European Mathematical Society

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 Marta Sanz Solé, professor of Statistics at University of Barcelona.

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.

The European Mathematical Society is also member of the Initiative for Science in Europe.

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 general magazine, in the home country of the author.

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 ^F symbol denotes mathematicians who later earned a Fields Medal).

1992 prizes

Richard Borcherds (UK)^F – Jens Franke (Germany) – Alexander Goncharov (Russia) – Maxim Kontsevich (Russia)^F – François Labourie (France) – Tomasz Łuczak (Poland) – Stefan Müller (Germany) – Vladimír Šverák (Czechoslovakia) – Gábor Tardos (Hungary) – Claire Voisin

1996 prizes

Alexis Bonnet (France) – Timothy Gowers (UK)^F – Annette Huber-Klawitter (Germany) Aise Johan de Jong (Netherlands) – Dmitry Kramkov (Russia) – Jiří Matoušek (Czech Republic) – Loïc Merel (France) – Grigori Perelman (Russia)^F – Ricardo Pérez-Marco (Spain/France) – Leonid Polterovich (Russia/Israel)

2000 prizes

Semyon Alesker (Israel) – Rafaël Cerf (France) – Dennis Gaitsgory (Moldova) – Emmanuel Grenier (France) – Dominic Joyce (UK) – Vincent Lafforgue (France) – Michael McQuillan (UK) – Stefan Nemirovski (Russia) – Paul Seidel (UK/Italy) – Wendelin Werner (France)^F

2004 prizes

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

2008 prizes

Artur Ávila (Brazil) – Alexei Borodin (Russia) – Ben J. Green (UK) – Olga Holtz (Russia) – Bo'az Klartag (Israel) – Alexander Kuznetsov (Russia) – Assaf Naor (USA/Israel) – Laure Saint-Raymond (France) – Agata Smoktunowicz (Poland) – Cédric Villani (France)^F

2012 prizes

Simon Brendle (Germany) - Emmanuel Breuillard (France) - Alessio Figalli (Italy) - Adrian Ioana (Romania) - Mathieu Lewin (France) - Ciprian Manolescu (Romania) - Grégory Miermont (France) - Sophie Morel (France) - Tom Sanders (UK) - Corinna Ulcigrai (Italy)

Member societies

International member societies

• European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry - ECMI
• European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology - ESMTB
• Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik - GAMM
• International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
• Mathematical Society of South Eastern Europe - MASSEE

National member societies

• Austrian Mathematical Society
• Belarusian Mathematical Society
• Belgian Mathematical Society
• Belgian Statistical Society
• Bosnian Mathematical Society
• Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians
• Croatian Mathematical Society
• Cyprus Mathematical Society
• Czech Mathematical Society
• Danish Mathematical Society
• Estonian Mathematical Society
• Finnish Mathematical Society
• Société Mathématique de France
• Society of Applied & Industrial Mathematicians
• German Mathematical Society
• Georgian Mathematical Union
• Hellenic Mathematical Society
• János Bolyai Mathematical Society
• Icelandic Mathematical Society
• Irish Mathematical Society
• Israel Mathematical Society

• Italian Association of Mathematics Applied to Economic and Social Sciences
• Società Italiana di Matematica Applicata e Industriale
• Italian Mathematical Union
• Kosovar Mathematical Society
• Latvian Mathematical Society
• Lithuanian Mathematical Society
• Luxembourg Mathematical Society
• Macedonian Society Association Mathematics/Computer Science
• Malta Mathematical Society
• Royal Dutch Mathematical Society
• Norwegian Mathematical Society
• Norwegian Statistical Association
• Polish Mathematical Society
• Portuguese Mathematical Society
• Romanian Mathematical Society
• Romanian Society of Mathematicians
• Moscow Mathematical Society
• Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia
• St. Petersburg Mathematical Society

• Ural Mathematical Society
• Voronezh Mathematical Society
• Union of Slovak Mathematicians and Physicists - JSMF
• Real Sociedad Matemática Española (Royal Spanish Math. Society)
• Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada (Spanish Soc. of Appl. Math.)
• Societat Catalana de Matemàtiques (Catalanian Society of Mathematics)
• Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research
• Svenska Matematikersamfundet (Swedish Mathematical Society)
• Swedish Statistical Society
• Swiss Mathematical Society
• Kharkov Mathematical Society
• Ukrainian Mathematical Society
• Edinburgh Mathematical Society
• Institute of Mathematics and its Applications
• London Mathematical Society
• Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (SMAI)

See also

• American Mathematical Society
• List of Mathematical Societies

External links

• The European Mathematical Society Homepage
• The European Mathematical Society Publishing House
• Mathematics in Europe portal by the RPA committee of the EMS
• History of the EMS