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.

Maryam Mirzakhani, the world’s first woman to win the Fields Medal, passed away. The Fields Medal was awarded to her in 2014 for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces.

Born in 1977 in Tehran, Iran, Maryam Mirzakhani received her PhD in 2004 from Harvard University. From 2004 to 2008 she was a Clay Mathematics Institute Research Fellow and an assistant professor at Princeton University. She was a professor at Stanford University. Her honors include the 2009 Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics, the 2013 Satter Prize of the American Mathematical Society, and the 2014 Clay Research Award. Representative of the many contributions commemorating her is this tribute to M. Mirzakhani.

The Ramanujan Prize Selection Committee has announced that the 2017 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries will be awarded to Eduardo Teixeira of the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil. The prize is in recognition of Teixeira’s outstanding work in Analysis and Partial Differential Equations. For more information, see the ICTP announcement below.

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The IMU Executive Committee held its annual meeting at De Morgan House, London Mathematical Society, London, UK, on Saturday/Sunday April 1/2, 2017.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2017 to Yves Meyer “for his pivotal role in the development of the mathematical theory of wavelets.”

The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, http://www.fields.utoronto.ca, will be hosting the Fields Undergraduate Summer Research Program, which welcomes undergraduate students from around the world for a rich mathematical research experience in July and August. This competitive initiative matches students with faculty from Fields Principal Sponsoring/Affiliate Universities, visiting scientists, or researchers in industry. Students accepted for the Program will have most of their travel and on-site expenses covered by the Institute. For more information on the program, please visit http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/activities/17-18/2017-fusrp.

The Ramanujan Prize Selection Committee has announced that the 2016 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries will be awarded to Chenyang Xu of Beijing International Center of Mathematical Research in China. The prize is in recognition of Xu’s outstanding works in algebraic geometry, notably in the area of birational geometry, including works both on log canonical pairs and on Q-Fano varieties, and on the topology of singularities and their dual complexes. For more information, see the ICTP announcement below.

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The IMU is today launching the novel IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowship Program.

Thanks to a generous donation by the winners of the Breakthrough Prizes in Mathematics – Ian Agol, Simon Donaldson, Maxim Kontsevich, Jacob Lurie, Terence Tao and Richard Taylor – IMU with the assistance of FIMU and TWAS is today launching a fellowship program to support postgraduate studies in a developing country, leading to a PhD degree in the mathematical sciences. The IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowships will offer a limited number of grants for excellent students from developing countries.

The deadline for nominations is 09:00 am CET on 22 June 2016. Further information can be found in the Press Release and the Breakout Graduate Fellowship Call for Nomination, see below .

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The IMU Executive Committee (EC) held its annual meeting at the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences (RIMS), Kyoto University, Japan, on Saturday/Sunday April 2/3, 2016. In conjunction with this meeting EC members gave talks at RIMS and the Kyoto University, see http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kenkyubu/ktgu-imu-math.html.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2016 to Sir Andrew J. Wiles “for his stunning proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by way of the modularity conjecture for semistable elliptic curves, opening a new era in number theory.”

The IMU’s Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) invites proposals for funding of up to €3,000 for activities or initiatives taking place in 2016, and aimed at establishing or supporting networks for women in mathematics, preferably at the continental or regional level, and with priority given to networks and individuals in developing or emerging countries. For more information see the CWM’s home page http://www.mathunion.org/cwm/.

The Association of Nepalese Mathematicians in America (ANMA), Nepal Mathematical Society (NMS) and mathematics departments in Nepal (Tribhuvan University and Kathmandu University) have planned an International Conference on Applications of Mathematics to Nonlinear Sciences, May 26-29, 2016, in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Please visit the Website www.nms.org.np for more information.

The Ramanujan Prize Selection Committee has announced that the 2015 Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries will be awarded to the Indian mathematician Amalendu Krishna in recognition of his outstanding contributions in the area of algebraic K-theory, algebraic cycles and the theory of motives. For more Information, see the ICTP announcement.

The International Mathematical Union released a Call for Bids for ICM 2022 together with ICM Bidding Guidelines which provide advice and instructions to potential bidders. For a bid to be considered by the Site Selection Committee (SSC) of IMU it must be received no later than November 30, 2016.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2015 to John F. Nash, Jr., Princeton University and Louis Nirenberg, Courant Institute, New York University “for striking and seminal contributions to the theory of nonlinear partial differential equations and its applications to geometric analysis.”

The IMU Executive Committee (EC) held its annual meeting at the IMU Secretariat in Berlin on Saturday/Sunday March 14/15, 2015. On Thursday/Friday March 12/13, 2015 there was a meeting of the IMU Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) in the IMU Secretariat. The IMU EC and the CDC had a joint meeting on Friday in order to discuss major issues of activities  and the collaboration of the EC and CDC in the past, present and future. On Saturday/Sunday March 21/22, 2015 the IMU Committee on Information and Communication (CEIC) will also meet in the premises of the IMU Secretariat.

The Ramanujan Prize Selection Committee has announced that the 2014 Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to the Argentinian mathematician Miguel Walsh in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Ergodic Theory and Number Theory. For more Information, see the ICTP announcement.

