ICCM 2013 in Taipei by Jing Yu Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taipei The 6th ICCM will be held from July 14 to 19, 2013 in The first Congress was held in December 1998 in Taipei. You are cordially invited to join this great event! Beijing. The second Congress took place in Taipei 2001, The Sixth International Congress of Chinese Mathemati- then in Hong Kong, in Hangzhou, and Beijing again in cians (ICCM) July 2013 in Taipei. 2010. After twelve years, the ICCM 2013 will return to • Start: 09:00, July 14, 2013 Taipei. We expect there to be more than one thousand participants and more than two hundred presentations End: 18:00, July 19, 2013 • covering a broad spectrum of mathematical sciences. • Opening ceremony: July 14, in the Big Hall of the We expect that there to be more than one thousand Grand Hotel, Taipei. participants of 2013 ICCM. We have tried to allocate a • Lectures and invited talks: July 15 to July 19, on the limited amount of grant to support young people to ICCM, campus (Core subjects Classroom Building, Liberal particularly those young Chinese mathematicians from Education Classroom Building) of National Taiwan less developed countries, the deadline for application is University, Taipei. end of December 2012. For all the invited speakers and the coming committee members, we booked already the ICCM is a triennial event that brings together Chinese Howard hotel and Just Sleep @ NTU on campus, and K and overseas mathematicians to discuss the latest re- Hotel, Taipei Dunnan near Campus. For the other par- search developments in pure, applied mathematics and ticipants, we are contracting several hotels in Taipei with Statistics. information on the ICCM website provided before the During the opening of the ICCM 2013, you will wit- Chinese new year. We listed the necessary documents for ness the presentation of the Morningside Medals, the New applying for the Exit and Entry permit on the ICCM web- World Mathematics Awards, and other awards. The site. We sent out a note to people who are in China at the Morningside medal is the most prestigious award for beginning of February to remind them to register online young Chinese mathematicians. During the conference, and turn in the documents for the permit by February 28, there will be thirty plenary talks, several Morningside 2013. We will help applying for the visa for people around talks by international speakers, and over one hundred the end of April and once we get the permits from the sixty 45-minute talks. The talks cover a full range of government, we will mail them out to the participants. We subjects in the mathematical sciences, from number will arrange for buses to pick up the participations from theory, geometry, and differential equations to statistics Taoyuan International airport and bring them to the main and bio-mathematics. As in the past ICCM, we are also Hotels and National Taiwan University on 7/13. The bus inviting a number of great mathematicians from the will go out every two hours. We will announce the sched- world to give morningside lectures in mathematics. ule of buses and information on the ICCM 2013 website. Among the distinguished guests who have agreed to join All secretaries of TIMS, NCTS (Hsinchu, Taipei) joined the us in 2013, there is the renowned mathematician administrative group, with also helps from secretaries of Jean-Pierre Serre from France, who will deliver a special math dept (NTU) and Inst. Math (Academia Sinica). For lecture-the title of the lecture is “The genesis of etale up-to-dating information on ICCM 2013, please visit its cohomology (from the German school in the 30’s to website: http://iccm.tims.ntu.edu.tw. Deligne’s proof of Weil’s conjecture).” Also confirmed are J. Coates from Cambridge University, S. Osher from UCLA, D. Goldfeld from Columbia, and B. Engquist from Uni- Tentative Schedule versity of Texas at Austin. There is also a public lecture on Juggling Mathematics and Magic in the opening day of July 14, 2013 ICCM, to be delivered by R. Graham (UC San Diego, see the 09:00-09:40 Opening Address and Welcoming Remarks short article written by him is in this Notice). 