IMU Bulletin no. 42, Special Issue, July 1998

    Year 2000: World Mathematical Year

    Activities
    Transcript from the IMU Newsletter WMY2000

    Institutions, Countries

    INSTITUTIONS

    INTERNATIONAL MATHEMATICAL UNION (IMU)

    Mathematics Tomorrow
    V. Arnold, M. Atiyah, P. Lax and B. Mazur are coordinating the preparation of a book of articles by prominent mathematicians on how they see the prospects of mathematics in the coming century
    Contact:
    V. Arnold arnold@ceremade.dauphine.fr / arnold@genesis.mi.ras.ru
    Jacob Palis (jpalis@impa.br)
    Web page: http://elib.zib/de/imu/wmy

    INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE MATHEMATICAL INSTRUCTION (ICMI)

    International Congress on the Teaching of Mathematics (ICME-9)
    July 31 - August 7, 2000, Makuhari/Chiba (Japan)
    Contact :
    Mogens Niss, MN@mmf.ruc.dk
    ICMI WMY 2000 Committee
    Contact:
    Miguel de Guzman, mdeguzman@bitmailer.net

    INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS (ICHM)

    Memory of Mathematicians
    Creation of a public database containing for each mathematician a description of the locations where original documents concerning him or her are stored
    Contact : Hélène Gispert, Helene.Gispert@ghdso.u-psud.fr

    BACHELIER FINANCE SOCIETY

    Second World Conference
    « Bachelier Dissertation Centenary »
    June 27-29, 2000, Paris (France)
    Contact : Hélyette Geman, geman@dauphine.fr

    BERNOULLI SOCIETY for MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS and PROBABILITIES

    World Congress of the Bernoulli Society
    May 15-20, 2000, Guanajato (Mexico)
    Five Year 2000 Conferences
    Causality, Ecology and Environment, Financial Mathematics, Neural Networks and Learning, Quantum Stochastics, Stochastic Geometry and Imaging
    Special Volume of « Bernoulli »
    This volume will comprise a number of special invited papers that should take stock of the developments in mathematical statistics and probability in the XXth century and speculate about stochastics and its applications in XXIst century.
    Contact : Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, atsoebn@mi.aau.dk

    EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (EMS)

    Third European Congress of Mathematics (3ECM)
    July 10-14, 2000, Barcelona (Spain)
    Contact : Sebastia Xambó Descamps, sxd@grec.upc.es
    Alhambra 2000 (in collaboration with CIMPA (Nice, France))
    European-Arab Congress of Mathematicians (with contributions from historians)
    Mathematics posters in the subways of cities all over the world. A gesture towards the general public in the form of small posters on the trains, and larger ones in the stations, showing mathematical subjects of general interest.
    Postage stamps
    Issue of stamps representing European mathematicians. Wherever possible, concerted action between countries or on the European level.
    Contact : Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen, V. L.Hansen@mat.dtu.dk

    LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN UNION (UMALCA)

    Latin American Congress of Mathematics
    August 2000
    Contacts: Roberto Markarian, roma@fing.edu.uy
    Mario Wschebor, wscheb@fcien.edu.uy

    SOUTH-EAST ASIAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY (SEAMS)

    Third Asian Mathematical Conference (AMC2000)
    October 23-27, 2000, Manila (Philippines)
    Contact : Polly Wee Sy, pweesy@i-manila.com.ph

    COUNTRIES

    CANADA

    1. Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)
    Contact : Bernard Hodgson, bhodgson@mat.ulaval.ca
    2. Quebec
    United Congress of all mathematical associations and groups of Quebec
    Spring 2000
    Mathematics Exhibition
    Contact : Richard Pallascio, pallascio.richard@uqam.ca

    FINLAND

    Rolf Nevanlinna Colloquium
    8-12 August 2000, Helsinki (Finland)
    Contact : Pekka Tukia, pekka.tukia@helsinki.fi
    Studia Generalia lecture series
    Autumn 2000; first lecture 1 October 2000, University of Helsinki (Finland)
    Contact : Olli Martio, olli.martio@helsinki.fi

    FRANCE

    1. French Committee for World Mathematical Year
    Mathematics posters in the Paris underground (with the EMS)
    This project could involve the re-fitting of certain tube stations (Monge and Laplace).
    Contact : Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel, mcm@ccr.jussieu.fr
    Postage stamps
    A list of mathematicians has been submitted to the Post Office for an issue, in the year 2000, of six stamps portraying French mathematicians.
    Contact : Liliane Zweig, zweig@dmi.ens.fr
    Mathematics and other fields of knowledge (with the Ecole Normale Supérieure and historians of mathematics)
    Re-edition of books out of circulation
    In partnership with the CNL (Centre National du Livre) it is planned to re-edit important mathematical works no longer available.
    Contact : Martin Andler, andler@math.uvsq.fr
    A book « An outlook by women mathematicians » An initiative of the Association « Femmes et Mathématiques »
    Film : "Four women mathematicians at the far end of the world" An initiative of the Association « Femmes et Mathématiques »
    Contact : Julianne Unterberger, julia.unterberger@univ-reims.fr
    2. Ecole Centrale de Lyon / Ville de Sainte Affrique
    Conference « Emile Borel »
    July 16-17, 1999, Sainte Affrique (France)
    The history of mathematics in France at the beginning of the XXth century.
    Contact : P. Guiraldenq, charrier@cc.ec-lyon.fr

    GERMANY

    Mathematics and Expo 2000
    Summer 2000, Hanover
    Various mathematical manifestations on the occasion of Hanover's International Trade Fair
    Contact : Klaus Hulek, hulek@math.uni-hannover.de

    ITALY

    Exhibition « Mathematics in contemporary art »
    March-September 2000, Museo di arte contemporary del castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Torino (Italy)
    Stamp
    The proposition to have a commemorative stamp celebrating WMY 2000 was already submitted to the Ministero delle Poste
    RAI Programme « Mathematics in western civilization »
    RAI, the Radio-Television National State Broadcasting Company is considering the proposition to produce a series of 3 programmes on «Mathematics in western civilization »
    Contact : Alberto Conte, conte@dm.unito.it

    LUXEMBOURG

    The development of mathematics : 1950-2000
    A collective book retracing the development of mathematics during the second half of the XXth century.
    Contact : Jean-Paul Pier, pier@cu.lu

    PORTUGAL

    Macao 2000 : Mathematics and Civilization
    A joint Portuguese-Chinese initiative for a congress on a general subject
    of the scientific and cultural role of the mathematical sciences in the
    history of civilization and in the future development of humanity
    Contact : José Francisco Rodrigues, rodrigue@lmc.fc.ul.pt

    UNITED STATE OF AMERICA


    Joint Mathematics Meetings (Joint meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
    January, 19-22 , 2000, Washington, D.C.
    Contact : Hope Daly, hhd@math.ams.org
    Web page : http://www.ams.org/meetings/wmy2000.html
    Special Meeting on the theme "Mathematical Challenges of the XXIst Century"
    August 2000
    Contact : Felix E. Browder, browder@math.rutgers.edu
    Web page : http://www.ams.org/meetings/wmy2000.html

    IMU NEWSLETTER WMY2000

    EDITORS: Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel
    Gérard Tronel
    Web page: http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~jarraud/wmy2000/ma2000.html