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*IMU-Net 88: May 2018*
A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the
International Mathematical Union
Editor: Martin Raussen, Aalborg University,
Denmark
CONTENTS
1. Editorial: ICM 2018
2. IMU General Assembly meeting in São Paulo
3. CDC Panel Discussion and Poster Session during
ICM 2018
4. Fields medalist Alan Baker passed away
5. CWM: Faces of women in mathematics
6. Report on the ISC general assembly
7. ICIAM 2019 congress
8. Abel Prize 2018 to Robert Langlands
9. 2018 Wolf prizes to Beilinson and Drinfeld
10. MSC 2020: Revision of Mathematics Subject
Classification
11. Subscribing to IMU-Net
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*1. *
*EDITORIAL: ICM 2018 *
Dear Colleagues,
After so many months of work and expectation, the year of the
Congress has finally arrived!
Preparations are well under way: the bulk of the scientific
program has been defined, the proceedings are being finalized
(the papers by plenary and invited speakers will be
distributed to all the participants at the Congress), travel
grants have been awarded to participants from the developing
world, communications and posters are being selected as I
write, and registration <http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/how-to-apply> of
participants is also taking place right now.
Keep in mind that the deadline for early advance registration,
with reduced registration fee, is April 27.
Much of our effort over the last couple of years has been
geared towards advertising the Congress, domestically and
abroad, as we take the occasion as a historic opportunity to
popularize mathematics in
our society and, especially, amongst the Brazilian youth. I
believe we are being very successful.
The Biennium of Mathematics <http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/news20>
2017-2018, formally proclaimed by the
Brazilian national parliament, encompasses a wide range of
outreach initiatives throughout the country, and raised the
profile of mathematics in mainstream media to totally
unprecedented levels. Thus after hosting the 2014 FIFA World
Cup finals, and the 2016 Olympic Summer Games, Rio de Janeiro
is now equally proud to receive the 2018 International
Congress of Mathematicians.
A welcome video has been produced and posted at
the ICM 2018 official YouTube channel (check https://youtu.be/_OT4Vf8hr44)
that provides a glimpse at the ICM in
the Wonderful City.
While much remains ahead of us, I assure you that
the Organizing Committee is doing its very best to ensure that
the first ICM ever held in the Southern Hemisphere will be a
truly memorable event. Come and check!
See you soon in Rio!
Marcelo Viana (Chair, ICM 2018 Organizing Committee)
*
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*2. *
*IMU GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING IN SÃO PAULO *
The next General assembly
<https://www.mathunion.org/organization/general-assembly> (GA) meeting of
the IMU will take place on 29–30 July 2018 in São Paulo,
Brazil. The venue of the GA meeting will be the Sheraton WTC
Hotel in São Paulo.
Delegates are
expected to arrive on July 28. The GA meeting ends in the
evening of July 30.
On July 31, the
GA organizers offer to all registered GA participants and
accompanying persons
attending the
ICM, a bus tour from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro.
For additional
information, concerning delegations, agenda, voting rights,
travel support, registration etc., please consult the
secretary’s circular letter
<https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Publications/CircularLetters/2018/IMU%20AO%20CL%204_2018.pdf>
.
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*3. *
*CDC PANEL DISCUSSION AND POSTER SESSION DURING ICM 2018*
On Tuesday August
7, 2018 from 6 pm – 8 pm the IMU Commission for Developing
Countries (CDC
<https://www.mathunion.org/activities/commission-developing-countries-cdc>)
organizes a panel
discussion and poster session on Strengthening Mathematics in
the Developing World, included in the discussion panels
section of the scientific program of the ICM 2018.
Moderated by CDC
member Angel Pineda (USA) the panelists will comprise: Wandera
Ogana (IMU-CDC President, Kenya), Marie-Françoise Roy (IMU-CWM
Chair, France), Yuri Tschinkel (Simons Foundation Director of
Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, USA), Paolo Piccione
(President of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, Brazil),
Jose Maria Balmaceda (President of the Southeast Asian
Mathematical Society, Philippines), Nouzha El Yacoubi
(President of the African Mathematical Union, Morocco), and
Alejandro Jofre (Secretary of the Mathematical Union of Latin America and
Caribe,
Chile).
