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Newsletter37.Pdf 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 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark NEWSLETTER No. 37 e-mail: [email protected] KRZYSZTOF CIESIELSKI September 2000 Mathematics Institute Jagiellonian University Reymonta 4 30-059 Kraków, Poland EMS News : Agenda, Editorial, 3ecm report, Summer Schools ...................... 2 e-mail: [email protected] KATHLEEN QUINN The Open University [address as above] Mathematical Modelling in the Biosciences (Philip Maini) .......................... 16 e-mail: [email protected] SPECIALIST EDITORS EMS Poster Competition ............................................................................... 19 INTERVIEWS Steen Markvorsen [address as above] SOCIETIES Interview with Martin Grötschel ................................................................... 20 Krzysztof Ciesielski [address as above] EDUCATION Vinicio Villani Interview with Bernt Wegner ........................................................................ 24 Dipartimento di Matematica Via Bounarotti, 2 56127 Pisa, Italy A stamp for World Mathematical Year ..........................................................27 e-mail: [email protected] MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS Paul Jainta Societies: The London Mathematical Society ................................................ 28 Werkvolkstr. 10 D-91126 Schwabach, Germany Problem Corner ............................................................................................. 30 e-mail: [email protected] ANNIVERSARIES June Barrow-Green and Jeremy Gray Forthcoming Conferences .............................................................................. 32 Open University [address as above] e-mail: [email protected] and [email protected] and Recent Books .................................................................................................. 36 CONFERENCES Kathleen Quinn [address as above] RECENT BOOKS Ivan Netuka and Vladimir Sou³ek Designed and printed by Armstrong Press Limited Mathematical Institute 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 Vivette Girault Labels for the next issue will be prepared during the second half of November 2000. Laboratoire d’Analyse Numérique Please send your updated lists before then to Ms Tuulikki Mäkeläinen, Department of Boite Courrier 187, Université Pierre Mathematics, P.O. Box 4, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland; e-mail: [email protected] et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France INSTITUTIONAL SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE EMS NEWSLETTER e-mail: [email protected] Institutes and libraries can order the EMS Newsletter by mail from the EMS Secretariat, OPEN UNIVERSITY Department of Mathematics, P. O. Box 4, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland, or by e- PRODUCTION TEAM mail: ([email protected]). Please include the name and full address (with postal code), tele- Liz Scarna, Barbara Maenhaut, Toby phone and fax number (with country code) and e-mail address. The annual subscription fee O’Neil (including mailing) is 60 euros; an invoice will be sent with a sample copy of the Newsletter. EMS September 2000 1 EMS NEWS EMS Committee EMS Agenda EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PRESIDENT (1999–2002) 2000 Prof. ROLF JELTSCH Seminar for Applied Mathematics 22-27 September ETH, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland e-mail: [email protected] EURESCO Conference at Obernai, near Strasbourg (France): VICE-PRESIDENTS Number theory and Arithmetical Geometry: Motives and Arithmetic Prof. ANDRZEJ PELCZAR (1997–2000) Institute of Mathematics Organiser: U. Jannsen, Regensburg (Germany), e-mail: [email protected] Jagellonian University EURESCO Conference at San Feliu de Guixols (Spain): Raymonta 4 PL-30-059 Krakow, Poland Geometry, Analysis and Mathematical Physics: Analysis and Spectral Theory e-mail: [email protected] Organiser: J. Sjöstrand, Palaiseau (France), e-mail: [email protected] Prof. LUC LEMAIRE (1999–2002) Department of Mathematics Université Libre de Bruxelles 30 September C.P. 218 – Campus Plaine Deadline for proposals for 2001 EMS Lectures Bld du Triomphe B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium Contact: David Brannan, e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Deadline for proposals for 2002 EMS Summer Schools SECRETARY (1999–2002) Prof. DAVID BRANNAN Contact: Renzo Piccinini, e-mail: [email protected] Department of Pure Mathematics The Open University Walton Hall 11-12 November Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK Executive Committee Meeting in London (UK), at the invitation of the e-mail: [email protected] TREASURER (1999–2002) London Mathematical Society. Prof. OLLI MARTIO Department of Mathematics 15 November P.O. Box 4 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki Deadline for submission of material for the December issue of the EMS Finland Newsletter e-mail: [email protected] ORDINARY MEMBERS Contact: Robin Wilson, e-mail: [email protected] Prof. BODIL BRANNER (1997–2000) Department of Mathematics Technical University of Denmark 2001 Building 303 DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark e-mail: [email protected] 15 February Prof. DOINA CIORANESCU (1999–2002) Deadline for submission of material for the March issue of the EMS Laboratoire d’Analyse Numérique Newsletter Université Paris VI 4 Place Jussieu Contact: Robin Wilson, e-mail: [email protected] 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France e-mail: [email protected] Prof. RENZO PICCININI (1999–2002) 10-11 March Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni Executive Committee Meeting in Kaiserslautern (Germany) at the invitation Università di Milano-Bicocca Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi, 8 of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschafts Mathematik. 20126 Milano, Italy e-mail: [email protected] Prof. MARTA SANZ-SOLÉ (1997–2000) 9-20 July Facultat de Matematiques EMS Summer School at St. Petersburg (Russia) Universitat de Barcelona Gran Via 585 Asymptotic combinatorics with applications to mathematical physics E-08007 Barcelona, Spain Organiser: Anatoly Vershik, e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] Prof. ANATOLY VERSHIK (1997–2000) P.O.M.I., Fontanka 27 19-31 August 191011 St Petersburg, Russia EMS Summer School at Prague (Czech Republic) e-mail: [email protected] EMS SECRETARIAT Simulation of fluids and structures interactions Ms. T. MÄKELÄINEN Organiser: Miloslav Feistauer, email: [email protected] Department of Mathematics P.O. Box 4 FIN-00014 University of Helsinki 3-6 September Finland tel: (+358)-9-1912-2883 1st EMS-SIAM conference, Berlin (Germany) fax: (+358)-9-1912-3213 Applied Mathematics in our Changing World telex: 124690 Organiser: Peter Deuflhard, e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] website: http://www.emis.de 2 EMS September 2000 EDITORIAL EditorialEditorial Olli Martio (Helsinki) EMS Treasurer How I came to this point … Helsinki. I was looking forward to less heavy financial burden has been removed I obtained my PhD at the University of administrative duties in Helsinki than in from the EMS budget. Tuulikki Helsinki in 1967. My thesis adviser was O. Jyväskylä. This was not going to be so. In Mäkeläinen has taken excellent care of the Lehto, who later became the secretary of Jyvaskyla I had served as Head of the office from the very beginning. Thus I the IMU. The thesis dealt with quasi-con- Department for ten years and short peri- thought that since I can enjoy the benefits formal mappings and PDEs, a subject that ods as a Dean of the Faculty. After a cou- of a professional secretary, the treasurer’s became more important ten years later. job would not take much of my time. Even The choice was a lucky one. At the end of so, it took some time before Aatos 1970s I started to study quasi-regular map- Lahtinen was able to persuade me to take pings – non-homeomorphic quasi-confor- the job. mal mappings, the counterparts of analyt- I have now served as the EMS treasurer ic functions in higher-dimensional for a couple of years. My expectations have Euclidean spaces. At that time Y. G. been correct, in the sense that routine Reshetnyak in Novosibirsk had done pio- financial matters (fees etc.) do not take neering work on these mappings, but our much of my time. The EMS budget has group at the University of Helsinki (J. reached a certain stationary level. Since Väisälä, S. Rickman and myself) gave new the number of countries in Europe has geometric insight to these mappings. Our increased, the same has happened to the studies continued the tradition of the func- number of mathematical societies and so tion-theoretic school in Finland (E. there are new potential corporate mem- Lindelöf, F. and R. Nevanlinna and L. bers for EMS. Also, the number of indi- Ahlfors). vidual members has increased steadily, In 1972 I became an associate professor although the number could grow much at the University of Helsinki. In the same faster. This seems to depend on the efforts year I organised my first international of the national mathematical societies. meeting, a Nordic Summer School devot- The membership fee for an individual ed to quasi-conformal mappings; among member
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