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: |
Masha Vlasenko | Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences | |
Yuriy Drozd | Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
Svetlana Katok | The Pennsylvania State University | |
Ahmed Abbes | CNRS & IHES, France | |
Adriana Salerno | Bates College (USA) | |
Slava Rychkov | IHES, France | |
Marcin Kotowski | University of Warsaw | |
Piotr Achinger | Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Philip Sink | Carnegie Mellon University, United States | |
Morgan Opie | Harvard U, USA | |
David Yang | Harvard University | |
Siyan Li-Huerta | Harvard University in the United States | |
Peter Park | Harvard University, USA | |
Théo de Oliveira Santos | undegraduate student at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil | |
Mahrud Sayrafi | University of Minnesota, United States | |
Andrew Hardt | University of Minnesota | I fully support Russian mathematicians, and Russia-based mathematicians. Holding the ICM in Saint Petersburg amounts to condoning the continuing Russian aggression and abuse, as well as the detention of several Russian mathematicians in opposition to the current regime. Until the Russian government can tolerate political dissent, I believe that holding the ICM meetings there would be unwise and unsafe. |
Sanchit Chaturvedi | Stanford U | |
Roeland Merks | Leiden University, The Netherlands | |
Leonid Prigozhin | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel | The case of Azat Miftakhov was fabricated. Freedom to Azat! |
Juris Smotrovs | University of Latvia, Latvia | |
Mykhaylo Tyomkyn | Charles University, Prague. Czechia | |
Azza Gaysin | Charles University in Prague | |
Khodabakhsh Hessami Pilehrood | Fields Institute | |
Yiwang Chen | University of Michigan | |
Andrzej Ruciński | Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland | |
Ashwin Iyengar | King's College London | |
Nikolay Shcherbina | University of Wuppertal, Germany | |
Julia Gordon | Canada | |
Serhiy Ivashkovych | Université de Lille, France | |
Anakin Dey | United States | |
Habiba Kadiri | University of Lethbridge | |
Michelle Manes | University of Hawaii, United States | We all deserve to be safe at mathematics meetings. We cannot support a meeting in Russia right now. |
Michael lacey | Georgia Institute of Technology | |
Tarik Aougab | Haverford College | |
Nicholas Cahill | University of Utah | I am tremendously embarrassed that my advisor accepted the invitation to be a plenary speaker at this event. |
Yuri Sulyma | Brown University, USA | |
Leah Leiner | Temple University, United States | |
Héctor Chang-Lara | CIMAT | |
Beatriz Hormanseder | UFES | |
Rachelle Bouchat | United States | |
Semen Słobodianiuk | Poland Warsaw University | |
Oleksandr Misiats | Virginia Commonwealth University | |
Eric Katz | The Ohio State University, United States | |
Valerii Samoilenko | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Sergey Neshveyev | University of Oslo | | |
Anatolij Prykarpatski | Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University of Drohobych, Lviv region, Ukraine | I support Russian organizations fighting with the regime |
Oleksand Mokliachuk | National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute” | |
Oleg Limarchenko | Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University, Ukraine | |
Anatoliy Pogorui | Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University, Ukraine | |
Yaroslav Zhuk | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Anna Sukretna | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Mykhailo Horodnii | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Andrii Chaikovskyi | Ukraine, Kyiv Taras Shevchenko National University | |
Alexander Ilchenko | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Kateryna Semenovych | Kyiv Taras Shevchenko national university, Ukraine | |
Igor Parasyuk | Ukraine / Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | Agree with the reasons to boycott |
Oleksandr Borysenko | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | |
Igor Shevchuk | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | |
Alexander Balinsky | Cardiff University, United Kingdom | |
Oleksandr Stanzhytskyi | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv | |
Volodymyr Dilnyi | Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University of Drohobych, Lviv region, Ukraine | |
Ivan Matsak | Doctor of Sciences, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Nicolas Dirr | Cardiff University | While previous hosts did not have an unblemished human rights record either, the aggressive attempts of the Russian regime to destabilise democracies in other countries, state sponsored murders of its critics, its disregard for internationally recognised borders and the fact that LGBT mathematicians and mathematicians who disagree with the regime and its allies cannot feel safe in Russia make this case different. The event should be transferred to another country. |
Anatolij Plichko | Volodymyr Vynnychenko Central Ukrainian State Pedagogical University | |
Sergey Mozgovoy | Ireland | As of 2021, there are more than 13000 casualties of the war in Ukraine. There are 1.5 million people who fled from the east of Ukraine to other areas of the country and 1 million people who fled to Russia. On the other hand, the authoritarian regime in Russia finds itself in the process of power transfer caused by life constraints of the top officials. This process leads to political turbulence and results in human rights violations (such as imprisonment and tortures) very high even by the standards of that regime. It would be preposterous to expect from mathematicians any signs of empathy for human suffering, especially at the prospect of social networking and other benefits provided by ICM. I respect my colleagues too much to assume that they will not find very good reasons to put their love and devotion to science above some insignificant and momentary political differences. Yet, I suppose, it could be not completely useless to express my own stance on the event. |
Iryna Bodnarchuk | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Oksana Bezushchak | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Viktor Tkachenko | Institute of Mathematics National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
Volodymyr Koshmanenko | Professor, Institute of Mathematics, NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Andriy Zagorodnyuk | Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University | |
Sergei Trofimchuk | Professor, University of Talca, Chile | |
Andriy Olenko | La Trobe University, Australia | |
Oleksandr Burylko | Institute of Mathematics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine | |
Anatoly Demyanchuk | Columbia college Vancouver, Canada | |
Sergii Kuzhel | Poland | |
Heather Lee | University of Washington, USA | |
Liliia Myroniuk | Associate Professor, Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University, Ukraine | |
Volodymyr Kyrylyuk | Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine | |
Thomas Koberda | University of Virginia, USA | |
Ira Herbst | University of Virginia, United States | |
Sara Maloni | University of Virginia, USA | |
Maksym Tsizh | Astronomical Observatory of Lviv University | Mathematics is inconsistent with menthal slavery |
Anatoliy Swishchuk | University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada | |
Mariya Svishchuk | Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada, Associate Professor | |
Yuriy Volkotrub | Jagiellonian University/Poland | |
Taras Mel'nyk | Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine | |
Khaled Qazaqzeh | Kuwait University | I agree with the reasons of this boycott especially the point about the air strikes of Syria. |
Nina Otter | Queen Mary University of London | |
Owen Tanner | Scotland | As a Bisexual mathematician involved in political activism and outreach towards the LGBT+ community, I would be unsafe personally visiting Russia. On top of this, the causes outlined including Azat's case are terrible to see. I don't think it is an appropriate choice for those reasons. |
Amy Beth Prager | SACNAS | |
Ian Runnels | Vanderbilt University, US | |
Santana Afton | United States | |
Kenan Ince | Westminster College (Utah), United States | As a queer and nonbinary person, and as someone who believes firmly in the right to political protest, I pledge to promote this boycott in my mathematics circles |
Philip Chodrow | United States | |
Christopher Perez | Loyola University New Orleans | |
David Futer | Temple University, USA | |
Ralph Morrison | Williams College | |
Thomas Stojsavljevic | Beloit College, United States | |
Orion Kolev | The Pennsylvania State University, USA | |
Ashwath Rabindranat | Germany | |
Lior Silberman | The University of British Columbia (Canada) | |
