<div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: Marie-Francoise Roy <<a href="mailto:marie-francoise.roy@univ-rennes1.fr">marie-francoise.roy@univ-rennes1.fr</a>><br>Date: El sáb, 31 mar 2018 a las 17:54<br>Subject: Fwd: IMU-Net 88<br>To: <br></div><br><br><br><br>  <br><br><br><br>    <br><br>  <br><br>  <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><br><br>    <p>Dear CWM ambassadors</p><br><br>    <p>Here is IMU-NET 88<br><br><br>    </p><br><br>    <p>If you do not receive it already, please register to receive the<br><br>      IMU Newsletter, with news from CWM and all other IMU activities.</p><br><br>    <p>All the best</p><br><br>    <p>Marie-Francoise<br><br><br>    </p><br><br>    <div class="m_-4509714436079815855moz-forward-container"><br><br><br>      <br><br><br>      -------- Message transféré --------<br><br>      <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><table class="m_-4509714436079815855moz-email-headers-table" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><td><br>        <tbody><br>          <tr><br>            <th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap>Sujet :<br><br>            </th><td><br>            <td>IMU-Net 88<br><br><br>            </td><td><br>          </td></td></tr><td><br>          <tr><br>            <th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap>Date : </th><td><br>            <td>Sat, 31 Mar 2018 11:15:25 +0200</td><td><br>          </td></td></tr><td><br>          <tr><br>            <th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap>De : </th><td><br>            <td>The Electronic IMU Newsletter<br><br>              <a class="m_-4509714436079815855moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:imu-net@mathunion.org" target="_blank"><imu-net@mathunion.org></a></td><td><br>          </td></td></tr><td><br>          <tr><br>            <th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap>Répondre<br><br>              à : </th><td><br>            <td><a class="m_-4509714436079815855moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:imu-net@mathunion.org" target="_blank">imu-net@mathunion.org</a></td><td><br>          </td></td></tr><td><br>          <tr><br>            <th valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT" nowrap>Pour : </th><td><br>            <td><a class="m_-4509714436079815855moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:imu-net@mathunion.org" target="_blank">imu-net@mathunion.org</a></td><td><br>          </td></td></tr><td><br>        </td></td></td></td></td></tbody><td><br>      </td></td></table><br><br>      <br><br><br>      <br><br><br>      <br><br>      <br><br>      <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">IMU-Net 88: May 2018</span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the<br><br>          International Mathematical Union</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">Editor: Martin Raussen, Aalborg University,<br><br>          Denmark</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">CONTENTS</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Editorial: ICM 2018</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">IMU General Assembly meeting in São Paulo</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span lang="EN-US"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">CDC Panel Discussion and Poster Session during<br><br>          ICM 2018</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span lang="EN-US"><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Fields medalist Alan Baker passed away</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">CWM: Faces of women in mathematics</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Report on the ISC general assembly</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">ICIAM 2019 congress</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Abel Prize 2018 to Robert Langlands</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">2018 Wolf prizes to Beilinson and Drinfeld</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">MSC 2020: Revision of Mathematics Subject<br><br>          Classification</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>11.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Subscribing to IMU-Net</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"><br><br><br>          <span>       </span>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">EDITORIAL:<span>  </span>ICM 2018<br><br><br>            <br><br><br>          </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Colleagues,<br><br><br>          After so many months of work and expectation, the year of the<br><br>          Congress has finally arrived!</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US"><br><br><br>          Preparations are well under way: the bulk of the scientific<br><br>          program has been defined, the proceedings are being finalized<br><br>          (the papers by plenary and invited speakers will be<br><br>          distributed to all the participants at the Congress), travel<br><br>          grants have been awarded to participants from the developing<br><br>          world, communications and posters are being selected as I<br><br>          write, and </span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/how-to-apply" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">registration</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> of participants is also taking place right now.<br><br>          Keep in mind that the deadline for early advance registration,<br><br>          with reduced registration fee, is April 27.<br><br><br>          <br><br><br>          Much of our effort over the last couple of years has been<br><br>          geared towards advertising the Congress, domestically and<br><br>          abroad, as we take the occasion as a historic opportunity to<br><br>          popularize mathematics<span>  </span>in<br><br>          our society and, especially, ​ amongst the Brazilian youth. I<br><br>          believe we are being very successful.