Mathematical Society of Japan http://mathsoc.jp/en/ MSJ News Copyright(C) 2009- Mathematical Society of Japan Mathematical Society of Japan Mathematical Society of Japan MSJ News Springer and the European Mathematical Society launch the Encyclopedia of Mathematics open access wiki http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/pressreleases?SGWID=0-11002-6-1376724-0 The 10th Takagi Lectures will be held on May 26, 2012, at RIMS, Kyoto University http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/takagi/10th/index.htm JJM Vol. 7, No. 1 is issued. http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/jjm-issue-1.htm#7-1 "Arrangements of Hyperplanes---Sapporo 2009" (ASPM vol. 62, Edited by H. Terao and S. Yuzvinsky) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/ASPM/aspmnew.html#62 Yasumasa NISHIURA to receive Prizes for Science and Technology http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20120410a-en.html Atsuhi ICHINO, Shin-ichi OHTA, Atsuhi TAKAHASHI, and Yasuhito MIYAMOTO will be awarded the Young Scientists' Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20120410b-en.html Shin-ichi OHTA to be awarded the 2012 MSJ Spring Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/spring2012-en.html The 2012 JMSJ Outstanding Paper Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/Prize-JMSJ2012-en.html MSJ Autumn Meeting 2012, Kyushu University, September 18-21, 2012 http://mathsoc.jp/en/meeting/kyushu12sept/ MSJ-KMS Joint Meeting 2012 (Kyushu University, September 17, 2012) http://mathsoc.jp/en/meeting/MSJ-KMS2012/ Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter Vol. 2 Number 1 is issued. http://www.asiapacific-mathnews.com/ JMSJ Vol. 64, No. 1 is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/JMSJ/onlineindex/64-1.htm MSJ Spring Meeting at Tokyo University of Science, March 26-29, 2012 http://mathsoc.jp/en/meeting/tus12mar/ Videos are launched for the ninth Takagi Lectures http://mathsoc.jp/en/videos/ Takashi KUMAGAI to receive the 8th JSPS Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20120123-en.html Yoshinori GONGYO to receive the second JSPS Ikushi Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20120119-en.html National Diet Library Electronic exhibition "Japanese Mathematics in the Edo Period" now available http://www.ndl.go.jp/math/e/ Report of the IMU/ICIAM Working Group on Journal Ranking (June 2011) http://www.mathunion.org/publications/reports-recommendations/ Job Opening for an Assistant Professor at Ochanomizu University http://www.ocha.ac.jp/plaza/recruitment/koubo_h231102_4.pdf "Exploring New Structures and Natural Constructions in Mathematical Physics" (ASPM vol. 61, Edited by K. Hasegawa, T. Hayashi, S. Hosono and Y. Yamada) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/ASPM/aspmnew.html#61 Address by KMS President Prof. Dong Youp SUH at 2011 MSJ Autumn Meeting http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/KMSPresident20110929.html The delegates from the Korean Mathematical Society visited the 2011 MSJ Autumn Meeting http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20111015-en.html Appeal and Statement on the East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and the Accident at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, from the Board of Trustees, the Mathematical Society of Japan http://mathsoc.jp/en/proclaim/proclaim20110612-en.html Akito FUTAKI to be awarded the 2011 MSJ Autumn Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/autumn2011-en.html 2011 MSJ Takebe Prizes http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/takebe2011-en.html 2011 Geometry Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/geometry2011-en.html 2011 Analysis Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/analysis2011-en.html ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference for Young Researchers "Mathematics for Innovation: Large and Complex Systems" (Tokyo, February 28 - March 4, 2012, Organizers: JSPS, ESF/Cooperating Organizers: MSJ, JSIAM) http://www.jsps.go.jp/english/esf-jsps/schedule.html Job opportunities at IPMU http://www.ipmu.jp/job-opportunities Project Euclid was awarded the 2011 Division Prize from the Special Libraries Association, Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division http://pam.sla.org/2011/06/23/2011-pam-division-award/ Symposium "Japanese and Korean Women