The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2018 to Robert P. Langlands of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, “for his visionary program connecting representation theory to number theory.”
For more information please consult the Abel Prize website http://www.abelprize.no/.

The IMU Executive Committee held its annual meeting at Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, on Saturday/Sunday March 10-11, 2018.