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Sunday, 26 June 2022 University of Primorska successfully hosted the EMS Council Meeting

The University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies (UP FAMNIT), hosted the EMS Council Meeting, which was held 25 – 26 June, 2022 in Bled, Slovenia.

The event was following the 8the European Congress of Mathematics, one of the largest events in mathematics in Europe, that was held last June in Portorož.

The EMS Council is the governing body of the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the primary European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. The Council meets every second year, at the meeting delegates to the council were elected for the period of four years by the following categories of members: Full members, Associate members, Institutional members, and Individual members. One of the four representatives for the Institutional members was Prof. Dr. Klavdija Kutnar, Rector of the University of Primorska.

The Council is also responsible for electing the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer and other members of the Executive Committee who are elected for a period of four years.

The election of the next EMS president, among other delegates, took place in Bled as well, since Prof. Dr. Volker Mehrmann, who is the current EMS president, is concluding his term in 2022. Delegates are elected for a period of 4 years, while the president can hold only one term. A full list of delegates is available here. 

»The meeting of the European Mathematical Society was very successful. Everything that we had planned, could be done in spite of some challenges. Among other, we voted for the new president, so we have new members, that we welcome. We reached success also concerning in-person attendance. It was particularly important for us to come back to in-person meetings, so let me take this opportunity to thank the colleagues from Slovenia, in particular colleagues from the University of Primorska, for organizing this in a very impeccable way,« concluded Prof. Dr. Barbara Kaltenbacher, EMS Executive Committee member from the Austrian Mathematical Society.