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| International Congress of Mathematicians Organizing Committee | |
|---|---|
| Name | International Congress of Mathematicians Organizing Committee |
| Founded | 1897 |
| Headquarters | Varies by congress |
| Region | International |
International Congress of Mathematicians Organizing Committee is the body responsible for planning and executing each instance of the International Congress of Mathematicians alongside the International Mathematical Union and local host institutions such as national academies and universities, coordinating with scientific societies, funding agencies, and exhibition partners. The committee liaises with mathematicians, prize committees, plenary speakers, session organizers, publishers, and publishers' representatives from organizations like the American Mathematical Society, European Mathematical Society, Royal Society, and national research councils.
The committee traces its roots to the early congresses convened at the initiative of figures such as Felix Klein, Henri Poincaré, David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, and Hermann Minkowski and developed institutional ties with bodies like the International Mathematical Union, the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Mathématiques, and the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung. Early organizational models were influenced by multinational meetings including the Wiener Mathematische Gesellschaft gatherings, the London Mathematical Society conferences, and the arrangements made for the Congress of German Naturalists and Physicians, spawning formal committees modeled after the Royal Society and the Académie des Sciences. Over decades the committee adapted through disruptions such as the World War I, World War II, the postwar reconstitution under the International Council for Science, and Cold War-era coordination with institutions like the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the National Academy of Sciences.
Membership typically comprises representatives from the International Mathematical Union, local organizing institutions like the University of [Host City (host varies), national mathematical societies such as the American Mathematical Society, Sociedad Matemática Mexicana, and Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, and elected officers drawn from distinguished mathematicians including chairs, secretaries, treasurers, and program committee leads with affiliations to universities such as Harvard University, University of Cambridge, École Normale Supérieure, Princeton University, and University of Göttingen. The structure mirrors committees found in bodies like the European Research Council, the National Science Foundation, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, combining standing subcommittees for scientific program, finance, publications, and outreach with ad hoc panels for venue, logistics, and international liaison roles.
Core responsibilities include programming plenary lectures and invited addresses involving collaborations with prize committees for the Fields Medal, Abel Prize, Neumann Prize, and thematic lectures connected to institutions like the Clay Mathematics Institute and the Simons Foundation, selecting scientific speakers from communities represented by societies such as the Mathematical Association of America, organizing session schedules akin to practices at the International Congress of Applied Mechanics, and overseeing publication of proceedings in partnership with publishers like Springer, Elsevier, and Cambridge University Press. Administrative duties encompass contracting venues used by entities such as the Palais des Congrès de Paris and the Messe Frankfurt, arranging visas with diplomatic missions like the Embassy of France or Embassy of Japan, coordinating travel grants with funders such as the European Commission, and managing ethics and inclusion policies in consultation with organizations like the UNESCO and the International Labour Organization.
Officer selection typically combines nomination by the International Mathematical Union executive bodies, election by national delegates from societies such as the American Mathematical Society and Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, and approval by host institutions including universities and academies like the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic or the Royal Society. Past chairs have emerged from nominations supported by figures associated with Hermann Weyl, André Weil, John von Neumann, Alexander Grothendieck, and Michael Atiyah networks, with voting procedures influenced by precedents in the International Astronomical Union and the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. Terms, statutes, and conflict-of-interest rules reflect models used by the International Mathematical Union and are codified in bylaws ratified during general assemblies comparable to those of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
Practical tasks include venue negotiation with sites comparable to the Olympiahalle (Munich), audiovisual coordination modeled on large conferences like the International Conference on Machine Learning, abstract handling and scheduling systems similar to those used by the American Physical Society, publication workflows paralleling the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and security and emergency planning in consultation with local authorities such as municipal councils and national police forces. Committees manage sponsorship agreements with institutions like the European Research Council and corporations analogous to IBM and Google, arrange accommodation with hotel groups, and coordinate cultural programs with museums such as the Louvre or the British Museum when congresses intersect with host-city cultural offerings.
The committee operates in formal partnership with the International Mathematical Union, adhering to IMU statutes and closely coordinating with IMU commissions and committees on prizes, education, and ethics; it negotiates memoranda of understanding with host universities, municipal authorities, and national academies like the Polish Academy of Sciences or the Russian Academy of Sciences, and engages legal, financial, and academic oversight from ministries of science or culture analogous to the Ministry of Education (France) or the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany). Collaboration extends to coordinating calendars with international conferences such as the European Congress of Mathematics and aligning with publishing arrangements used by math journals like Annals of Mathematics and Inventiones Mathematicae.
Notable organizing committees have included leadership with figures from institutions like Princeton University, Université Paris-Saclay, ETH Zurich, University of Tokyo, and Moscow State University, and chairs who are household names in mathematics networks tied to David Hilbert, Emmy Noether, Jean-Pierre Serre, Alexander Grothendieck, Michael Atiyah, Shiing-Shen Chern, and Peter Sarnak. Special committees have overseen particular congress innovations—prize administration working with the Fields Medal and the Gauss Prize, program committees coordinating with the ICM Business Meeting, and diversity and inclusion panels liaising with organizations like the Association for Women in Mathematics and the International Mathematical Union Committee for Women in Mathematics.
Category:Mathematics organizations