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| Formation | 1977 |
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President | Anja Schlömerkemper |
| Website | http://isimm.net/ |
The International Society for the Interaction of Mechanics and Mathematics (ISIMM) is an association of professional mathematicians and mechanicians dedicated to promoting the beneficial influence of each of these disciplines on the other. ISIMM organizes regular meetings and launches publications both as proceedings and as separate textbooks or monographs. Membership is subject to a recommendation by three members of ISIMM.
ISIMM was founded in 1977 in Kozubnik in Southern Poland. Historically, there had been a planning period before that time which had culminated in a meeting in Lecce, Apulia, Italy two years earlier. That meeting was organized by Gaetano Fichera along with some of his colleagues from Rome and with Polish colleagues. At that time the Cold War was still on for scientists from different sides of the Iron Curtain it was not altogether easy to meet; Russian scientists, in particular, found it difficult to obtain a passport for going to a western country; but less so, if they were invited by a scientific society. Hence the idea of ISIMM came naturally, a society with an impressive constitution and with the backing of a truly international group of scientists from all over the world, even though the European element was predominant. [1]
In its early years, the Society represented a European counterpart of The Society for Natural Philosophy founded in 1963 by Clifford Truesdell. ISIMM is presently a member of IUTAM [2] (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics). According to its constitution, the Society seeks also cooperation with other existing international organizations such as IMU [3] (International Mathematical Union), the SIAM [4] (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), or the ICIAM [5] (International Council for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) which includes also some other learned societies as GAMM [6] (Gesellschaft fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik), IMA [7] (Institute of Mathematics and its Applications), or SMAI [8] (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles).
Since 2022, ISIMM is legally a non-profit organization anchored under German law as "e.V" (i.e. ‘eingetragener Verein’) registered at a responsible court in Wurzburg.
Over the years the officers of the Society – president, vice president, secretary – were:
ISIMM organizes regularly biennial meetings. The meetings are called STAMM, Symposia on Trends in Application of Mathematics to Mechanics. A list of the Symposia follows together with the names of the organizers, or the main organizer, in brackets:
A great part of the STAMM meetings gave rise to proceedings volumes or special issues of some journals:
Apart from this, a book series IMM [11] by Springer [12] is conducted by this society.
Since the 2010 STAMM Meeting, the award is given once in two years at the regular STAMM conferences. The recipient of the prize is expected to have made exceptional contributions towards building a link between Mathematics and Mechanics:
Apart from this, also the ISIMM Junior Prize has been established. The awardees are:
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