NEWSLETTER OF THE EUROPEAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY S E European March 2017 M M Mathematical Issue 103 E S Society ISSN 1027-488X Features History Spectral Synthesis for Claude Shannon: His Work Operators and Systems and Its Legacy Diffusion, Optimal Transport Discussion and Ricci Curvature for Metric Mathematics: Art and Science Measure Spaces Bratislava, venue of the EMS Executive Committee Meeting, 17–19 March 2017 New journals published by the Editor-in-Chief: Mark Sapir, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA Editors: Goulnara Arzhantseva (University of Vienna, Austria) Frédéric Chapoton (CNRS and Université de Strasbourg, France) Pavel Etingof (Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA) Harald Andrés Helfgott (Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris VI/VII), France) Ivan Losev (Northeastern University, Boston, USA) Volodymyr Nekrashevych (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA) Henry K. Schenck (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA) Efim Zelmanov (University of California at San Diego, USA) ISSN print 2415-6302 Aims and Scope ISSN online 2415-6310 The Journal of Combinatorial Algebra is devoted to the publication of research articles of 2017. Vol. 1. 4 issues the highest level. Its domain is the rich and deep area of interplay between combinatorics Approx. 400 pages. 17.0 x 24.0 cm and algebra. Its scope includes combinatorial aspects of group, semigroup and ring theory, Price of subscription: representation theory, commutative algebra, algebraic geometry and dynamical systems. 198¤ online only / 238 ¤ print+online Exceptionally strong research papers from all parts of mathematics related to these fields are also welcome. Editors: Luc Devroye (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) Gabor Lugosi (UPF Barcelona, Spain) Shahar Mendelson (Technion, Haifa, Israel and Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) Elchanan Mossel (MIT, Cambridge, USA) J. Michael Steele (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) Alexandre Tsybakov (CREST, Malakoff, France) Roman Vershynin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) Associate Editors: Sebastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) Sara van de Geer (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Ramon van Handel (Princeton University, USA) ISSN print 2520-2316 Andrea Montanari (Stanford University, USA) ISSN online 2520-2324 Jelani Nelson (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA) 2018. Vol. 1. 4 issues Philippe Rigollet (MIT, Cambridge, USA) Approx. 400 pages. 17.0 x 24.0 cm Rachel Ward (University of Texas, Austin, USA) Price of subscription: 198¤ online only / 238 ¤ print+online Aims and Scope Mathematical Statistics and Learning will be devoted to the publication of original and high- quality peer-reviewed research articles on mathematical aspects of statistics, including fields such as machine learning, theoretical computer science and signal processing or other areas involving significant statistical questions requiring cutting-edge mathematics. European Mathematical Society Publishing House Scheuchzerstrasse 70 [email protected] Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH-Zentrum SEW A21 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland www.ems-ph.org Contents Editorial Team Editor-in-Chief Vladimir R. Kostic European (Social Media) Valentin Zagrebnov Department of Mathematics Institut de Mathématiques de and Informatics Marseille (UMR 7373) – CMI University of Novi Sad Mathematical Technopôle Château-Gombert 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia 39, rue F. Joliot Curie e-mail: [email protected] 13453 Marseille Cedex 13, France Eva Miranda Society e-mail: [email protected] (Research Centres) Department of Mathematics Copy Editor EPSEB, Edifici P Universitat Politècnica Newsletter No. 103, March 2017 Chris Nunn de Catalunya 119 St Michaels Road, Av. del Dr Maran˜on 44–50 Aldershot, GU12 4JW, UK 08028 Barcelona, Spain Editorial – Message from the President – P. Exner ...................... 3 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] New Editors Appointed .............................................................. 4 Editors Vladimir L. Popov New Members of the EC of the EMS ........................................... 5 (Features and Discussions) Report from the Executive Committee Meeting – R. Elwes & Ramla Abdellatif Steklov Mathematical Institute (Contacts with SMF) Russian Academy of Sciences S. Verduyn Lunel .................................................................... 7 LAMFA – UPJV Gubkina 8 Spectral Synthesis for Operators and Systems - 80039 Amiens Cedex 1, France 119991 Moscow, Russia e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] A. Baranov & Y. Belov ............................................................ 