Daniel Litt | United States | |
Ben Blum-Smith | NYU Center for Data Science, The New School (USA) | |
Changwei Zhou | United States | |
Benjamin Dickman | The Hewitt School, USA | Item 3 among the reasons to boycott – "Discrimination of LGBT people" – is sufficient for me to join as a signatory. I hope others in mathematics and adjacent disciplines will give these items, and others, their due consideration. |
Tim Hosgood | University of Stockholm | |
Eddie Fuller | Florida International University | |
Mason Porter | University of California, Los Angeles (USA) | |
Dmitry Ablov | Russia, teacher | |
Rebecca Bellovin | University of Glasgow, UK | |
Lewis Bowen | UT Austin, USA | |
Arpan Saha | Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Spain | In solidarity with Azat Miftakhov |
Dmitry Rachinskiy | University of Texas at Dallas | |
Tomas Juškeičius | Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences | |
Vadym Kurylenko | SISSA, Italy | |
Ronnie Pavlov | University of Denver, USA | Holding this conference in a place where LGBTQ+ mathematicians cannot possibly feel safe is an incredibly poor decision. |
Matas Šileikis | Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences | |
Michał Tomasz Godziszewski | University of Warsaw; University of Łódź | |
Sami Douba | McGill University | |
Peter Moody | Master's student, University of Bonn, Germany | |
Thomas Manopulo | Germany / Master's student, University of Bonn | |
Arthur Massar | Graduate student at Universität Bonn, Germany | |
Bárbara Muniz | Graduate student at University of Bonn, Germany | |
Gianmario Palleschi | Italia | |
Alessandro Nanto | Germany / Master's student, University of Bonn | |
Abhishek Shivkumar | University of California, Berkeley | |
Mattia De Santis | Italy / student, La Sapienza | |
Sam Linderoth | Stockholm University, Sweden | |
Cheng Ly | Virginia USA | |
Jeremy Teitelbaum | University of Connecticut, USA | |
Adam Coffman | Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA | |
Ben Webster | University of Waterloo/Perimeter Institute (Canada) | |
Henry Towsner | University of Pennsylvania, USA | |
Tarik Aougab | Haverford College | For the record, I would oppose (and join any pre-existing effort to boycott) an international mathematics conference being co-sponsored by the US government as well. Let this effort serve as an important precedent to mathematicians everywhere: oppressive state apparatuses have no claim or business in our spaces. |
Lukas Daniel Klausner | St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences, Austria | |
Fabrice Orgogozo | CNRS & IMJ-PRG (Sorbonne) | |
Marissa Loving | Georgia Tech (USA) | |
Jason Miller | California State University Channel Islands | |
Aniruddha S | India/ Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal | |
Heidi Goodson | Brooklyn College, CUNY | |
Volodymyr Nekrashevych | Texas A&M University, USA | |
Julien Roussillon | Sweden | |
Juliette Bruce | University of California, Berkeley, USA | |
Pierre Schapira | Sorbonne University | |
Marco Robalo | Sorbonne Université | |
Ingrid Beltita | Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy | |
Ivan Izmestiev | Vienna University of Technology, Austria | |
Jianxiang Chen | Fudan University | |
Bianca Viray | University of Washington | |
Jon Hillery | UC Berkeley, USA (Undergraduate) | |
Tim Hsu | San Jose State University, USA | |
Lasse Rempe | University of Liverpool, UK | In solidarity with Ukraine, LGBTQ+ mathematicians, and those politically persecuted for their opinions - and with regret to my Russian friends and colleagues - I have to support this boycott. |
Tim Netzer | University of Innsbruck, Austria | |
Peter Kuchment | USA | |
Dylan Thurston | Indiana University, Bloomington, USA | |
Benjamin Golub | Northwestern University | |
Myron Minn-Thu-Aye | University of Connecticut, USA | |
Gene Kopp | Purdue University, USA | |
Gabriela Guzman | Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Science | |
Michael Groechenig | University of Toronto, Canada | |
Christopher Wong | United States | |
Nicola Pagani | University of Liverpool | |
Stefan Dziembowski | University of Warsaw | |
Mikhail Ostrovskii | St. John's University (USA) | |
Tetyana Mamchych | Ukraine, Sweden | |
Walter Bergweiler | University of Kiel, Germany | |
Damian Sawicki | KU Leuven, Belgium | |
Oleg Lisovyy | University of Tours, France | |
