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Message of the President

1. Mathematics Infrastructure
After some persuasion, Brussels has agreed to acknowledge infrastructures in Mathematics. At the end of July, EU published a €10M call on "Infrastructures for Mathematics and its interfaces with science, technology and society at large" with a deadline on December 3, 2009. On behalf of the EMS, ERCOM and the EMS Applied Math. Committee, a small committee was set up whose members were Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Mario Primicerio and myself. Later this committee was increased to include Gert-Martin Greuel (Oberwolfach) who will chair the EMS ERCOM committee from January 2010, Maria J. Esteban (President of SMAI) and Thibaut Lery (European Science Foundation).
One of the tasks of this committee was to identify the partners of the project. This was not easy since Brussels had limited the number of European partners allowed to 25.
Ultimately we had to make difficult choices in our effort to find a balance, by taking into consideration complicated geographical, scientific and pure/applied aspects between the different institutions.

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On April 26-27 the Consensus Conference of the EMS-ESF Forward Look on Matematics and Industry will be organized in Madrid. This event is part of the official agenda of the Spanish Presidency of the EU.
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