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The following is an English translation of an open letter to the President of the Russian Federation from Russian Mathematicians against the war in Ukraine. The original (reproduced further down) is hosted here (link) on the webpage of the Russian scientific publication, Troitsky Variant. Signatures from mathematicians working in Russia can be added at that link. At time of writing the number of signatures exceeds 350.

Many congratulations to George Lusztig who has won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2022) “for Groundbreaking contributions to representation theory and related areas”. More information here (link)

The latest edition of the EMS Magazine is out now, and free to read online! (Link here.)

The Executive Board of the European Mathematical Society is deeply concerned about the Russian invasion in Ukraine and expresses its strong solidarity with the people of Ukraine and our fellow mathematicians in Ukraine. While International Mathematical Congresses (ICM) have been and always will be a way to unite the world community of mathematicians, under the current circumstances, we call on the International Mathematical Union not to proceed with the ICM in Russia in July 2022.

The Council is the EMS's governing body, comprising delegates of our corporate and individual members, and meets every two years. Its next meeting will be 25-26 June 2022 in Bled (Slovenia). For more information see this page (link).

Celebrating the 150 years of the Danish Mathematical Society, the 29th Nordic Congress of Mathematicians with the EMS will take place in Aalborg in the North of Jutland (Denmark) in the week 3-7 July 2023. We now invite proposals for sessions.

The EMS is very sad to hear of the death of Christine Bessenrodt, and we send our condelences to her family, friends, colleagues, and students.

The EMS is sad to hear of the death of Sir David Cox, a highly influential statistician, and recipient in 2017 of the inaugural International Prize in Statistics (link) among many other honours. For more information, see the announcement from the UK Royal Statistical Society (link).

The latest edition of the EMS Magazine is out now, and free to read online! (Link here).

Congratulations to Bhargav Bhatt (Michigan), winner of the 2021 Clay Research Award. The award recognises his groundbreaking achievements in commutative algebra, arithmetic algebraic geometry, and topology in the p-adic setting. More details here (link).