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**International Mathematical Union**

**IMU News 108: July 2021**
---------------------------

Newsletter from the International Mathematical Union
Editor: Yoshiharu Kohayakawa, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

**CONTENTS**

1. Editorial: MCA 2021 Mathematical Congress of the Americas
2. News from the Commission for Developing Countries (CDC)
3. News from the Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM)
4. IDM 2022 International Day of Mathematics
5. ICM 2022 News from Saint Petersburg
6. Mathematics without Borders: the Centennial of the IMU
7. TYAN Virtual Thematic Workshops in Mathematics
8. CLAM 2021 Latin American Congress of Mathematicians
9. The 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences
10. Wolf Prize Award Ceremony 2020 and 2021
11. Call for Nominations for the Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture
12. Gold Medal for a Mathematician in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics

**Editorial: MCA 2021 Mathematical Congress of the Americas**

The [Mathematical Congress of the Americas  
2021](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/zNu_zWucdboPx6WYjTbsgsr_gKnj1JIaqtf6aKhNXln7l0I2_E00yUpiFSOMN9s1l34G8CdNUCvKnJ5pHsKq17vb7occnNfYwk-RnXrRzTx4ZuJjsWsgHCvxCextQLTyBYKnMow2mF3RKgYQQCodeKXVFqPqZRHhoIL94KaNDtKtXg) (MCA 2021) took place from July 9th, when the MCA Awards Ceremony was broadcast through our [YouTube channel](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/WZR5rGoXsdw82GJ9-OQG4op14Li49qmQtNuhms7o_-UTB6E8lmom136bHjluaHDwvg1VXbrnFCTLIy4Zt-RYcRDUce0Msaz8hUGzdtioKrs59WR0-bujYQIJ4Z-f31RKBSGKkPnmokpqEEJ9YaWO67DPNz0xAC-Pf2fw5o59MQx9hvczNH0aWJv40GLf-jEhhTNs05_WyUUH9Uh0UMBY), to July 23th, the day of the last special session and invited talks and the plenary lecture delivered by Carlos Kenig, President of the International Mathematical Union.  We are very happy about the congress.  Even if our initial intention was to receive all the participants in Buenos Aires, which would have allowed closer contact between visitors and local researchers, we succeeded in maintaining an intense virtual activity in these hard times of COVID-19 pandemic.  We hope that this activity will foster collaboration among researchers, students, institutions and mathematical societies in the  
continent.

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**News from the Commission for Developing Countries (CDC)**

**Updated flyers.** The  
[IMU-CDC](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/KqH6R0akH0hrhd8M0jFMJJxfOcivkKplxMY0JJ8NezComhqg36X6972fu3QOW48FEOF-jLTFt7RVbXqeS8WWa_9-gG-qJr9f0OhewEkI6J-Aqt-zWAZ2B1Dm2oIVWsH6AOlLwsiuE4J9jlS4CXQVuXmL3t2IZq3UZ-K2SyWk7IGJCw) is particularly interested in ensuring that information about IMU financial support opportunities for mathematicians based in developing countries reaches as many mathematicians as possible, all around the  
world.

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**News from the Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM)**

***Asian-Oceanian women in Mathematics (AOWM).***  The first Asian and  
Oceanian CWM ambassador meeting was held on-line on June 25th and  
26th, 2021. It was organized by Sanoli Gun (India), Kyeown Koh Park  
(Korea), Polly Sy (Philippines), Dongmei Xiao (China), Motoko Kotani  
(Japan, Chair).  Its purpose was to discuss how to build a network of  
women mathematicians working in Asian and Oceanian countries, and to  
discuss initiatives on the gender issue.  All CWM ambassadors in Asia  
and Oceania were invited, with 40 participants on each day.

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**IDM 2022 International Day of Mathematics**

The 2022 theme for the International Day of Mathematics (IDM 2022) is  
**Mathematics Unites**.

It was proposed by Yuliya Nesterova, a graduate student from the  
University of Ottawa in Canada: *“Mathematics unites, to signal that  
it is a common language we all have and a common subject with which to  
find one another.”*

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**ICM 2022 News from Saint Petersburg**

