EMS Meeting of Presidents, Lisbon on June 28-29, 2026

The meeting was held at the Academia das Ciências de Lisboa following the kind invitation from the Portuguese Mathematical Society.

Report from the meeting

List of participants

Presentations

• AI and research evaluation. Recording of presentations by María T. Gonzalez Cerveron (ERC), Allesio Figalli (ETH), Kathryn Hess (SNSF), Frank Kiefer (DFG) and Olivia Muthsam (NWO), followed by a discussion. The slides themselves follow below.
  • AI and research evaluations, María T. Gonzalez Cerveron
  • AI and evaluation in mathematics, Alessio Figalli
  • The impact of AI on research funding organizations: Ongoing reflections at the Swiss National Science Foundation, Kathryn Hess
  • The new DFG guidline regarding the use of AI in the review process. Position and perspectives, Frank Kiefer
  • AI Policy at NWO, Olivia Muthsam
• Launch To Open (L2O) - how to migrate journals from commercial to community publishers? André Gaul
• External Policy Group, Will Schilders
• Internal Policy Group, Balázs Szendröi
• The economic impact of mathematical research in Italy, Deloitte Economics
• ICM 2030 bid, Michael Wemyss
• EMS Topical Activity Groups and Strategic Activities, Victoria Gould
• Growing EMS together, Markus Juvonen
• EMS outreach training, Samuli Siltanen
• Report from the 10ECM Organizing Committee, Fausto Ferarri
• EMS EC and Presidents Meeting 2027, Vesna Županović

Group photo

Group photo taken at the Meeting of Presidents 2026 in Lisbon. Photo: Markus Juvonen / EMS. Open the image in full and download here.