Mathematicians 2011" --- Current Status and Prospect of Women Mathematicians in Japan and Korea ---, September 30, 2011, at Shinshu University http://mathsoc.jp/comm/danjo-sankaku/JKWS2011-en.html Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter Vol. 1 Number 2 is issued http://www.asiapacific-mathnews.com/ The 9th Takagi Lectures will be held on June 4, 2011, at RIMS, Kyoto University http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/takagi/9th/index.htm MOCHIZUKI Takuro will be awarded the Japan Academy Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20110413a-en.html IRITANI Hiroshi and KIDA Yoshitaka will be awarded the Young Scientists' Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20110413b-en.html To faculty members, researchers and students of universities affected by the earthquake (Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo, 2011/03/18) http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/library/news-e.html The Abel Prize awarded to John Milnor, Stony Brook University, NY (2011/03/23) http://www.abelprisen.no/en/ Messages from Mathematics Communities of all over the world(2011/03) http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/from_world201103-en.html An official consolation letter from Korean Mathematical Society and Korea Association of Mathematical Societies(2011/03/16) http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20110321c-en.html Yoichi MIYAOKA Takes Office as President of MSJ http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20110321-en.html Atsushi SHIHO to be awarded the 2011 MSJ Spring Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/spring2011-en.html The 2011 JMSJ Outstanding Paper Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/Prize-JMSJ2011-en.html The 2011 MSJ Publication Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/pubprize2011-en.html 2011 Algebra Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/algebra2011-en.html Asia Pacific Mathematics Newsletter has launched the premiere issue http://www.asiapacific-mathnews.com/ Osamu IYAMA to receive the 7th JSPS Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20110204-en.html Makiko SASADA to receive the first JSPS Ikushi Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20110114-en.html Videos are launched for the eighth Takagi Lectures http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/takagi/8th/takagi8-video.htm JJM Vol. 5, No. 2 is issued. http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/jjm-issue-1.htm#5-2 Toshiyuki KOBAYASHI to receive Inoue Prize for Science http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20101214-en.html MSJ Spring Meeting 2011, Waseda University, March 20-23, 2011 http://mathsoc.jp/en/meeting/waseda11mar/ "Algebraic Geometry in East Asia --- Seoul 2008" (ASPM vol. 60, Edited by J. Keum, S. Kondō, K. Konno and K. Oguiso) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/ASPM/aspmnew.html#60 JSPS, 3rd HOPE Meeting, including talks by Nobel Prize Winners in Physics, March 7-11, 2011 http://www.hopemeetings.jp/eng/ Masaki IZUMI to be awarded 2010 MSJ Autumn Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/autumn2010-en.html 2010 MSJ Takebe Prizes http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/takebe2010-en.html 2010 Geometry Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/geometry2010-en.html 2010 Analysis Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/analysis2010-en.html "New Developments in Algebraic Geometry, Integrable Systems and Mirror Symmetry (RIMS, Kyoto, 2008)" (ASPM vol. 59, Edited by M.-H. Saito, S. Hosono and K. Yoshioka) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/ASPM/aspmnew.html#59 Jacob PALIS at IMPA, Brazil is awarded the 2010 International Balzan Prize http://www.balzan.org/en/home.html Best Current Practices for Journals (endorsed by the IMU General Assembly 16 August 2010) http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/CEIC/bestpractice/bpfinal.pdf The 4th MSJ-SI "Nonlinear Dynamics in Partial Differential Equations" (Kyushu University, September 12-21, 2011 ) http://www2.math.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~tohru/msjsi11/ The 8th Takagi Lectures will be held on November 23, 2010, at RIMS, Kyoto University http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/takagi/8th/index.htm Masanao OZAWA to receive Prize for Science and Technology http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100804a-en.html Russian mathematician wins $1 million prize, but he appears to be happy with $0, The Washington Post, July 2,2010 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/01/AR2010070106247.html A Math Problem Solver Declines a $1 Million Prize, New York Times, July 1, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/science/02math.html?_r=2 Michio JIMBO has been awarded the 2010 Wigner Medal http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100629-en.html "Algebraic and Arithmetic Structures of Moduli Spaces (Sapporo 2007)" (ASPM vol. 58, Edited by I. Nakamura and L. Weng) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/ASPM/aspmnew.html#58 "Godbillon-Vey class of transversely holomorphic foliations" (MSJ Memoirs vol. 24, Author: T. Asuke) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/memoir/memoirs-e.html "Kähler geometry of loop spaces" (MSJ Memoirs vol. 23, Author: A. Sergeev) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/memoir/memoirs-e.html Manual for online application and submission system of MSJ is ready http://mathsoc.jp/en/../comm/netadmin/MSJ-CONF/msj-conf_man-en.pdf MSJ Autumn Meeting 2010 at Nagoya University, September 22-25, 2010. http://mathsoc.jp/en/meeting/nagoya10sept/ "The Housekeeper and the Professor", Reviewed by Koji Fujiwara at Tohoku Univ., Notices of AMS, May 2010. http://www.ams.org/notices/201005/rtx100500635p.pdf Videos are launched for the seventh Takagi Lectures http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/takagi/7th/takagi7-video.htm Masanao OZAWA to receive Prize for Science and Technology http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100407-en.html Shu KAWAGUCHI to receive Young Scientists' Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100408a-en.html Atsushi SHIHO to receive Young Scientists' Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100408b-en.html Kouji YANO to receive Young Scientists' Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100408c-en.html "Probabilistic Approach to Geometry" (ASPM vol. 57, Edited by M. Kotani, M. Hino and T. Kumagai) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/ASPM/aspmnew.html#57 JJM Vol. 5, No. 1 is issued. http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/jjm-issue-1.htm#5-1 Osamu IYAMA to be awarded the 2010 MSJ Spring Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/spring2010-en.html The 2010 JMSJ Outstanding Paper Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/Prize-JMSJ2010-en.html 2010 Algebra Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/algebra2010-en.html MOCHIZUKI Takuro was awarded the 6th Japan Academy Medal http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100319c-en.html MOCHIZUKI Takuro was awarded the 6th JSPS Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100319a-en.html OZAWA Narutaka was awarded the 6th JSPS Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100319b-en.html OGATA Yoshiko was awarded the 2nd Inoue Science Research Award http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100321-en.html FUKUSHIMA Ryoki was awarded the 26th Inoue Research Aid for Young Scientists http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100324a-en.html MAEKAWA Yasunori was awarded the 26th Inoue Research Aid for Young Scientists http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100324b-en.html Designers Outline a New Geometry (NY Times, March 5, 2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/fashion/06iht-rrick.html Fashion and Advanced Mathematics Meet at Miyake (abc News, March 5, 2010) http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=10017982 MSJ Spring Meeting 2010 at Keio University, March 24-27 http://mathsoc.jp/en/meeting/keio10mar/ Announcement from Tohoku Mathematical Journal about its Open Access Policy http://www.math.tohoku.ac.jp/tmj/Eopenaccess.html "Dispersive and Strichartz estimates for hyperbolic equations with constant coefficients" (MSJ Memoirs vol. 22, Author: M. Ruzhansky, J. Smith) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/memoir/memoirs-e.html "Algebraic and Analytic Aspects of Zeta Functions and L-functions" (MSJ Memoirs vol. 21, Edited by G. Bhowmik, K. Matsumoto, H. Tsumura) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/memoir/memoirs-e.html Symposium "Ever-expanding