Minutes of the Meeting
of the Irish Mathematial Soiety
Ordinary Meeting
23rd Deember 1997
The Irish Mathematial Soiety held an Ordinary Meeting at
12.15pm on Tuesday 23rd Deember 1997 in the Dublin Institute
for Advaned Studies, 10 Burlington Road. Eleven members
present. The President, C. Nash was in the hair. Apologies were
reeived from D. Armitage, M. Clany, D. Hurley and P. Mellon
(Seretary).
1. Minutes
The minutes of the meeting of Marh 1997 were approved and
signed.
2. Matters arising
It was agreed that rather than having an I.M.S. Mathematis
Olympiad perpetual trophy sulpted, a up will be purhased
instead. This will ost between $200 and $300.
It was noted that there have been substantial hanges to the situation regarding possible uts by the H.E.A. of the researh equipment budgets of the universities. An amount of $300m. has been
allotted to tehnology in seond and third-level eduation.
3. Correspondene/Membership Appliations
Subsequent to a letter reeived from an unemployed member seeking a redution in the membership fee (whih was approved by the
ommittee), it was agreed that the issue of a speial membership
rate for unwaged members will be put on the agenda of the next
Ordinary Meeting of the Soiety.
4. The Bulletin
R. Gow, editor, reported that there is still a need for artiles for
future issues.
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R. Gow stated that his term as editor is oming towards its end.
He will edit the Easter issue and hopes that a new editor will be
in plae by then.
The Soiety expressed its gratitude to Dr Gow for his eorts in
putting and keeping the bulletin on a regular footing over the past
number of years.
It was noted that the Christmas 1997 edition of the Bulletin is now
available and is being distributed by G. Lessells.
5. Eletion of OÆers
It was noted that E. Gath, R. Gow, P. Mellon (Seretary), J. Pule
(Treasurer) and A. Wikstead have reahed the end of their twoyear terms of oÆe on the ommittee.
An eletion took plae to ll the ve vaant ommittee positions.
The nominations were as follows:
Position
Nominee
Proposer
Seonder
Treasurer
K. Huthinson
J.Pule
D.C. Nash
Seretary
R. Higgs
C. Nash
M. Newell
Ordinary
Members
N. Buttimore
R. Gowyy
C. Nash
E. Gath
R. Timoney
M. Newell
J. Golden 2
T. Murphy
S. Tobin
R. Timoney
M. Newell
M. Newell
y
3y
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Note: following the eletion of K. Huthinson as treasurer, an additional vaany arose for the position of ordinary member. Sine
there was only one andidate for eah position all six nominees
were deemed eleted.
Eah y denotes a previous two-year term of oÆe.
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It was noted that C. Nash (President), D. Armitage (Viepresident), M. Clany, D. Hurley and G. Lessells eah has one
more year remaining in their urrent term of oÆe.
6. Treasurer's Report
The Treasurer presented the interim report for 1997. The surplus
for the year stands at $507.63. The arrears in E.M.S. subsription
have now been paid in full.
It was noted that the membership form and the bank standing order form are both available at the I. M. S. web-site
www.maths.td.ie/ims It was agreed that the I.M.S. members
should be more pro-ative in the reruitment of new members.
It was agreed that the membership list should list members by
institution.
7. September Meeting 1998
The Soiety noted its gratitude to Dr Golden and the organizers at
D.I.T. for a well organized 1997 September meeting with a good
program.
It was reported that the plans for the 1998 September meeting at
the University of Ulster, Coleraine are at an advaned stage. Five
main speakers have aepted invitations. The on-going details of
arrangements are available on the I.M.S. web page.
8. Joint I.M.S./L.M.S. meeting
A joint meeting of the I.M.S. and London Mathematial Soiety
will take plae in Burlington House, London on 22nd and 23rd
May 1998, with the title Complex Analysis and Dynamial Systems. The following have agreed to speak: Linda Keen (CUNY),
Anthony G. O'Farrell (Maynooth), Bodil Branner (Tehnial University of Denmark), Riardo Perez-Maro (Orsay, Paris), Shaun
Bullett (Queen Mary and Westeld College, London), JeanChristophe Yooz (Orsay, Paris). R. Timoney and D. Hurley are
the I.M.S. loal organizers and Shaun Bullett is the L.M.S. loal
organizer. The I.M.S. is ontributing $1,200 whih is one-third
of the total ost. R. Timoney is seeking some nanial support
from the British Counil.
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9. Any other business
M. Newell announed that the Groups in Galway onferene will
elebrate its 21st birthday in 1998. He will write to the Treasurer
seeking some nanial support from the I.M.S.
It was agreed that future editions of the I.M.S. Bulletin will be
inluded in the I.M.S. web-pages maintained by R. Timoney at
www.maths.td.ie/ims. They will be in postsript or Adobe pdf
format. R. Timoney also noted that information about EMIS (The
European Mathematial Information Servie), oered by the EMS,
is now mirrored at the TCD web-site emis.maths.td.ie/EMIS.
This inludes about 15 eletroni journals.
N. Buttimore noted the reent suess onerning the equipment
budgets of the universities, was due in some part to lobbying T.D.s
by mail. He noted that T.D.s now have e-mail aounts.
There was some disussion about the reent situation in DCU.,
whereby mathematis is now being taught to rst and seond year
Engineering students from outside of the Shool of Mathematial
Sienes. Sine the urrent situation is still under review at DCU,
it was agreed that Soiety will await further developments before
deiding on possible ation. The Soiety will keep in touh with
its members in DCU.
The meeting losed at 12.55p.m.
Eugene Gath
University of Limerik.