The ICIAM Dianoia newsletter was created to express the interests of ICIAM member societies and partner organizations.
Information about the ICIAM Board meeting September 3, 2022.
The most recent news and calls for submissions for ICIAM 2023: August 20-25, 2023 at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference support to include virtual meetings.
A PDF version of each issue of ICIAM Dianoia can now be downloaded.
ICIAM is soliciting nominations for an ICIAM Secretary to serve from 2022 to 2027, renewable for another four-year term.
HKSIAM Joined ICIAM as a full member in 2021
ICIAM's secretary, Sven Leyffer of Argonne National Laboratory, has been elected as the next president of SIAM. His term will begin in January, 2023.
In an online meeting, the President of ISC gave a quick 15-20 minutes' presentation, giving his viewpoint about his plans as president, and about what is going on at the moment at ISC. He then answered questions from the audience.
The Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) has launched a webinar series. The inaugural session featured mathematics.https://gender-equality-in-science.org/event/scges-webinar-february-16th-2022
An ongoing product of the Gender Gap in Science project.
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
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.
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.
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ICIAM Conference Support for Applied and Industrial Mathematics in
Developing Countries
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference support to include virtual meetings. In addition to in-person meetings, ICIAM offers support for virtual meetings, for example by sponsoring waivers of registrations fees for participants from developing countries, or by supporting streaming or recording services. ICIAM encourages conference organizers to apply for support for virtual meetings using the general principles outlined in the announcement. See
https://iciam.org/iciam-conference-support-applied-and-industrial-mathematics-developing-countries for more details.
The 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 2023, will be held at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan on August 20-25, 2023 (https://iciam2023.org). Here are some announcements.
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).
Wil Schilders was elected President of ICIAM in September 2021. His term as ICIAM President-Elect started on October 1, 2021; will serve two years as President-Elect, before taking over as President on October 1, 2023.
The ISC has announced four important updates, and has asked member associations to share all of these announcements with their colleagues, members, and wider networks.
In the summer of 2021, the International Science Council and BBC StoryWorks launched a project to document stories of how scientists are addressing inequalities, engaging policymakers and the public, and pioneering a more sustainable future. ICIAM accepted the invitation to propose "stories" that would show both the human side of science - the people who are working to benefit society through science - and some recent successes and current aspirations. The work of mathematician Ken Golden and his group at the University of Utah is now one of the featured items in the ISC's "Unlocking Science" series.
In December, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 2022 the "International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development"
The Standing Committee on Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) has issued its first annual report.
If your society has had an event or some news of activities that support gender equality, ICIAM would like to feature it. Let us know!https://iciam.org/standing-committee-gender-equality-science-scges
The China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) held its 19th annual conference in Hefei, Anhui Province, China during October 7-10, 2021. More than 1100 experts in applied mathematics and industries as well as young students from all over the country and abroad attended the conference.
The Julio Rey Pastor National Prize in the area of Mathematics and Information and Communication Technologies has been awarded to Luis Vega González, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of the Basque Country and coordinator of the Analysis of Partial Differential Equations area and Principal Researcher of the Severo Ochoa accreditation of the Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics – BCAM.
Andreas Griewank was among the first to work with ICIAM on making contact with applied mathematicians in developing countries. We mourn his passing, and celebrate his contributions. This this article is reprinted with permission from SIAM News, where it appeared in December 2021.
The following report was delivered to the ICIAM Board at its annual meeting in October, 2021.
The date of the meeting is Saturday, October 30, 2021. The time is given in the President's message:
05:00 (Chicago) / 11:00(London) / 12:00(Berlin) / 18:00 (Beijing) / 19:00(Tokyo).
Particular business for this meeting includes selecting the site of of 2027 ICIAM Congress.
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ICIAM Conference Support for Applied and Industrial Mathematics in Developing Countries
Nominations for the 2023 Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture close December 30, 2021.
Tom Mitsui gives his perspective on the activities of the International Science Council.
Media Release of the ISC's recent report on the status of women in science
The ISC details its definition of open science, its plans for achieving it, and the dangers of too rigid a definition, and too heavy a regulation, of what constitutes "open science".
In September, I attended an online forum conducted by members of this ISC committee. What follows is a personal report on what I heard at the meeting.
ASAMACI's VIII Congress of Applied, Computational and Industrial Mathematics took place May 3 to 7, 2021 in virtual format. The congress was dedicated to Domingo Tarzia in honor of his 70th birthday.
On July 9th-11th, 2021, the first National Conference on Women's Applied Mathematics and Operations Research Management, co-sponsored by China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) and Operations Research Society of China (ORSC) was successfully held in Yantai, China.
New variants of the COVID-19 virus pose a threat to our return to normal life, and some of ICIAM's activities are affected.
The ICIAM Officers, in consultation with JSIAM, have decided to move the 2021 Board meeting to a virtual format, because of the still uncertain state of COVID-19 travel restrictions between many member countries. We hope that you will understand this difficult decision, and we hope to welcome you in Tokyo for ICIAM 2023, and the 2023 Board meeting.
ICIAM maintains a self-service membership directory at http://www.iciam.org/members. Please take this opportunity to check your membership information, and update it if appropriate.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference
support to include virtual meetings.
A new President-Elect of ICIAM will be elected this year, and we invite member societies to nominate candidates for President. Nominations should be sent to the ICIAM President (president@iciam.org) or Secretary (secretary@iciam.org) before August 15th, 2021. Please provide the full name, affiliation, and email address of the nominee with the nomination.
The ICIAM Prize Committee for 2023 calls for nominations for the six ICIAM Prizes to be awarded in 2023 (the Collatz Prize, the Lagrange Prize, the Maxwell Prize, the Pioneer Prize, the Su Buchin Prize, and the Industry Prize). Each ICIAM Prize has its own special character, but each one is truly international in character.
The Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture is held every four years at the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM). This honor is conferred on a woman who has made 'outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and/or scientific computation'.
The lecture is named in tribute to the memory of Olga Taussky-Todd, whose scientific legacy is in both theoretical and applied mathematics, and whose work exemplifies the qualities to be recognized.
On December 4, 2020, the first MathTech Workshop on Mathematical Technologies for Industry was held in Poland. It was organized by the PL-MATH-IN network as a satellite event of the annual EU-MATH-IN Council Meeting. Originally, the workshop was planned to be held at the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN) in Warsaw. However, due to the severe epidemic situation in Poland, it took place online.
On June 12, the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) kicked off a two-day forum in Chongqing to discuss how mathematics can promote innovation and development for companies.
The mission of the International Science Council (ISC) is to act as the global voice for science. As part of that mission, the ISC defends the free and responsible practice of science, in accordance with the Council’s Principle of Freedom and Responsibility in Science, UNESCO recommendations, and international human rights instruments.
When the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) kicks off its 2021 meeting on Tuesday 6 July, one question will dominate: how to promote the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development in line with the goals of the 2030 Agenda at the same time as building a resilient plan for recovery from the pandemic.
https://council.science/hlpf/2021-2/
ICIAM is one of 28 leading organizations for this project, which has also enrolled over 70 distinguished supporting organizations. Their goal is to highlight the need to support the basic sciences that have played a fundamental part in development throughout the world, and that are needed even more for progress -- sustainable progress -- in the future. Details are on the website https://www.iybssd2022.org/en/home/.
I remember Bob O’Malley as a larger-then-life character, who had a little-known but profound effect on the development of ANZIAM (which stands for Australia and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics), and on its involvement with ICIAM – a subsequent involvement large enough to include a Congress (the Sydney Congress in 2003) and an Australian President.
There is now a video that collects words of some 86 women in mathematics from 37 countries telling us about their experience in the time of Corona in 25 different languages.
If you are reading this, you are most likely a subscriber to the ICIAM Dianoia newsletter. However, a strange thing happened over the past year and a half: thousands of subscribers were added to the mailing list. We assume this was caused by some mischievous hack, as most of the addresses were nonsense. To prevent an interminable delay in sending out notices (the server sends them out about 100 at a time, taking about an hour for each batch), our web consultant removed all addresses that were added after September 2, 2019. It is possible that we removed some names of legitimate subscribers. For this, we apologize.
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A report on ICIAM business and upcoming events: The COVID-19 pandemic is still not over, which affects our work and daily life. ICIAM's Spring officers meeting was held online on March 29th and March 31st, 2021. ICIAM is trying its best to keep business going on as usual, though some of our activities are slightly behind schedule. .
The Board meeting will be held on October 30th in Tokyo. We are still uncertain as to whether the meeting will be in-person, virtual, or mixed, and we hope to make a decision by July 15th. In case of an in-person Board meeting, we are also discussing arrangements for virtual access for members who otherwise cannot attend due to travel restrictions. The vote for ICIAM President-Elect will be held electronically to comply with our Bylaws (which state the the new President-Elect takes office on October 1st).
The most important project of ICIAM is the Congress. We have begun organizing ICIAM 2023. Organizing committee members are working with high spirits.
