European Mathematical Society


The European Mathematical Society is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current president is Volker Mehrmann, professor at the Institute for Mathematics at the Technical University of Berlin.
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Goals

The Society seeks to serve all kinds of mathematicians in universities, research institutes and other forms of higher education. Its aims are to
  1. Promote mathematical research, both pure and applied,
  2. Assist and advise on problems of mathematical education,
  3. Concern itself with the broader relations of mathematics to society,
  4. Foster interaction between mathematicians of different countries,
  5. Establish a sense of identity amongst European mathematicians,
  6. Represent the mathematical community in supra-national institutions.
The EMS is itself an Affiliate Member of the International Mathematical Union and an Associate Member of the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

History

The precursor to the EMS, the European Mathematical Council was founded in 1978 at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki. This informal federation of mathematical societies was chaired by Sir Michael Atiyah. The European Mathematical Society was founded on 28 October 1990 in Mądralin near Warsaw, Poland, with Friedrich Hirzebruch as founding President. Initially, the EMS had 27 member societies. The first European Congress of Mathematics was held at the Sorbonne and Panthéon-Sorbonne universities in Paris in 1992, and is now held every 4 years at different locations around Europe, organised by the EMS. The next ECM will be in 2020 in Portoroz in Slovenia.

Presidents of the EMS

  1. Friedrich Hirzebruch, 1990–1994
  2. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, 1995–1998
  3. Rolf Jeltsch, 1999–2002
  4. John Kingman, 2003–2006
  5. Ari Laptev, 2007–2010
  6. Marta Sanz-Solé, 2011–2014
  7. Pavel Exner, 2015–2018
  8. Volker Mehrmann, 2019–2023

    Structure and Governance

The governing body of the EMS is its Council, which comprises delegates representing all of the societies which are themselves members of the EMS, along with delegates representing the institutional and individual EMS members. The Council meets every 2 years, and appoints the President and Executive Committee who are responsible for the running of the society.
Besides the Executive Committee, the EMS has standing committees on: Applied Mathematics, Developing Countries, Mathematical Education, ERCOM, Ethics, European Solidarity, Meetings, Publications and Electronic Dissemination, Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics, Women in Mathematics.
The EMS's rules are set down in its Statutes and Bylaws. The EMS is headquartered at the University of Helsinki.

Prizes

The European Congress of Mathematics is held every four years under the Society's auspices, at which ten EMS Prizes are awarded to "recognize excellent contributions in Mathematics by young researchers not older than 35 years".
Since 2000, the Felix Klein Prize has been awarded to "a young scientist or a small group of young scientists for using sophisticated methods to give an outstanding solution, which meets with the complete satisfaction of industry, to a concrete and difficult industrial problem."
Since 2012, the Otto Neugebauer Prize has been awarded to a researcher or group of researchers '"for highly original and influential work in the field of history of mathematics that enhances our understanding of either the development of mathematics or a particular mathematical subject in any period and in any geographical region".
Here are the awardees so far.

1992 prizes

EMS Prizes: Richard Borcherds F – Jens Franke – Alexander Goncharov – Maxim Kontsevich F – François Labourie – Tomasz Łuczak – Stefan Müller – Vladimír Šverák – Gábor Tardos – Claire Voisin

1996 prizes

EMS Prizes: Alexis Bonnet – Timothy Gowers F – Annette Huber-Klawitter – Aise Johan de Jong – Dmitry Kramkov – Jiří Matoušek – Loïc Merel – Grigori Perelman F, declined – Ricardo Pérez-Marco – Leonid Polterovich

2000 prizes

EMS Prizes: Semyon Alesker – Raphaël Cerf – Dennis Gaitsgory – Emmanuel Grenier – Dominic Joyce – Vincent Lafforgue – Michael McQuillan – Stefan Nemirovski – Paul Seidel – Wendelin Werner F
Felix Klein Prize: David C. Dobson

2004 prizes

EMS Prizes: Franck Barthe – Stefano Bianchini – Paul Biran – Elon Lindenstrauss F – Andrei Okounkov F – Sylvia Serfaty – Stanislav Smirnov F – Xavier Tolsa – Warwick Tucker –
Felix Klein Prize: Not Awarded

2008 prizes

EMS Prizes: Artur Avila F – Alexei Borodin – Ben J. Green – Olga Holtz – Boáz Klartag – Alexander Kuznetsov – Assaf Naor – Laure Saint-Raymond – Agata Smoktunowicz – Cédric Villani F
Felix Klein Prize: Josselin Garnier

2012 prizes

EMS Prizes: Simon Brendle - Emmanuel Breuillard -
Alessio Figalli F - Adrian Ioana - Mathieu Lewin - Ciprian Manolescu - Grégory Miermont - Sophie Morel - Tom Sanders - Corinna Ulcigrai -
Felix Klein Prize: Emmanuel Trélat
Otto Neugebauer Prize: Jan P. Hogendijk

2016 prizes

EMS Prizes: Sara Zahedi - Mark Braverman - Vincent Calvez - Guido de Philippis - Peter Scholze F - Péter Varjú - Thomas Willwacher - James Maynard - Hugo Duminil-Copin - Geordie Williamson
Felix Klein Prize: Patrice Hauret
Otto Neugebauer Prize: Jeremy Gray

2020 prizes

EMS Prizes: Karim Adiprasito - Ana Caraiani - Alexander Efimov - Simion Filip - Aleksandr Logunov - Kaisa Matomäki - Phan Thành Nam - Joaquim Serra - Jack Thorne - Maryna Viazovska
Felix Klein Prize: Arnulf Jentzen
Otto Neugebauer Prize: Karine Chemla

Member societies

International member societies

The EMS is the sole shareholder of the publisher EMS Press that publishes over 20 academic journals, including:
EMS Press also publishes around 200 research books on mathematical topics.
In addition, it publishes the Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society, often called EMS Newsletter, established in 1991. It features news and expositions of recent developments in mathematical research. It is quarterly and open access. The current editor-in-chief is Valentin Zagrebnov.