Bidisha Roy | Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland | |
Oliver Roth | Germany | |
Mathias Vetter | Kiel University, Germany | |
Rodrigo Hernandez-Gutierrez | Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa, Mexico | |
William Hart | United States | |
Kasia Jankiewicz | University of California Santa Cruz, USA | |
Ilya Kapovich | Hunter College of CUNY | Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a crime against peace and a crime against humanity. An ICM cannot be held in Russia under these circumstances. |
Joachim König | Korea National University of Education, South Korea | |
Simon Becker | NYU | |
Grażyna Horbaczewska | University of Łódź Poland | |
Joern Steuding | Germany | |
Simone Ramello | WWU Münster, Germany | |
Denis Benois | University of Bordeaux (France) | |
Olga Kuznetsova | Aalto University, Finland | |
Detlef Müller | University of Kiel, Germany | |
Riccardo Brasca | Université de Paris | |
Jonathan Lombardy | Unviersity of Volkystagg | |
Wojciech Tralle | University of Virginia | |
Ken Ono | United States/ University of Virginia | |
Daniel Plaumann | TU Dortmund University | |
Mark Wilson | USA | Irrespective of one's opinions about the other points listed here, the invasion of Ukraine has crossed a line that makes participation ethically impossible. |
Alec Traaseth | University of Virginia, USA | |
Igor Khavkine | Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences | In light of the Russian government's aggression against Ukraine, the ICM 2022 cannot in good conscience be held in St Petersburg. |
Giuseppe Persiano | Italy -- U. Salerno | |
Vita Leonessa | University of Basilicata / Italy | |
Charlotte Ure | University of Virginia | |
Leonid Petrov | University of Virginia | STOP THE WAR NOW |
Norbert Steinmetz | Germany | |
Harrison Chen | Academia Sinica | |
Thomas Mark | University of Virginia | |
Badri Vishal Pandey | United States | |
Evangelia Gazaki | University of Virginia | |
Michael Schultz | Virginia Tech (USA) | |
Alexey Gorelov | Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia | I am ashamed of the behavior of my country. As a researcher from Russia, I believe that the Congress should not be held here. |
Ben Stucky | Beloit College | |
Daniel Max Hoffmann | University of Warsaw | Feb 24th, 2022 - people are dying. |
Terence Gaffney | United States of America | As I write this, Russia is invading the Ukraine. All those who work to advance human knowledge must stand together against this attack against self-determination and the freedom to pursue your own thoughts. Moving the site of ICM 2022, would be a good start to a rebuke of the Putin regime by the scientific community. |
Eleftherios Chatzitheodoridis | University of Virginia (USA) | |
Rafał Latała | University of Warsaw | |
Juraj Foldes | University of Virginia, USA | |
Jerzy Tyszkiewicz | University of Warsaw, Poland | |
Ira Herbst | University of Virginia, USA | |
Natalie Stewart | United States of America | |
Václav Mácha | Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences | |
Prof. Wolfgang Woess | Institute of Discrete Mathematics, Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria | I'm firm on the request for boycott, but I'm very unhappy that this is linked with giving data to google |
Martin Rasmussen | Imperial College London, United Kingdom | Putin is a despicable criminal and we need to stand up against his agression against Ukraine. The most important event for mathematicians must not take place in Russia. |
Leszek Plaskota | Poland | |
Ole Bueker | Korea University | In light of the Russian government's aggression against Ukraine, the ICM 2022 cannot in good conscience be held in St Petersburg. |
Gleb Polevoy | University of Paderborn | |
Thomas Polstra | MSRI & University of Virginia, USA | |
Slawomir Lasota | University of Poland, Poland | |
Ondřej Kreml | Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences | |
James Rovnyak | University of Virginia, United States | |
Jayadev Athreya | University of Washington, USA | |
Charlie Conneen | University of Virginia, USA | |
Bartłomiej Polaczyk | University of Warsaw, Poland | |
Sargei Rehmani | University Duisburg-Essen, Germany | |
Ben Hayes | University of Virginia | While I have many friends and colleagues both in Russia and of Russian decent in mathematics, I cannot support an ICM in Russia due to the military action in the Ukraine and the safety concerns of LGBT mathematicians. |