The ICIAM Prize Committee for 2023 calls for nominations for the six ICIAM Prizes to be awarded in 2023 (the Collatz Prize, the Lagrange Prize, the Maxwell Prize, the Pioneer Prize, the Su Buchin Prize, and the Industry Prize). Each ICIAM Prize has its own special character, but each one is truly international in character.
ICIAM maintains a self-service membership directory at http://www.iciam.org/members. Please take this opportunity to check your membership information, and update it if appropriate.
ICIAM's member societies are active and are constantly changing. Since the publication of the first list in January, other societies have held elections or made other changes. This column will become a regular feature. Please continue to send news to ICIAM Dianoia.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference
support to include virtual meetings.
The aim of this extraordinary GA was to vote on some modifications of the statutes of the ISC as well as the election of the members of the 2021 Elections Committee.
On April 12, I had the pleasure of listening to a public lecture by Sir Peter Gluckman, Director of Koi Tū: The Centre for Informed Futures, University of Auckland, and President-elect of the International Science Council. This note is a brief report on the lecture. .
An Institute for the Mathematics of Planet Earth has just been launched in France. In this article for ICIAM Dianoia, David Lannes interviews the two directors, Laure St-Raymond and Arnaud Guillin.
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.
MCA 2021 is now a fully online event. It will take place 19-24 July, 2021. More information is on the Congress Website: www.mca2021.org
This tribute to Bob O'Malley is reprinted from the April 2021 issue of SIAM News (Volume 54, Number 03) https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/obituary-robert-e-omalley-jr. It is reprinted here by permission of SIAM and the authors. Further articles on Bob's contributions to ICIAM and the international applied mathematics community will appear in the next issue of ICIAM Dianoia.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ICIAM has expanded its conference
support to include virtual meetings.
This is a new column, which we plan to publish periodically. Because so many societies implement leadership changes at the beginning of calendar year, the January issue of ICIAM Dianoia seems like an opportunity to update ICIAM's members on their colleagues' happenings.
ICIAM maintains a self-service membership directory at http://www.iciam.org/members. Please take this opportunity to check your membership information, and update it if appropriate.
The Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées (CIMPA), founded in France in 1978, is a nonprofit organization that promotes research in Mathematics in developing countries. Located in Nice, it is a UNESCO Category 2 organization. It benefits from the financial support of France, Norway, Spain and Switzerland.
The International Science Council (ISC) was created in 2018 as the result of a merger between the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC). It is a non-governmental organization with a unique global membership that brings together 40 international scientific Unions and Associations and over 140 national and regional scientific organizations including Academies and Research Councils.
The biennial congress of the SeMA, due for last June, 2020, had to be postponed due the current public health situation all over the world. It will be held in Gijón, Spain, next 14-18 June 2021. Both online and face-to-face participation will be possible.
The UN general assembly has proclaimed the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-30). The French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) is among the world's leading research institutions. Its scientists explore the living world, matter, mathematics, the universe, and the functioning of human societies in order to meet the major challenges of today and tomorrow. How does this institution plan to address the specific issue of the ocean, and what role may mathematics play?
MCA 2021 is now a fully online event. It will take place 19-24 July, 2021. More information is on the Congress Website: www.mca2021.org
The Call for Applications is now open for the research grants for developing world scientists at TWAS, the World Academy of Sciences. https://twas.org
The African Mathematical Union announces the call for nominations for the 2021 PanAfrican Congress of Mathematicians Awards and Medals
Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 ICIAM board meeting
was held successfully online on September 26, 2020.
Call for proposals for conference support from developing countries. .
ICIAM maintains a self-service membership directory at http://www.iciam.org/members. Please take this opportunity to check your membership information, and update it if appropriate.
The ICIAM Board meeting was held online, chaired by the President Ya-xiang Yuan, with the support of the secretary Sven Leyffer, who inter alia conducted the online voting, and Maria Esteban, the previous President, who organized the posting of the presentations. This meeting replaced the originally planned Board meeting that would have been hosted by the IMA and held at Strathclyde University.
Over the last decade there has been general agreement and support in the Asia-Pacific region to have regular industrial mathematics exchanges, conferences, internships, etc, which build on the activities already occurring. Over the years since the concept of an Asia-Pacific Consortium of Mathematics for Industry was first proposed, and more recently when planning to formalize such possibilities, there has been strong support and encouragement from colleagues in China, Hawaii, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
The Office of International Affairs, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, hosted an International Webinar on “Focusing on Mathematical Models & Analysis of the COVID-19 Crsis” on 17th & 18th June, 2020.
