IMU has a close relationship to mathematics education through its International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI). The current president is Hiraku Nakajima.Īt the 16th meeting of the IMU General Assembly in Bangalore, India, in August 2010, Berlin was chosen as the location of the permanent office of the IMU, which was opened on January 1, 2011, and is hosted by the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), an institute of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community, with about 120 scientists engaging in mathematical research applied to complex problems in industry and commerce. The past president of the Union is Carlos Kenig (2019–2022).

In 1952 the IMU was also readmitted to the ICSU. The last milestone was the General Assembly in March 1952, in Rome, Italy where the activities of the new IMU were inaugurated and the first Executive Committee, President and various commissions were elected. The IMU was established in 1920, but dissolved in September 1932 and reestablished in 1950 at the Constitutive Convention in New York, de jure on September 10, 1951, when ten countries had become members. The objectives of the International Mathematical Union are: promoting international cooperation in mathematics, supporting and assisting the International Congress of Mathematicians and other international scientific meetings/conferences, acknowledging outstanding research contributions to mathematics through the awarding of scientific prizes, and encouraging and supporting other international mathematical activities, considered likely to contribute to the development of mathematical science in any of its aspects, whether pure, applied, or educational. Its members are national mathematics organizations from more than 80 countries. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and supports the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). Curbera (Spain) and Isobel Falconer (UK).The International Mathematical Union ( IMU) is an international organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. IMU Representatives at ICHM: Guillermo P. Balmaceda (Philippines)ĬDC African member: Norbert Hounkonnou (Benin)ĬDC Latin American member: Mariel Saez (Chile) Members-at-Large: Mouhammed Moustapha Fall (Senegal), Nalini Joshi (Australia), JongHae Keum (Republic of Korea), Paolo Piccione (Brazil), Günter Ziegler (Germany) and Tamar Ziegler (Israel) CDC and ICHMįurthermore, elections to the IMU Commission for Developing Countries (CDC) and to the IMU Representatives of the International Commission of the History of Mathematics (ICHM) took place in the 19th IMU GA, with the following results:ĬDC President: Andrea Solotar (Argentina)ĬDC Secretary for Policy: Ludovic Rifford (France)ĬDC Secretary for Grants: Jose Maria P.

Vice Presidents: Ulrike Tillmann (UK) and Tatiana Toro (US, Colombia) Secretary General: Christoph Sorger (France) The elections held at the 19th IMU General Assembly in Helsinki for the IMU President, the IMU Secretary General, and the IMU Executive Committee for the period 2023–2026 had the following results:

Hiraku Nakajima from Japan, and Christoph Sorger from France, have respectively emerged as the new President and Secretary General of the International Mathematical Union (IMU).

Ichm 2022