Following a generous donation of Zemánek's family, the annual Zemánek's Prize was founded by the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IM PAN) in March 2018, in order to encourage the research in functional analysis, operator theory and related topics. The Prize is establi-
shed to promote young mathematicians, under 35 years of age, who made important contributions to the field. The awarding ceremony will take place at IM PAN, Warsaw, in Fall 2022. More detailed information about the Prize can be found on [this webpage (link)](https://www.impan.pl/en/events/awards/b-and-j-zemanek-prize).

2022 Jaroslav and Barbara Zemánek Prize in functional analysis is awarded to  Amine Marrakchi

- Hugo Duminil-Copin, "for solving longstanding problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in dimensions three and four".

 - June Huh, "for bringing the ideas of Hodge theory to combinatorics, the proof of the Dowling–Wilson conjecture for geometric lattices, the proof of the Heron–Rota–Welsh conjecture for matroids, the development of the theory of Lorentzian polynomials, and the proof of the strong Mason conjecture".
 
 - James Maynard, "for contributions to analytic number theory, which have led to major advances in the understanding of the structure of prime numbers and in Diophantine approximation".
 
- Maryna Viazovska, "for the proof that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis".

We also congratulate Mark Braverman for winning the [IMU Abacus Medal (link here, awarded for outstanding contributions in Mathematical Aspects of Information Sciences)](https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/imu-abacus-medal/abacus-medal-2022), "for his path-breaking research developing the theory of information complexity, a framework for using information theory to reason about communication protocols. His work has led to direct-sum theorems giving lower bounds on amortized communication, ingenious protocol compression methods, and new interactive communication protocols resilient to noise."

The [2022 Chern Medal (link)](https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/chern-medal-award/chern-medal-award-2022) is won by Barry Mazur, "for his profound discoveries in topology, arithmetic geometry and number theory, and his leadership and generosity in forming the next generation of Mathematicians."

The [2022 Gauss Prize (link)](https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize/carl-friedrich-gauss-prize-2022) is won by Elliott Lieb, "for deep mathematical contributions of exceptional breadth which have shaped the fields of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, computational chemistry, and quantum information theory."


We note with satisfaction the continuation of the tradition of winners of EMS prizes going on to win the Fields medal with Maynard (2016), Duminil-Copin (2016), and Viazovska (2020) all previous EMS laureates, along with Braverman (2016).

Special congratulations to Maryna Viazovska for being the second woman to win the Fields Medal (after the late Maryam Mirzakhani in 2014), and the second Ukrainian (after Vladimir Drinfeld in 1990).


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Fields Medallists 2022

The EMS Council elected the following, to start their terms in January 2023:

**President:** Jan Philip Solovej (Copenhagen)

**Vice president:** Beatrice Pelloni (Edinburgh)

**Treasurer:** Samuli  Siltanen (Helsinki)

**Executive Committee Member-at-Large:** Victoria Gould (York)

Congratulations to the newly elected officers, and thanks to everyone who put themselves forward for election.

The Council also supported several significant new initiatives:

- The establishment of an **EMS Young Academy**

- The formation of **EMS Topical Activity Groups**

- To expand the range of scientific activites EMS will support to include larger events, such as special semesters, interdisciplinary study groups, and large showcase events. Funding will be focused on communities that do not otherwise have the resources infrastructure to organise such events.

More details on these exciting new developments will follow soon!


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Predatory Journals - Awareness Campaign

From Budapest to Tel Aviv, the IMBM is the only center in the region catering to all areas of the mathematical sciences, including physics, engineering, economics and statistics. It has been serving the Turkish mathematical community for the last 16 years and has been visited by hundreds of colleagues from around the world. The need for such a place to discuss mathematical research is essential for the community, and since its inception IMBM has provided an ideal environment for local and international researchers. It would be an enormous loss to take this facility out of the hands of Turkish mathematicians.

The IMBM is requesting support from international colleagues through its "Math or Not" campaign. You can declare a seminar at your institution to be an "IMBM Seminar" and report this activity to the IMBM [via their website (link)](http://www.imbm.org.tr/).

The IMBM can be followed on Twitter: [@imbm_icms](https://twitter.com/imbm_icms) as can the EMS [@EuroMathSoc](https://twitter.com/euromathsoc).

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Istanbul Center for Mathematical Sciences

EMS Digest, Nr 43

Announcement of EMS Council (25-26 June 2022)

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List of Resources for Ukrainian Colleagues

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Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2022 awarded to Alon and Hrushovski

Highlights include:

- [Messages from EMS President Volker Mehrmann and Magazine Editor-in-Chief Fernando P. da Costa (link)](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/articles/81), focussing on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the society's (and magazine's) response.

- [Statistical tools for anomaly detection as a part of predictive maintenance in the mining industry (link)](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/articles/66) by Agnieszka Wyłomańska (Wrocław), describing new progress in the problem of local damage detection based on vibration signals analysis.

- [A Diophantine equation concerning epimoric ratios (link)](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/articles/84) by Preda Mihăilescu (Göttingen) and Daniel Muzzulini (Zurich University of the Arts), containing the solution to an interesting equation that is born from classical questions of music theory considered by Ptolemy. 

- [The Newton Project (link)](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/articles/67) by Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge), describing ongoing efforts to archive, digitise, and catalogue Isaac Newton's entire body of work.

- [Sir David Cox: A wise and noble statistician (1924–2022)](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/articles/86) by Christos P. Kitsos (West Attica). Remembering the great statistician who died earlier this year.

There is plenty more of excellent and thought-provoking content too, so please [click through to browse](https://euromathsoc.org/magazine/issues/124)!


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2022 Jaroslav and Barbara Zemánek Prize in functional analysis is awarded to Amine Marrakchi