International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the most significant meeting in pure and applied mathematics worldwide, and one of the oldest scientific congresses. The first ICM took place in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1897. ICMs are organized every 4 years by the International Mathematical Union (IMU) in partnership with the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) from the host country. The IMU considers the organization of the ICMs as its most important activity.
The goal of the ICM is to present a panorama of mathematics, including all fields of study and different geographic regions, and thus point to the future directions of mathematics. The ICM plenary and invited speakers are mathematicians of the highest quality, able to present current trends of research to a broad mathematical audience.
The Opening Ceremony of the ICM is always a very festive event attracting the attention of millions of people from around the world — mathematics professionals and enthusiasts alike. At the opening ceremony, the names of the new winners of the IMU awards are announced, including the winners of the Fields medals. The significance of this moment is traditionally recognized by the presence of the head of the state. The IMU prizes are the highest distinctions in the mathematical world.
The ICM program includes a very broad spectrum of events including plenary and invited lectures, panels, public lectures, outreach events, social events, short communications, poster presentations, and more. The calendar of events starts taking shape about a year prior to the opening of the ICM.
The overall structure of the ICM is determined by the ICM Structure Committee of the IMU, chaired by Prof. Terry Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles. Click here for detailed information about the composition of this committee, its decisions and recommendations. In particular, the committee suggests to hold about 20 plenary lectures, with two or three of these lectures designated as «special plenary lectures» that will have a non-standard format. For example, they may be expository lectures on recent advances by other mathematicians, «bridge building» lectures connecting two fields of mathematics (such as a pure and an applied field), lectures given jointly by two speakers, or other experimental formats. The Structure Committee also determined the list of 20 sections for invited talks and described their scope and size, see the information about invited talks for further details.
Plenary and sectional speakers of the ICM are selected by the ICM Program Committee (PC) of the IMU, chaired by Prof. Martin Hairer of the Imperial College, London. The Program Committee relies in its work on the input of the sectional selection panels, one for each of the 20 sections. Invitations to lecture at the International Congresses carry a very high prestige in the mathematics profession and the PC does its very important work with the utmost care and diligence.
The Executive Organizing Committee and the Local Organizing Committee of the St Petersburg ICM coordinate their effort with the IMU and are going through all planning steps to make the next ICM a very successful and impactful event. In their work, they rely on the International Advisory Committee as well as input from mathematical organizations and individual mathematicians. Correspondence about all local aspects of the ICM planning and organization should be addressed to loc@icm2022.org. Use advisory@icm2022.org to contact the International Advisory Committee.
Dmitry N. Chernyshenko | Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, co-chair of the EOC |
Arkady V. Dvorkovich | Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation, co-chair of the EOC |
Alexander M. Sergeyev | President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, deputy co-chair of the EOC |
Stanislav K. Smirnov | Head of interdisciplinary research Chebyshev Laboratory at St. Petersburg State University, Professor, University of Geneva, deputy co-chair of the EOC |
Valery N. Falkov | Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (deputy co-chair of the EOC) |
Alexander D. Beglov | Governor of St.Petersburg |
Yurii S. Belov | Associate Professor, St. Petersburg State University |
Igor V. Beloguzov | Deputy General Director of the Federal Passenger Company |
Elena I. Bunina | CEO of Yandex Russia |
Dmitry S. Derevyashkin | First Deputy Head of Department «P» of the Economic Security Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation |
Aleksey G. Zinin | Deputy Head of the Main Directorate for the Protection of Public Order of the National Guard of the Russian Federation |
Sergei V. Kislyakov | Director of St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences |
Valerii V. Kozlov | Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Nikolay M. Kropachev | Rector of St. Petersburg State University |
Alexander P. Kuleshov | Skoltech President |
Vladimir N. Knyaginin | Vice-governor of St.Petersburg |
Sergey V. Lyulin | Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Alla Yu. Manilova | State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation |
Nikita V. Marchenkov | Deputy Head of the Kurchatov Complex for Synchronous Neutron Reserach for General and Scientific Issues, Kurchatov Institute |
Yury V. Matiyasevich | Principal Research Fellow, St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences |
Aleksey A. Molostvov | Director of the Guest Events of Expoforum |
Elena K. Nechaeva | Deputy Head of Directorate for Science and Education Policy, Executive Office of the President of the Russian Federation |
Andrey Yu. Okounkov | Professor, Columbia University and Skoltech, Academic Supervisor of the International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics, Higher School of Economics |
