Press Release

ISC Statement on Ukraine and Related Actions

On Monday 28 February 2022, the International Science Council issued a statement expressing its deep dismay and concerns regarding the military offensives being carried out in Ukraine. Since then, they have mounted several initiatives.

Here is a link to the ISC's main page, where you can find more information about actions the ISC is taking and encouraging in response to this crisis, which is also a crisis for science.

ACM Turing Award Honors Jack J. Dongarra

On March 30, 2022, ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, named Jack J. Dongarra the recipient of the 2021 ACM A.M.Turing Award for pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries. 

Dennis Parnell Sullivan awarded the 2022 Abel Prize

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2022 to Dennis Parnell Sullivan of Stony Brook University, USA, and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, USA

The Hague: Site of ICIAM 2027

The ICIAM Board has selected the site of ICIAM 2027: The 2027 Congress will take place in The Netherlands, in the historic city of The Hague. It will be organized by the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (RDMS-KWG) and the Dutch Platform for Mathematics (PWN).

Lovász and Wigderson to share the Abel Prize 

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2021 to László Lovász of Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (ELKH, MTA Institute of Excellence) and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, and Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA.