Announcement of the next meeting of the EMS Council
Berlin, July 16 and 17, 2016

The EMS Council meets every second year. The next meeting will be held in Berlin, July 16 and 17, 2016, in the Senate Meeting in the Main Building of the Humboldt University at Unter den Linden 6. The Council meeting starts at 14.00 on July 16 and ends at lunch time on July 17.

Delegates to the Council shall be elected for a period of four years. A delegate may be re-elected provided that consecutive service in the same capacity does not exceed eight years. Delegates will be elected by the following categories of members.

Full Members are national mathematical societies, which elect 1, 2, 3, or 4 delegates according to their membership class. The membership class is decided by Council, and societies are invited to apply for the new class 4, which was introduced in the 2008 Council. However, the number of delegates for the 2016 Council is determined by the current membership class of the society.

Each society is responsible for the election of its delegates.

There is an online nomination form for delegates of full members. The deadline for nominations for delegates of full members is 24 April 2016.

Delegates representing associate members shall be elected by a ballot organized by the Executive Committee from a list of candidates who have been nominated and seconded by associate members, and have agreed to serve. In January 2016, there were 2 associate members and, according to our statutes, these members may be represented by (up to) one delegate.

The delegate whose term includes 2016 is Mats Gyllenberg.

There is an online nomination form for delegates of associate members. The deadline for nominations for delegates of associate members is 17 March 2016.

Delegates representing institutional members shall be elected by a ballot organized by the Executive Committee from a list of candidates who have been nominated and seconded by institutional members, and have agreed to serve. In January 2016, there were 42 institutional members and, according to our statutes, these members may be represented by (up to) 4 delegates.

The delegates whose term includes 2016 are Joaquium Bruna and Alberto Pinto. The delegate who can be re-elected is Sverre Olaf Smalo.

There is an online nomination form for delegates of institutional members. The deadline for nominations for delegates of institutional members is 17 March 2016.

Delegates representing individual members shall be elected by a ballot organized by the Executive Committee from a list of candidates who have been nominated and seconded, and have agreed to serve. These delegates must themselves be individual members of the European Mathematical Society.

In January 2016 there were 2572 individual members and, according to our statutes, these members may be represented by (up to) 26 delegates. However, this number may have increased by the time we call the election (if any) for individual members.

Here is a list of the current delegates of individual members whose terms include 2016:

Arne Ball
Vasile Berinde
Maria Esteban
Vincenzo Ferone
Christian Kassel
Luis Narvaáez Macarro
Jiří Rákosník
Oriol Serra

Here is a list of the delegates of individual members who could be re-elected for the 2016 Council:

Peter Benner
Thierry Bouche
Mireille Chaleyat-Maurel
Krzysztof Ciesielski
Mirna Džamonja
Pavel Exner
Vincent Heuveline
Arne Jensen
Paul C. Kettler
Ari Laptev
José Francisco Rodrigues
Marie-Francoise Roy
Stepan Agop Tersian
Robin Wilson

There is an online nomination form for delegates of individual members. The deadline for nominations for delegates of individual members is 17 March 2016.

The Executive Committee is responsible for preparing the matters to be discussed at Council meetings. Items for the agenda of this meeting of the Council should be sent as soon as possible, and no later than 24 April 2016, to the EMS Secretariat in Helsinki.

The Council is responsible for electing the President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary, Treasurer and other members of the Executive Committee. The present membership of the Executive Committee, together with their individual terms of office, is as follows.

President:
Pavel Exner (2015–2018)

Vice-Presidents:
Franco Brezzi (2013–2016)
Martin Raussen (2013–2016)

Secretary:
Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel (2015–2018)

Treasurer:
Mats Gyllenberg (2015–2018)

Members:
Alice Fialowski (2013–2016)
Gert-Martin Greuel (2013–2016)
Laurence Halpern (2013–2016)
Volker Mehrmann (2011–2018)
Armen Sergeev (2013–2016)

Members of the Executive Committee are elected for a period of four years. The President can only serve one term. Committee members may be re-elected, provided that consecutive service shall not exceed eight years.

The Council may, at its meeting, add to the nominations received and set up a Nominations Committee, disjoint from the Executive Committee, to consider all candidates. After hearing the report by the Chair of the Nominations Committee (if one has been set up), the Council will proceed to the elections to the Executive Committee posts.

All these arrangements are as required in the Statutes and By-Laws, which can be found here, together with the web page for the Council:

http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/governance

The nomination forms for delegates can be found here

http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/nomination-forms-council-delegates

Secretary: Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel (s punkt m punkt verduynlunel aet uu punkt nl)

Secretariat: ems-office aet helsinki punkt fi