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US">The </span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://www.icm2018.org/portal/en/news20" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Biennium of Mathematics</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> 2017-2018, formally proclaimed by the<br><br>          Brazilian national parliament, encompasses a wide range of<br><br>          outreach initiatives throughout the country, and raised the<br><br>          profile of mathematics in mainstream media to totally<br><br>          unprecedented levels. Thus after hosting the 2014 FIFA World<br><br>          Cup finals, and the 2016 Olympic Summer Games, Rio de Janeiro<br><br>          is now equally proud to receive the 2018 International<br><br>          Congress of Mathematicians.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US">A welcome video has been produced and posted at<br><br>          the ICM 2018 official YouTube channel (check </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://youtu.be/_OT4Vf8hr44" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://youtu.be/_OT4Vf8hr44</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">) ​that provides a glimpse at the ICM in<br><br>          the Wonderful City.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US">While much remains ahead of us, I assure you that<br><br>          the Organizing Committee is doing its very best to ensure that<br><br>          the first ICM ever held in the Southern Hemisphere will be a<br><br>          truly memorable event. Come and check!</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpLast"><span lang="EN-US">See you soon in Rio!<br><br><br>          <br><br><br>          Marcelo Viana (Chair, ICM 2018 Organizing Committee)</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br><br><br>            <span>               </span>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">IMU GENERAL<br><br>            ASSEMBLY MEETING IN SÃO PAULO<br><br><br>            <br><br><br>          </span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">The next </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.mathunion.org/organization/general-assembly" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">General assembly</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> (GA) meeting of<br><br>          the IMU will take place on 29–30 July 2018 in São Paulo,<br><br>          Brazil. The venue of the GA meeting will be the Sheraton WTC<br><br>          Hotel in São Paulo.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">Delegates are<br><br>          expected to arrive on July 28. The GA meeting ends in the<br><br>          evening of July 30.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">On July 31, the<br><br>          GA organizers offer to all registered GA participants and<br><br>          accompanying persons </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">attending the<br><br>          ICM, a bus tour from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US">For additional<br><br>          information, concerning delegations, agenda, voting rights,<br><br>          travel support, registration etc., please consult the<br><br>          secretary’s </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/Publications/CircularLetters/2018/IMU%20AO%20CL%204_2018.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">circular letter</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">.<br><br><br>          <b><br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</b></span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">CDC PANEL<br><br>            DISCUSSION AND POSTER SESSION DURING ICM 2018</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><span lang="EN-US">On Tuesday August<br><br>          7, 2018 from 6 pm – 8 pm the IMU Commission for Developing<br><br>          Countries (</span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.mathunion.org/activities/commission-developing-countries-cdc" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">CDC</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">) <span>     </span>organizes a panel<br><br>          discussion and poster session on Strengthening Mathematics in<br><br>          the Developing World, included in the discussion panels<br><br>          section of the scientific program of the ICM 2018.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><span lang="EN-US">Moderated by CDC<br><br>          member Angel Pineda (USA) the panelists will comprise: Wandera<br><br>          Ogana (IMU-CDC President, Kenya), Marie-Françoise Roy (IMU-CWM<br><br>          Chair, France), Yuri Tschinkel (Simons Foundation Director of<br><br>          Mathematics and the Physical Sciences, USA), Paolo Piccione<br><br>          (President of the Brazilian Mathematical Society, Brazil),<br><br>          Jose Maria Balmaceda (President of the Southeast Asian<br><br>          Mathematical Society, Philippines), Nouzha El Yacoubi<br><br>          (President of the African Mathematical Union, Morocco), and<br><br>          Alejandro Jofre (Secretary of the Mathematical Union of<span>  </span>Latin America and Caribe,<br><br>          Chile).</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><span lang="EN-US">After the panel<br><br>          discussion there will be a poster session at which panelists<br><br>          and representatives of near 20 different organizations and<br><br>          institutions worldwide will present posters with more<br><br>          information about their organizations and development efforts.