The IMU is an international non-governmental and non-profit scientific organization. IMU's objectives are:
To promote international cooperation in mathematics.
To support and assist the International Congress of Mathematicians and other international scientific meetings or conferences.
To encourage and support other international mathematical activities considered likely to contribute to the development of mathematical science in any of its aspects, pure, applied, or educational.
The conference
Mathematics without Borders
The Centennial of the International Mathematical Union
Strasbourg, 27–28 September 2021*
celebrates the centennial of this historic event. The opening of the conference will take place in the same building used for the ICM 1920. Up-to-date information regarding the conference can be found here.
* Please note that the conference has been rescheduled from September 2020 to the new dates given above.
ICM 2022 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 6–14 July 2022
19th IMU General Assembly in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 3–4 July
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) will take place in Saint Petersburg, Russia, between 6–14 July 2022. The registration and grant application for ICM 2022 are now open. Further information can be found here.
NB. The ICM will take place on 6–14 July 2022 as planned. If the situation requires it, part of the congress will be virtual.
The 19th IMU General Assembly will be held shortly before ICM 2022 on 3–4 July.
The IMU grants a number of prestigious prizes and awards every four years at the ICM. A call for nominations for the 2022 IMU prizes was issued with an extended deadline of 28 February 2021. Further details are available here. The 2022 IMU prizes and awards will be presented at the Opening Ceremony of the ICM on 6 July 2022.
News from the community
COVID-19 Resource Website
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on many aspects of our work and community, the IMU has launched a website with links to online resources covering general information, online seminars and mathematical research on the pandemic. For further details please click here.
IMU EC meeting 2021
The IMU EC held its annual meeting between March 19-21, 2021. The meeting was hosted virtually for the first time due to travel restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Abel Prize Laureates 2021 Announced
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has announced László Lovász (Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics/Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) and Avi Wigderson (Princeton Univerersity, USA) as joint recipients of the Abel Prize for 2021.
A public statement from the IMU
The Executive Committee of the IMU has issued a public statement in response to recent events in Russia. The statement can be viewed here.
IMU joins CCU as liaison organization
The IMU has been admitted as a liaison organization to the Consultative Committee for Units (CCU) of the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM).
Ramanujan Prize 2020 Announced
The 2020 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries has been awarded to Carolina Araujo, a researcher at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Carlos E. Kenig: The International Mathematical Union (IMU) at 100
IMU President Carlos E. Kenig's article The International Mathematical Union (IMU) at 100 appeared in Notices of the American Mathematical Society Volume 67, Number 3, pages 404–407 published in March 2020.
The article is posted here with the permission of the American Mathematical Society.
Further information on Notices of the AMS can be found at https://www.ams.org/notices.
Call for Applications
100 grants - “Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science on Contemporary Logic, Rationality and Information” (SPLogiC)
Illustrated history of the ICM
The book "Mathematicians of the World, Unite!" by G. Curbera is now electronically available on the IMU website. For more information click here
