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»News« want to inform you about actual and selected events in mathematics, but also about important developments which are relevant for Zentralblatt. The achive presents all messages in the category »News« in chronological form.

Date	News
2007-05-20	MSC2010Wiki The current state of the Mathematics Subject Classification 2010 is available at the MSC2010 Wiki Page.
2008-05-14	5ECM in Amsterdam The Fifth European Congress of Mathematics will be held in Amsterdam, 14th-18th July 2008. 5ECM
2008-03-27	Abel Prize 2008 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2008 to John Griggs Thompson, University of Florida and Jacques Tits, Collège de France, for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory. more ...
2008-03-14	About 1.000.000 DOIs in Zentralblatt MATH During the past weeks, several hundred thousands DOIs have been added to literature references in Zentralblatt MATH database. About 1.000.000 database entries do now have DOIs, making access to the full texts of articles much easier. more ...
2008-01-23	Germany celebrates the »Year of Mathematics« (Jahr der Mathematik) The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research has declared 2008 as the Year of Mathematics. A lot of events and activities are planned to focus the interest of the general public to mathematics and its applications, for more information see Scientific Year 2008: Year of Mathematics (in German). more ...
2008-01-10	MSC 2010 MR and Zbl have initiated the process of revising MSC2000 with an expectation that the revision will be used beginning in 2010. more ...
2007-05-14	Abel Prize 2007 The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has decided to award the Abel Prize for 2007 to Srinivasa S. R. Varadhan (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York) for his fundamental contributions to probability theory and in particular for creating a unified theory of large deviations. more ...
2006-09-01	New ZMATH Release Zentralblatt MATH, the world's largest and most comprehensive database on mathematical research publications is offered under an updated and improved version of the EDBM software designed by the French partner Cellule MathDoc in Grenoble. more ...
2006-08-22	IMU Awards and Prizes The International Union has awarded its 2006 prizes on August 22, 2006 during the Opening Ceremony of the International Congress of Mathematicians http://www.icm2006.org in Madrid, Spain. Information about the winners can be found here more ...
2006-08-11	Cerme Conference Fifth Congress of ERME, the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education: more ...
2005-12-30	Robert J. Aumann Nobel Prize winner 2005 Robert J. Aumann in Zentralblatt MATH more ...