Hyderabad venue for ICM, 2010

Hyderabad, Sept  17 :

India has a long history of engagement with mathematics. Ancient India had made impressive progress in Algebra. To enable our  mathematicians to widen their  mathematical horizon the Indian mathematical community will hold the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM)  at Hyderabad International Convention Centre here   from  August  19 to 27  in 2010.

The  ICM  meets once in every four years. The last  ICM was  held in Madrid  (Spain)  from August 22 to 27 in 2006 . According  to M S Raghunathan , National Board of Higher Mathematics, Chairman about  3,500 delegates from all over the world are expected to take part  in the eight-day Congress.During the  eight  day meet  outstanding  mathematicians will be  honoured  with medals  for their work in the field of mathematics.