Michał Fabisiak | University of Warsaw, Poland | |
Wanda Niemyska | University of Warsaw | |
Michael R. Pilla | Indiana University, Bloomington, USA | |
Lutz Mattner | Universität Trier, Germany | Let us hope for an ICM in a peaceful and liberal Russia in the not too far future. |
Paul-Emile Paradan | France | |
Zvezdana Kish | University of Virginia, USA | |
Kevin Costello | Perimeter Institute, Canada | |
Abhay Chaudhary | Miami University | |
Alan Hammond | U.C. Berkeley | It is untenable to hold the ICM in St Petersburg given the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
Michał Zając | Poland | |
You Qi | University of Virginia, USA | |
Paweł Bechler | University of Warsaw | |
Andrew Brown | England | |
Mikhail Tikhonov | University of Virginia | I was extremely happy and excited to know that the congress will be held in my motherland. Now, especially with last events, I'm just terrified. |
Alistair Windsor | University of Memphis, USA | |
Piotr Tempczyk | UW | |
Justin Michael Curry | University at Albany, State University of New York | |
Thomas Hagen | University of Memphis, United States | |
Jarosław Wiśniewski | University of Warsaw, Poland | |
James T. Campbell | University of Memphis, Memphis TN USA | |
Jessica Schirle | University of California, Irvine, USA | |
Timothy Campion | Johns Hopkins University | |
Witold Marciszewski | Uniwersity of Warsaw, Poland | |
Wille Shih-Wei Liu | Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik | |
Harry Richman | University of Washington, USA | |
John Carlos Baez | University of California Riverside, USA | |
Alberto Saracco | Università di Parma, Italy | |
Martin Tangora | University of Illinois at Chicago (USA) | |
Gregg Zuckerman | United States | |
Rishabh Gvalani | Max Planck Institute, Leipzig | |
Kitty Yang | United States | |
Ping XU | Penn State University | |
Fred Fung | The Australian National University | Show solidarity with the Ukrainian people suffering from the unprovoked war launched by the Russian government. Holding the ICM in Russia will inadvertently indicate the advocation for Putin's regime from the mathematician community. |
Simone Linz | New Zealand | |
Egor Pluzhnikov | Math student, Faculty of Space Research, MSU (Russia) | |
Arnaud Beauville | Université Côte d'Azur — France | |
David Bevan | University of Strathclyde, Scotland | |
Karolina Kropielnicka | IM PAN | |
Leonhard Frerick | Trier University, Germany | |
Josue Ortega | Queen's University Belfast | |
Jacopo Ulivelli | La Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy | |
Graham Reeve | Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom | |
Tamara Kohler | Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, Madrid | |
Karin baur | University of Leeds | |
Bas Lemmens | University of Kent (UK) | |
Atulya Nagar | Liverpool Hope University | |
Farid Ibrahimov | University of Liverpool | |
Olivier Dudas | CNRS & Université de Paris, France | |
Maciej Falkiewicz | University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (HES-SO) Geneva, Switzerland | |
Pedro Benjamín Barquero-Salavert | Generalitat de Catalunya | |
Andrew Foulkes | Liverpool Hope University, UK | No |
Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine | Stockholm University, Sweden | Especially since the invasion of Ukraine, the IMU must recognise both that travel to Russia is unsafe for many mathematicians, and that the congress would lend legitimacy to a government that is committing enormous crimes against humanity. |
Jochen Wengenroth | Universität Trier, Germany | |
Marek Majewski | Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lodz | |
Antonio Azzollini | Università della Basilicata | |
Elia Bisi | Technische Universität Wien | |
Andrzej Blikle | Poland | |
Francisco Letterio | Student / Universidad de Buenos Aires in Argentina, Argentina | |
Shashank Pathak | India | |
Anna Achinger | Poland | |
Mee Seong Im | United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD | With the Russia-Ukraine conflict going on with an increasing number of civilian causalities, now is not the time to be hosting ICM2022 in Russia. |
Carl Lian | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany | |
Dmitry Gourevitch | Weizmann Institute of Science | As Fred Fung wrote: Show solidarity with the Ukrainian people suffering from the unprovoked war launched by the Russian government. Holding the ICM in Russia will inadvertently indicate the advocation for Putin's regime from the mathematician community. |
