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June 2014 EMS Newsletter NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY Editorial IMAGINARY Feature Mathematical Knowledge Management Discussion Who Are the Invited Speakers at ICM 2014? June 2014 Issue 92 ISSN 1027-488X Cover picture: Herwig Hauser S E European M M Mathematical E S Society Journals published by the ISSN print 1661-7207 Editor-in-Chief: ISSN online 1661-7215 Rostislav Grigorchuk (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA; Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 2014. Vol. 8. 4 issues Moscow, Russia) Approx. 1200 pages. 17.0 x 24.0 cm Aims and Scope Price of subscription: Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics is devoted to publication of research articles that focus on groups or 338¤ online only group actions as well as articles in other areas of mathematics in which groups or group actions are used 398 ¤ print+online as a main tool. 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Topics covered include: low-dimensional topology; 198¤ online only knot theory; Jones polynomial and Khovanov homology; topological quantum field theory; quantum groups 238 ¤ print+online and hopf algebras; mapping class groups and Teichmüller space categorification; braid groups and braided categories; fusion categories; subfactors and planar algebras; contact and symplectic topology; topological methods in physics. European Mathematical Society Publishing House Scheuchzerstrasse 70 [email protected] Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH-Zentrum SEW A27 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland www.ems-ph.org Contents Editorial Team European Editor-in-Chief Mădălina Păcurar (Personal Column) Lucia Di Vizio Department of Statistics, Université de Versailles- Forecast and Mathematics St Quentin Babes -Bolyai University Mathematical , Laboratoire de Mathématiques T. 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