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, 28–29 September 2020
celebrates the centennial of this historic event. The opening of the conference will take place in the same building used for the ICM 1920. Updated information regarding the conference can be found at https://imucentennial2020.math.unistra.fr
ICM 2022 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 6–14 July 2022
19th IMU General Assembly in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 3–4 July
The 2022 IMU Prizes and Awards will be presented at the Opening Ceremony of the ICM on 6 July 2022.
News from the community
March 14 – The International Day of Mathematics
On the initiative of the IMU, the 40th General Conference of UNESCO in Paris approved the Proclamation of March 14 (Pi Day) as the International Day of Mathematics (IDM).
"Mathematics is everywhere" is the theme for 2020, free material will be made available.
IMU EC meeting 2020
The IMU EC held its annual meeting on February 22-23, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. The meeting was hosted by the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) South Africa
Abel Prize Laureates 2020 Announced
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has announced Hillel Furstenberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and Gregory Margulis (Yale University, USA) as joint recipients of the Abel Prize for 2020.
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
