European Mathematical Society

The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The current president is Pavel Exner, Scientific Director of the Doppler Institute for Mathematical Physics and Applied Mathematics in Prague.

The Society seeks to serve all kinds of mathematicians in universities, research institutes and other forms of higher education. Its aims are to

The European Mathematical Society is also member of the Initiative for Science in Europe.

Initial discussions were held at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Helsinki in 1978, in the European Mathematical Council, chaired by Sir Michael Atiyah. The European Mathematical Society was founded in 1990 in Mandralin near Warsaw, Poland, with Friedrich Hirzebruch as founding President.

The European Mathematical Society, through its committee for Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics (RPA), has recently run a competition for articles that have appeared in a newspaper, or some similar general magazine, in the home country of the author.

The European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) is held every four years under the Society's auspices, at which ten prizes are then awarded to "recognize excellent contributions in Mathematics by young researchers not older than 35 years".

Here are the awardees so far (a ^F symbol denotes mathematicians who later earned a Fields Medal).

Richard Borcherds (UK)^F – Jens Franke (Germany) – Alexander Goncharov (Russia) – Maxim Kontsevich (Russia)^F – François Labourie (France) – Tomasz Łuczak (Poland) – Stefan Müller (Germany) – Vladimír Šverák (Czechoslovakia) – Gábor Tardos (Hungary) – Claire Voisin (France)

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