EMS Handbook: Standing Committees

2.3.2 Committee for Applications and Interdisciplinary Relations (CAIR)

The purpose of CAIR is to foster interactions between Mathematics and other disciplines in Sciences, Technology, and Social Sciences and to promote the implications of all areas of Mathematics in this endeavour.

More specifically, the committee works on the following tasks:

• Fostering collaborations between mathematics and other disciplines through the facilitation and financial support of events targeted at such interdisciplinary interactions.
• Promoting the role of mathematics in applications through media and policy makers.
• Strengthening collaboration between the EMS, EU-MATHS-IN, ECMI and mathematical societies worldwide through sharing strategic goals and mutual support of activities. The ECMI and EU-MATHS-IN presidents are members of the committee.
• Encouraging and supporting careers of mathematicians who work at the interface with applications.
• Leading the EMS/ECMI Lánczos Prize for Mathematical Software organisation for the EMS.

CAIR meets four times a year.