IMU Bulletin no. 43, October


    TRAVEL GRANTS REPORT


      The Travel Grants Committee (Professors K. C. Chang (China), A. Ashour (Egypt), K.R. Parthasarathy (India) Jacob Palis (Brazil) and Gerhard Berendt (Germany), met in Rome, on March 30-31. The Committee received more than 200 applications by January/98. The Committee decided to give travel grants to 99 mathematicians, but 5 of them regretted that they had to decline the invitation for personal reasons. So IMU provided travel grants to 94 young researchers from developing countries. The local expenses were covered by the Local Organizing Committee.


      TRAVEL GRANTS SUPPORT IN SWISS FRANCS

      NAMECOUNTRY
      Rebiai, Salah-EddineAfrica (Algeria)
      Ndimubandi, JeanAfrica (Burundi)
      Bouetou, Thomas BouetouAfrica (Cameron)
      Ngwa, Gideon AkumahAfrica (Cameroun)
      Al-Kader, G. M. AdbAfrica (Egypt)
      Sarhan, AmmarAfrica (Egypt)
      Ramollo, Motlatsi PiusAfrica (Lesotho)
      Alaoui, LarbiAfrica (Morocco)
      Bouchiba, SamirAfrica (Morocco)
      Fahsi, AbdelhakAfrica (Morocco)
      Houssni, MohamedAfrica (Morocco)
      Kinani, El Hassan E.Africa (Morocco)
      Zerouali, El HassanAfrica (Morocco)
      Cherinda, Marcos` Africa (Mozambique)
      Osilike, Micah OkwuchukwuAfrica (Nigeria)
      Mampassi, BenjaminAfrica (Senegal)
      Ganief, Moegamad ShahiemAfrica (South Africa)
      Karoui, AbderrazekAfrica (Tunisia)
      Raja, DziriAfrica (Tunisia)
      Riahi, HasnaAfrica (Tunisia)
      Makinde, Oluwole DanielAfrica (Zimbabwe)
      Barberis, Maria LauraAmerica (Argentina)
      Boyallian, CarinaAmerica (Argentina)
      Cagliero, Leandro RobertoAmerica (Argentina)
      Rossetti, Juan PabloAmerica (Argentina)
      Grinnell, Raymond JosephAmerica (Barbados)
      Arancibia Rojas, Jacqueline FabiolaAmerica (Brazil)
      Colli, EduardoAmerica (Brazil)
      Esteves, Eduardo de SequeiraAmerica (Brazil)
      Faria, Edson deAmerica (Brazil)
      Fernandes, Cristina GomesAmerica (Brazil)
      Florit, Luis AdrianAmerica (Brazil)
      Gorodski, ClaudioAmerica (Brazil)
      Kohayakawa, YoshiharuAmerica (Brazil)
      Moreira, Carlos GustavoAmerica (Brazil)
      Moreira, Carlos Henrique CostaAmerica (Brazil)
      Ontaneda, PedroAmerica (Brazil)
      Panazzolo, Daniel CantergianiAmerica (Brazil)
      Pujals, Enrique RamiroAmerica (Brazil)
      Rebelo, Julio Cesar de SouzaAmerica (Brazil)
      Rosa, Renata MartinsAmerica (Brazil)
      Saldanha, Nicolau CorcaoAmerica (Brazil)
      Scardua, Bruno Cesar AzevedoAmerica (Brazil)
      Flores-Bazan, FabianAmerica (Chile)
      Hidalgo, Ruben AntonioAmerica (Chile)
      Ramirez, Alejandro F.America (Chile)
      San Martin, BernardoAmerica (Chile)
      Vasilieva, Olga OlegovnaAmerica (Colombia)
      Iturriaga, Renato G. AcevedoAmerica (Mexico)
      Metzger, Roger J.America (Peru)
      Sambarino, MartinAmerica (Uruguay)
      Cabana, Alejandra NigroAmerica (Venezuela)
      Arratia, ArgimiroAmerica (Venezuela)
      Chen, ZhimingAsia (China)
      Gan, ShaoboAsia (China)
      He, Xinyu (*) Asia (China)
      Jiang, SongAsia (China)
      Li, Gui-SongAsia (China)
      Li, JiayuAsia (China)
      Liang, HuaAsia (China)
      Ma, LiAsia (China)
      Tang, ShanjianAsia (China)
      Tijun, XiaoAsia (China)
      Wang, Feng-YuAsia (China)
      Wang, Ya-GuangAsia (China)
      Ximin, LiuAsia (China)
      Xu, FeiAsia (China)
      Zhang, PuAsia (China)
      Zizhou, TangAsia (China)
      Aravinda, C. S.Asia (India)
      Balaji, V.Asia (India)
      Bhat, Rajarama B. V.Asia (India)
      Biswas, IndranilAsia (India)
      Das, LaxminarayanAsia (India)
      Garimella, Venkatalakshmi G.Asia (India)
      Ghate, Eknath PrabhakarAsia (India)
      Ghorpade, Sudhir RamakantAsia (India)
      Khare, ChandrashekharAsia (India)
      Kodiyalam, VijayAsia (India)
      Natarajan, RajaAsia (India)
      P. K., RatnakumarAsia (India)
      Raghavan, K. N.Asia (India)
      Raghavendra, NyshadhamAsia (India)
      Rangarajan, GovindanAsia (India)
      Rawat, RamaAsia (India)
      Shah, Nimish ArunAsia (India)
      Shah, Riddhi Asia (India)
      Suresh, VenapallyAsia (India)
      Trivedi, VijaylaxmiAsia (India)
      Gunawan, HendraAsia (Indonesia)
      Chin, Angolan Ian UmAsia (Malaysia)
      Tseveendorj, IderAsia (Mongolia)
      Asavanant, JackAsia (Thailand)
      Ho Hai, PhungAsia (Vietnam)
      (*) local expenses only

