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EMS NewsTransitionOn 29 June, in the midst of the EMS Council Meeting inDonostia, the newly designed website www.euro-mathsoc.euwent online and replaced the previous one. Users(including this author) have to get used to the new designand the new options. Less is visible directly on the frontpage; you have to click a few times before you find whatyou are interested in. The biggest change for users is thatyou now need to log into a user account if you wish tocomment on a particular item or if you wish to submit anews article, event, job posting or book review. Such submissionsare still subject to manual review by EMS editorsbut it does allow contributors to be cross-referenced.Registration is straightforward, requiring name and emailaddress; the email address is never disclosed to the publicnor will it be passed on to any third party. After filling ina personal page, specific information is offered relatedto the main mathematical interest areas specified underthe menu point “Interests”. For more information and alink to a login page, go to http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/news/14/06/28/changes-ems-website.Experiences? Problems?It cannot be expected that a major operation like thisone can be executed without problems and bugs. Everybodywill have to get used to the new look and will needto learn how to make use of new ways of handling theinformation flow and how to profit from new features.Website users are encouraged to report their experiencesand any problems they may encounter to the EMS officeat ems-office@helsinki.fi – please use EMS web as thesubject line.Call for ApplicationsEMS Schools in Applied Mathematics(ESSAM)Jose Antonio Carrillo (Imperial College London, UK)Currently, four series of summer schools in applied mathematicstake place every year under the EMS banner.Their existence and organisation are part of the activitiesof the EMS Applied Mathematics Committee. The EMSconsiders as a priority the goal that the schools maintaina high scientific level and focus on relevant topics of impact.The EMS helps these schools in fundraising and, inparticular, contributes toward the participation of youngresearchers from European and Mediterranean countries.Initially, there was a school organised by IMPAN inBedlewo and a school organised by CIME taking placeevery year. In 2010, a summer school in biomathematicsjoined ESSAM, organised every year by the ESMTB(European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology).The last ESSAM school was created in 2011: asummer school in mathematical finance, organised by theInstitut Louis Bachelier.The programme committee of each organising institutionincorporates a representative of the EMS AppliedMathematics Committee for the planning of futureschools and to certify their scientific level and the fulfilmentof EMS requirements.If you want to create such a series or you are in chargeof an existing one and you want to become part of theESSAM schools, please send a message to StéphaneCordier at stephane.cordier@math.cnrs.fr.List of ESSAM 2014 schools:- EMS-ESMTB Summer School: “Dynamics of infectiousdiseases”.- IME-EMS Summer School in Applied Mathematics:“Centralized and Distributed Multi-agent Optimization:Models and Algorithms” (funded by the EMS).- Seventh European Summer School in Financial Mathematics.- EMS School on Stochastic Analysis with applicationsin biology, finance and physics (funded by the EMS).You can find more information about these schools andtheir guidelines at the EMS Applied Committee’s webpage:http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/ems-summer-schoolsapplied-mathematics-essam.EMS Newsletter December 2014 7