Dmitri O. Orlov | Head of Algebraic Geometry Department, Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences |
Yuri V. Parfyonov | Director of the Department for Implementation of Strategic Projects of the Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation |
Konstantin A. Pashkov | Director of the Administration Department, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation |
Alexander N. Pechen | Head of Laboratory, Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences |
Roman Yu. Plugin | Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region |
Andrey M. Romanov | Deputy Director of the Department of State Scientific and Technical Policy of the Ministry of Education and Sceince of the Russian Federation, Executive Secretary of the EOC |
Victor A. Sadovnichy | Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University |
Iskander A. Taimanov | Principal Researcher, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Oksana V. Tarasenko | Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation |
Grigory V. Trubnikov | Director of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research |
Mikhail V. Khorev | Deputy Director, Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation |
Aleksandr P. Chuprian | First Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters |
Stanislav K. Smirnov | Head of interdisciplinary research Chebyshev Laboratory at St. Petersburg State University, Professor, University of Geneva, deputy co-chair of the EOC, co-chair of the LOC |
Grigory V. Trubnikov | First Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education, co-chair of the LOC |
Andrey Yu. Okounkov | Professor, Columbia University and Skoltech, Academic Supervisor of the International Laboratory of Representation Theory and Mathematical Physics, Higher School of Economics, co-chair of the LOC |
Nikolai N. Andreeev | Head of Laboratory of Popularization and Promotion of Mathematics, Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences |
Yurii S. Belov | Associate Professor, St. Petersburg State University, secretary of the LOC |
Alexander N. Pechen | Head of Department, Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, secretary of the LOC |
Elena A. Arseneva | Assistant Professor, St. Petersburg State University |
Dmitry Belyaev | Professor, University of Oxford |
Alexander I. Bobenko | Professor, Technische Universität Berlin |
Elena I. Bunina | CEO of Yandex Russia |
Yurii Volkov | Associate Professor, St. Petersburg State University |
Ekaterina V. Eremenko | Filmmaker |
Sergei V. Kislyakov | Director of St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences |
Igor M. Krichever | Director of Skoltech Center for Advanced Studies, Professor, Columbia University |
Sergei K. Lando | Professor of National Research University Higher School of Economics |
Ari A. Laptev | Professor, Imperial College London |
Julia A. Pevtsova | Professor, University of Washington |
Maxim Ya. Pratusevich | Director of Physics,Math Lyceum 239, Saint-Petersburg |
Maria V. Rossomakhina | Administrator of interdisciplinary research Chebyshev Laboratory at St. Petersburg State University |
Marianna S. Russkikh | PhD Student |
Galina I. Sinkevich | Associate Professor of St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
Yuri Tschinkel | Professor of Mathematics, New York University |
Maxim I. Chuyashkin | Advisor, National Research University Higher School of Economics |
Ivan V. Yaschenko | Director of the Moscow Center of Continuous Mathematical Education |
Nikolay A. Vavilov | St. Petersburg University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Professor |
Inessa Grigalyunene | Project Manager, Skoltech |
Anna Fedosova | Head of Learning and Events, Yandex |
Natalia Agapova | Art Director of the ICM |
Mina Aganagic | Professor, UC Berkeley |
Nalini Anantharaman | Professor, Université de Strasbourg, IRMA |
Marian Aprodu | Professor, University of Bucharest, and «Simion Stoilow» Institute of Mathematics |
Martin Bridson | President, Clay Mathematics Institute |
Jim Bryan | Professor, University of British Columbia |
Robert Bryant | Professor, Duke University |
Toti Daskalopoulos | Professor, Columbia University |
Jan De Gier | Professor, University of Melbourne |
Sandra Di Rocco | Professor, Head of Mathematics Department, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm |
Alicia Dickenstein | Professor, University of Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina |
Eric M. Friedlander | Dean’s Professor and Chair, Mathematics, USC |
Rostislav Grigorchuk | Distinguished Professor, Texas A&M University |
Martin Groetschel | Professor, Technische Universität Berlin |
Tamas Hausel | Professor, IST Austria |
Kathryn Hess | Professor, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Gil Kalai | Professor Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IDC, Herzliya, and Yale University |
Ludmil Katzarkov | Professor, University of Miami |
Antti-Jukka Kupiainen | Professor, University of Helsinki |
Klavdija Kutnar | Professor, University of Primorska |
Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu | Professor, Columbia University |
Hiraku Nakajima | Professor, IPMU, Tokyo |
Jaroslav Nesetril | Professor, Charles University, Prague |
Hyungju Park | President, Ajou University |
Ragni Piene | Professor, University of Oslo |
Dipendra Prasad | Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai |
Kristian Ranestad | Professor, University of Oslo |
Mikael Rørdam | Professor, University of Copenhagen |
Gigliola Staffilani | Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Mina Teicher | Director, Emmy Noether Research Institute for Mathematics |
Gang Tian | Distinguished Professor, Peking University. Vice-President of Peking Univ. and the Chinese Mathematical Society |
Ulrike Tillmann | Professor, University of Oxford |
Marcelo Viana | Professor, IMPA |