The city of Amsterdam is proud to host the 5th European Congress of Mathematics, to be held in the Amsterdam RAI Conference Centre. Amsterdam was selected for this extraordinary event out of many other European cities. Amsterdam is a true melting pot of cultures and has over 174 different nationalities living in the city. The Amsterdam city centre is famous for its breathtaking canals which give Amsterdam it very special character. Amsterdam however has much more to offer then a historical city center. The Amsterdam city center is located less then 30 minutes drive from the Amsterdam Schiphol International Airport, one of the biggest and most modern airports in Europe, making Amsterdam easily accessible from anywhere in the world. The city has a remarkably compact centre and counts 750,000 inhabitants that nearly all speak fluent English. The Amsterdam people have the magic of combining business and pleasure in the most natural way.
Program:
On Monday the program will start with an Opening Ceremony, followed by the Prize Giving Ceremony and a Plenary lecture. In the afternoon there will be parallel Invited lectures and Prize lectures, followed by a Plenary lecture. In the evening we scheduled a special program, the Brouwer medal ceremony, organized by KWG, about which you can read further on.
On the other days the conference offers Plenary, Science, Invited and Prize lectures, four sessions of mini-symposia, and an industrial round table meeting on Tuesday. On Thursday, KWG organizes the so-called Beeger lecture, about which you can read further on.
During the conference, participants will get the occasion to present posters about their research.
Special Activities:
Brouwer medal ceremony on Monday and Welcome Reception During 5ECM also the yearly meeting of the Dutch Royal Mathematical Society (KWG) is held. Once every three years during this meeting the Brouwer medal is awarded. The Brouwer medal ceremony with a laudatio for the prize winner and the lecture by the prize winner will be held on Monday evening.
The Brouwer medal ceremony will be closed by a welcome reception for the participants and accompanying persons of 5ECM.
L.E.J. Brouwer was perhaps The Netherlands’ most distinguished mathematician.
Shortly after his death in 1966, the KWG and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences established a tri-annual event that is often referred to as the Brouwer prize.
To that purpose, once every three years the KWG chooses an important field in mathematics and an expert committee then selects a lecturer from that field. The selected person presents this lecture during the annual Dutch Mathematical Congress and then he or she receives the golden Brouwer memorial medal.
The Brouwer lecture with the Brouwer medal is The Netherlands’ most prestigious
award in mathematics and it also enjoys great international prestige.
Previous laureates were:
R. Thom on Topology (1970), A. Robinson on Foundations (1973),
A. Borel on Lie groups (1978), H. Kesten on Probability Theory (1981),
J. Moser on Analysis (1984), Y. Manin on Number Theory (1987),
W.M. Wonham on Control Theory (1990), L. Lovász on Discrete Mathematics (1993),
W. Hackbusch on Numerical Mathematics (1996), G. Lusztig on Algebra (1999),
M. Aizenman on Mathematical Physics (2002), and L. Birgé on Mathematical Statistics (2005).
For 2008 the field of Geometry has been chosen. The name of the recipient of the 2008 Brouwer medal will be announced later.
During the afternoon program of Monday, D. van Dalen (Utrecht University), will present a historical lecture about life and work of Brouwer.
Will be embedded in the congress program.
Time: to be announced
Location: to be announced
BEEGER LECTURE
Every two years during the meeting of the KWG, the Beeger lecture is presented.
This lecture will be presented during 5ECM.
The purpose of the Beeger Lecture is to promote research and exchange of ideas in Algorithmic and Computational Number Theory.
Dr. N.G.W.H. Beeger was a Dutch high-school teacher and mathematician who lived from 1884-1965. Beeger had good contacts with the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam (now called CWI), and he bequeathed part of his inheritance to this research institute. The returns of this legacy are meant to cover the expenses of the biennial Beeger Lecture.
Previous Beeger Lectures were given by Carl Pomerance in 1992, Hugh Williams (1994), John Conway (1996), Hendrik Lenstra,Jr. (1998), Peter Borwein (2000), Bjorn Poonen (2002), Manjul Bhargava (2004), and Manindra Agrawal (2006).
The name of the Beeger Lecturer will be announced later.
Will be embedded in the congress program.
Time: to be announced
Location: to be announced
CONGRESS PARTY
The Wednesday evening will be reserved for the Congress Party. We plan to arrange a nice evening to socialize with your colleagues, and to enjoy typically Dutch food in a nice atmosphere. Join us and the other delegates from around the world on this pleasant evening. We hope to convince you during the evening that “Dutch treats” can be very nice indeed!
Will be embedded in the congress program.
Time: to be announced
Location: to be announced Price: €55,00
The conference takes place in the
Amsterdam RAI
Europaplein 22
NL 1078 GZ Amsterdam
Netherlands
Directions to the venue are easily found through google maps
If you need information that is not on the site, please send en e-mail to info@5ecm.nl
Or contact our PCO:
International Conference Services
P.O. Box 14645
1001 LC Amsterdam – The Netherlands
Housing:
Housing during the congress can be organised by the conference services, or by using one of the ore famous hotel booking websites such as booking.com, hotel Amsterdam or easytobook.com. One could also contemplate on renting a serviced Amsterdam apartment.
Meeting venue’s:
If you are loking to organise any additonal and privately organised meetings and you are looking for some extraordinary venue’s we would like to advise you check out Amsterdam locaties.
Extracurricular activities:
The organization of the 5th European Congress of Mathematics wishes all it’s participants a very beneficial congress and enjoyable time in Amsterdam. The 5ECM organization would like to invite all VIP participants and public speakers to join them for a Amsterdam canal cruise upon arrival.
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