11 Diffusion, Optimal Transport and Ricci Curvature for Metric Jean-Paul Allouche Michael Th. Rassias (Book Reviews) (Problem Corner) Measure Spaces - L. Ambrosio, N. Gigli & G. Savaré ................ 19 IMJ-PRG, UPMC Institute of Mathematics Claude Shannon: His Work and Its Legacy - 4, Place Jussieu, Case 247 University of Zurich 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France Winterthurerstrasse 190 M. Effros & H.V. Poor ............................................................. 29 e-mail: [email protected] 8057 Zürich Visions for Mathematical Learning: The Inspirational Legacy e-mail: [email protected] Fernando Pestana da Costa of Seymour Papert (1928–2016) - C. Hoyles & R. Noss............ 34 (Societies) Volker R. Remmert Do We Create Mathematics or Do We Gradually Discover Depto de Ciências e Tecnolo- (History of Mathematics) gia, Secção de Matemática, IZWT, Wuppertal University Theories Which Exist Somewhere Independently of Us? Universidade Aberta, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany V.L. Popov ............................................................................. 37 Rua da Escola Politécnica, nº e-mail: [email protected] 141-147, 1269-001 Lisboa, Mathematics: Art and Science - A. Borel ................................... 37 Portugal Vladimir Salnikov Results of a Worldwide Survey of Mathematicians on e-mail: [email protected] (Young Mathematicians’ Column) University of Luxembourg Journal Reform - C. Neylon, D.M. Roberts & M.C. Wilson ......... 46 Jean-Luc Dorier Mathematics Research Unit M&MoCS – International Research Center on Mathematics and (Math. Education) Campus Kirchberg FPSE – Université de Genève 6, rue Richard Coudenhove- Mechanics of Complex Systems - F. dell’Isola, L. Placidi & Bd du pont d’Arve, 40 Kalergi E. Barchiesi ........................................................................... 50 1211 Genève 4, Switzerland L-1359 Luxembourg [email protected] [email protected] Join the London Mathematical Society (LMS) - E. Fisher .............. 53 ICMI Column - J.-L. Dorier ......................................................... 56 Javier Fresán Dierk Schleicher (Young Mathematicians’ Column) (Features and Discussions) Book Reviews ........................................................................... 58 Departement Mathematik Research I Solved and Unsolved Problems - M.T. Rassias ............................ 61 ETH Zürich Jacobs University Bremen 8092 Zürich, Switzerland Postfach 750 561 e-mail: [email protected] 28725 Bremen, Germany The views expressed in this Newsletter are those of the [email protected] authors and do not necessarily represent those of the EMS or the Editorial Team. Olaf Teschke (Zentralblatt Column) ISSN 1027-488X FIZ Karlsruhe © 2017 European Mathematical Society Franklinstraße 11 Published by the 10587 Berlin, Germany EMS Publishing House e-mail: [email protected] ETH-Zentrum SEW A27 CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. homepage: www.ems-ph.org Scan the QR code to go to the For advertisements and reprint permission requests Newsletter web page: contact: [email protected] http://euro-math-soc.eu/newsletter EMS Newsletter March 2017 1 EMS Agenda EMS Executive Committee EMS Agenda President Prof. Stefan Jackowski 2017 (2017–2020) Prof. Pavel Exner Institute of Mathematics 7 – 8 April (2015–2018) University of Warsaw EMS Committee for Developing Countries (CDC) Meeting, Doppler Institute Banacha 2 Rome, Italy Czech Technical University 02-097 Warszawa Brˇehová 7 Poland 28 – 29 April 11519 Prague 1 e-mail: [email protected] European Research Centres on Mathematics (ERCOM) Czech Republic Prof. Vicente Muñoz Meeting, Linz, Austria e-mail: [email protected] (2017–2020) Departamento de Geometria y Vice-Presidents Topologia Facultad de Matematicas EMS Scientific Events Universidad Complutense de Prof. Volker Mehrmann 2017 (2017–2018) Madrid Plaza de Ciencias 3 Institut für Mathematik 29 May – 2 June TU Berlin MA 4–5 28040 Madrid Spain Conference “Representation Theory at the Crossroads of Strasse des 17. Juni 136 4 e-mail: [email protected] Modern Mathematics” in honor of Alexandre Kirillov for his 3 th 10623 Berlin birthday. Reims, France Germany Prof. Beatrice Pelloni http://reims.math.cnrs.fr/pevzner/aak81.html e-mail: [email protected] (2017–2020) Prof. Armen Sergeev School of Mathematical & 12 – 15 June (2017–2020) Computer Sciences Meeting of the Catalan, Spanish and Swedish Mathematical Steklov Mathematical Institute Heriot-Watt University Societies (CAT-SP-SW-MATH), Umeå, Sweden Russian Academy of Sciences Edinburgh EH14 4AS EMS Distinguished Speaker: Kathryn Hess Gubkina str. 8 UK http://liu.se/mai/catspsw.math?l=en 119991 Moscow e-mail: [email protected] Russia Prof. Betül Tanbay 26 – 30 June e-mail: [email protected] (2017–2020) EMS-ESMTB Summer School 2017: