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Here is a new call for proposals from the ESF with a short deadline:

http://www.esf.org/activities/esf-conferences/2007-call-for-proposals/esf-mshe-pan-conferences.html

Any European mathematician who has not reached his or her 35th birthday on 30 June 2008, and who has not previously received the prize, is eligible for an EMS Prize at 5ecm. A total of 10 prizes will be awarded.

Nominations for the prize must reach the chairman of the Prize Committee not later than 1 November 2007. Please go here for details.

The prize, established in 1999 by the EMS and the endowing organisation, the Institute for Industrial Mathematics in Kaiserslautern, is awarded to a young scientist or a small group of young scientists (normally under the age of 38) for using sophisticated mathematical methods to solve a concrete and difficult industrial problem.

Nominations for the prize must reach the Helsinki office of the EMS at the e-mail address ulmanen@cc.helsinki.fi no later than 1st February 2008. Please go here for details.

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. Further information can be found on the page http://www.abelprisen.no/en/prisvinnere/2007/.