Mathematics --- the expectations of the society" (Date: February 22nd and 23rd, 2010, Place: Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, the University of Tokyo, Jointly organized by MSJ) http://powerful-mathematics.math.kyushu-u.ac.jp/img/conf_aim.pdf Kenji FUKAYA receives the 2009 Asahi Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20100101-en.html Kenji FUKAYA appointed a member of the Japan Academy http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20091215-en.html The 3rd MSJ-SI "Development of Galois-Teichmüller Theory and Anabelian Geometry" (October 25-30, 2010, at RIMS, Kyoto University) http://mathsoc.jp/en/../meeting/msjsi10/ Bulletin on Copyright Transfer (Japanese Journal of Mathematics, January 16, 2010) http://mathsoc.jp/en/../comm/shuppan/JJM20100116-en.pdf "Singularities --- Niigata--Toyama 2007" (ASPM vol. 56, Edited by J.-P. Brasselet, S. Ishii, T. Suwa and M. Vaquie) is issued. http://mathsoc.jp/publication/ASPM/aspmnew.html#56 The famous novel by Yoko Ogawa about an old mathematician is now in English http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20090930-en.html Kenji YAJIMA to be awarded 2009 MSJ Autumn Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/autumn2009-en.html 2009 MSJ Takebe Prizes http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/takebe2009-en.html 2009 Geometry Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/geometry2009-en.html 2009 Analysis Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/analysis2009-en.html Announcement from Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/PRIMS20090916.html MSJ Autumn Meeting 2009 at Osaka University, September 24-27 http://mathsoc.jp/en/meeting/osaka09sept/ Announcement from Nagoya Mathematical Journal http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/nagoya_J20090827.html Videos are launched for the sixth Takagi Lectures (June 6-7, 2009, at Hokkaido Univ.) http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/takagi/6th/takagi6-video.htm Vol 20 of MSJ Memoirs "scl" by Danny Calegari is issued http://mathsoc.jp/publication/memoir/memoirs-e.html Kyoto Journal Declaration http://www.math.kyoto-u.ac.jp/journal/anno.html The 7th Takagi Lectures will be held on November 21-23, 2009 at University of Tokyo http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/takagi/7th/ Bulletin on Copyright Transfer (Journal of the Mathematical Society of Japan, October 1, 2009) http://mathsoc.jp/en/../comm/shuppan/JMSJ-Bulletin200910.pdf Ege FUJIKAWA to receive Morita Award for Scientific Research http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20090509-en.html XXIst Rolf Nevanlinna Colloquium (September 7 - 11, 2009, at Kyoto University) http://nevanlinna.jp/ Gen NAKAMURA to receive Prizes for Science and Technology http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20090410a-en.html Sadanori KONISHI to receive Prizes for Science and Technology http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20090410c-en.html Masayuki KAWAKITA to receive The Young Scientists' Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20090410b-en.html Takashi TSUBOI takes Office as President of MSJ http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20090401-en.html Narutaka OZAWA to be awarded the 2009 MSJ Spring Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/spring2009-en.html The 2009 MSJ Publication Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/pubprize2009-en.html 2009 Algebra Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/algebra2009-en.html Takeshi TSUJI to receive the 5th Japan Academy Medal http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20090217-en.html Takeshi TSUJI to receive the 5th JSPS Prize http://mathsoc.jp/en/publicity/news20090202-en.html The 6th Takagi Lectures (June 6-7, 2009, at Hokkaido University) http://www.ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toshi/jjm/JJM_HP/contents/takagi/6th/ Untimely passing of Professor Emeritus Kiyosi Ito http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kenkyubu/news/ito/owakare-e.html The 2nd MSJ-SI "Arrangements of Hyperplanes" (August 1-13, 2009, at Hokkaido Univ.) http://mathsoc.jp/meeting/msjsi09/ Subscribing JMSJ at Euclid Project (for members abroad) http://mathsoc.jp/comm/shuppan/index-en.html Bulletin on Copyright Transfer (Nov. 4, 2005) http://mathsoc.jp/comm/shuppan/bull_crtr2005-en.pdf