EMS Newsaginary.org is now available in German and Spanish (besidesEnglish); translations into French and Catalan areon the way.PublishingIt was noted that the Proceedings of the 6th EuropeanCongress of Mathematics had now been published. TheExecutive Committee agreed the details of the renewalof the Editorial Board of Journal of the European MathematicalSociety.The President reported that the committee awardingthe EMS Monograph Prize was unanimous in deciding tomake a joint award to two of the submissions:- Foundations of Garside Theory, by Patrick Dehornoywith François Digne, Eddy Godelle, Daan Krammer,and Jean Michel- Topics in Elliptic PDEs and Measure Theory, by AugustoPonceClosingThe next meeting will be a short one just before the Councilin Donostia/San Sebastián. The autumn meeting willbe in Barcelona from the 21st to the 23rd of November.The President expressed the gratitude of the wholeExecutive Committee to the London Mathematical Societyfor its hospitality.New Editorial Board of the Journal ofthe European Mathematical SocietyThe Executive Committee of the EMS has appointedthe new editorial board of its flagship journal JEMS. Thecomposition of the new editorial board is as follows:Editor-in-Chief:François Loeser, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris,FranceEditors:Kari Astala, University of Helsinki, FinlandAnnalisa Buffa, CRN Pavia, ItalyTom Bridgeland, University of Oxford, UKXavier Cabré, ICREA and Universitat Politècnica deCatalunya, Barcelona, SpainHélène Esnault, Freie Universität Berlin, GermanyMichael Harris, Columbia University, USA, andUniversité Paris Diderot, FranceJános Kollár, Princeton University, USAKarl Kunisch, University of Graz, AustriaMichel Ledoux, Université de Toulouse, FrancePhilip Maini, University of Oxford, UKGünter Malle, University of Kaiserslautern, GermanyPhilippe Michel, École Polytechnique Féderale,Lausanne, SwitzerlandJaroslav Nešetřil, Charles University, Prague, CzechRepublicLaure Saint Raymond, École Normale Supérieure deParis, FrancePaul Seidel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USASylvia Serfaty, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris,FranceStanislav Smirnov, University of Geneva, SwitzerlandJan Philip Solovej, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkBertrand Toën, Université de Montpellier, FranceXavier Tolsa, ICREA and Universitat Autònoma deBarcelona, SpainGiuseppe Toscani, University of Pavia, ItalySara van de Geer, ETH, SwitzerlandMarcelo Viana, IMPA, BrazilAlex Wilkie, University of Manchester, UKBurkhard Wilking, University of Münster, GermanyUmberto Zannier, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, ItalyTamar Ziegler, The Hebrew University of Jerusalemand Technion, Haifa, IsraelThe Editor-in-Chief and the editors have an initial termof four and three years, respectively, with the possibilityof an extension for a second term. From 1 June 2014,authors submitting articles to the journal will be directedto an electronic submission system on the journal’shomepage and the new editorial board will handle thesearticles.Created by the EMS in 1998, the first volume of JEMS,published by Springer-Verlag, appeared in January 1999,with Jürgen Jost as Editor-in-Chief. Since January 2003,the Editor-in-Chief has been Haim Brézis. With the creationof the EMS Publishing House, the publication ofJEMS was moved from Springer to the EMS publisherin 2004.Today, JEMS is one of the strongest mathematicaljournals, thanks to the skill and dedication of the firsttwo editorial boards. In this transition period, the EMSwould like to fully recognise and acknowledge the extraordinarywork of the departing editorial board:Haim Brezis (Editor-in-Chief), Université Pierre etMarie Curie, Paris, France, Rutgers University, USA,and Technion, Haifa, IsraelAntonio Ambrosetti, SISSA, Trieste, ItalyEnrico Arbarello, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”,ItalyRobert John Aumann, The Hebrew University ofJerusalem, IsraelHenri Berestycki, EHESS, Paris, France8 EMS Newsletter June 2014
EMS NewsFabrice Bethuel, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris,FranceJean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,USAJean-Michel Coron, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,Paris, FranceJesús Ildefonso Díaz, Real Academia de Ciencias, SpainCorrado De Concini, Università di Roma “LaSapienza”, ItalySimon Donaldson, Imperial College, London, UKYasha Eliashberg, Stanford University, USAGeoffrey Grimmett, Cambridge University, UKMarius Iosifescu, Romanian Academy, Bucharest,RomaniaSergiu Klainerman, Princeton University, USAEduard Looijenga, Utrecht University, the NetherlandsAlex Lubotzky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,IsraelAngus Macintyre, Queen Mary, University of London,UKIb Madsen, University of Copenhagen, DenmarkJean Mawhin, Université Catholique de Louvain,BelgiumStefan Müller, University of Bonn, GermanyBart de Smit, Universiteit Leiden, the NetherlandsH. Mete Soner, ETH Zürich, SwitzerlandAlain Sznitman, ETH Zürich, SwitzerlandMina Teicher, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, IsraelClaire Voisin, IHES, Bures sur Yvette, FranceThis board is responsible for the handling of papers submittedto JEMS before 1 June 2014 and will terminate itsfunctions by September 2015.The EMS is greatly indebted to the departing editorialboard, which under the leadership of Professor Brézishas raised the journal to its current high rank. At the sametime, the EMS expresses its gratitude to the new editorialboard for having accepted this important responsibilityand warmly welcomes all its members.EMS Executive CommitteeMay 2014The First Caucasian MathematicsConference (CMC I)Roland Duduchava (Ivane javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia)with EMS-EC member Armen Sergeev. An organisationalmeeting in January 2014 in Istanbul gave the first shape tothe idea. The three initiators mentioned were joined by therep resentatives of the participating countries and institutions:How much can mathematicians contribute to peace andharmony in the world? At a time when the region is surroundedby old and new tensions, the first CaucasianMathematics Conference (CMC I) is being organisedin Tbilisi, Georgia, 5–6 September 2014, under the auspicesof the European Mathematical Society and withthe cooperation of the Armenian, Azerbaijan, Georgian,Iranian, Russian and Turkish Mathematical Societies. Althoughit is welcoming mathematicians from all over theworld, the first aim of the Caucasian Mathematical Conferenceis to bring together mathematicians from Caucasianand neighbouring countries annually in one of thesecountries.The idea of this gathering was expressed by Betül Tanbayat the EMS Presidents Meeting in Aarhus in 2013and, encouraged by Marta Sanz-Solé, the presidents of theGeorgian and Turkish Mathematical Societies Roland Duduchavaand Betül Tanbay started the preliminary workCarles Casacuberta (ex-officio; Chair of the EMSCommittee for European Solidarity),Mohammed Ali Dehghan (President of the IranianMathematical Society),Tigran Harutyunyan (President of the ArmenianMathematical Union),Misir Jumayil oglu Mardanov (Representative of theAzerbaijan Mathematical Union) andMarta Sanz-Solé (ex-officio; President of the EuropeanMathematical Society),forming together a Steering Committee responsible forthe scientific programme of the conference. The committeehas selected the invited spea kers:Maria Esteban (C.N.R.S. at the University Paris-Dauphine),Mohammad Sal Moslehian (Ferdowsi University ofMashhad),Garib N. Murshudov (MRC Laboratory of MolecularBiology, Cambridge),Dmitri Orlov (Steklov Institute, Moscow),EMS Newsletter June 2014 9