International mathematical union

COUNTRIES

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  CANADA
  

1. Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS)

Contact : Bernard Hodgson, [e-mail]
2. Quebec

United Congress of all mathematical associations and groups of Quebec

Spring 2000
Mathematics Exhibition
Contact : Richard Pallascio, [e-mail]

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  FINLAND
  

Rolf Nevanlinna Colloquium

8-12 August 2000, Helsinki (Finland)
Contact : Pekka Tukia, [e-mail]

Studia Generalia lecture series

Autumn 2000; first lecture 1 October 2000, University of Helsinki (Finland)
Contact : Olli Martio, [e-mail]

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  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, [e-mail]

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, [e-mail]
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, [e-mail]
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, [e-mail]

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, [e-mail]

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  GERMANY
  

Mathematics and Expo 2000

Summer 2000, Hanover

Various mathematical manifestations on the occasion of Hanover's International Trade Fair

Contact : Klaus Hulek, [e-mail]

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  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, [e-mail]

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  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, [e-mail]

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  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, [e-mail]

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  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, [e-mail]

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, [e-mail]

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