Joint activities at ICM-98 (resolutions of the General Assembly, 1994)
The Executive Committee of IMU had asked the Program Committee (PC) to take steps to implement Resolutions 3, 4 and 5 of the General Assembly, 1994. The Chairman of the PC, Prof. Griffiths, reported that the collaboration with other institutions like the Committee for the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CICIAM), Bernoulli Society, the Mathematical Programming Society and others, were being pursued to jointly plan part of the sections, specially with respect to applications.
A member of ICMI Executive Committee, Prof. J. Kilpatrick, also attended part of the meeting and presented a view on this IMU Commission. It was discussed, among other things, ICMI’s involvement in ICM 98. Prof. Mumford pointed out the necessity of closer cooperation between the Executive Committee of IMU and its Commissions. In particular, the PC should have ICMI and ICHM collaboration in planning the sections on teaching and popularization as well as history of mathematics.
Since only the talks programmed for the sections shall appear in the Proceedings of the Congress, Prof. Kilpatrick would discuss with ICMI-EC the issue of promoting talks outside the official sections organized by the PC.
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