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At its executive meeting last Saturday, the Executive of the International Mathematical Union <div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">decided not to support the Canadian bid for ICM 2014. After long deliberations, the EC</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">decided to support the bid of Korea. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Let me cite Laszlo Lovasz, the president of the IMU: "We received three excellent applications, and the decision process was</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">difficult, in which many criteria were weighed. If you wish to know more</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">about the main issues influencing the decision, Marting Groetschel or I</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">are ready to give you more information.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We thank you very much for your offer to host the Congress and for putting</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">together such an excellent bid."</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">Indeed, the community made an excellent bid. The Site Committee has been very impressed by our community, the way we work together, and also our creativity </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">for the congress itself. The following two links will show you that the step was high: </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0023eb" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0023eb"><a href="http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/04/21/200904210017.asp"><u>http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/04/21/200904210017.asp</u><u></u></a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#0023eb" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #0023eb"><a href="http://www.kms.or.kr/eng/contents/news_list.asp#22"><u>http://www.kms.or.kr/eng/contents/news_list.asp#22</u></a></font></div></div><div><br></div><div>This bid could only help increase the international image of Canadian mathematics at the internationl level. </div><div>We are very thankful to all of you for your help and/or support in the preparation of this bid. </div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Christiane Rousseau, directrice</div><div>Centre de recherches mathématiques</div><div>Université de Montréal</div><div>C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville</div><div>Montréal, Qc</div><div>H3C 3J7</div><div>Tél: 514 343 7502</div><div>Fax: 514 343 2254</div><div><a href="mailto:directrice@crm.umontreal.ca">directrice@crm.umontreal.ca</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>