to be given to an individual whose lifelong outstanding achievements in the field of mathematics warrant the highest level of recognition. It consists of a medal and a monetary award of US$ 500,000. Half of the amount shall be donated to organizations of the recipient's choice to support research, education, outreach, or other activities to promote mathematics. For more information see the Press Release and the Chern Medal Program Guidelines (which also inform about the nomination procedure). The Chern Medal will be awarded for the first time at the opening ceremony of ICM 2010 in Hyderabad, India on August 19, 2010. |
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2009-05-08 | | The Organizers of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 in Hyderabad have issued the official "First Announcement of ICM 2010" and invited all mathematicians to preregister at the ICM 2010 Website. |
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2009-04-02 | | The International Mathematical Union (IMU), together with the John Templeton Foundation, releases a brief report "Mathematics in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities" on the current state of mathematics in Africa and on opportunities for new initiatives to support mathematical development. The study was prepared by IMU's Developing Strategies Group and financed by the John Templeton Foundation. |
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2009-03-26 | | The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2009 to Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, “for his revolutionary contributions to geometry”. For more information about the laureate, his achievements and the Abel Prize, visit the Abel Prize website www.abelprisen.no/en/ |
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2008-10-24 | | The 2008 Srinivasa Ramanujan Prize has been awarded to Enrique R. Pujals, Associate Researcher at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA), Brazil. |
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2008-09-11 | | The Shaw Prize Award Presentation Ceremony will be held on 9 September 2008, see
http://www.shawprize.org/en/shawprize/presentation/release.html |
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2008-06-11 | | IMU has released, in cooperation with ICIAM and IMS, the report "Citation Statistics" which analyzes the use and misuse of citation data in the assessment of scientific research, see also IMU-Net 29b of June 2008 and the corresponding press release. The report discusses, in particular, the impact factor, the h-index and variants of these that are often employed to rank not only journals but also individuals, departments, or whole institutions and is available for republication. |
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2008-05-05 | | If you are interested in ICM 2010 in Hyderabad in India, go to the ICM 2010 server for information at present. |
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2008-04-21 | | The next IMU Executive Meeting will be held on April 18-19, 2009 in Fuzhou, China. |
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2007-05-21 | | ICIAM/IMS/IMU set up a joint Committee on "Quantitative Assessment of Research" The International Council of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IMS), and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) have formed a Committee of "Quantitative Assessment of Research" that will investigate various aspects of the quantitative assessment of research in mathematics. The Committee will, in particular, look into impact factors and similar ways to measure research output.
The Committee consists of: - Robert Adler (Haifa, Israel), appointed by IMS
- Peter Taylor (Melbourne, Australia), appointed by ICIAM
- John Ewing (Providence, USA), appointed by IMU.
The Committee is expected to create a summary of its findings to be endorsed by the Executive Committees of ICIAM, IMS, and IMU and to be published afterwards.
ICIAM, IMS, and IMU have formulated an aspirational charge to help set direction rather than prescribe the final outcome of the committee's work. |
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2007-01-01 | | The IMU secretariat has been moved to the
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB)
for the years 2007 - 2010.
The official postal address for correspondence
with the IMU secretariat is as follows:
International Mathematical Union
Office of the Secretariat
Zuse Institute Berlin
Takustr. 7
D-14195 Berlin
Germany
Fax: +49 30 84185 - 269
E-mail: secretary(at)mathunion.org
Secretary: Martin Grötschel |
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2006-08-22 | | ICM 2006 opened and IMU Prizes awarded
Speech of IMU President John Ball at the Opening Ceremony in PDF. |
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2005-02-20 | | IMU Logo Competition |
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2004-07-08 | | Henri Cartan 100 years old |
