Monday, 25 March 2019 8ECM Scientific Committee Meeting held in Portorož, Slovenia
A Scientific Committee (SC) meeting was held 6 – 7 February, 2019 in Hotel St. Bernardin, Portorož, Slovenia with the presence of all SC members and presided by Maria J. Esteban (CNRS and Université Paris-Dauphine).
The Science Committee was appointed by the EMS (European Mathematical Society) to select speakers for the plenary and invited lectures at the upcoming 8th European Congress of Mathematics. On Wednesday, February 6, 2019, prof. dr. Dragan Marušič, Rector of the University of Primorska and prof. dr. Tomaž Pisanski, 8ECM Organizing Committee Chair, welcomed the SC with some introductory remarks.
(Photo: Prof. dr. Maria J. Esteban, 8ECM Scientific Committee Chair, Prof. dr. Tomaž Pisanski, 8ECM Organising Committee Chair and Prof. dr. Dragan Marušič, Rector UP)
Following introductions, the participants decided on the final list of speakers for the 8ECM Plenary and Invited lectures, while they also had the opportunity to see the 8ECM venue at the Congress Centre and the Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, where some of the programme sessions will be held.
Scientific Committee Chair:
Maria J. Esteban - CNRS and Université Paris-Dauphine
Scientific Committee Members:
Luigi Ambrosio - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Tadeusz Januszkiewicz - Polish Academy of Science
Barbara Kaltenbacher - University of Klagenfurt
Alexander Kuznetsov - Steklov Mathematical Institute
Halil Mete Soner - ETH Zürich
Péter Pál Pálfy - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Tomaž Pisanski - University of Primorska
Pavel Pudlák - Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences
Tudor Stefan Ratiu - Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Oliver Riordan - University of Oxford
Zeev Rudnick - Tel-Aviv University
Valeria Simoncini - Università di Bologna
Stefaan Vaes - K.U.Leuven
Aad van der Vaart - Leiden University
Joachim Weickert - Saarland University
For the first time in the history of European mathematical congresses, Slovene mathematicians will be among the invited lecturers, namely three: academician prof. dr. Franc Forstnerič as a plenary speaker and dr. Andrej Bauer and dr. Špenka Špenko as invited speakers.
A full list of speakers is published at https://www.8ecm.si/programme.
We would again like to thank all members of the 8ECM Scientific Committee for their contribution to the selection of plenary and invited speakers!