A bronze plaque commemorating the Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel was inaugurated by representatives of Norway and the International Mathematical Union on April 6, 2014 in Berlin on the occasion of the 185th anniversary of Abel’s death. For more Information see the press release (in German) and further reports (http://www.mathunion.org/cdc/about-cdc/news-and-events/, http://www.math.berlin/orte/gedenktafel-niels-hendrik-abel.html).

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The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2014 to Yakov G. Sinai, Princeton University, USA, and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, “for his fundamental contributions to dynamical systems, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics”.

The IMU Executive Committee held its annual meeting in Princeton, USA, on March 8-9, 2014 (a second meeting will take place this year immediately before the IMU General Assembly meeting in Gyeongju, Korea, August 2014). This meeting was hosted by the Mathematics Department of Princeton University. One big issue of the agenda was the forthcoming international congress ICM 2014.

The ICWM 2014 is an associated meeting of the International Congress of Mathematicians 2014 (ICM 2014) that will take place from August 13-21, 2014 in Seoul, Korea. The ICWM 2014 (http://www.kwms.or.kr/icwm2014) consists of two days of activities of which the first one is scheduled for August 12, 2014 at Ewha Womans University and the second for August 14, 2014 at the COEX Convention Center in Seoul, Korea. Please see the attached announcement for more information.

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The second Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) will take place from September 21 to 26, 2014 in Heidelberg, Germany. Applications from young researchers to attend this Forum will be accepted until February 28, 2014. The HLF is looking for outstanding young mathematicians from all over the world who would like to get a chance to personally meet winners of the most prestigious awards in mathematics and computer science: Fields, Abel, Nevanlinna, and Turing Laureates. Details can be found at http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/, https://application.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/intern/start_start_for.php.
If additional information is needed, please write to: info@heidelberg-laureate-forum.org.

Today, September 22, 2013 is the official opening of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2013. The Forum is the first of its kind, it gathers prominent scientists from the fields of mathematics and computer science, who are Abel, Fields and/or Turing laureates, and outstanding young researchers for a one week conference in the city of Heidelberg, Germany. For more information about the laureates, the Forum and the conference program see http://www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/.

The Simons Foundation has made a three years grant to IMU’s Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) to support mathematicians working in a developing or economically disadvantaged country (as determined by the IMU) to travel to a center of excellence in any part of the world for collaborative research, see http://www.mathunion.org/cdc/about-cdc/news-and-events/.

The list of plenary and invited speakers of ICM 2014 in Seoul, Korea, is now posted on the ICM homepage. For the list of plenary speakers see http://www.icm2014.org/en/program/scientific/plenary, the list of sectional speakers can be found at http://www.icm2014.org/en/program/scientific/section.

The Ramanujan Prize Selection Committee has announced that the 2013 Ramanujan Prize will be awarded to Ye Tian, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Number Theory. For more Information, see the ICTP announcement.

The Niels Henrik Abel Board and the International Mathematical Union are pleased to announce the “Abel Visiting Scholar Program”.

The program invites mathematicians professionally based in developing countries to visit an international research collaborator for a period of one month. The period is extendable for up to three months in the case of matching support from the host institution. Up to three mathematicians per year will be supported.

The program is designed for post doctoral mathematicians in the early stages of their professional careers. It is designed to offer the opportunity for a “research sabbatical”, a necessary complement to teaching and other academic duties for mathematicians desiring to also sustain a viable research program.

Basic Requirements: Applicants must hold a PhD in Mathematics and be in the early stages of their professional careers. This means that the applicant should be under 40 years on July 1st, 2013 and not yet of full professorial rank. The maximum age may be increased by up to three years in the case of an individual with a broken career pattern. Applications from women mathematicians are strongly encouraged. The applicant should already have initiated research contact with the proposed international research partner. The collaboration should take place at the international partner’s home institution.

Financial Support: The grant will cover health insurance, visa cost, all travel (economy flights or equivalent) and living expenses including accommodation for one month for up to a total maximum amount of USD 5,000 per mathematician.

The Abel Visiting Scholar Program is administered by the Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) of the International Mathematical Union. A selection committee decides which applications are successful.

More information can be found here: http://www.mathunion.org/cdc/grants/abel-visiting-scholar-program/.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2013 to Pierre Deligne, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA “for seminal contributions to algebraic geometry and for their transformative impact on number theory, representation theory, and related fields”.

The IMU Executive Committee (EC) held its annual meeting at the IMU Secretariat in Berlin on March 11-12, 2013. The meeting was preceded
by a gathering of the members of the Commission for Developing Countries and several guests. The IMU EC and CDC jointly decided, e.g., to host with the support of the ICM 2014 organizers a MENAO event (MENAO stands for “Mathematics in Emerging Nations: Achievements and Opportunities”) on August 12, 2013 in Seoul, Korea, aiming at finding additional support for mathematics in developing countries.

On March 5, 2013 the Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013) initiative has its official European launch in Paris. In parallel the Mathematics of Planet Earth Exhibition is started. The event is organized by UNESCO and the International Mathematical Union (see press release).