Activities Involving Developing Countries

Commission on Development and Exchanges - CDE

Report prepared by Pierre Bérard, Secretary

The Commission on Development and Exchanges (CDE) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) continued to support mathematics and mathematicians from developing countries in 1996.

The program "Support to Individual Mathematicians" offers partial travel support to mathematicians who make an extended research visit in an advanced mathematical center which commits itself to supporting the local expenses. This program applies both to mathematicians from developing countries and to mathematicians from advanced countries who visit a mathematical center in a developing country.

The program "Support to Conferences" offers partial support for the academic activities of conferences organized in developing countries.

As in the past years, the CDE has received many applications and had to make a strict selection before awarding funding.

The CDE has also continued supporting research teams in Vietnam through a special grant awarded to Professor Pham who coordinates scientific cooperation with Vietnam. The CDE has also decided to cooperate with I.C.P.A.M. (Nice, France) and with I.C.T.P. (Trieste, Italy). The cooperation will be effective in 1997. Two special funding projects, one for Vietnam and one for Africa are being examined (to be effective hopefully in 1997)

A list of beneficiaries is given below. The activities of the CDE were made possible through funding or donations received from ICSU, IMU, Mathematical Society of Japan and Société Mathématique de France.

CDE 1996 Support to Individual Mathematicians

Name / Field	                ORIGIN	      Research Visit / Year

Balachandran (control theory)	India	      Univ. Tennessee  (USA), Jul. 96
Osilike (nonlinear analysis)	Nigeria	      ICTP (Italy), Apr. 96
Laouar (applied pde)            Algeria	      ICTP (Italy), Oct. 96
Flores (calculus of variations)	Chile	      ICTP (Italy), Oct. 96
Cortinas (K-theory)	        Argentina     Bielefeld (Germany) and Paris (France), Oct. 96
Kabbaj (commutative algebra)	Marocco	      U. Tennessee, Knoxville (USA), Jan 97
Elizondo (algebraic geometry)	Mexico	      Tata Institute (India), Jan 97
Paycha (mathematical physics)	France	      Univ. de Los Andes, Bogota (Colombia),
Jul. 97
Moore (nonlinear analysis)	Nigeria	      ICTP (Italy), Nov. 96
Umar (algebraic semi-groups)	Nigeria	      Univ. Scotland, St Andrews (UK), Dec. 96
Zeine (applied pde, economy)	Mauritania    Nice (France), Oct. 96

CDE 1996 Support to Conferences

Title of the Meeting/Conference	                      Country / Year

Algebra and its applications (Obada)	              Cairo (Egypt), April 96
Intl. Conf. Functional  and Global Analysis (Sy)      Quezon City (Philippines), Oct. 96
III Intl. Conf. Operational Research (Allende)	      Habana (Cuba), Mar 97
Giraga, geometry and analysis (Ezin)	              Porto Novo (Benin), Dec. 96
Intl. Conf. Dynamical Systems, Rangarajan	      Bangalore (India), Jan 97
Workshop K-theory, Karoubi	                      Mendonza (Argentina), Aug. 96, 
Ukraine DEBC-97, differential equations (Maistrenko)  Katsiveli (Ukraine), May 97

CDE 1996 Support to Research Teams

Country	        Country/Year

Vietnam (Pham)	Nice (France), Jun. 96