Highlights include:
- Emmylou Haffner on Bernhard Riemann’s collected works: Then and now - a fascinating illustrated historical account of the editing process 
- Alexander I. Efimov on Categorical smooth compactifications and neighborhoods of infinity
- Joaquim Serra on The geometric structure of interfaces and free boundaries. Plateau’s problem, the role of Elliptic PDEs, phase transistions, and beyond.
- Quentin Mérigot and Boris Thibert on Mirrors, lenses and Monge–Ampère equations. Is it possible to shape a piece of glass so that it refracts and concentrates sunlight in order to produce a given image?
Plus:
- Impact factor, an inadequate yardstick
- Mathematical (online) meetings reimagined?
- The UK’s first National Mathematics Discovery Centre
- The Weierstrass Institute
- The Slovak Mathematical Society
- How Romanian mathematicians support Uganda in International Mathematical Olympiads
... and much more!

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EMS Magazine, No. 120

The EMS offers our sincere thanks and congratulations to all the organisers, committee members, and volunteers who made the event possible. Special thanks go Tomaž Pisanski and Klavdija Kutnar, respective chair and cochair of the organising commitee.

Videos of selected events are coming soon to the [EMS Youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj2tKe59xIORBOQFXxUFmyw). In the meantime, look back on highlights of the conference on the [ECM page](https://www.8ecm.si/news) and read [this write up](https://www.dmfa.si/ODrustvu/NovicaPrikaz.aspx?itemid=469&fbclid=IwAR0rnKvCz2N3BLQ0q0pdwMB8o9vnOUms-17t5xcT2H8gmMeYxpZvm_tpSQU) of the conference by Boštjan Kuzman for the Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia.



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The 8th European Congress of Mathematics

This is an in-person event, but will also be webcast. The registration deadline is 20 August. This event was postponed from last year.

More details at [this link](https://imucentennial.math.unistra.fr/)

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IMU Centenary Conference

The lecture is named in tribute to the memory of Olga Taussky-Todd, whose scientific legacy is in both theoretical and applied mathematics, and whose work exemplifies the qualities to be recognized.

The Officers and Board of ICIAM now call for nominations for the Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture, to be given at the ICIAM 2023 congress, to take place in Tokyo (Japan) from August 20 to August 25, 2023.

A nomination will consist of:

- Full name and address of person nominated.
- Web home page if any.
- Justification for nomination (in at most two pages, cite nominator's reason for considering candidate to be deserving, including explanations of the scientific and practical influence of the candidate's work and publications).
- 2-3 letters of support from experts in the field (not mandatory). Each of them having a maximal length of two pages.
- CV of the nominee.
- Name and contact details of the proposer.

Nominations should be made electronically through the [ICIAM website](https://iciamprizes.org/). The deadline for nominations is December 30th, 2021.

Please contact president@iciam.org if you have any question regarding the nomination procedure.

**Olga Taussky-Todd Committee for 2023:** Lisa Fauci, Chair (Tulane University), Mirjam  Dür (University of Augsburg), Isabelle Gallagher (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Mary Wheeler (University of Texas at Austin), Guiying Yan (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

ICIAM, the International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics,
is the world organization for applied and industrial mathematics.
Its members are mathematical societies based in more than 30 countries.
For more information, see the Council's web page at [www.iciam.org](http://www.iciam.org/).


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ICIAM Olga Taussky-Todd Lecture 2023 - Call for nominations

To submit a job or event, you will first be invited to login or register with the EMS website. Registration is separate from EMS membership and is *not* carried over from the old website.

Job listings are also streamed to Twitter, via the dedicated account [@EuroMathJobs](https://twitter.com/euromathjobs) (separate from the main EMS Twitter account [@EuroMathSoc](https://twitter.com/euromathsoc)).

For more jobs listings see also [our list of national job boards](https://euromathsoc.org/european-job-boards) and [MathHire.org](https://mathhire.org/).

For upcoming mathematical outreach events, see [Pop Math](https://www.popmath.eu/) administered by the EMS’s committee for [Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics](https://euromathsoc.org/committee-rpa).

EMS Jobs and Events Pages now live

Calls for Tandem Workshops at Oberwolfach

EMS Digest, Nr 39.


The issue begins with [some opening remarks](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/2021/119/mag-1) from the EMS President and from the Editor-in-Chief of the Magazine. Other highlights include:

- [The geometric theorems of Almada Negreiros](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/2021/119/mag-2) by Pedro J. Freitas

- [New frontiers in Langlands reciprocity](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/2021/119/mag-3) by Ana Caraiani

- [Geometry and dynamics on Riemann and K3 surfaces](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/2021/119/mag-4) by Simion Filip

- [All roads come from China – For a theoretical approach to the history of mathematics](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/2021/119/mag-5) by Karine Chemla

- [Surface evolution of elastically stressed films](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/2021/119/mag-6) by Irene Fonseca and Giovanni Leoni

...and much more!

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