<br><br>          An open discussion with poster presenters and panelists will<br><br>          take place in the same room as the panel discussion. The goal<br><br>          of this IMU-CDC activity is to share information about<br><br>          mathematical development activities with mathematicians at the<br><br>          ICM and to serve as a catalyst for interactions between<br><br>          mathematicians, organizations and funding agencies.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:65.2pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span>  </span></span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><span lang="EN-US">More information<br><br>          and updates can be found at </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/cdc-panel-discussion-and-poster-session-during-icm-2018" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/cdc-panel-discussion-and-poster-session-during-icm-2018</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> <br><br><br>          <br><br><br>        </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:35.45pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></b><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">FIELDS MEDALIST<br><br>            ALAN BAKER PASSED AWAY<br><br><br>            <br><br><br>          </span></b><span lang="EN-US">In<br><br>          1966 a new era in transcendental number theory was marked by<br><br>          the young British mathematician Alan Baker at Cambridge. In a<br><br>          cascade of papers he published solutions to a series of<br><br>          outstanding Diophantine problems and thereby revitalizing a<br><br>          theory which had come to stagnation after a golden period<br><br>          between 1930 and 1949 with the solution of Hilbert’s 7th<br><br>          problem posed in a plenary lecture at the international<br><br>          congress of mathematicians in Paris in 1900. In 1934, very<br><br>          surprisingly, Theodor Schneider, a student of Siegel, and A.<br><br>          O. Gelfond gave the solution and showed </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="DA"><img src="cid:part8.C85FE594.32B8D222@univ-rennes1.fr" width="22" height="21"></span><span lang="EN-US"><span>  </span>to be transcendental. In<br><br>          the subsequent years they pushed forward the techniques and<br><br>          essentially reached the limits of the method now known as the<br><br>          Gelfond-Schneider method. To much surprise Alan Baker got into<br><br>          this very difficult part of number theory from around 1964<br><br>          working on it in Britain very much on his own. </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">Alan Baker was<br><br>          born on 19 August 1939 in Forest Gate in East London. From a<br><br>          very early age on he was showing signs of mathematical<br><br>          brilliance and was encouraged by his parents. He got a first<br><br>          class degree at University College London before he moved to<br><br>          Trinity College to study with Davenport. During this time he<br><br>          published between 1962 and 1965 eight papers which made his<br><br>          very high mathematical potential visible. In 1965 he received<br><br>          his doctorate degree and was elected Fellow of Trinity College<br><br>          as a research Fellow.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">In 1970 at the<br><br>          ICM in Nice Alan Baker was awarded the </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Fields Medal</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> on the basis of<br><br>          his outstanding work on linear forms in logarithms. It had<br><br>          been known for long time that this would solve a number of<br><br>          outstanding problems in number theory like the so-called class<br><br>          number problem of Gauss. The Gelfond-Schneider method could<br><br>          not be applied to general linear forms in logarithms which<br><br>          were needed for these applications. In a completely unexpected<br><br>          and spectacular way Alan Baker succeeded to find a miraculous<br><br>          new approach for dealing with this problem. He received many<br><br>          honors including the </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_Prize" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Adams prize</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, the election to<br><br>          the </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://royalsociety.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Royal<br><br>              Society</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, to the </span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://www.ae-info.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Academia<br><br>              Europaea</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, he was made an<br><br>          honorary Fellow of University College London, a foreign Fellow<br><br>          of the Indian Academy of Science, a foreign Fellow of the<br><br>          National Academy of Sciences India (1993) and an honorary<br><br>          member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2001). <br><br><br>          <br><br><br>        </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">The new theory of<br><br>          transcendental numbers which started from Baker’s fundamental<br><br>          insight has been further developed in the last decades and<br><br>          applied in many fields of mathematics quite far away from<br><br>          number theory. Alan Baker passed away on February 4 but his<br><br>          work stays and is part of the mathematical culture.