SMG/SMS: Schweizerische Mathematische Gesellschaft
The year 2023 has seen a lot of activities of the Swiss Mathematical
Society (SMS).
On the side of the regular spring meeting and fall meeting the SMS
co-sponsored about half a dozen mathematical conferences.
The two scholarly journals of the SMS had a successful year with many
excellent publications.
SMS was involved in several outreach activities and it supported early
career researchers who were lacking the funds to attend some
conferences.
The weekly electronic Newsletter of the SMS provides timely
information on mathematical events in Switzerland. Members of the SMS
can subscribe to the electronic Newsletter on the SMS website
https://www.math.ch
One of the highlights was the SMS Fall meeting and Swiss Geomtry
Day. It was organized by the newest institutional member of the SMS,
UniDistance Suisse. The event took place on the campus of UniDistance
in Brig on October 23, 2023.
The SMS owns two scholarly journals. Both are published open access by
the EMS Press, an entity of the European Mathematical Society.
One journal is called ``Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici'' and the
editor in chief is Eva Bayer (EPFL), the other journal is called
Elemente der Mathematik and editor in chief is Norbert Hungerbühler
(ETHZ).
Throughout the year 2023 there were many mathematical events and conferences
which were supported by the SMS and/or SCNAT:
SMS Spring meeting and general assembly was held in Bern on June
6, 2023. It was organized by Jan Draisma (Bern). SMS Spring Meeting
SMS Fall meeting and Swiss Geomtry Day was held at the
UniDistance Suisse Campus in Brig on October 23, 2023. It was
organized by Thomas Mettler from UniDistance. SMS Fall Meeting
12th Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry was held in in
Charmey, Switzerland from January 30--Febraury 3, 2023. It was
organized in part by Philipp Habegger (Basel) and Julia Schneider
(EPFL). Swiss-French Workshop in Algebraic Geometry
Fribourg MAPS -- Metric Analysis, Parametrizations, and
Surfaces, was held in Fribourg, Switzerland from April 13--15,
2023. It was organized by Annina Iseli (University of Fribourg).
Fribourg MAPS
The Borel Seminar 2023 on ``Lattices in Negative Curvature'' was
held in Les Diablerets (Switzerland) from July 17--21, 2023. It was
organized by Martin Deraux (Grenoble), Vincent Emery (BFH Biel) and
Ruth Kellerhals (Fribourg). Borel Seminar 2023
The Young Topologists Meeting 2023 was held at EPFL from July 24 – 28.
Young Topologists Meeting 2023
The conference ``GRAZP: Groups and Rigidity Around the Zimmer Program'' was
held in Ventotene (Italy), September 11--16, 2023. It was organized by
Claire Burrin (UZH),
Alessandra Iozzi (ETHZ) and Michah Sageev (Technion). Ventotene Conference 2023
On a regular basis the SMS evaluates requests for travel support
from early career researchers. Using funds from SCNAT and SMS it was
possible to support about a dozen early career researchers so that
they were able to participate in some scientific event.
One of the highlights is also the yearly organized SMS doctoral
day. In 2023 it was held in Neuchatel on March 14, 2023. It was
organized by Elisa Lorenzo García (UniNE) and Léonard Tschanz
(UniNE) and gathered approx. 40 PhD students from all Swiss
universities. SMS Doctoral Day 2023
The SMS continued to sponsor a number of activities aimed at mathematical
outreach. In 2023 the SMS supported e.g. an activity aimed at school children called
'Mathe im Advent'. This yearly outreach program started in Germany with support
of the Deutsche Mathematikervereinigung and the program started with good success
now also in Switzerland.