Professor Daya Reddy, a South African mathematician and ICM 2014 Invited Lecturer, was on September 3rd 2014, as next President of the International Council for Science (ICSU). Reddy will take over from the current ICSU President, Gordon McBean, in October 2017.
Sir John Ball (UK), former IMU President and Professor Manuel de León (Spain), IMU EC member were elected as Ordinary Members.
James Simons is chairman of the Simons Foundation and board chair and founder of Renaissance Technologies. Prior to his financial career, Simons was chairman of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University, taught mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, and was a cryptanalyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Simons holds a B.S. from MIT and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1976, he won the Veblen Prize of the American Mathematics Society for his work in geometry.
Ingrid Daubechies announced at the MENAO symposium, held on August 12, 2014 in Seoul Korea that the five inaugural Mathematics Breakthrough Prize winners will donate each $100,000 to the IMU/CDC to endow a fund that will award 'Breakout Graduate fellowships' to math grad students from and in the developing world.
More information about the prize can be found here.
A new plaque to commemorate the celebrated Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel (August 5th 1802 - April 6th 1829) was inaugurated on the April 6th in Berlin, Germany. The Norwegian ambassador Sven E. Svedman and the Secretary of the International Mathematical Union, Professor Martin Grötschel, jointly unveiled the plaque.
Since its establishment in 2005, the African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative (AMMSI) which is supported by the CDC has concentrated on promoting mathematics in Sub-Sahara African countries because, at the time of its establishment, it was anticipated that a Millennium Science project would be initiated for the Mediterranean countries, to involve Southern Europe and North Africa. The project never materialized. Over the years, there has been concern about exclusion of North Africa from AMMSI’s activities, particularly since some of the countries in this region are equal
More information can be found here
More information can be found here.
As a part of the Volunteer Lecturer Program sponsored by the Developing Countries Strategy Group of the International Mathematics Union (IMU) , in cooperation with International Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA) and the U.S. National Committee for Mathematics, Professor Padmanabhan Seshaiyer from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at George Mason University, USA had the opportunity to visit NM AIST-Arusha from August 9, 2012 to September 6, 2012.
Professor Padmanabhan Seshaiyer of George Mason University's Department of Mathematical Sciences in Fairfax, Virgina (USA) has completed his stay as visiting lecturer at The Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology (NM AIST-Arusha) in Arusha, Tanzania.
Prof. Seshaiyer took part in the Volunteer Lecturer Program from the 10th August - 5th September 2011 and contributed in the following areas:
Name of Volunteer: David Li-Bland
Email Address: david.libland@gmail.com
Home Institution: U.C. Berkeley
Position in Home Institution: Visiting Assistant Professor
Arrival and Departure Day in Host Country: Oct. 14th, Nov. 5th (2016)
Who was your main contact in the host country (name, affiliation and email address):
Eunice Murethi, Head of Department, Department of Mathematics, University of Dar Es Salaam