***The clock has started ticking.***  The countdown to the  
International Congress of Mathematicians 2022 was launched in St.  
Petersburg on 6 July 2021, exactly one year before the opening of the  
congress.  Marking the occasion, an art piece, “The Pythagorean  
Theorem”, [was  
inaugurated](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/y_BQqcOTtdgErzgPkeDxis82PMMrOPPCceRSoDn-lYNaJeJ1Sf8BkLsh9mhqLZYqtOWhbbYMwcLb-Z2dvhvpC9MTIGuP3dsuAE2HrCAXGeL1sld3e9OoANVcWPImamT45VHggHJOvvK0GMuuh9JdGHOswqjbz9jquIvQGkrgvbW5HRnRr3ONLAG63l9qCAQwFOxawn8I-kIVE5rz_GaiJUSDsON5owRVNr_ElL08kq3sMEYVbuz6vJ7Qz9qFq0QsjXmBCOL1pQ8zomM6xAwlpLzsfLCKNtpce00vdmK3JJZrRS3RfuRbCIsWzt9mNu40UjCR9NXD3b8UeEJi7pjFMyx1gytweq96hxkCiG8xiR0GLUZJqg) in front of the main entrance to the building of the [Twelve Collegia](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/s4BF8va8qrkR5ueleRjmwbPqe9oTt9-b_85bLZJipo48RKnmgqvrtzcJYt4MdXcZIUh9gH4Kfh4PiJKrQqGqVaGQl-pAXhn22jvz12lEVyTIUdlyx_juESNtKlBnajp4lBz2w1a8RPMe66oM08mdKUOR9ssgd5A4gAo6FyldugT1HblocOASMEILZcyTkPwNlC_pPJUUXQBaIb1qpvJEmhbAUXJdNUiS6gR_eUY9OQ), where St. Petersburg University has long been located.  This was the first in a series of events that will take place during the countdown leading to ICM 2022.  Read [this piece of news](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/inEd0gtYtcizw0YjALNzrczYGjXg0sdhqeh7GFQXUgJmkIUdxMJSwxkOr07egB02i7Czb6DP0G726oph5BrabXorNcUhgFDI3B6Tfo4Di9C-iNUNCPG1oESb0vyClb6jK_4c16QK9i4I9gSvzInLqeWGI243akHxScaU71OIVIhYX6KYgyif0rsQvl55lequBDSTtgNxbenOSKluPcjvNApEeygRIHgWPL0B5YX150LF4ZnKHR-a7FYN8oEWYwwZoqiC-NkdOVGHekCvNEvKRgFTZxEkIOZUbeOMoNAA7K81Cd4fkdGpFfVCHFqM4B75pzvqiHLzCjMk0A) on the [ICM 2022  
website](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/qQ6tDxL8vrLx-y5VJetYB0pv-1i4jGzyCPEq-10ERnPiPNfvYm7Q3VyVjcLweSlP5ea8OHVPGmBtj5UoOIrm3eHSg27EExXXwk9C-DtUpBl8hBDF11ordFOAXx30X-mxIUyPvv9CC7befgeByqAYW0R9NtJdSaUjTeA).

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**Mathematics without Borders: the Centennial of the IMU**

The International Mathematical Union was [officially established on 20  
September 1920 in  
Strasbourg](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/zolqa8X8rhRq0Eye99yS8MLITsOwxTIf0Z4TqzthDKEc0F-ttGS4JZmlSVoIYGvWY9cP_Ev4qSwZO0vof3d37G_jNcg4r0YOsuJx822MHUphEsUtvmEvPA2vduhYeAr7yak-0xeM5hw1To1LbB7QrqKFSF-9MZv9mBb6jUYUeVphIjVSStAOp1UpdtYQ7qHIKN4GiiuYJF0MVg), just prior to the ICM in that location.  The centennial of the IMU will be celebrated at the meeting [Mathematics without Borders](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/muhQK1PHwOeDi_ppTJAaNVTH_BAuKcS6o_GOpjPmuA0ooPJZwCaIcYvKuUNVGCRJV2FtldxRr7YtUXO9d3VqZ0Cu8ctZ9Ueyjmin4wsEXipt9gQ8foMKLEkRkFIe7oBHJUwQyladzyzk_uC-brmjANdhHohj-b0eY5cd63SB338nfIlfkEwCk6ZYW7c), which will take place on 27 and 28 September 2021, at the Palais Universitaire, Strasbourg, the very same building where the 1920 ICM was held.  The opening session of the meeting will be held under the High Patronage of Mr. Emmanuel Macron, President of the French  
Republic.

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**TYAN Virtual Thematic Workshops in Mathematics**

Designed in 2020 during the pandemic crisis, the [TYAN Virtual  
Thematic Workshops in  
Mathematics](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/gd3NLo8XL6pkOKn_Azx-rrXW2-MYMKas_y4PyZBl6Yt3KzrwR5oTGPfv38ddqFtn9Yh3Y5DzsFrH6LmiylN1f21crvgTqbiuT-ftcC16DpNv0dCn5DqvGsS-4bHjT2ve8WoyPQaOMEDSsFJAgfNjTH6wOr4dLf5i7LRbVm9oxSElhkxQw4AeUb54IJYrceVkiumsaBlExRgG_JW-Dt1lo6PbNCaCvOk) aims at bringing together leading mathematicians to discuss and advance mainstream lines of research in a virtual, yet warm ambient.  In resonance with the mission of [TWAS, the World Academy of Sciences](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/S_0Berf_iNdiGRHzg32wPpMO3n3YefyY0W5Amh6sS3V74kxzamhqwK4hlPhO3RAQjHdJzTHKiCUVZTC_veVzO0z3m_d3bHBXELHpQGDa4-eVPJDJPOMVhnFaRR_gHoS9LX8GOH3VVTn8qedgF0oyZ0ZfNagidkE), these events promote diversity and geographic balance of the participants, with special attention to developing  
countries.