<br><br><br>          <br><br><br>          Gisbert Wüstholz (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)<br><br><br>          <b><br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>            <br><br><br>          </b></span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">CWM: FACES OF<br><br>            WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS</span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-US">Eugenie<br><br>          Hunsicker, chair of the </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.lms.ac.uk/about/committees/women-mathematics-committee" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">London Mathematical Society’s Women in<br><br>              Mathematics Committee</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, and her sister<br><br>          Irina Linke, a cinematographer, produced a short film for<br><br>          International Women’s Day March 8 2018 featuring cameos by<br><br>          women mathematicians around the globe. Each woman gives her<br><br>          name and country and says in her own language "I am a<br><br>          mathematician". Eugenie had contacted the IMU Committee for<br><br>          Women in Mathematics (CWM), who decided to support their<br><br>          project.<span>  </span>A request for<br><br>          film clips sent around the world through the 120 CWM<br><br>          Ambassadors list resulted in a phenomenal response—149 clips<br><br>          representing 249 women from 37 countries speaking 32<br><br>          languages, and collected in less than one month.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-US">The initial plan<br><br>          was for the film to be 3 min long, but Irina and Eugenie<br><br>          wanted to include all the clips (the last one from Agustina, 6<br><br>          years old, who "wants to be a mathematician") and CWM provided<br><br>          financial support for Irina's heavy editing task.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The film<br><br>          emphasises the international nature of mathematics. There are<br><br>          women in the film speaking Chinese in the US, Greek in the<br><br>          Netherlands.<span>  </span>There’s a<br><br>          clip of a Russian woman speaking Tatar in Germany; and in one<br><br>          single clip from the UK, Hebrew, Brazilian, German and English<br><br>          are spoken.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The focus of the<br><br>          film is on proud, strong women that are actively doing maths,<br><br>          but it also emphasizes that it’s not unusual for women to work<br><br>          in mathematics.<span>  </span>The<br><br>          film shows women everywhere who enjoy it and do it as a<br><br>          profession.<span>  </span>It is also<br><br>          an opportunity for people to see images of strength and pride<br><br>          from developing countries. It’s a film about women, but it’s<br><br>          also about expanding people’s ideas about countries that are<br><br>          often only heard about in the context of crisis.<span>  </span>One aim of the movie is<br><br>          that the next time people hear about Nigeria, Nepal or the<br><br>          Philippines, they think, `Oh, yeah, that is the place with all<br><br>          of those fantastic women mathematicians!’”</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The film (14 mn<br><br>          02 sec) can be seen at:<span>  </span></span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://vimeo.com/259039018" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">https://vimeo.com/259039018</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB">A trailer (2 mn<br><br>          40 sec) can be seen at: </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://vimeo.com/260633621" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">https://vimeo.com/260633621</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB">There is also a<br><br>          devoted Facebook page:<br><br><br>        </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/facesofwomeninmathematics/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">https://www.facebook.com/facesofwomeninmathematics/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The film has been<br><br>          a huge success since its release on March 8 2018, with more<br><br>          than 26,000 views during the first three days.<br><br><br>          <br><br><br>        </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB">Marie-Françoise<br><br>          Roy, chair of </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.mathunion.org/activities/committee-women-mathematics-cwm" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">CWM</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">, </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-GB">based on Eugenie<br><br>          Hunsicker’s and Irina Linke’s </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/CWM/About/Faces%20press%20release.pdf" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">press release</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">.<br><br><br>          <br><br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>          <br><br><br>        </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">REPORT ON THE<br><br>            ISC GENERAL ASSEMBLY<br><br><br>            <br><br><br>          </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">In July this<br><br>          year, the International Council for Science (</span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.icsu.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">ICSU</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">) and the<br><br>          International Social Science Council (</span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://www.worldsocialscience.