Germany’s FIZ Karlsruhe, along with Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, will be present in various respects at the 6th European Congress on Mathematics, to be held in Kraków from July 2-7. The event takes place every four years at different locations and is projected as the most important conference in mathematics.
Olaf Teschke, head of FIZ Karlsruhe’s mathematics and computer science department, will hold a lecture on how the European Digital Mathematics Library (EuDML) and the Zentralblatt MATH database (zbMATH) complement and enhance each other. Additionally, FIZ Karlsruhe will provide information at its booth on zbMATH, a database for publications in the fields of pure and applied mathematics.
The Otto Neugebauer Prize will be awarded for the first time. It is named after the founder of the journal Zentralblatt für Mathematik, which is the precursor of zbMATH. The prize is endowed by Springer Verlag and awarded for research in the field of history of mathematics. The Austrian-American mathematician Otto Neugebauer (1899-1990) conducted groundbreaking studies on Babylonian, Egyptian, Indian and Greek mathematics and, in 1931, founded the Zentralblatt für Mathematik.
The conference is jointly organised by the European Mathematical Society (EMS), the Polish Mathematical Society, and the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. The prizes awarded besides the Otto Neugebauer Prize include the EMS prizes, awarded to the 10 best young researchers, and the Felix Klein Prize for the best solution to a problem from applied mathematics.
More information on the prize winners, lectures, and research profiles is available at: http://www.zentralblatt-math.org/static/zbl-for-krakow.pdf
