European Mathematical Society#2008 prizes

{{Infobox organization

| name = European Mathematical Society

| formation = {{Start date and years ago|df=yes|28 October 1990}}

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| headquarters = Helsinki, Finland, Europe

| fields = Mathematics

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| founder = Friedrich Hirzebruch

| leader_title = President

| leader_name = Jan Philip Solovej

| main_organ =

| affiliations = International Mathematical Union

| membership = EMS has as its members around 60 national mathematical societies in Europe, 50 mathematical research centres and departments, and 3000 individuals.

| website = {{URL|https://euromathsoc.org}}

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The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current president is Jan Philip Solovej,{{cite web|url=https://euromathsoc.org/committee-executive|title=Executive Committee|access-date=10 Jan 2023}} professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen.

Goals

The Society seeks to serve all kinds of mathematicians in universities, research institutes and other forms of higher education. Its aims are to

Promote mathematical research, both pure and applied,
Assist and advise on problems of mathematical education,
Concern itself with the broader relations of mathematics to society,
Foster interaction between mathematicians of different countries,
Establish a sense of identity amongst European mathematicians,
Represent the mathematical community in supra-national institutions.

The EMS is itself an Affiliate Member{{cite web|url=http://www.mathunion.org/members/affiliate-members/|title=IMU Affiliate Members|access-date=26 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201043237/http://www.mathunion.org/members/affiliate-members/|archive-date=1 December 2017|url-status=dead}} of the International Mathematical Union and an Associate Member{{cite web|url=http://www.iciam.org/members|title=ICIAM Members|access-date=26 November 2017}} of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

History

File:Four EMS Presidents.jpg in Edinburgh]]

The precursor to the EMS, the European Mathematical Council was founded in 1978{{cite web | url=https://directus.backend.euromathsoc.org/assets/b9b291ef-a803-4188-9648-d36972f60426 | title=History of the European Mathematical Society: 1990–98 | author=David A R Wallace| date=October 1999 | access-date=2023-01-10}} at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki. This informal federation of mathematical societies was chaired by Sir Michael Atiyah. The European Mathematical Society was founded on 28 October 1990 in Mądralin near Warsaw, Poland, with Friedrich Hirzebruch as founding President. Initially, the EMS had 27 member societies. The first European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) was held at the Sorbonne and Panthéon-Sorbonne universities in Paris in 1992, and is now held every 4 years at different locations around Europe, organised by the EMS. ECM 2020 was postponed for a year due to the covid pandemic took place in 2021 in Portorož in Slovenia. The next ECM (2028) will be held in Bologna.

=Presidents of the EMS=

Source:{{cite web | url=https://euromathsoc.org/presidents | title=Past Presidents of the European Mathematical Society| access-date=2023-01-10}}

Friedrich Hirzebruch, 1990–1994
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, 1995–1998
Rolf Jeltsch, 1999–2002
John Kingman, 2003–2006
Ari Laptev, 2007–2010
Marta Sanz-Solé, 2011–2014
Pavel Exner, 2015–2018
Volker Mehrmann, 2019–2022
Jan Philip Solovej, 2023–present

Structure and Governance

The governing body{{cite web|url=https://euromathsoc.org/governance|title=Governance of the European Mathematical Society |access-date=10 Jan 2023}} of the EMS is its Council, which comprises delegates representing all of the societies which are themselves members of the EMS, along with delegates representing the institutional and individual EMS members. The Council meets every 2 years, and appoints the President and Executive Committee who are responsible for the running of the society.

Besides the Executive Committee, the EMS has standing committees on:{{cite web|url=https://euromathsoc.org/committees|title=Committees of the European Mathematical Society |access-date=10 Jan 2023}} Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations, Developing Countries, Mathematical Education, ERCOM (Directors of European Research Centres in the Mathematical Sciences), Ethics, European Solidarity, Meetings, Publications and Electronic Dissemination, Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics,{{cite web|url=http://mathematics-in-europe.eu/|title=Mathematics In Europe|access-date=22 Nov 2017}} Women in Mathematics.

The EMS's rules are set down in its Statutes{{cite web|url=https://euromathsoc.org/governance-statutes|title=Statutes of the European Mathematical Society |access-date=10 Jan 2023}} and Bylaws.{{cite web|url=https://euromathsoc.org/governance-by-laws|title=Bylaws of the European Mathematical Society |access-date=10 Jan 2023}} The EMS is headquartered at the University of Helsinki.