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">ISSC</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">) will take the<br><br>          last step towards the constitution of a single unified<br><br>          Council, already known as the International Science Council<br><br>          (ISC). In fact, the first </span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://www.worldsocialscience.org/2017/12/founding-general-assembly-international-science-council-isc-take-place-3-5-july-2018-paris-france/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">General Assembly</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> of the ISC is to<br><br>          be held in the period July 3-5 in Paris, where its first<br><br>          Executive Committee will be elected. </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">This General<br><br>          Assembly will culminate a long process that began in 2015 with<br><br>          an exchange of correspondence between the respective<br><br>          presidents of the ICSU and the ISSC. Intensive work continued<br><br>          until in October, 2016, the two General Assemblies of the ICSU<br><br>          and the ISSC voted in favour of merging the two organizations.<br><br>          The final decision was scheduled the year after. The go-ahead<br><br>          was approved at the joint General Assembly of ICSU and ISSC<br><br>          held in Taipei last year, in October 2017.<span>  </span>Throughout this process<br><br>          the two councils maintained full transparency between<br><br>          themselves and their members. Everyone is aware of the<br><br>          enormous difficulties involved in the coordination of this<br><br>          transition. </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">The new Council<br><br>          now faces a crucial task in its role as the single voice for<br><br>          science. Unilateral solutions are insufficient for the serious<br><br>          challenges facing humanity, such as sustainability, climate<br><br>          change, the new migratory waves caused by this change, the<br><br>          search for alternative energy sources, etc.. These are<br><br>          problems for which an interdisciplinary approach is vital, and<br><br>          in which the social sciences will play an important role.<br><br>          There is no doubt that mathematics will also form an essential<br><br>          part of the new council. The IMU must continue its already<br><br>          growing collaboration with this body.<span>  </span></span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">Furthermore,<br><br>          science cannot be regarded as an asset that belongs to only a<br><br>          few; it is a force for the common good that should be enjoyed<br><br>          by all citizens of the world and from which they should all<br><br>          profit. Hence, one of the main tasks is to convey this message<br><br>          to the heart of society. The IMU should make the most of this<br><br>          opportunity to emphasize the key role played by mathematics<br><br>          across the board in science and technology. </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-GB">A General<br><br>          Assembly such as the one to be held in Paris is not only a<br><br>          constituent assembly, but also the presentation to the world<br><br>          of a Scientific Council that, for the first time in history,<br><br>          includes almost all sciences. It is also a magnificent<br><br>          opportunity for attracting considerable media attention. We at<br><br>          the ISC are fully aware of this opportunity and it will be<br><br>          reflected in the programme. To that end, the event will take<br><br>          place at a very special venue, the Oceanography Institute </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://www.maisondesoceans.org/" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-GB">Maison des<br><br>                Océans</span></i></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"> in the centre of<br><br>          Paris, a historic monument opened by Prince Albert I of Monaco<br><br>          in 1911. The ISC encourages all the national members, unions<br><br>          and associates to attend this General Assembly, which will<br><br>          undoubtedly constitute a historical milestone. </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">Manuel de Leon<br><br>          (ICMAT, Madrid, Spain, Regular Member of the ICSU Executive<br><br>          Board)</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br><br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>            <br><br><br>          </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">ICIAM 2019<br><br>            CONGRESS</span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>                 </span></span></b><span lang="EN-US">The </span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://www.iciam.org/event/iciam-2019-%E2%80%93-valencia" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">ICIAM 2019 congress</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> will take place<br><br>          in Valencia (Spain) on 15-19 July 2019.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt;text-indent:35.45pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>  </span></span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-US">The </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://iciam2019.org/index.php/scientific-program/minisymposia" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">call for mini-symposia</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> for congress is<br><br>          now open. The deadline for submissions is November <span>  </span><span>   </span>5th, 2018.