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

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 - 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)

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
*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

ee also

*American Mathematical Society
*List of Mathematical Societies

External links

* [http://www.emis.de The European Mathematical Information Service]
* [http://www.ems-ph.org The European Mathmatical Society Publishing House]
* [http://www.btinternet.com/~d.a.r.wallace/EMSHISTORY99.html History of the EMS]