Boycott ICM 2022 in RussiaThis page was created for mathematicians to protest against hosting the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2022 by Russia. Saint Petersburg was chosen as the next ICM venue at the 2018 General Assembly in São Paulo. Statement of Purpose (2018) History of this initiative and related actions To spread the word: door sticker [orange] [white] Here are some of the reasons to boycott:
The aim of the boycott is not to penalize Russian mathematicians for the actions of Russian government or prevent their collaboration with the colleagues abroad. The Congress is co-organized and financed by the Russian government. We believe that by recognizing the Congress in Russia, the mathematical community indirectly lends credibility to Putin's regime. Signed by: |
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Masha Vlasenko | Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences | |
Marcin Kotowski | University of Warsaw | |
Piotr Achinger | Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences | |
Ahmed Abbes | CNRS & IHES, France | |
Adriana Salerno | Bates College (USA) | |
Michał Kotowski | University of Warsaw, Poland | |
Sarah Carr | LMU Germany | |
John Voight | Dartmouth College | |
Andrey Gogolev | Ohio State University, USA | One can effectively argue that math should be above politics. There is a lot of truth to it as nowadays math goes across the borders, cultures and politics. Still there is threshold of what is acceptable. For me personally, after the war of 2014, setting a foot on russian soil, not to mention participating in government backed and supported event, is simply unimaginable. Understandably, the outlook of Russia-based mathematicians, even those who vocally oppose the regime (see Vassiliev, Vershik etc.) could be different. |
Oleksii Tovpyha | Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine | |
Alexander Soifer | University of Colorado, USA | I am grateful to the July 29-30, 2018, General Assembly (GA) of the International Mathematics Union (IMU) for following my urging and deciding to replace the name of Rolf Nevanlinna, a Hitler supporter, on its prize and medal. However, GA erred in granting criminal tyrant Putin a propaganda tool by selecting Russia for hosting ICM-2022. War on Georgia, Annexation of Crimea, War on Ukraine, etc., etc., etc. are the gravest violations of the international law, and must not be rewarded. I do not think that for countries to order their mathematicians not to attend is right. I support the boycott on the individual level, by those who are not only mathematicians, but also human beings of high moral standards. |
Tyler Kelly | University of Birmingham, UK | |
Alex Fink | Queen Mary University of London, Great Britain | |
Alexander Hoover | University of Akron, USA | |
Marco Carfagnini | United States | |
Marco Antei | Universidad de Costa Rica | In 2017 I started a battle, alone, against EMS which equally supported France and Russia in their contest to host next ICM. I know many people talked about that solitary battle. In a private email the director of EMS replied to me ""I would never say I am proud of the orientation with which I was born [...] I would regard it humiliating"". Well, I am proud of being gay and I am happy not to be alone in this battle anymore. Russian friends and colleagues, this fight is for you! |
Max Lahn | Brown University (US) | |
Ioannis Markakis | USA | |
Kimberly Ayers | USA | |
Diana Davis | United States of America | |
Carlos Castano-Bernard | Mexico | |
Joshua Lebo | Brown University, United States | |
Signe Golash | Brown University, United States | |
Zsofia Biegl | United States | |
Michael NIsenzon | Brown University | |
Emma-Dennis-Knieriem | Brown University | |
Joseph Hlavinka | United States | |
Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson | CUNY College of Staten Island, USA | |
Bryan Xian | Brown University, USA | |
Madelyn Adams | Brown University, USA | |
Batia Friedman-Shaw | United States | Fight for our rights with the mathematical community |
Henry Talbott | Undergraduate mathematics major at Brown University, USA | |
Noah Picard | Brown University, USA | |
Jeanne Allen | United States | |
Frank Farris | Santa Clara University, USA | |
Suzanna O’Neill | USA | |
Rhea Mathews | United States | |
Emily Tunkel | US | |
Oleksandra Beznosova | USA | |
Zoltan Kocsis | University of Manchester | |
Joshua Zelinsky | Iowa State University, USA | |
Alyson Singleton | Brown University, United States of America | |
Katrina Honigs | University of Utah | Russia is not a safe place for all of my colleagues to visit. |
Valokdemar Skou | University of Copenhagen, Denmark | |
George Schaeffer | Stanford University | |
Maciej Zdanowicz | EPF Lausanne, Switzerland | |
Darij Grinberg | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | |
Mauricio Genta Enriquez-Sarano | Undergraduate math student, Faculty of sciences, Udelar, Uruguay | |
Lawrence Jack Barrott | NCTS (Taiwan) | |
Spencer Bagley | Westminster College, UT, USA | |
Taras Lehinevych | National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy | |
Asvin Gothandaraman | USA Wisconsin Madison | |
