We hope to first welcome the General Assembly to Dublin, in a historic venue operated by one of the oldest charities in Ireland, where any surplus from room hire costs will be reinvested back into STEM activity for schoolchildren, and into our wider mathematical societal mission.
We will then welcome you all to Glasgow, where we will deliver the first ‘2km congress’ in which all our mathematical venues are within the 250m radius of the publicly owned Scottish Event Campus (SEC), and all our wider hotels, bars, restaurants, and social activity venues are within a 2km radius. To us, the ICM is fundamentally about people, and our specific aim is to use the geography and facilities within the city to maximise the interactions and collaborations between participants by minimising dispersal. Our ‘2km congress’ concept will create a relaxing congress experience, within a green and leafy city in which the climate in July is ideal for research mathematics.
Our bid presents an ICM that will feel welcoming, in which the most important mathematical interactions of all, those between small groups of people, will find a natural home and can flourish. Through our Developing Countries fund, and through demonstrating the viability of our 2km congress model, we also seek to provide a template for the future. Our congress model can be delivered in many more cities around the world, widening the pool of future ICM venues.
From the shared cultural experience of Dublin and Glasgow, to the mathematics, ties and connections made in the light of the long summer evenings, and above all to the importance we place on people, we very much hope to welcome you in 2030.
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before 2022 as the Nevanlinna Prize), the Gauss Prize, the Leelavati Prize (since 2010) and the Chern Medal are awarded during the congress's opening ceremony. Each congress is memorialized by a printed set of Proceedings recording academic papers based on invited talks intended to be relevant to current topics of general interest. Being invited to talk at the ICM has been called "the equivalent ... of an induction to a hall of fame".
German mathematicians Felix Klein and Georg Cantor are credited with putting forward the idea of an international congress of mathematicians in the 1890s.
The University of Chicago, which had opened in 1892, organized an International Mathematical Congress at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, where Felix Klein participated as the official German representative.
The first official International Congress of Mathematicians was held in Zürich in August 1897. The organizers included such prominent mathematicians as Luigi Cremona, Felix Klein, Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Andrey Markov, and others. The congress was attended by 208 mathematicians from 16 countries, including more than 100 from Switzerland or Germany, around 20 from each of France, Italy, and Austria-Hungary, 13 from the Russian Empire and 7 from the US. Only four were women: Iginia Massarini, Vera Schiff [ru], Charlotte Scott, and Charlotte Wedell.
During the 1900 congress in Paris, France, David Hilbert announced his famous list of 23 unsolved mathematical problems, now termed Hilbert's problems. Moritz Cantor and Vito Volterra gave the two plenary lectures at the start of the congress.
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