After the panel
discussion there will be a poster session at which panelists
and representatives of near 20 different organizations and
institutions worldwide will present posters with more
information about their organizations and development efforts.
An open discussion with poster presenters and panelists will
take place in the same room as the panel discussion. The goal
of this IMU-CDC activity is to share information about
mathematical development activities with mathematicians at the
ICM and to serve as a catalyst for interactions between
mathematicians, organizations and funding agencies.
More information
and updates can be found at
https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/cdc-panel-discussion-and-poster-session-during-icm-2018
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*4. *
*FIELDS MEDALIST ALAN BAKER PASSED AWAY *In
1966 a new era in transcendental number theory was marked by
the young British mathematician Alan Baker at Cambridge. In a
cascade of papers he published solutions to a series of
outstanding Diophantine problems and thereby revitalizing a
theory which had come to stagnation after a golden period
between 1930 and 1949 with the solution of Hilbert’s 7th
problem posed in a plenary lecture at the international
congress of mathematicians in Paris in 1900. In 1934, very
surprisingly, Theodor Schneider, a student of Siegel, and A.
O. Gelfond gave the solution and showed to be transcendental. In
the subsequent years they pushed forward the techniques and
essentially reached the limits of the method now known as the
Gelfond-Schneider method. To much surprise Alan Baker got into
this very difficult part of number theory from around 1964
working on it in Britain very much on his own.
Alan Baker was
born on 19 August 1939 in Forest Gate in East London. From a
very early age on he was showing signs of mathematical
brilliance and was encouraged by his parents. He got a first
class degree at University College London before he moved to
Trinity College to study with Davenport. During this time he
published between 1962 and 1965 eight papers which made his
very high mathematical potential visible. In 1965 he received
his doctorate degree and was elected Fellow of Trinity College
as a research Fellow.
In 1970 at the
ICM in Nice Alan Baker was awarded the Fields Medal
<https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal> on the basis of
his outstanding work on linear forms in logarithms. It had
been known for long time that this would solve a number of
outstanding problems in number theory like the so-called class
number problem of Gauss. The Gelfond-Schneider method could
not be applied to general linear forms in logarithms which
were needed for these applications. In a completely unexpected
and spectacular way Alan Baker succeeded to find a miraculous
new approach for dealing with this problem. He received many
honors including the Adams prize <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_Prize>,
the election to
the Royal
Society <https://royalsociety.org/>, to the Academia
Europaea <http://www.ae-info.org/>, he was made an
honorary Fellow of University College London, a foreign Fellow
of the Indian Academy of Science, a foreign Fellow of the
National Academy of Sciences India (1993) and an honorary
member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2001).
The new theory of
transcendental numbers which started from Baker’s fundamental
insight has been further developed in the last decades and
applied in many fields of mathematics quite far away from
number theory. Alan Baker passed away on February 4 but his
work stays and is part of the mathematical culture.
Gisbert Wüstholz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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*5. *
*CWM: FACES OF WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS*
Eugenie
Hunsicker, chair of the London Mathematical Society’s Women in
Mathematics Committee
<https://www.lms.ac.uk/about/committees/women-mathematics-committee>, and
her sister
Irina Linke, a cinematographer, produced a short film for
International Women’s Day March 8 2018 featuring cameos by
women mathematicians around the globe. Each woman gives her
name and country and says in her own language "I am a
mathematician". Eugenie had contacted the IMU Committee for
Women in Mathematics (CWM), who decided to support their
project. A request for
film clips sent around the world through the 120 CWM
Ambassadors list resulted in a phenomenal response—149 clips
representing 249 women from 37 countries speaking 32
languages, and collected in less than one month.
The initial plan
was for the film to be 3 min long, but Irina and Eugenie
wanted to include all the clips (the last one from Agustina, 6
years old, who "wants to be a mathematician") and CWM provided
financial support for Irina's heavy editing task.