Daira Hopwood | UK | I fully support Russian mathematicians and the immense contribution they have made to mathematics in general, but holding a conference there given the politics of the current regime is the wrong decision. In particular, LGBT mathematicians would be unsafe at such a conference. |
Ian Hill | Undergraduate Mathematics Student, United States of America | |
Ajeet Gary | United States of America | |
Yassin Chandran | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA | |
emily rexer | Emory University USA | |
Brandis Whitfield | Undergraduate Mathematics Student, United States | |
Bogdan Petrenko | Eastern Illinois University | |
Olexander Strilets | Ukraine | |
Andriy Prymak | University of Manitoba, Canada | |
Bogdan Savchynskyy | Heidelberg University | |
Alexandre Kosyak | Institute of Mathematics, Kiev, Ukraine | |
Irina Yehorchenko | Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine | Holding major international events means direct and open support for Russian aggression in Ukraine, support for killing Ukrainians and Syrians. Organisers and participanrts of such events actually declare that they support annexation of Crimea, political repressions and killings in Russia and Russia-organised killings in other countries. Its a hypocrisy if people say that math is beyond politics - nothing is beyond politics. International organisers and visitors of such event help aggression, totalitarism and killings |
Dmitri Finkelshtein | Swansea University, UK | |
Yuriy Drozd | Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
Volodymyr Lyubashenko | Institute of Mathematics, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Dhruv Ranganathan | University of Cambridge, UK | My colleagues deserve to be safe at the ICM. |
Ana Rita Pires | University of Edinburgh, UK | |
Lyudmila Turowska | Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden | |
Roman Popovych | University of Vienna, Austria | |
Anatoly Holub | Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine | |
Yuliia Mishura | Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | |
Danyl Proskurin | Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, associate professor of Faculty of Computer Sciences and Cybernetycs | |
Volodymyr Makarov | Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine | |
Vitalii Vasylyk | Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine | |
Vasyl Ostrovskyi | Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine | |
Dmytro Savchuk | University of South Florida | |
Viacheslav Rabanovich | Institute of mathematics, NAS of Ukraine | There are a lot of mathematicians who expressed some points of view that are different from Russian Government's one. They will be in danger being in Russia with such a record. And even this comment can be the record. |
Igor Burban | University of Paderborn, Germany | |
Taras Banakh | Ivan Franko National University of Lviv | |
Iryna Banakh | IAPMM, NAS of Ukraine | |
Lyubomyr Zdomskyy | University of Vienna, Austria | |
Nikolai Iorgov | Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Viktor Levandovskyy | RWTH Aachen University, Germany | The protest is against the ruling regime, and not against mathematicians in Russian Federation |
Andrii Anikushyn | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Pavlo Pylyavskyy | University of Minnesota | |
Dmitry Kerner | Ben Gurion University, Israel | (see the comment of Andrey Gogolev) |
Dmitri Maslov | IBM | |
Boris Chorny | University of Haifa (Oranim), Israel | Apart from all the political reasons mentioned above, Russia is not a safe place to visit due to government's policy to take hostages in attempt to release FSB affiliated criminals in other countries. See the recent story of Naama Issachar, as well as the detention of Qatari wrestlers in the transit zone of a Moscow airport after the assassination of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev in Doha (2004). |
Petr Ogarok | Russia, MIPT, MS student | |
Roman Nikiforov | National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine | |
Rostyslav Yamnenko | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Pavlo Pyshkin | Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre, Hungary | |
Alexei Konstantinov | Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University | |
Michael Schlosser | University of Vienna | |
Alexandre Eremenko | Purdue University | |
Robert Huang | USA | |
Roman Cherniha | Institute of Mathematics of NASU, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Nikolay Sheshko | Poland | |
Steve Huntsman | USA | |
Paul Wirkus | RWTH Aachen University, Germany | |
Andrew Tawfeek | Amherst College | |
Jonathan Gorard | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
Sasha Ananin (Alexandre Ananin) | Department of Mathematics at the State University of São Paulo (branch at São Carlos), São Paulo State, Brazil | |
Anthony Bonato | Ryerson University, Canada | |
Aleksei Kozlov | Moscow Aviation University | |
Sean Sather-Wagstaff | United States | |
Artem Gureev | University of Western Ontario | |
Ivan Yaroslavtsev | Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences | |
Alexander Venger | Dubna State University, Russia |