EMS Newsletter June 2010 - European Mathematical Society ...

sponsible for the respective committees. Two Chairs, G.
Törner (Education Committee), who was then confirmed
for a 2010-2012 term, and Fred van Oystaeyen (Meetings
Committee), had the opportunity to directly present their
detailed reports. Reports were also presented by the following:
H. Holden (Applied Mathematics) on behalf of
the Chair, P. Exner (Electronic Publishing) and M. Raussen
(Raising Public Awareness). No report had been
received from the Chair of the Women and Mathematics
Committee. Reports received from the Chairs of the
other committees were approved by the EC. I. Krichever,
who is the EC member responsible for the Eastern
Europe Committee, opened a discussion that ended in
the conclusion that this should perhaps be renamed the
“Solidarity Committee”. The EC then paid much attention
to the newly established Ethics Committee and appointed
I. Krichever as the EC member responsible for
this committee too. The EC agreed that the Ethics Committee
will focus on unethical behaviour in mathematical
publications. This includes, for example, plagiarism,
duplicate publication, inadequate citations, inflated self
citations, dishonest refereeing and other violations of the
professional code. The committee will be mainly responsible
for the following three tasks:
1. To raise the awareness of the problem by preparing a
code of practice.
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2. To encourage journals and publishers to respond to
allegations of unethical behaviour in a conscientious
way.
3. To provide a mechanism whereby researchers can ask
the committee to help them pursue claims of unethical
behaviour. The committee may take up other relevant
questions related to ethics, in connection with its work
on the above points.
Under the publishing item, several issues were also addressed.
We only mention here the presentation by the
president of the new Journal of Spectral Theory and the
appointing of Olaf Teschke to the Editorial Board of the
EMS Newsletter, at the proposal of the Editor-in-Chief
Vicente Muñoz.
Closing matters
The president expressed the EC’s gratitude to the Edinburgh
Mathematical Society and especially to Penny
Davies and Sandy Davie for hosting such a successful
and pleasant meeting in Edinburgh. The next EC meeting
will be in Sofia on 9 July, preceding the EMS Council
Meeting (10–11 July 2010). The last EC meeting in 2010
was also scheduled for 13–14 November but its venue has
not yet been decided.
Eduard Zehnder (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Lectures on Dynamical Systems
(EMS Textbooks in Mathematics)
ISBN 978-3-03719-081-4. 2010. 363 pages. Hardcover. 16.5 x 23.5 cm. 48.00 Euro
This book originated from an introductory lecture course on dynamical systems given by the author for advanced students in mathematics and
physics at the ETH Zurich. The first part centres around unstable and chaotic phenomena caused by the occurrence of homoclinic points. The second
part of the book is devoted to Hamiltonian systems. The Hamiltonian formalism is developed in the elegant language of the exterior calculus.
The theorem of V. Arnold and R. Jost shows that the solutions of Hamiltonian systems which possess sufficiently many integrals of motion can be
written down explicitly and for all times. The existence proofs of global periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems on symplectic manifolds are based on
a variational principle for the old action functional of classical mechanics. There is an intimate relation between the periodic orbits of Hamiltonian
systems and a class of symplectic invariants called symplectic capacities. From these symplectic invariants one derives surprising symplectic
rigidity phenomena. This allows a first glimpse of the fast developing new field of symplectic topology.
Handbook of Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry and Supersymmetry
Vicente Cortés (Universität Hamburg, Germany), Editor
(IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Vol. 16)
ISBN 978-3-03719-079-1. 2010. 964 pages. Hardcover. 17 x 24 cm. 118.00 Euro
The purpose of this handbook is to give an overview of some recent developments in differential geometry related to supersymmetric field
theories. The main themes covered are: special geometry and supersymmetry, generalized geometry, geometries with torsion, para-geometries,
holonomy theory, symmetric spaces and spaces of constant curvature, conformal geometry, wave equations on Lorentzian manifolds, D-branes
and K-theory.
The intended audience consists of advanced students and researchers working in differential geometry, string theory and related areas. The
emphasis is on geometrical structures occurring on target spaces of supersymmetric field theories. Some of these structures can be fully described
in the classical framework of pseudo-Riemannian geometry. Others lead to new concepts relating various fields of research, such as special Kähler
geometry or generalized geometry.
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