The film
emphasises the international nature of mathematics. There are
women in the film speaking Chinese in the US, Greek in the
Netherlands. There’s a
clip of a Russian woman speaking Tatar in Germany; and in one
single clip from the UK, Hebrew, Brazilian, German and English
are spoken.
The focus of the
film is on proud, strong women that are actively doing maths,
but it also emphasizes that it’s not unusual for women to work
in mathematics. The
film shows women everywhere who enjoy it and do it as a
profession. It is also
an opportunity for people to see images of strength and pride
from developing countries. It’s a film about women, but it’s
also about expanding people’s ideas about countries that are
often only heard about in the context of crisis. One aim of the movie is
that the next time people hear about Nigeria, Nepal or the
Philippines, they think, `Oh, yeah, that is the place with all
of those fantastic women mathematicians!’”
The film (14 mn
02 sec) can be seen at: https://vimeo.com/259039018
A trailer (2 mn
40 sec) can be seen at: https://vimeo.com/260633621
There is also a
devoted Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/facesofwomeninmathematics/
The film has been
a huge success since its release on March 8 2018, with more
than 26,000 views during the first three days.
Marie-Françoise
Roy, chair of CWM
<https://www.mathunion.org/activities/committee-women-mathematics-cwm>,
based on Eugenie
Hunsicker’s and Irina Linke’s press release
<https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/CWM/About/Faces%20press%20release.pdf>.
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*6. *
*REPORT ON THE ISC GENERAL ASSEMBLY *
In July this
year, the International Council for Science (ICSU <https://www.icsu.org/>)
and the
International Social Science Council (ISSC
<http://www.worldsocialscience.org/>) will take the
last step towards the constitution of a single unified
Council, already known as the International Science Council
(ISC). In fact, the first General Assembly
<http://www.worldsocialscience.org/2017/12/founding-general-assembly-international-science-council-isc-take-place-3-5-july-2018-paris-france/>
of the ISC is to
be held in the period July 3-5 in Paris, where its first
Executive Committee will be elected.
This General
Assembly will culminate a long process that began in 2015 with
an exchange of correspondence between the respective
presidents of the ICSU and the ISSC. Intensive work continued
until in October, 2016, the two General Assemblies of the ICSU
and the ISSC voted in favour of merging the two organizations.
The final decision was scheduled the year after. The go-ahead
was approved at the joint General Assembly of ICSU and ISSC
held in Taipei last year, in October 2017. Throughout this process
the two councils maintained full transparency between
themselves and their members. Everyone is aware of the
enormous difficulties involved in the coordination of this
transition.
The new Council
now faces a crucial task in its role as the single voice for
science. Unilateral solutions are insufficient for the serious
challenges facing humanity, such as sustainability, climate
change, the new migratory waves caused by this change, the
search for alternative energy sources, etc.. These are
problems for which an interdisciplinary approach is vital, and
in which the social sciences will play an important role.
There is no doubt that mathematics will also form an essential
part of the new council. The IMU must continue its already
growing collaboration with this body.
Furthermore,
science cannot be regarded as an asset that belongs to only a
few; it is a force for the common good that should be enjoyed
by all citizens of the world and from which they should all
profit. Hence, one of the main tasks is to convey this message
to the heart of society. The IMU should make the most of this
opportunity to emphasize the key role played by mathematics
across the board in science and technology.
A General
Assembly such as the one to be held in Paris is not only a
constituent assembly, but also the presentation to the world
of a Scientific Council that, for the first time in history,
includes almost all sciences. It is also a magnificent
opportunity for attracting considerable media attention. We at
the ISC are fully aware of this opportunity and it will be
reflected in the programme. To that end, the event will take
place at a very special venue, the Oceanography Institute
*Maison des Océans* <https://www.maisondesoceans.org/> in the centre of
Paris, a historic monument opened by Prince Albert I of Monaco
in 1911. The ISC encourages all the national members, unions
and associates to attend this General Assembly, which will
undoubtedly constitute a historical milestone.