      Besides the support to young research mathematicians from developing countries, I also shared costs with the local organizing committee of the participation at ICM of about 40 mature mathematicians also of the developing world.

      The funds for these grants came from: The Royal Society, United Kingdom, Brazil, Japan, Donations from mathematical societies (London, AMS, Swedish, Soc.Math. de France), as follows:

      1994
       
      American Mathematical SocietyUS $ 30.550,06
      Mathematical Society of Japan US $ 18.881,11
      Royal Society US $ 4.477,00
      Com. Nat. Frac. Math., FranceUS $ 3.404,86
      CNPq, BrazilUS $ 6.944,44

      1995
       
      American Mathematical SocietyUS $ 33.227,89
      CNPq, BrazilUS $ 10.000,00
      London Mathematical SocietyUS $ 3.263,12

      1996
       
      American Mathematical SocietyUS $ 31.807,41
      London Mathematical SocietyUS $ 3.639,60

      1997
       
      Societe Mathematique de France
      and Societe des Math. Appl.et Ind.
      US $ 2.341,81
      American Mathematical SocietyUS $ 30.872,76
      CNPq, Brazil US $ 9.708,05
      Royal Swedish Academy of SciencesUS $ 265,95
      London Mathematical SocietyUS $ 3.121,05

      1998
       
      American Mathematical SocietyU$ 29,894.63
      Mathematical Society of JapanU$ 14.084,50


      SPECIAL GRANTS


      The Organizing Committee made significant efforts, together with the International Mathematical Union, to give financial support for participants from developing countries and Eastern Europe. A fund of more than DM 900,000 made it possible to sponsor the attendance of approximately 450 mathematicians. About 510 colleagues were invited, around 60 were unfortunately unable to attend; 93 young and 37 mature colleagues from developing countries received grants from the IMU and the local organization, 305 persons from the support program of the local Organizing Committee for mathematicians from Eastern Europe. Special grants from mathematical institutions and other support programs complemented these efforts.