European Mathematical Society

European Mathematical Society

Encyclopedia

Tutorials

Encyclopedia

Dictionary

Directory

Email this to a friend European_Mathematical_Society

Sponsored Links

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. Its President is Ari Laptev, Professor at Imperial College London.

Goals
History
Prizes

1992 prizes
1996 prizes
2000 prizes
2004 prizes
2008 prizes

Member societies

International member societies
National member societies

See also
External links

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.

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.

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).

1992 prizes

Richard Borcherds (UK)* - Jens Franke (Germany) - Alexander Goncharov (Russia) - Maxim Kontsevich (Russia)* - Francois Labourie (France) - Tomasz Luczak (Poland) - Stefan Mueller - Vladimir Sverak (Czechoslovakia) - Gabor Tardos (Hungary) - Claire Voisin (France)°

1996 prizes

Alexis Bonnet - Timothy Gowers (UK)* - Annette Huber° - Aise Johan de Jong - Dmitri Kramkov - Jiri Matousek - Loic Merel (France) - Grigori Perelman (Russia)* - Ricardo Perez-Marco - Leonid Polterovich

2000 prizes

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

2004 prizes

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

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)