The event was done in collaboration with Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland and the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science and Department of Statistics, Faculty of Science & Department of Applied Mathematics, Faculty of Technology and Engineering and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
As noted in the July 2020 Dianoia Issue, the global project, “A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It”, supported by ICSU and then ISC from 2017 to 2019 gave rise to a new Standing Committee on Gender Equity in Science. This committee, founded in June 2020 through a memorandum of understanding among 9 international unions, has as its goal the promotion of gender equity globally and across all sciences.
During Summer 2020 the European Women in Mathematics sent the following open letter to the community on the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable members of our community.
MCA 2021 is now a fully online event. It will take place 19-24 July, 2021. More information is on the Congress Website: www.mca2021.org
The death of George Floyd in police custody on May 25th, 2020 is a painful reminder of a persistent and systemic racism that is widespread throughout the world. The ICIAM community stands in solidarity with anyone impacted or affected by racism and discrimination. ICIAM strongly supports the statements against racism by our member societies (for example SIAM, AMS and CAIMS), and by the International Science Council.
ICIAM recognizes that mathematics is not immune to racism and discrimination, and pledges to combat systemic racism and discrimination in our community. We encourage our member societies to engage in an open conversation about racism and discrimination and to re-affirm their commitment to inclusivity and diversity in mathematics.
The ICIAM Board meeting is currently scheduled to take place on September 26, 2020 at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, see http://iciam.org/board-meetings, and will be preceded by by a Workshop on Industrial and Applied Mathematics at the same venue on September 24-25. The ICIAM Officers, together with the IMA and the organizers of the Board meeting will make a final determination on the feasibility of an in-person meeting towards the end of July. Please look out for an email from us to confirm the 2020 Board meeting and workshop towards the end of July.
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Call for proposals for conference support from developing countries. .
ICIAM has created a page that collects these activities and projects from all over the world to provide a global view of the contributions of mathematics to help in the fight against COVID-19.
A planned proposal for the creation of an Editorial Board Committee. This will be presented to the ICIAM Board at its meeting in September. Comments from readers of ICIAM Dianoia are welcome.
A new member of the ICIAM Dianoia editorial board, David Lannes is a CNRS senior researcher at the University of Bordeaux.
The International Congress of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM2019), which took place in Valencia, brought together in Spain more than 4,000 mathematicians from more than 100 countries to share the greatest advances in this discipline that contributes so much to industry and society in general. The authors share their perspectives on the Congress.
The International Science Council has launched a pilot programme in partnership with the Australian Academy of Science called Global Science TV as one aspect of the Public Value of Science project in the ISC Action Plan. The project consists of 15-minute online TV programmes, which aim to share scientific expertise directly from experts themselves, while educating, entertaining and informing viewers on major issues of scientific relevance.
The vision of the International Science Council (ISC) is of science as a global public good. The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of this conviction. Scientific knowledge is crucial to dealing effectively with SARS-CoV-2. The natural sciences will help us understand how it works and how it can be combated; the social sciences will enable us to evaluate its social impact; and interdisciplinary approaches will be an essential component of counter-measures to it as well as of efforts to arrive at effective models, solutions and insights in the context of pandemics.
Soon after the spread of the COVID-19 virus began to affect plans for physical meetings in 2020, ECMI turned its activities on-line instead.
Due to the covid-19 epidemics the organizers of the 8th European Congress of Mathematics and the EMS have decided to postpone it to next year. It will take place in Portorož, Slovenia on 20 - 26 June 2021. One of the innovations at the event will be an online streaming format, with the possibility for full and active E-participation, besides the regular conference format. See https://8ecm.si/news/68 for more information.
Every four years, the EMS awards its 10 EMS Prizes, along with the Felix Klein Prize and the Otto Neugebauer Prize at the opening ceremony of the European Congress. The postponement of the congress required to innovate about this, so the prizes were announced in May.
A Webinar on “Mathematics in Industry: Challenges and Frontiers” was hosted by The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda on June 3, 2020.
ICIAM was one of the partners of the global project 'A Global Approach to the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences: How to Measure It, How to Reduce It', supported by ICSU and then ISC from 2017 to 2019. To continue and enlarge the work of this project, the partners have established the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES), which ICIAM has joined.
