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*1. **Editorial: Diversity and Inclusion
These are two of the most prominent nouns floating through academic
and political discourse in the United States. In their most literal
sense, diversity and inclusion refer to goals which almost all in
the mathematics community share. When someone of any age, from any
country, with any personal orientation does interesting mathematics,
then our community celebrates that achievement.
However, access to personal growth and economic success through
mathematics is much more challenging for most than it should be.
The underrepresentation of various groups in mathematical research
and education reflects the disadvantages faced by members of those
groups. We should try to put into place programs, structures, and
incentives, which enable mathematical talent to be achieved and
mathematical skills to be made available to all. While supporting
and encouraging greater participation, we should avoid boycotts,
proscriptions, and condemnations, which increasingly dominate public
discourse. After all, this is contrary to the spirit of inclusivity.
The International Mathematical Union plays a prominent role in
encouraging diversity and inclusion. Indeed, the International
Congress of Mathematicians succeeds at a high level in involving
mathematicians from around the world in the international
mathematical community. At these Congresses, selected early career
mathematicians have an opportunity to encounter a broad spectrum of
mathematics pursued by some of the most accomplished
mathematicians. Most senior participants are delighted to talk to
those who they have not previously encountered, resulting in an
event where both senior and junior participants find their own
careers enhanced.
The ICM is the headline event of the IMU, followed by various
activities on the ground. With its commissions (e.g., the
Commission for Developing Countries) and its committees (e.g., the
Committee for Women in Mathematics), the IMU with very limited
resources aims to advance diversity and inclusion. Perhaps more
could be done by the IMU if it served as a catalyst for efforts at
the national level. As just one idea, why not “twin” national
organizations in a way which is similar to the way various cities
around the world are twinned? Why not single out best practices at
the national level?
There are troubling counter-forces, which have disturbed me
personally. Our mathematics community should promote mathematics:
its discovery, its promotion, its educational mission, and its
contribution to the world at large. Some groups within our
community have targeted political agendas. I feel these agendas,
whether or not we personally support them, should not interrupt our
professional efforts in favor of diversity and inclusivity in the
mathematical community. Mathematics can serve as a bridge across
different strata, a bridge that can promote positive achievements.
Mathematicians should be promoting diversity throughout the
mathematical community, and should reject efforts to use “diversity”
as an argument for exclusion. “Inclusion” signifies outreach to
all, especially those who come from under-represented groups and/or
difficult personal situations.
Mathematics should be the leader among academic disciplines in
promoting diversity and inclusion. As mathematicians, we should
reach across boundaries, be they political, gender, or ethnicity.
In our professional lives, we should be ambassadors for mathematics
and for the good it brings to society.
Eric M. Friedlander (Chair, US National Committee/Math and Dean’s
Professor, University of Southern California)
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***2. **CDC <https://www.mathunion.org/cdc>: Programs and schedules**
*Conference Support Program.* This program gives partial support to
Mathematical Science based conferences organized in developing
countries. The funds are for travel and accommodation only. The
conference organizers must send the application form at least four
months in advance. Upcoming deadlines:
• April 15, 2020 for conferences starting after August 15, 2020.
• July 15, 2020 for conferences starting after November 15, 2020.
• October 1, 2020 for conferences starting after February 1, 2021.
*IMU-Simons African Fellowship Program.* This program is funded by
the Simons Foundation, NY, USA and supports research sabbaticals for
mathematicians from African developing countries employed in Africa
to travel to an internationally known mathematical center of
excellence (worldwide) for collaborative research. All travel and
living expenses of the grantees will be covered by the fellowship up
to USD 5,000. Upcoming deadlines:
• April 15, 2020 for visits starting between August 1, 2020 and
August 1, 2021.
• July 15, 2020 for visits starting between November 1, 2020 and
November 1, 2021.
• October 1, 2020 for visits starting between January 15, 2021 and
January 15, 2022.
*Individual Research Travel Support Program.* This program supports
travel costs for research visits for a period of at least four weeks
by mathematicians based in developing countries. The deadlines are
the same as for the IMU-Simons African Fellowship Program above.
For more information, please visit the website
http://www.mathunion.org/cdc
Olga Gil-Medrano (IMU-CDC Secretary for Policy)
<https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/more-700-german-research-institutions-strike-open-access-deal-springer-nature>
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***3. **News from CWM <https://www.mathunion.org/cwm>**
a) The CWM 2020 call for Networks, Schools and Workshops
<https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/CWM/Initiatives/CWMCall2020.pdf>
https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/CWM/Initiatives/CWMCall2020.pdf
received 35 applications of which CWM was able to support 8.