Prizes

The European Congress of Mathematics is held every four years under the Society's auspices, at which ten EMS Prizes are awarded to "recognize excellent contributions in Mathematics by young researchers not older than 35 years".{{cite web|url=https://euromathsoc.org/ems-prizes |title=Prizes of the European Mathematical Society |access-date=2023-01-10}}

Since 2000, the Felix Klein Prize (endowed by the Institute for Industrial Mathematics in Kaiserslautern) has been awarded to "a young scientist or a small group of young scientists (normally under the age of 38) for using sophisticated methods to give an outstanding solution, which meets with the complete satisfaction of industry, to a concrete and difficult industrial problem."

Since 2012, the Otto Neugebauer Prize (endowed by Springer Verlag) has been awarded to a researcher or group of researchers '"for highly original and influential work in the field of history of mathematics that enhances our understanding of either the development of mathematics or a particular mathematical subject in any period and in any geographical region".

Since 2023, the EMS/ECMI Lánczos Prize for Mathematical Software (established by EMS and the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry) has been awarded to a mathematician or scientist, or a group of mathematicians and scientists, "for the development of outstanding mathematical software with important applications in mathematics, science, engineering, society or industry". Eligibility for the Prize is restricted to software whose source is available to the general public for scrutiny.

Since 2023, the Paul Lévy Prize in Probability Theory (established by EMS, École Polytechnique, the Foundation of École Polytechnique, and the Paul Lévy family, with financial support from BNP Paribas) has been awarded to a scientist who has made "outstanding contributions to Probability Theory and its Applications, broadly defined".

Since 2024, the Simon Norton Prize{{cite web|url=https://euromathsoc.org/committee-outreach-Simon-Norton-Prize-2024|title=The EMS Simon Norton Prize for Mathematics Outreach |access-date=2025-03-25}} for Mathematics Outreach has been awarded to individuals, teams or partnerships whose work in any area of mathematics engagement has had an outstanding and demonstrable impact or influence on its audience.

National societies holding full membership in EMS

Publications

The EMS is the sole shareholder of the publisher EMS Press that publishes over 25 academic journals, including:[https://ems.press/journals List of the journals published by EMS Press]

EMS Press has also published over 200 books in mathematics since 2003, in both print and digital formats.{{cite web

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In addition, since 2021 it publishes the Magazine of the European Mathematical Society, often called EMS Magazine (ISSN 2747-7894, eISSN 2747-7908), formerly known as the Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society (ISSN 1027-488X), which was established in 1991. It features news and expositions of recent developments in mathematical research.{{cite web|author=Lars Madsen |url=http://mathematics.dk/en/aktiviteter/news/article/artikel/artikel-om-ems-newsletter-fra-vicente-munoz/ |title=Article about EMS Newsletter from Vicente Muñoz |website=Mathematics.dk |date=11 April 2014 |access-date=2016-03-09}}{{cite web|url=http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Societies/EUMS.html |title=European Mathematical Society |website=History.mcs.st-and.ac.uk |access-date=2016-03-09}} It is quarterly and open access.{{Cite journal|last=Sanz-Solé|first=Marta|title=The European Mathematical Society: the home for Mathematics in Europe|url=http://www.europhysicsnews.org/articles/epn/pdf/2013/04/epn2013444p19.pdf|journal=Europhysics News|date=2013 |volume=44|issue=4|pages=19–21|doi=10.1051/epn/2013402|doi-access=free|bibcode=2013ENews..44d..19S }} The current editor-in-chief is

Donatella Donatelli (succeeding Fernando da Costa).{{cite web

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The Encyclopedia of Mathematics is also sponsored by the EMS.

References

External links

[https://euromathsoc.org/ The European Mathematical Society Homepage]
[https://ems.press/ EMS Press]
[http://www.mathematics-in-europe.eu Mathematics in Europe portal by the EMS committee for Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics]
[https://directus.backend.euromathsoc.org/assets/b9b291ef-a803-4188-9648-d36972f60426 History of the EMS]
[http://www.8ecm.si/ 8th European Congress of Mathematics]

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