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ERCOM
European Research Centres on Mathematics
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What is it?

• ERCOM is a Committee of the European Mathematical
  Society consisting of Directors of different
  European Mathematical Research Centres.

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EMS Executive Committee

• Members for the term 2007-2009/2010
• President Ari Laptev
• Vice President Pavel Exner
• Vice President Helge Holden
• Secretary Stephen Huggett
• Treasurer Jouko Väänänen
• Member Mireille Martin-Deschamps
• Member Zvi Artstein
• Member Franco Brezzi
• Member Martin Raussen
• Member Igor Krichever

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Committees of the EMS

• Applied Mathematics
• Developing Countries
• Education
• Electronic Publishing
• European Research Centres on Mathematics (ERCOM)
  
• Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics
• Support of East European Mathematicians
• Women and Mathematics

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Remit of ERCOM

• ERCOM is ruled by the following Remit, agreed by
  the EMS
• ERCOM is an EMS committee consisting of
  Scientific Directors of European Research Centres
  in the Mathematical Sciences, or their chosen
  representatives. Only European centres,
  predominantly research oriented, with a large
  international visiting programme, and covering a
  broad area of the Mathematical Sciences are
  eligible for representation in ERCOM. The
  eligibility of centres is decided by the EMS
  Executive Committee.
• ERCOM aims to contribute to the unity of
  Mathematics, from fundamentals to applications.

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Remit of ERCOM

• The purposes of ERCOM are
• to constitute a forum for communications and
  exchange of information between the centres
  themselves and EMS.
• to foster collaboration and coordination between
  the centres themselves and EMS.
• to foster advanced research training on a
  European level.
• to advise the Executive Committee of the EMS on
  matters relating to activities of the centres.
• to contribute to the visibility of the EMS.
• to cultivate contacts with similar research
  centres within and outside Europe.

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Remit of ERCOM

• The Chair of ERCOM is nominated by the committee
  and approved by the Executive Committee of the
  EMS. The Chair of ERCOM proposes a Vice-Chair who
  is nominated by ERCOM and approved by the EMS.
  The terms of office for each are four years, with
  the possibility of re-appointment for another
  two-years period.
• The Committee meets at least once annually.
• The research centres cover the expenses of ERCOM.

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ERCOM centres
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ERCOM centres

• Austria Erwin Schrödinger International Institute
  for Mathematical Physics
• Austria Johann Radon Institute for Computational
  and Applied Mathematics
• France Centre International de Rencontres
  Mathématiques
• France Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
• France Institut Henri Poincaré, Centre
  Émile-Borel
• Germany Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut
  Oberwolfach
• Germany Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in
  den Naturwissenschaften
• Germany Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik
• Germany Weierstrass Institute for Applied
  Analysis and Stochastics
• Hungary Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics
• Israel Emmy Noether Research Institute for
  Mathematics
• Italy Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De
  Giorgi
• Italy Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica
  Francesco Severi

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ERCOM centres

• Italy The Abdus Salam International Centre
  for Theoretical Physics
• Poland Stefan Banach International Mathematical
  Center
• Portugal Centro Internacional de Matemática
• Russia Euler International Mathematical
  Institute
• Spain Centre de Recerca Matemàtica
• Sweden Institut Mittag-Leffler
• Switzerland Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik
• The Netherlands Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica
• The Netherlands European Institute for
  Statistics, Probability and Stochastic
  Operations Research
• The Netherlands Mathematical Research Institute
  Universiteit Utrecht
• The Netherlands Thomas Stieltjes Institute for
  Mathematics
• United Kingdom International Centre for
  Mathematical Sciences
• United Kingdom Isaac Newton Institute for
  Mathematical Sciences

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Organisation of ERCOM

• Chairman
• Jan Karel Lenstra, CWI
• Term of office 2006 - 2009
• Vice-Chairman
• John Toland, ICMS
• Term of office 2006 - 2009
• EMS Executive Committee responsible member
• Ari Laptev, KTH/Imperial College
• Scientific secretary
• Herman te Riele, CWI

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Conferences and job openings
http//ercom.mis.mpg.de/cgi-bin/ercom_conferences.
pl
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ERCOM meetings
1997 Centre International de Rencontres
Mathématiques, Luminy, France 1998 Centrum voor
Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam,
Netherlands 1999 Isaac Newton Institute for
Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK 2000 Centre
de Recerca Matemàtica, Barcelona, Spain 2001 MPI
Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig,
Germany 2002 Stefan Banach International
Mathematical Center, Warsaw, Poland 2003 E.
Schrödinger Int. Institute for Mathematical
Physics, Vienna, Austria 2004 Network in
Mathematical Physics and Stochastics, Aarhus,
Denmark 2005 Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio
De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy 2006 Institut des Hautes
Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette,
Paris 2007 A. Salam International Centre for
Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy 2008 Centro
Internacional de Mathematica, Coimbra,
Portugal 2009 Institut Mittag-Leffler, Djursholm,
Sweden
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Addressed in the meetings

• Organisational issues
• Report on EMS business
• Issues concerning the centres members of ERCOM
• Admission of new members
• Eligibility criteria for ERCOM membership
• Changes to the remit
• Procedure for election of a new chair
• Presence of women in the ERCOM centres
• Ways of funding
• Legal situation of the research visitors in the
  different countries
• Etc.

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Addressed in the meetings

• Related to the European Research Area
• Participation of ERCOM in the FP7 Programme
  Infrastructures for Mathematics and its
  interfaces with Science, Technology and Society
  at large
• EMS_ESF conferences hosted by ERCOM institutes
• Report on different related matters as EPDI,
  Situation on Mathematics in Eastern Europa
• Industrial Mathematics

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Addressed in the meetings

• ERCOM joint projects
• Programme for PhD students from less favoured
  countries
• ERCOM exchange programme for Post-doctoral
  students
• Etc.

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Addressed in the meetings

• Administrators meeting
• Guided informative tour to the hosting institute
• Benchmarking/comparing
• Practical matters concerning ERCOM, like
• Exchange of common views and problems
• The electronic poster
• Web page
• Updated information on centres represented in
  ERCOM.
• Etc.