The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2013 to Pierre Deligne, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA “for seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields”.

The IMU Executive Committee (EC) held its annual meeting at the IMU Secretariat in Berlin on March 11-12, 2013. The meeting was preceded by a gathering of the members of the Commission for Developing Countries and several guests. The IMU EC and CDC jointly decided, e.g., to host with the support of the ICM 2014 [...]

On March 5, 2013 the Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013) initiative has its official European launch in Paris. In parallel the Mathematics of Planet Earth Exhibition is started. The event is organized by UNESCO and the International Mathematical Union (see press release).

The Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada will soon launch an annual event called the FIELDS MEDAL SYMPOSIUM, that will focus on the work of mathematicians honored by a Fields Medal. The Inaugural Fields Medal Symposium, entitled Fundamentals of the Langlands Program, will be held on October 15-18, 2012. It will be centered on the work [...]

The final report about the Future World Heritage Digital Mathematics Library Symposium that was held at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington, DC, on June 1-3, 2012, organized by IMU’s Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC) is now available.

The Ramanujan Prize Selection Committee has announced that the 2012 Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Fernando Codá Marques, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in recognition of his several outstanding contributions to Differential Geometry.

In a letter to the IMU Adhering Organizations IMU President Ingrid Daubechies invites nominations for the IMU Prizes (Fields Medal, Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize, Chern Medal Award, and Leelavati Prize sponsored by Infosys) and the ICM 2014 Emmy Noether Lecture to be awarded at ICM 2014. Nominations should be sent to the [...]

Starting in September 2013, the “Heidelberg Laureate Forum” will bring together winners of the Abel Prize, the Fields Medal, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the Turing Award with young scientists from all over the world. The meeting will be held in Heidelberg, it is established and sponsored by the Klaus Tschira Foundation and organized in collaboration [...]

On April 30, 2012, for the first time in the history of Nepal, a special celebration was staged to pay homage to six senior mathematicians who have served the country for more than 50 years and who are over 75 years of age. The prime minister of Nepal, Dr. Baburam Bhattarai, honored them in a [...]

The IMU Executive Committee held its annual meeting at IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, April 22-23, 2012. The EC appointed, for instance, all committees for IMU prizes. The chairs of the prize committees will be made public as soon as all committee members have accepted the request to serve.

Journal prices have been, since the beginning of the electronic publication age, an intensely discussed hot topic. Tim Gower’s call to action “Elsevier — my part in its downfall”  in January 2012 started a boycott against Elsevier running under the title “The Cost of Knowledge”. This movement has gained significant momentum and lead almost 10.000 [...]

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2012 to Endre Szemerédi, Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, and Department of Computer Science, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA “for his fundamental contributions to discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science, and in [...]

The Ramanujan Prize Selection Committee has announced that the 2011 Srinivasa Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Philibert Nang, University of Libreville, Gabon in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the algebraic theory of D-modules. The prize is also in recognition of Dr. Nang’s determined pursuit of high level research while engaged in an academic [...]

Today the IMU Secretariat inaugurated its archive in Berlin. The archive has been set up by former IMU Secretary Olli Lehto, it was hosted and maintained for 17 years at the University of Helsinki. All documents have now been moved to Berlin. The archive opening was part of a small workshop where the future organization [...]

John Ball, Oxford Centre for Nonlinear PDE, Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, was elected Ordinary Member of the Executive Board of ICSU (International Council for Science) at ICSU’s 30th General Assembly in Rome, Italy. John Ball who is Past President of the International Mathematical Union is the first ever mathematician on this board. [...]

As part of the Capacity and Networking Project (CANP), a workshop called EDIMATHS is taking place in Mali, from the 19th-30th September 2011 at the University of Bamako. The workshop is supported by UNESCO, IMU, CIMPA, SCAC/Bamako, the  Ministre de l’Éducation, de l’Alphabétisation et des Langues Nationales and the Ministre de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de [...]

The program is designed to enhance the mathematical capacity &productivity of recipient research groups. The project will focus on mathematicians and their graduate students at institutions of higher learning in sub-Saharan Africa. The Foundation will make competitive awards that, taken together, will total approximately 400,000 USD per year for each of the next 10 years. [...]

Today the IMU celebrates its 60th anniversary after its rebirth in 1951. On September 10, 1951 Börge Jessen (Denmark) announced to the National Adhering Organizations that the Union was officially established after ten countries had joined the Union (see page 86 of Olli Lehto’s book “Mathematics without borders, a history of the International Mathematical Union”).

The International Mathematical Union (IMU) and the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM) jointly constituted a Working Group on Journal Ranking. The Working Group has finished its work and produced a Report which is now electronically available. The report was discussed in a minisymposium at ICIAM 2011 in Vancouver. IMU and ICIAM have [...]

The International Mathematical Union released a Call for Bids for ICM 2018 together with Guidelines for ICM2018 Bids which give advice and instructions to potential bidders. To be considered by the Site Selection Committee of IMU, bids must be received not later than November 30, 2012.

The Ramanujan Prize was awarded today to Yuguang Shi from Peking University, China during a ceremony at ICTP in Trieste.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2011 to John Milnor, Stony Brook University, NY “for pioneering discoveries in topology, geometry and algebra”. For more information about the laureate, his achievements and the Abel Prize, visit the Abel Prize website www.abelprisen.no/en/.

The IMU Executive Committee has its annual meeting in Perth, Australia, on Februar 27-28, 2011. This is the first occasion of an EC meeting in Australia in IMU’s history. The meeting is hosted by the University of Western Australia, which also organized a two-days workshop, the MathWest Workshop 2011, one of the events in the [...]

On the occasion of the establishment of the IMU Secretariat in Berlin a grant program, called IMU Berlin Einstein Foundation Program (EFP) has been established aiming at the support of interactions of young mathematician from developing and economically disadvantaged countries with the lively mathematical environment in Berlin.

The permanent IMU Secretariat has been opened today at the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin, Germany. Press releases and media reports (tv, radio, newspapers) about  the event and photos can be found here.

The Ramanujan Prize Selection Committee has announced that the 2010 Srinivasa Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Professor Yuguang Shi of the School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University.

The International Mathematical Union disseminates a press release announcing the final version of the document ‘Best Current Practices for Journals’ produced by IMU´s Committee on Electronic Information and Communication (CEIC) and endorsed by IMU’s General Assembly.

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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.

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/.

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.

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.

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 [...]

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.

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.

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/

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.

The Shaw Prize Award Presentation Ceremony will be held on 9 September 2008, see http://www.shawprize.org/en/shawprize/presentation/release.html

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 [...]

If you are interested in ICM 2010 in Hyderabad in India, go to the ICM 2010  server for  information at present.

The next IMU Executive Meeting will be held on April 18-19, 2009 in Fuzhou, China.

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 [...]

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 [...]

ICM 2006 opened and IMU Prizes awarded Speech of IMU President John Ball at the Opening Ceremony in PDF.