Timeline for Is St. Petersburg a good place for the 2022 Int. Congress of Mathematicians
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| Feb 26, 2022 at 10:41 | comment | added | H A Helfgott | Small neutral countries that will allow visa-free travel or expedited visas without a humiliating and expensive process for citizens of every country (and yes, third-world countries are countries). Something tells me that not every small neutral country in Europe fits the bill. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 21:46 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl♦ | @DeaneYang While there is no perfect location, certainly a good approximation are small neutral countries (such as e.g. Switzerland or Austria) which were not involved in war in the past decades and which do not threaten other countries by military means. And yes, I also think funding should be by all IMU members -- already to avoid that only big or rich countries can host an ICM, or that commercial / PR considerations play a too big role. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 18:00 | comment | added | Deane Yang | @StefanKohl, you express something I think we all wish for. But do you have an actual location to suggest? I would add that I think to achieve such a goal, each ICM should be funded jointly by all IMU members (at appropriate percentages) instead of just the host country. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 15:52 | comment | added | Stefan Kohl♦ | I'd even go that far to say that such global event as an ICM should ideally take place in a location where nobody -- regardless from where in the world -- has the feeling to be in enemy's country, as far as this can realistically be achieved. But an ICM in St Petersburg this year would feel to me like an ICM in Munich in 1938. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 13:38 | comment | added | Vitali Kapovitch | I don't even think this is about Ukranian mathematicians at this point. Holding ICM in Russia is no longer tenable. If It's not moved many invited speakers will not go. At least I hope so. There are things more important than math honors. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 9:41 | comment | added | user334725 | Realistically (though perhaps I will be corrected), I don't think there were many Ukrainian mathematicians planning on attending even prior to recent events. | |
| Feb 25, 2022 at 9:36 | comment | added | Jakob Möller | I don't think the question arises whether the question arises because realistically the ICM will not be held in St. Petersburg. | |
| S Feb 25, 2022 at 1:54 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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