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:42.55pt"><span lang="EN-US">Professor<br><br>          Françoise Tisseur (University of Manchester) will give the<br><br>          2019 </span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://www.iciam.org/olga-taussky-todd-lecture-iciam-2019" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">. </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>          </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">ABEL PRIZE 2018<br><br>            TO ROBERT LANGLANDS<br><br><br>            <br><br><br>          </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">The Norwegian<br><br>          Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the </span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://www.abelprize.no/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Abel Prize</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> for 2018 to </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">Robert P.<br><br>          Langlands of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA,<br><br>          “for his visionary program connecting representation theory to<br><br>          number theory.” The mechanisms he suggested to bridge these<br><br>          mathematical fields led to a project named the <i>Langlands program</i>.<br><br>          The program has enlisted hundreds of the world’s best<br><br>          mathematicians over the last fifty years. No other project in<br><br>          modern mathematics has as wide a scope, has produced so many<br><br>          deep results, and has so many people working on it. Its depth<br><br>          and breadth have grown and the Langlands program is now<br><br>          frequently described as a grand unified theory of mathematics.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br><br><br>          Robert P. Langlands will receive the Abel Prize for his work<br><br>          from His Majesty King Harald V at an award ceremony in Oslo on<br><br>          22 May.<br><br><br>          <br><br><br>        </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">       </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">2018 WOLF PRIZE<br><br>            IN MATHEMATICS TO BEILINSON AND DRINFELD<br><br><br>            <br><br><br>          </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">The jury panel of<br><br>          the </span><span lang="DA"><a href="http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/PressRoom/2018/Pages/Laureates-of-2018-Wolf-Prize-announced-12-February-2018.aspx" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">2018 Wolf Prize</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US"> in Mathematics<br><br>          has unanimously decided to award the prize in equal parts to<br><br>          two laureates: Professor Alexander Beilinson and Professor<br><br>          Vladimir Drinfeld, both from the University of Chicago, “for<br><br>          their groundbreaking work in algebraic geometry,<br><br>          representation theory, and mathematical physics”.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">Alexander<br><br>          Beilinson made deep contributions to representation theory and<br><br>          algebraic geometry. Among his major achievements are proofs of<br><br>          conjectures of Kazhdan-Lusztig and Jantzen, the formulation of<br><br>          far-reaching conjectures (Beilinson conjectures) about motivic<br><br>          cohomology and special values of L-functions, and his joint<br><br>          work with Vladimir Drinfeld on the geometric Langlands program<br><br>          which stimulated major progress at the interface of geometry<br><br>          and mathematical physics: in the theory of vertex operator<br><br>          algebras, conformal field theory, and string theory.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">Vladimir Drinfeld<br><br>          introduced fundamental concepts in arithmetic geometry, the<br><br>          theory of algebraic groups, and their representations, which<br><br>          had an enormous impact on modern mathematics. Among his<br><br>          contributions to arithmetic geometry are the notions of<br><br>          Drinfeld module, Drinfeld upper half-plane, and Drinfeld<br><br>          shtukas. His theory of quantum groups is central to many<br><br>          problems in algebra and mathematical physics; here, the notion<br><br>          of Drinfeld associator plays a major role. Jointly with<br><br>          Alexander Beilinson, he geometrized the theory of vertex<br><br>          operator algebras, which led to the creation of foundations of<br><br>          the geometric Langlands program, connecting central results in<br><br>          arithmetic geometry and the theory of automorphic forms to<br><br>          quantum field theory and the theory of integrable systems.</span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>          </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span>10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">   </span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">MSC 2020:<br><br>            REVISION OF MATHEMATICS SUBJECT CLASSIFICATION<br><br><br>            <br><br><br>          </span></b></p><br><br>      <p class="m_-4509714436079815855MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:39.3pt"><span lang="EN-US">Mathematical<br><br>          Reviews (MR) and zbMATH cooperate in maintaining the </span><span lang="DA"><a href="https://msc2020.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">Mathematics Subject Classification (MSC)</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US">, which is used<br><br>          by these reviewing services, publishers, and others to<br><br>          categorize items in the mathematical sciences literature.<b> </b>They have<br><br>          initiated the p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