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European Mathematical Society
Summary
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 Jan Philip Solovej, professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Copenhagen.
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 EMS is itself an Affiliate Member of the International Mathematical Union and an Associate Member of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
The precursor to the EMS, the European Mathematical Council was founded in 1978 at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki. This informal federation of mathematical societies was chaired by Sir Michael Atiyah. The European Mathematical Society was founded on 28 October 1990 in Mądralin near Warsaw, Poland, with Friedrich Hirzebruch as founding President. Initially, the EMS had 27 member societies. The first European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) was held at the Sorbonne and Panthéon-Sorbonne universities in Paris in 1992, and is now held every 4 years at different locations around Europe, organised by the EMS. The last ECM (postponed for a year due to the covid pandemic) was in 2021 in Portorož in Slovenia.
Friedrich Hirzebruch, 1990–1994
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, 1995–1998
Rolf Jeltsch, 1999–2002
John Kingman, 2003–2006
Ari Laptev, 2007–2010
Marta Sanz-Solé, 2011–2014
Pavel Exner, 2015–2018
Volker Mehrmann, 2019–2022
Jan Philip Solovej, 2023–2026
The governing body of the EMS is its Council, which comprises delegates representing all of the societies which are themselves members of the EMS, along with delegates representing the institutional and individual EMS members.
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