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CONTENTS EDITORIAL TEAM EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ROBIN WILSON Department of Pure Mathematics The Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK e-mail: [email protected] ASSOCIATE EDITORS STEEN MARKVORSEN Department of Mathematics Technical University of Denmark Building 303 NEWSLETTER No. 34 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark e-mail: [email protected] December 1999 KRZYSZTOF CIESIELSKI Mathematics Institute Jagiellonian University Reymonta 4 EMS News : Committee and Agenda .................................................................. 2 30-059 Kraków, Poland Editorial by EMS Secretary David Brannan ..................................................... 3 e-mail: [email protected] KATHLEEN QUINN Introducing the Editorial Team : Part 2 ........................................................... 7 Open University [address as above] EMS Executive meeting in Zurich ....................................................................... 8 e-mail: [email protected] Felix Klein Prize ............................................................................................... 10 SPECIALIST EDITORS 3ecm Barcelona: Second Announcement .......................................................... 12 INTERVIEWS Steen Markvorsen [address as above] EMS Poster Competition .................................................................................. 14 SOCIETIES EMS Council Meeting in Barcelona: Second Announcement ........................... 15 Krzysztof Ciesielski [address as above] Interviews - Jan van Maanen........................................................................... 16 EDUCATION Vinicio Villani Interviews - Olavi Nevanlinna .......................................................................... 18 Dipartimento di Matematica Interviews - Ian Frigaard ................................................................................ 19 Via Bounarotti, 2 1999 Anniversaries : Laplace and Poincaré .................................................... 20 56127 Pisa, Italy e-mail: [email protected] 1999 Anniversaries : Neugebauer .....................................................................23 MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS 1999 Anniversaries : Zariski .............................................................................24 Paul Jainta C.I.M.E. Summer Courses 2000 ....................................................................... 25 Werkvolkstr. 10 D-91126 Schwabach, Germany Societies Corner : Kharkov Mathematical Society .............................................26 e-mail: [email protected] Societies Corner : Luxembourg Mathematical Society ..................................... 26 ANNIVERSARIES EMS - WiR Summer School .............................................................................. 28 June Barrow-Green and Jeremy Gray Open University [address as above] Education Section ............................................................................................. 29 e-mail: [email protected] Forthcoming Conferences ................................................................................. 30 and [email protected] and Recent Books ..................................................................................................... 36 CONFERENCES Kathleen Quinn [address as above] Personal Column ............................................................................................... 43 RECENT BOOKS Ivan Netuka and Vladimir Sou³ek Designed and printed by Armstrong Press Limited Mathematical Institute Unit 3 Crosshouse Road, Southampton, Hampshire SO14 5GZ, UK Charles University phone: (+44) 23 8033 3132; fax: (+44) 23 8033 3134 Sokolovská 83 Published by European Mathematical Society 18600 Prague, Czech Republic ISSN 1027 - 488X e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] ADVERTISING OFFICER NOTICE FOR MATHEMATICAL SOCIETIES Labels for the next issue will be prepared during the second half of February 2000. 