In the selection of grants, priority was given to projects
developing regional networks for Women in Mathematics in Africa,
Latin America, and Asia. We are supporting the 3rd Meeting for Latin
American Women in Mathematics in Colombia, a Workshop on Skills for
Young Women Mathematicians in Chile, a Mentoring Workshop in India,
the Women in Sage in Africa Workshop in Senegal, a Topics in Applied
Mathematics School at Nesin village, Turkey, and the Second South
East Asian Women Mathematicians meeting in Vietnam.
Upgrading and making perennial the May 12 initiative website
https://may12.womeninmaths.org/
was also approved, and the new website is now available.
Finally, the project of creating an exhibition on Russian Women in
Mathematics taking place during (WM)² in Saint-Petersburg in 2022
was supported.
See more here
https://www.mathunion.org/cwm/events/cwm-sponsored-events/2020
b) The final version of the Gender Gap in Science Book is now
available at
https://zenodo.org/record/3697223
An 8 pages booklet (English, French and Spanish versions) containing
the summary of the results of the project and the full list of its
recommendations can be found at
https://gender-gap-in-science.org/promotional-materials/ .
The recommendations of the Gender Gap in Science Project have been
sent to the Adhering Organizations of the International Mathematical
Union by the IMU General Secretary.
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***4. **ICMI: ICME-14 postponed. GA to be held as web event**.
Due to the global pandemic caused by the new coronavirus disease
(COVID-19), ICMI <https://www.mathunion.org/icmi> and ICME-14
<https://www.icme14.org/static/en/index.html> have decided, after
careful discussion and consultation, to postpone ICME-14 by one year
until the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2021. The specific dates of
postponed ICME-14 and the details related to the conference
organization, including information for those already registered,
will be announced as soon as possible.
The General Assembly for ICMI, scheduled to take place just prior
to ICME-14, will be organized as a web event in July 2020 in
order to carry out the elections for the new Executive Committee of
ICMI which will take office on 1 January 2021.
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***5. **International Day of Mathematics (IDM)**
1. The official launch at UNESCO has been cancelled and the African
launch at the Next Einstein Forum has been postponed, both because
of the COVID-19 epidemic. They have been replaced by a Live Global
Launch at https://www.idm314.org/launch-2020.html, which premiered
the worldwide video, MATHEMATICS IS *EVERYWHERE*. Throughout the
whole day, special announcements were posted as well as videos,
photos and experiences from the celebrations around the world.
2. The IDM has aroused worldwide enthusiasm with 1030 celebrations
announced in more than 110 countries. Unfortunately, many
celebrations were cancelled due to the COVID-19 epidemic. This led
to spontaneous online presentations via videos and recorded talks
and home celebrations of the IDM in many countries. About 15 000
unique users have visited the IDM website on March 14.
3. UNESCO published a webpage with the IDM:
https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/mathematics, which is
translated in the six languages of UNESCO.
4. We invite you to celebrate March 14 next year! A call for the
2021 theme is already out
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc0KMV6p7PbtjqSt7MQsHhvORXPLjexj-cpU1iuCabXBGOWBg/viewform>:
send us your ideas at http://www.idm314.org
<http://www.idm314.org/>. If you have not done so, register to the
IDM newsletter at http://www.idm314.org <http://www.idm314.org/>.
This is how you will be told of the 2021 theme and the new developments.
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***6. **Mathematical Subject Classification 2020 published**
*The latest revision MSC 2020 of the Mathematics Subject
Classification (MSC) has been published, replacing the 2010
Mathematics Subject Classification (referred to as MSC2010).
Searchable versions are available from the zbMATH site
(https://zbmath.org/classification/ ) and the MathSciNet site
(https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/searchMSC.html). As
anticipated, there are no changes at the two-digit level, but
several at the three-digit level, and hundreds at the five-digit level.
Mathematical Reviews (MR) and zbMATH collaborate on maintaining the
Mathematics Subject Classification.
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***7. **Mathematical Congress of the Americas 2021**
The third Mathematical Congress of the Americas
<http://www.mca2021.org/> will take place in Buenos Aires
(Argentina) in the week 19-24 July, 2021. Its goal is to
internationally highlight the excellence of mathematical
achievements in the Americas and foster collaborations among
researchers, students, institutions and mathematical societies in
the Americas.
More information, including the list of plenary and invited
speakers: http://www.mca2021.org/ .
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***8. **Louis Nirenberg (1925 – 2020)**
Louis Nirenberg died in New York City on January 26, 2020 at the age
of 94.
He was a leading mathematician, whose fundamental contributions in
the field of partial differential equations were hugely influential.
This area of mathematics provides the language we use to
describe—and the techniques we use to analyze—diverse problems from
many fields, including geometry, physics, and engineering. Louis'
earliest work, in the 1950's, solved two longstanding problems from
geometry by proving new estimates for fully-nonlinear elliptic
equations. Over the course of his long and productive career his
achievements included the solution of many other important problems,
and—equally significant—the introduction of many new ideas and
techniques.
