European Mathematical Society

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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 Ari Laptev, professor at Imperial College London where he is a head of the department of mathematics.

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[edit] Goals

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

  1. promote mathematical research, both pure and applied,
  2. assist and advise on problems of mathematical education,
  3. concern itself with the broader relations of mathematics to society,
  4. foster interaction between mathematicians of different countries,
  5. establish a sense of identity amongst European mathematicians,
  6. represent the mathematical community in supra-national institutions.

[edit] History

The European Mathematical Society was founded in 1990 in Madralin near Warsaw Poland.

The European Mathematical Society, through its committee for Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics (RPA), has recently run a competition for articles that have appeared in a newspaper, or some similar generalmagazine, in the home country of the author.

[edit] Prizes

Every four year a congress is organized called the European Congress of Mathematics (ECM). Ten prizes are then awarded to "recognize excellent contributions in Mathematics by young researchers not older than 35 years".

Here are the awardees so far (a * symbol denotes mathematicians who later earned a Fields medal, while ° denotes a woman).

[edit] 1992 prizes

Richard Borcherds (UK)* - Jens Franke (Germany) - Alexander Goncharov (Russia) - Maxim Kontsevich (Russia)* - François Labourie (France) - Tomasz Luczak (Poland) - Stefan Müller (Germany) - Vladimír Šverák (Czechoslovakia) - Gábor Tardos (Hungary) - Claire Voisin (France)°

[edit] 1996 prizes

Alexis Bonnet (France) - Timothy Gowers (UK)* - Annette Huber (Germany)° - Aise Johan de Jong (Netherlands) - Dmitri Kramkov (Russia) - Jiří Matoušek (Czech Republic) - Loïc Merel (France) - Grigori Perelman (Russia)* - Ricardo Perez-Marco (Spain/France) - Leonid Polterovich (Israel)

[edit] 2000 prizes

Semyon Alesker (Israel) - Rafaël Cerf (France) - Dennis Gaitsgory (USA) - Emmanuel Grenier (France) - Dominic Joyce (UK) - Vincent Lafforgue (France) - Michael McQuillan (UK) - Stefan Nemirovski (Russia) - Paul Seidel (France) - Wendelin Werner (France)*

[edit] 2004 prizes

Franck Barthe (France) - Stefano Bianchini (Italy) - Paul Biran (Israel) - Elon Lindenstrauss (Israel) - Andrei Okounkov (Russia)* - Sylvia Serfaty (France)° - Stanislav Smirnov (Russia) - Xavier Tolsa (Spain) - Warwick Tucker (Australia/Sweden) - Otmar Venjakob (Germany)

[edit] 2008 prizes

Artur Avila (Brazil) - Alexei Borodin (Russia) - Ben Green (UK) - Olga Holtz (Russia) - Bo'az Klartag (Israel) - Alexander Kuznetsov (Russia) - Assaf Naor (Czech Republic/Israel) - Laure Saint-Raymond (France) - Agata Smoktunowicz (Poland)° - Cédric Villani (France)

[edit] Member societies

[edit] International member societies

[edit] National member societies

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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