International mathematical union

Meeting of April 1-3, 1998, Rome, Italy

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  The EC is considering proposing to the General Assembly a new Commission on Electronic Information and Communication. The idea grew up from a previous Committee on Electronic Publishing, set up by the EC at the previous meetings at New York and Berlin and chaired by Prof. Groetschel. The EC delegated to the President of IMU the task of consulting with all interested parties to develop the Terms of Reference for this proposed Commission.
  

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  Prizes of the Union - Professor Mumford reported that the Fields Medals and Rolf Nevanlinna Prize Committees have completed their work. The Fields Medal will be awarded to four persons, and the Nevanlinna Prize to one. The names will be announced at the Opening Ceremony of ICM-98. The EC also decided to give a silver plaque to Andrew Wiles.
  

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  Slates – The election for the next IMU EC and its Commissions were discussed and slates were prepared to be sent to all Adhering Organizations/National Committees and Delegates (see Procedures for Elections, page 5).
  

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  World Mathematical Year 2000
  

The Executive Committee approved financial support to the following meetings, considering them as part of IMU activities for the year 2000.

- International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-9) to be held on July 31 - August 7, in Makuhari/Chiba (Japan)

- Third European Congress Of Mathematics, European Math. Society, July 10-14, to be held in Barcelona, (Spain)

- International Congress Of Mathematical Physics XIII, to be held in London, July 17 – 22.

- First Latin America And Caribbean Mathematical Congress - Latin American And Caribbean Union (UMALCA), August, to be held in Rio de Janeiro

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  The Executive Committee of IMU has approved a one-time support to the development of mathematics in Ukraine and the upbringing of new talented researchers, in the amount of US 8,000.00, primarily for acquisition of books and journals and publication of lecture series; other activities such as small support for meetings may be planned.
  

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  IMU AND ICM ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
  

- Information about IMU and ICM/98 are available in the IMU homepage: http://elib.zib.de/imu

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  Electronical availability of the world mathematical year 2000 newsletter and IMU Canberra circular:
  

The World Mathematical Year 2000, as well as the IMU Canberra Circular are now available on
http://elib.zib-berlin.de ; http://elib.zib.de/IMU/wmy (WMY 2000)

http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/imu.html (IMU Canberra Circular)

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