Louis was born in 1925 in Hamilton, Ontario, but grew up in
Montreal. He studied Mathematics and Physics at McGill University,
graduating in 1945, then came to New York University as a
Mathematics masters student. The postwar years were a remarkable
time for mathematics at NYU—his fellow students included Eugene
Isaacson, Peter Lax, Joseph Keller, Martin Kruskal, Cathleen
Morawetz, Harold Grad, and Avron Douglis. Louis remained at NYU for
his entire career: after completing his PhD in 1949 with guidance
from James Stoker and Kurt Friedrichs, he held a two-year
postdoctoral position then joined the faculty in 1951. His title was
Professor of Mathematics from 1957 until 1999, when he retired and
became Professor Emeritus. He was Director of the Courant Institute
from 1970 to 1972.
Louis' impact was partly due to his exquisite taste in problems. One
very successful mode was to recognize, through specific challenges,
the need for new tools or estimates. His ability to identify such
challenges—and to find the required tools or estimates—was a major
driver of his impact. His early work on problems from geometry had
this character; other examples include his papers in the 60's with
Joseph Kohn on problems from complex differential geometry; and
those in the 80's with Haim Brezis on nonlinear elliptic equations
with critical exponents.
A different, equally successful mode was to identify tools that were
clearly important, then systematically explore their power. His work
on the regularity of solutions of linear elliptic equations and
systems had this character; it was done in the 50's and 60's with
Shmuel Agmon and Avron Douglis. Another example is his work on the
symmetry of solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations
using the “method of moving planes” and the “sliding method,”
developed in the 80's and 90's with Basilis Gidas, Wei-Ming Ni, and
Henry Berestycki.
Louis also loved challenges—particularly ones involving estimates or
inequalities—and this was the motivation for many projects. One
example is his work on solutions of the incompressible Navier-Stokes
equations, which describe for example the flow of water. We still
don't know whether its solutions are smooth or not, so it is natural
to ask about the size of the set where they are not smooth. The
estimates Louis proved in the 80's with Luis Caffarelli and Robert
Kohn remain the state of the art.
A gifted teacher and mentor, Louis was advisor to 46 PhD students
(starting with Walter Littman in 1956 and ending with Kanishka
Perera in 1997), and he also had a formative influence on many
postdocs and collaborators.
Lively and gregarious, Louis loved music, art, and film almost as
much as he loved mathematics. He maintained close friendships with
many colleagues around the world. He loved to travel, and to host
visitors. He particularly enjoyed working with others; as a result,
almost all his papers were coauthored.
Louis received many prestigious awards, including the Abel Prize
(2015), the American Mathematical Society's Leroy P. Steele Prizes
for Seminal Contribution to Research (2014) and Lifetime Achievement
(1994), the International Mathematical Union's Chern Medal (2010),
the National Medal of Science (1995), the Canadian Mathematical
Society's Jeffery-Williams Prize (1987), the Crafoord Prize (1982),
and the American Mathematical Society's Bôcher Prize (1959).
He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in
1965, a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1969, and a
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013. He was also a
member of numerous honorary societies in other countries, including
Accademia dei Lincei (1978), Accademia Mediterranea della Scienza
(1982), Académie des Sciences (1989), Istituto Lombardo Accademia
Scienze e Lettere (1991), Ukrainian Academy of Sciences (1994), and
Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters (2015). He received
honorary degrees from McGill University (1986), University of Pisa
(1990), Université de Paris IX Paris-Dauphine (1990), McMaster
University (2000), University of British Columbia (2010); and he was
named Honorary Professor by Nankai University (1987), Zhejiang
University (1988), and Peking University (2016).
Louis is survived by his son Marc, his daughter Lisa and her
partner, Joseph Ganci, his grandchildren Jimmy and Alma, his sister
Deborah, and his partner Nanette.
Additional information about Louis, including video, is available at
the Simons Foundation's "Science Lives" website, via this link:
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2014/04/21/louis-nirenberg/
An autobiography is included in a recent book The Abel Prize
2013-2017 (H. Holden and R. Piene eds, Springer-Verlag, 2019, pp
379-389).
/This obituary appeared originally on the website of the Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York City University. It is
authored by Jalal Shatah and Robert V. Kohn, both at the Courant
Institute. Reprinted here with kind permission./
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***9. **Wolf and Abel Prize awarded**
The 2020 Wolf Prize <https://wolffund.org.il/2020/01/13/opop/> in
Mathematics will be awarded jointly to *Yakov Eliashberg* (Stanford
University, CA, USA) and *Simon Donaldson* (Imperial College, Ondon,
UK and Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Book
University, Long Island, USA) “for their contributions to
differential geometry and topology.”
The 2020 Abel Prize <https://www.abelprize.no/> winners are *Hillel
Furstenberg* (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and *Gregory
Margulis* (Yale University, USA) “for pioneering the use of methods
from probability and dynamics in group theory, number theory and
combinatorics.
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