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,[1] professor of Statistics at University of Barcelona.
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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
- 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 European Mathematical Society is also member of the Initiative for Science in Europe.
[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 general magazine, 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".[2]
Here are the awardees so far (a F symbol denotes mathematicians who later earned a Fields Medal, while 
denotes a woman).
[edit] 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 (France)
[edit] 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 (Israel)
[edit] 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 (France) – Wendelin Werner (France)F
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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
[edit] Member societies
[edit] 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
[edit] National member societies
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Message from the President". http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/message_from_the_president.html. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
- ^ "Prizes of the European Mathematical Society". http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/prizes.html. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
[edit] External links
- The European Mathematical Society Homepage
- The European Mathematical Society Publishing House
- History of the EMS