Mathematical Congress of the Americas: MCA 2021 Call for Special Session Proposals
With COVID-19 practically cancelling all but essential travel, conferences, workshops, and seminars have turned to the virtual meeting space in cyberspace. Conference organizers are finding new and innovative ways to make online meetings fun and enjoyable, including separate channels for informal coffee breaks, slack channels for follow-up questions, and even breakout sessions and mini-symposia. The list below provides a snapshot of some of these meetings and seminar series to promote attendance and emulations. Let's all meet online!
The Sirius Mathematics Center has opened in Sochi, Russia.
An article published in Volume 8, Issue 2 announced the passing of Abul Hasan Siddiqi. At that time, we did not have a portrait of Professor Siddiqi. We reprint the article, this time with a portrait.
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, we have decided to postpone the ICIAM Board meeting to September 26. The Board meeting will be preceded by a Workshop on Industrial and Applied Mathematics at Strathclyde University in Glasgow on September 24-25.
Update Your Society's Membership Information on iciam.org .
Call for applications for ICIAM support for conferences and workshops in developing countries.
The ICIAM community mourns the passing of Professor Abul Hasan Siddiqi, President of the Indian Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Maria J. Esteban shares with readers of Dianoia her impressions of the final meeting of the “Gender Gap in Science” project, which took place in the premises of the ICTP in Trieste, on 4-7 November, 2019.
The Gender Gap Project, a three-year effort conducted by eight scientific union members of the International Science Council, including ICIAM, has now concluded.
March 14, 2020, also celebrated as Pi Day, was the first annual International Day of Mathematics proclaimed by UNESCO in November 2019. ICIAM President Ya-xiang Yuan celebrated with an online presentation for students, organized by CSIAM, in order to kindle public appreciation and raise awareness for the “science of sciences”.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2020 to Hillel Furstenberg, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Gregory Margulis, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
The EMS has made a short video on the profound impact Mathematics has on life and business in the 21st century.
The time and place of the third Mathematical Congress of the Americas: JULY 19-24, 2021 in BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
Proposals for special sessions at MCA 2021 are welcomed by the Special SEssions Committee. Early submission of proposals is encouraged: good proposals will b approved on a regular basis before the deadline of July 31, 2020.
Learn more at mca2021.org/news/item/16-mca-2021-call-for-special-sessions
The newsletter is assembling a new Editorial Board. Appointments are for four years (following ICIAM's rules for committee structure) and are renewable. This is a partial list of new editors.
Following current rules, the 2020 ICIAM Board meeting (Glasgow, UK, May 23, 2020) will be the place to present and discuss the pre-bids for ICIAM 2027. Only pre-bids approved by the Board will be allowed to present a complete bid in the 2021 Board meeting, where the final decision will be made about who will organize ICIAM 2027.
This document gives the official rules and procedures for submitting a bid to host the ICIAM 2027 Congress.
The next ICIAM Board meeting will take place in Glasgow (UK) on Saturday, 23 May, 2020. As usual, there will be a 2-days workshop for attendants to the Board meeting on May 21-22.
Representatives of member societies in the Board: book those dates in your agendas!
http://www.iciam.org/board-meetings
Update Your Society's Membership Information on iciam.org .
Call for applications for ICIAM support for conferences and workshops in developing countries.
China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM) held its 17th annual conference in Foshan, Guangdong province September 20-22, 2019. More than 1000 experts from the field of applied mathematics, industry and young students attended this conference.
On September 22, 2019, Peter Deuflhard passed away at the age of 75. The Berlin mathematics community lost one of its leaders — a highly respected colleague and overall wonderful person.
The International Day of Mathematics (IDM) is a worldwide celebration. Each year on March 14 all countries will be invited to participate through activities for both students and the general public in schools, museums, libraries and other spaces.
The IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) invites proposals for funding of up to €3000 for activities or initiatives taking place in 2020. The deadline for this year, 15 January, 2020, has already passed, but the IMU website will announce future opportunities.
This is Part I of a two-part article on some of the activities of the ISC. A future article will discuss some ways that ICIAM members might become more involved with ISC activities.
Thanks to intense lobbying by the research community, the EU commission still takes notice of the importance of science.
The last few years have borne witness to a number of important changes within the scholarly communications sphere that have the potential to radically disrupt research at large, and mathematics in particular.
Researcher and institutional dissatisfaction with traditional journal subscriptions and so-called “Big Deals” have taken the Open Access movement from grassroots activism to politically mandated regulation. The announcement in 2018 of Plan S, an initiative launched by an international consortium of research funders, including the European Commission and the European Research Council, with the explicit aim of making all publicly funded research Open Access, has rapidly accelerated publisher plans to embrace Open Access models of publication.
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