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EMS December 1999 1 EMS NEWS EMS News: Committee and Agenda EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE EMS Agenda PRESIDENT (1999–2002) Prof. ROLF JELTSCH 2000 Seminar for Applied Mathematics 31 January ETH, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland Nominations to the Secretariat for delegates of individual members e-mail: [email protected] contact: EMS Secretariat, e-mail: [email protected] VICE-PRESIDENTS February – March Prof. ANDRZEJ PELCZAR (1997–2000) Voting for delegates of individual members Institute of Mathematics contact: EMS Secretariat, e-mail: [email protected] Jagellonian University 15 February Raymonta 4 Deadline for submission of material for the March issue of the EMS Newsletter PL-30-059 Krakow, Poland contact: Robin Wilson, e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] 1 March Prof. LUC LEMAIRE (1999–2002) Deadline for submission of nominations for the Felix Klein prize Department of Mathematics contact: EMS Secretariat, e-mail: [email protected] Université Libre de Bruxelles 24 – 25 March C.P. 218 – Campus Plaine Executive Committee Meeting, hosted by the Polish Mathematical Society and the Institute of Bld du Triomphe Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Bedlevo, near Poz•an (Poland) B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium 15 May e-mail: [email protected] Deadline for submission of material for the June issue of the EMS Newsletter SECRETARY (1999–2002) contact: Robin Wilson, e-mail: [email protected] Prof. DAVID BRANNAN 13 – 20 June Department of Pure Mathematics EMS lectures by Prof. Dr. George Papanicolaou (Stanford, USA) The Open University 13–16 June: ETH, Zurich (Switzerland): Financial mathematics Walton Hall 18–20 June: University of Crete, Herakleion, Crete (Greece): Time reversed acoustics Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK contact: David Brannan, e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] 17 – 22 June TREASURER (1999–2002) EURESCO Conference in Mathematical Analysis at Castelvecchio Pascoli (Italy): Prof. OLLI MARTIO Partial Differential Equations and their Applications to Geometry and Physics Department of Mathematics Organiser: J. Eichhorn, Greifswald (Germany), e-mail: [email protected] P.O. Box 4 [This series of conferences is financed by ESF.] FIN-00014 University of Helsinki 3 – 7 July Finland ALHAMBRA 2000: a joint mathematical European–Arabic conference in Granada (Spain), e-mail: [email protected] promoted by the European Mathematical Society and the Spanish Royal Mathematical Society ORDINARY MEMBERS contact: Ceferino Ruiz, e-mail: [email protected] website: www.ugr.es/~ruiz/ Prof. BODIL BRANNER (1997–2000) 6 July Department of Maathematics Executive Committee Meeting in Barcelona (Spain) Technical University of Denmark 7 – 8 July Building 303 Council Meeting in Barcelona (Spain) DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark contact: EMS Secretariat, e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] 10 – 14 July Prof. DOINA CIORANESCU (1999–2002) Third European Congress of Mathematics (3ecm) in Barcelona (Spain) Laboratoire d’Analyse Numérique contact: S. Xambó–Descamps, e-mail: [email protected] website: www.iec.es/3ecm/ Université Paris VI 24 July – 3 August 4 Place Jussieu EMS Summer School in Edinburgh (Scotland): New analytic and geometric methods in inverse problems 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France Organiser: Erkki Somersalo (Otaniemo, Finland), e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] 15 August Prof. RENZO PICCININI (1999–2002) Deadline for submission of material for the September issue of the EMS Newsletter Dipto di Matem. F. Enriques contact: Robin Wilson, e-mail: [email protected] Universit à di Milano 17 August – 2 September Via C. Saldini 50 EMS Summer School at Saint–Flour, Cantal (France): Probability theory I-20133 Milano, Italy Organiser: Pierre Bernard (Clermont–Ferrand, France), e-mail: [email protected]–bpclermont.fr e-mail: [email protected] Autumn Prof. MARTA SANZ-SOLÉ (1997–2000) Fifth Diderot Mathematical Forum, on Mathematics and Telecommunication. Facultat de Matematiques Date and programme to be announced. Universitat de Barcelona contact: Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, e–mail: [email protected] Gran Via 585 22 – 27 September E-08007 Barcelona, Spain EURESCO Conference at Obernai, near Strasbourg (France): e-mail: [email protected] Number Theory and Arithmetical Geometry: Motives and Arithmetic Prof. ANATOLY VERSHIK (1997–2000) Organiser: U. Jannsen, Regensburg, e-mail: [email protected] P.O.M.I., Fontanka 27 EURESCO Conference at San Feliu de Guixols (Spain): 191011 St Petersburg, Russia Geometry, Analysis and Mathematical Physics: Analysis and Spectral Theory e-mail: [email protected] Organiser: J. Sjöstrand, Palaiseau (France), e-mail: [email protected] EMS SECRETARIAT 30 September Ms. T.