Kacper Kania | Warsaw University of Technology | |
Anton Mosunov | University of Waterloo | In view of Russia's aggression towards Ukraine, it is in the best interest of mathematical community to move ICM 2022 out of Russia. St. Petersburg was a city of Euler and Chebyshev. Now it is a city where thousands of Russians protesting against the war get beaten and imprisoned. |
Julie Bergner | University of Virginia, USA | |
Samuel Harris | USA | Move the ICM, now. |
Shubhrajit Bhattacharya | Chennai Mathematical Institute | Mathematics is a symbol of peace and is against war. |
Tom Braden | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | |
Michał Strzelecki | University of Warsaw, Poland | |
Tania G. Benitez | University of Liverpool, UK | |
Ostap Hryniv | Durham University, UK | |
Antonio Ricciardo | Champalimaud | |
Nicholas Kuhn | University of Virginia, USA | |
Aleksander Doan | Columbia University | |
Sarah Scherotzke | University of Luxembourg | |
Khoa Le | TU Berlin | |
Rostyslav Kozhan | Uppsala University, Sweden | no major event should be held in Russia until their troops leave Ukraine |
Marta Strzelecka | University of Graz, Austria | |
Gaven Martin | Institute of Advanced Study, Massey University, New Zealand | |
Ewa Damek | Poland | |
Tomasz Rzepecki | Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland | |
Yulia Kuznetsova | University Bourgogne Franche Comte, France | After the war has broken off, this congress just cannot take place. |
Piotr Borodulin-Nadzieja | University of Wrocław | |
Krzysztof Dębicki | University of Wrocław, Poland | |
Piotr Kowalski | Uniwersytet Wrocławski, Poland | |
Peter Chadwick | UK | Please do not support Russia under Putin. |
Kathryn Lund | Max-Planck Institute Magdeburg, Germany | |
Rodney Downey | Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand | |
Piotr Biler | University of Wroclaw, Poland | |
Sergej Monavari | Utrecht University | |
Rémi GAUTIER | RENNES 1 | |
Jan Dobrowolski | University of Manchester | |
Rod Gover | University of Auckland | |
Misha Verbitsky | IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil | I am not sure if I have signed this letter already, because the treatment of political prisoners is a sufficient cause already to cancel the ICM in Russia. However, the current situation with the war in Ukraine leaves us no other choice, and the congress has to be cancelled regardless of this terrible situation with imprisoned and tortured political activists. Current Russia is a state which can be compared to Nazi Germany in too many different aspects. It cast itself out of the civilized society and has no right (or ability) to host the international congress. The congress obviously should be cancelled, there is nothing to discuss here. |
Dr. Dimitri Volchenkov | Texas Tech Unievrsitry, Texas, USA | |
Olga Goulko | UMass Boston, USA | |
Sasha Tsymbaliuk | Purdue University | It will be a shame for the entire ICM organization to hold it in the country that has invaded Crimea in 2014, and is now assassinating the second largest country of Europe in the 21st century! |
Rodrigo Pérez | IUPUI | What is the IMU afraid of? Money spent in the organization? The Calculus of Freedom, the Geometry of Decency are higher order arguments. Do the right thing or be remembered. |
Vladimir Berkovich | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel | Can one imagine ICM in Germany in the summer of 1941? |
Maryam Zadeh | France | |
Julien Duval | Université Paris Saclay, France | |
Diego Corro | Universität zu Köln | |
Jakub Gogolok | University of Wrocław, Poland | |
Andrei Gabrielov | Purdue University, West Lafayette IN, USA | |
Fock Vladimir | Université de Strasbourg, France | |
Maria Gillespie | Colorado State University | I am boycotting especially because of the new war with Ukraine. |
Clément Erignoux | INRIA Lille | |
Laytimi Fatima | Lille university | |
Caterina Calgaro | France - Université de Lille | |
Vanessa Rivera Quiñones | BeCode, Belgium | |
Yelyzaveta Yampol | Ukraine | Stop war in Ukraine, stop Russia |
Jacek Gałęski | Uniwersity of Warsaw, Poland | |
Duco van Straten | Institut für Mathematik, Johannes Gutengerg University Mainz | The invasion of Ukraine is a crime and under these circumstances the ICM cannot be held in Russia. It is all very sad. |
Albertas Zinevičius | Vilniaus universitetas, Lithuania | |