2 NOTICES OF THE ICCM VOLUME 1, NUMBER 1 09:40-12:00 Presentation of Morningside Medals of Executive Committee Mathematics, also International Cooperation award Tony F. Chan (Hong Kong University of Science and and Chern Prize Technology), Gerard Jennhwa Chang (National Taiwan 12:45-13:30 Press Conference University), Louis H. Y. Chen (National University of Sin- 14:00-15:15 Symposium: Panel discussion gapore), Chongqing Cheng (Nanjing University), Fan The following are confirmed panel members, prominent Chung Graham (University of California, San Diego), scholars from mainland are being invited. Boling Guo (Institute of Applied Physics and Computa- tional Mathematics), Lei Guo (Academy of Mathematics Title: Government Policy on Fundamental Science and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Panelists: Hesheng Hu (Fudan University), Sen Hu (University of Cyrus C.Y. Chu (Minister of National Science Council) Science and Technology of China), Ka-Sing Lau (The Chi- Way Kuo (President of City University of Hong Kong) nese University of Hong Kong), Banghe Li (Academy of Jin-Pyng Wang (President of the Legislative Yuan) Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Chi-Huey Wong (President of Academia Sinica) Sciences), Tatsien Li (Fudan University), Song-Sun Lin 15:30-16:15 Symposium: Public lecture (National Chiao Tung University), Tai-Ping Liu (Academia Sinica), Yiming Long (Nankai University), Zhi-Ming Ma Title: The Art of Bridge Building (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Ngaiming Mok (The University of Speaker: C. L. Liu Hong Kong), Yum-Tong Siu (Harvard University), 16:15-17:00 Symposium: Public lecture Chuu-Lian Terng (University of California, Irvine), Chien-Fu Jeff Wu (Georgia Institute of Technology), Title: Juggling Mathematics and Magic Jyh-Yang Wu (National Chung Cheng University), Jie Xiao Speaker: Ron Graham (University of California, San Diego) (Tsinghua University) 18:00-21:00 New World Mathematics Awards Evening The honorary chair of ICCM is Professor Shing-Tung Local Committee Yau from Harvard University. The following lists are the Ching-Li Chai (Institute of Mathematics, Academia committees of the 6th ICCM. Sinica/ University of Pennsylvania), Shun-Cheng Chang (National Taiwan University), Jung-Kai Chen (National Scientific Committee Center for Theoretical Sciences), Kuo-Chang Chen (Na- tional Tsing Hua University), Shun-Jen Cheng (Institute of Ching-Li Chai (Institute of Mathematics, Academia Mathematics, Academia Sinica), Liang-Chung Hsia (Na- Sinica/ University of Pennsylvania), Shiu-Yuen Cheng (The tional Taiwan Normal University), Ming-Chih Lai (National Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Jiaxing Chiao Tung University), Ching Hung Lam (National Center Hong (Fudan University), Thomas Yizhao Hou (California for Theoretical Sciences), Yng-Ing Lee (National Taiwan Institute of Technology), Tze Leung Lai (Stanford Univer- University), Wen-Ching Winnie Li (National Center for sity), Wen-Ching Winnie Li (National Center for Theoreti- Theoretical Sciences/ National Tsing Hua University), cal Sciences/ National Tsing Hua University), Ker-Chau Li Ko-Wei Lih (Academia Sinica), Chang-Shou Lin (National (Academia Sinica), Jun Li (Stanford University), Taiwan University), Tai-Chia Lin (National Taiwan Univer- Chang-Shou Lin (National Taiwan University), Kefeng Liu sity), Shuenn-Jyi Sheu (National Central University), (Zhejiang University/ University of California, Los Ange- Chin-Lung Wang (Taida Institute for Mathematical Sci- les), Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University), Xiaotao Sun ences), Jenn-Nan Wang (National Taiwan University), (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Tzu-Yueh Julie Wang (Mathematics Research Promotion Academy of Sciences), Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia Univer- Center), Chia-Fu Yu (Academia Sinica), Jing Yu (Taida In- sity), Wing Hung Wong (Stanford University), Nanhua Xi stitute for Mathematical Sciences) (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jie Xiao (Tsinghua University), Zhou Ping Xin (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Lo Plenary Speakers Yang (Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, The scientific committee has already invited the fol- Chinese Academy of Sciences), Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard lowing thirty ICCM Plenary Speakers: University), Horng-Tzer Yau (Harvard University), Jing Yu (National Taiwan University), Ya-xiang Yuan (Academy of Ching-Li Chai Institute of Mathematics, Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Academia Sinica, University of Sciences), Shou-Wu Zhang (Princeton University), Xi-Ping Pennsylvania Zhu (Sun Yat-Sen University) Bing-Long Chen Sun Yat-Sen University JULY 2013 NOTICES OF THE ICCM 3 Gui-Qiang G. Chen University of Oxford Wei Zhang Columbia University Hanfu Chen Academy of Mathematics and Xinwen Zhu Northwestern University Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences For the 45 minute Invited Speakers, we invited 180 experts in all fields, which is divided into 10 sections: Ching-Shui Cheng University of California, Berkeley 1. Number Theory, Automorphic Forms and Arith- metic Geometry, 2. Algebra, History of Mathematics, Shun-Jen Cheng Institute of Mathematics, 3. Discrete Mathematics, Combinatorics, 4. Algebraic Academia Sinica Geometry, Complex Geometry, 5. Geometric Analysis, Guizhen Cui Academy of Mathematics and Differential Geometry,