Statement about war in Ukraine and ICM 2022
The French National Committee for Mathematics (CNFM) is deeply concerned about the war in Ukraine, which is incompatible with the holding of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Saint Petersburg in July 2022.CNFM has decided to suspend its travel grant program to the ICM 2022. CNFM encourages IMU to postpone the General Assembly and the ICM 2022.
Who are we?
In 1952, when the International Mathematical Union (IMU) has been recreated, France was one if its first members. In accordance with the IMU directives, a national comity, the CNFM (Comité National Français des Mathématiques), has been created.
The Comité National Français des Mathématiques is an association which is ruled by a law from 1901, it has at most 27 members.
Currently, 18 of its members are appointed for 4 years by the Académie des Sciences (4 delegates), INSMI (4 delegates), the Société Mathématique de France (4 delegates), the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles (4 delegates), the Société Française de Statistique (1 delegate) and Inria (1 delegate); 7 other members have been coopted.
As a national comity of the IMU, the CNFM has among other things the following statutory tasks:
- cover the expenses for invited speakers from France at ICM;
- appoint and cover the expenses of the French delegation to the general assembly of the IMU;
- propose candidates for the three committees of the IMU: Executive Committee, Commission for Development and Exchanges, International Commission for Mathematics Education (note that France traditionally plays an important role in the bodies of international organizations in mathematics, much more than in other sciences, the CNFM is still looking for volunteers for these functions).
Besides these tasks, CNFM sponsors, with support of the Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, the participation of mathematicians from France to the lCM every four years and, if possible, to the ICIAM congress (for applied and industrial mathematics) and to the ICMI congress (for mathematical instruction, the French branch of ICMI being CFEM).
Composition (as of August 2024):
Members appointed by the Académie: Nalini Anantharaman, Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (Vice-President), Jean-Michel Coron, Maxim Kontsevich.
Members appointed by the INSMI: Pierre Calka, Anne-Laure Dalibard, Lucy Moser-Jauslin, Joël Rivat.
Members appointed by the SMF: Anna Cadoret, Indira Chatterji (Secretary), Bertrand Rémy (President), Stéphane Seuret.
Members appointed by the SMAI: Pauline Lafitte, Yvon Maday, Sylvie Méléard, Kilian Raschel.
Member appointed by the SFdS: Claire Lacour.
Member appointed by Inria: Marie Doumic.
Coopted members: Viviane Durand-Guerrier, Jean-Frédéric Gerbeau, Étienne Ghys, Edwige Godlewski, Marc Peigné (Treasurer), Fabrice Planchon, Denis Talay.