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**CLAM 2021 Latin American Congress of Mathematicians**

The [6th Latin American Congress of  
Mathematicians](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/ndw7bVzP5R1Pu8CMDHY3XO6aaPr3mjASarxnje7s9X8h0KKo6CDfp2knB6KUPeYUvWIXjdzDSBFF_Nt7rNFTYnfTKY16Vn99RT5RzG7YEbz-6VAhQrSQqFOrAI1DmII3YitdoGocYalyLWCivOl1Yw215wlr0UlOt0RLUiNglJuhbu4) (CLAM) will be held 13 to 17 September 2021, in Uruguay, in online  
format.

CLAM is held every four years, to contribute to the development of  
mathematical research in Latin America and the Caribbean, to  
strengthen the visibility of mathematics in society and to foster  
mathematical collaboration in the region and with the rest of the world.

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**The 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences**

Jean-Michel Bismut, Emeritus Professor at Université Paris-Saclay,  
France, and Jeff Cheeger, Silver Professor of Mathematics at the  
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA,  
have been awarded the [2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematical  
Sciences](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/xIWuU4ApttEaC8cZfrbNjRlxQK3J1LbW_wy9-CvebTDYR5zRidu5JSlrgiVvuwRDs7dzp_kI2IuTA5c3GJ_E4a29dzFaxHhWvh6HKtu1zlD3Pe5cI6ZLJAGheO-2Yy2i4eQKG7Auqs1TzyxyFpw4dK4b72kQxAaTwr1uOoTH_tjAmvPjpUIRmySHS8TSgwwgVGcOGX5ZLOMmmYJsKa0DqCg), “for their remarkable insights that have transformed, and continue to transform, modern  
geometry.”

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**Wolf Prize Award Ceremony 2020 and 2021**

[Sir Simon  
Donaldson](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/m413itY4yS3c_8n7VbhqYIQbpBc96Kc1nJJ1qEmwF0QLm9XiaIfqIYXBm8y4LuntMxPGJQCxPFjvTvz82jjx3_XC25U1F4knsq5heAa32GOn26C8Pu0gwfTuXCa1Pp1TRrf1ljBiWn7BObK5sJTeB4751fW1M2xigTkZRJZ0LYfGLCfpu2rxYh9ILhxiaXrytW0k-PI) and [Yakov Eliashberg](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/aicoh38-L_YTuABfGjeGayCm9Z2wgFjLpCBooOyGU7PHBUkjs5k6bybgrljm0PUggSN4GR_8ElJp8UTpV0qWc9pLr-FrLeeBU0KMgEyoEDRA4yqqQJMdk5mkMvPItyMtIpIjTrq-MbPa8R3L95NDZfXX5iB9s_P6-qErKaZKaEvxHedr2fVkH1I4gNMMqZ0JA-AvxDWJr6IieLRjRRgvUQ) were awarded the Wolf Prize for Mathematics for 2020 “for their contributions to differential geometry and  
topology.”

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**Call for Nominations for the Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture**

The [Olga  
Taussky-Todd](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/iTQ8q7p8Z-tfWgDv4qB0ohWkjgxuwtsWtb9dDmWyFRLEYrI9AvmdUB2l6-l79ZBmeB7p7usMjGY3uj8DK7tsp4Kyq7kTvX44Qw092YWvgWcTNYvq_E8eboe8OeTxPZNHWLC7Tlo079BPJl2pWoQdU76EJXfS6Z5fyrrn_fTxQwf32GoNrbPNtK66Gdx4uGJx9PFE4MuSwLI) Lecture is held every four years at the [International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics](https://62s8s.r.a.d.sendibm1.com/mk/cl/f/DbT1Tnp3OLDW3edDv-JcJ3FMUk5bvrfLoUWpOTLo086yVIKLPkZlal_1Z_uX_zmR1AmNUei51TP6c6mNaovAbHUlncVMiM4oU-LUODyiL_q0MBdpsfyN7TogJDLfcV-9umRP02worZvjDOuaF2f33LmJeEZb1DifhZxLfLtdmbUorXGZfQofNw) (ICIAM). This honor is conferred on a woman who has made outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and/or scientific  
computation.

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**Gold Medal for a Mathematician in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics**

IMU News joins the CWM in congratulating mathematician Anna  
Kiesenhofer on her winning a Gold Medal at the Tokyo 2020 Summer  
Olympics.  Many a mathematician around the world is surely in awe of  
her wonderful achievement in Tokyo!   Heartfelt congratulations!

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