ICIAM President's Update
Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 ICIAM board meeting
was held successfully online on September 26, 2020.
The ICIAM Dianoia newsletter was created to express the interests of ICIAM member societies and partner organizations.
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. .
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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.
The 2021 Mathematical Congress of the Americas announces:
Due to current uncertainty about the possibility of traveling next year, and in order to make planning ahead possible, the Steering Committee has decided to make MCA 2021 a fully online event. The dates are
For more information, see the Congress Website:
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.
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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!
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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.
Ya-xiang Yuan became the President of ICIAM on October 1, 2019. This article shares impressions of the ICIAM 2019 Congress and aspirations for the coming four years.
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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
Call for applications for ICIAM support for conferences and workshops in developing countries.
In July, Daya Reddy, current President of the ISC, sent a letter to member organizations of the International Science Council, summarizing activities of the ISC in the year since the former ICSU was reorganized to merge with the International Social Science Council.
ICIAM mourns the death of founder and former President Reinhard Mennicken.
Maria J. Esteban writes about the ICIAM 2019 Congress from her point of view: a President welcoming a King, and enjoying the science and the atmosphere of the signature event of the international industrial and applied mathematics community.
Summary of a panel discussion at ICIAM 2019. A version of this article appeared in SIAM News, October 2019.
The International Workshop and Conference on Topology and Applications (IWCTA 2018), organized at Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Cochin, India from December 5 to 11, 2018, was the final conference supported by ICIAM before the 2019 break for ICIAM 2019. This is a brief report on the event.
The announcement of the 2019 Abel Prize on March 19th was a very exciting moment: for the first time a woman would be its recipient! Karen Uhlenbeck had been chosen by the Abel Committee and that was great news.
A "Women and Mathematics" forum was held in Beijing in August to encourage more women to study math and pursue careers in math. This is a brief report on the meeting.
Canadian Mathematical Society announces that its first-ever team to compete in the European Girls Mathematical Olympiad has returned from Italy, medals in hand.
Implementation of FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) for research publication is in the works. The mathematical community must unite in a common quest to be on board right away in these developments.
A commitment to freedom of travel for scientists.
This letter by Maria J. Esteban, President of ICIAM, was written for publication in the issue of Dianoia scheduled to appear just before the ICIAM 2019 Congress. Although the issue did not appear as intended before the Congress, so some activities are now in the past, the letter provides a summary of events at the Council in 2019.
The invited speakers at any ICIAM Congress are one of the highlights of the Congress. For the 2019 ICIAM Congress in Valencia, Spain, the 27 invited speakers were selected by the Scientific Program Committee, chaired by Professor Alfio Quarteroni of the Politecnico di Milano. Brief biographies of all the speakers were published on the Congress website and in the Congress program. We publish this information in ICIAM Dianoia for the information of the ICIAM Community. Speakers are listed here in the alphabetical order of their names.
ICIAM (the Council) holds a Board Meeting every year, generally in May, except for Congress years (year 3 mod 4) when the meeting takes place immediately following the Congress, at a location near the Congress venue. In the other three years of the four-year cycle, the Council seeks a member society to host the meeting. The invitation here was formulated for the 2020 meeting to encourage potential hosts to apply. It clarifyies what is involved in such an effort. The invitation has been reworded for a generic (non-Congress-year) Board meeting.
Giulia Di Nunno is the winner of the ICIAM 2019 Su Buchin Prize. Roberto Natalini interviewed Professor Di Nunno for the ICIAM Dianoia. The interview was conducted by e-mail in the Autumn of 2018.
Florilege de la popularisation des mathematiques is a new, French-language website dedicated to providing an archive about the popularization of mathematics.
PRESS RELEASE
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize in Mathematics for 2019 to Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin, USA
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