Manuel de Leon
(ICMAT, Madrid, Spain, Regular Member of the ICSU Executive
Board)
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*
*7. *
*ICIAM 2019 CONGRESS*
The ICIAM 2019 congress
<http://www.iciam.org/event/iciam-2019-%E2%80%93-valencia> will take place
in Valencia (Spain) on 15-19 July 2019.
The call for mini-symposia
<https://iciam2019.org/index.php/scientific-program/minisymposia> for
congress is
now open. The deadline for submissions is November 5th, 2018.
Professor
Françoise Tisseur (University of Manchester) will give the
2019 Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture
<http://www.iciam.org/olga-taussky-todd-lecture-iciam-2019>.
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*
*8. *
*ABEL PRIZE 2018 TO ROBERT LANGLANDS *
The Norwegian
Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize
<http://www.abelprize.no/> for 2018 to
Robert P.
Langlands of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA,
“for his visionary program connecting representation theory to
number theory.” The mechanisms he suggested to bridge these
mathematical fields led to a project named the *Langlands program*.
The program has enlisted hundreds of the world’s best
mathematicians over the last fifty years. No other project in
modern mathematics has as wide a scope, has produced so many
deep results, and has so many people working on it. Its depth
and breadth have grown and the Langlands program is now
frequently described as a grand unified theory of mathematics.
Robert P. Langlands will receive the Abel Prize for his work
from His Majesty King Harald V at an award ceremony in Oslo on
22 May.
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*9. *
*2018 WOLF PRIZE IN MATHEMATICS TO BEILINSON AND DRINFELD *
The jury panel of
the 2018 Wolf Prize
<http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/PressRoom/2018/Pages/Laureates-of-2018-Wolf-Prize-announced-12-February-2018.aspx>
in Mathematics
has unanimously decided to award the prize in equal parts to
two laureates: Professor Alexander Beilinson and Professor
Vladimir Drinfeld, both from the University of Chicago, “for
their groundbreaking work in algebraic geometry,
representation theory, and mathematical physics”.
Alexander
Beilinson made deep contributions to representation theory and
algebraic geometry. Among his major achievements are proofs of
conjectures of Kazhdan-Lusztig and Jantzen, the formulation of
far-reaching conjectures (Beilinson conjectures) about motivic
cohomology and special values of L-functions, and his joint
work with Vladimir Drinfeld on the geometric Langlands program
which stimulated major progress at the interface of geometry
and mathematical physics: in the theory of vertex operator
algebras, conformal field theory, and string theory.
Vladimir Drinfeld
introduced fundamental concepts in arithmetic geometry, the
theory of algebraic groups, and their representations, which
had an enormous impact on modern mathematics. Among his
contributions to arithmetic geometry are the notions of
Drinfeld module, Drinfeld upper half-plane, and Drinfeld
shtukas. His theory of quantum groups is central to many
problems in algebra and mathematical physics; here, the notion
of Drinfeld associator plays a major role. Jointly with
Alexander Beilinson, he geometrized the theory of vertex
operator algebras, which led to the creation of foundations of
the geometric Langlands program, connecting central results in
arithmetic geometry and the theory of automorphic forms to
quantum field theory and the theory of integrable systems.
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*
*10. *
*MSC 2020: REVISION OF MATHEMATICS SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION *
Mathematical
Reviews (MR) and zbMATH cooperate in maintaining the Mathematics Subject
Classification (MSC) <https://msc2020.org/>, which is used
by these reviewing services, publishers, and others to
categorize items in the mathematical sciences literature. They have
initiated the process of revising the current MSC2010 with an
expectation that the revision will be used beginning in 2020.
No changes are planned at the two-digit level; however, it is
anticipated that there will be refinement of the three- and
five-digit levels.
At this point,
zbMATH and MR welcome additional community input into the
process. Comments should be submitted through the Web by
creating an account at https://msc2020.org/# <https://msc2020.org/> .
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