The Swedish Mathematical Society (Swedish: , SMS) is a

mathematical society This article provides a list of mathematical societies. International * African Mathematical Union * Association for Women in Mathematics * Circolo Matematico di Palermo * European Mathematical Society * European Women in Mathematics * Foundat ...

founded in

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

in 1950. It is a member of the

European Mathematical Society The European Mathematical Society (EMS) is a European organization dedicated to the development of mathematics in Europe. Its members are different mathematical societies in Europe, academic institutions and individual mathematicians. The curren ...

and is recognised by the

International Mathematics Union The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and supports the International ...

. The Swedish Mathematical Society organises two member meetings per year, awards the Wallenberg Prize annually, and organises conferences and scientific meetings with other mathematical societies. It publishes a bulletin three times a year. The logo of the SMS contains the third iteration of the

Koch snowflake The Koch snowflake (also known as the Koch curve, Koch star, or Koch island) is a fractal curve and one of the earliest fractals to have been described. It is based on the Koch curve, which appeared in a 1904 paper titled "On a Continuous Cur ...

, which was first described by Swedish mathematician

Helge von Koch Niels Fabian Helge von Koch (25 January 1870 – 11 March 1924) was a Swedish mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. He was born to Swedish nobil ...

in 1904.

Presidents

The first president of the Swedish Mathematical Society was

Arne Beurling Arne Carl-August Beurling (3 February 1905 – 20 November 1986) was a Sweden, Swedish mathematician and professor of mathematics at Uppsala University (1937–1954) and later at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Beurling ...

, and the second president was Åke Pleijel. The Swedish Mathematical Society elects a new president every two years, and traditionally each president works at a different mathematics department from their predecessor. The current president of the SMS is Volodymyr Mazorchuk.

Wallenberg Prize

Since 1983 the Swedish Mathematical Society has awarded its Wallenberg Prize to Swedish mathematicians under 40 that have a Ph.D. It is Sweden's most prestigious award for young mathematicians. The winner is the main speaker at the autumn meeting of the society. Past winners of the prize are: *1983 – *1984 –

Svante Janson Carl Svante Janson (born 21 May 1955) is a Swedish mathematician. A member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 1994, Janson has been the chaired professor of mathematics at Uppsala University since 1987. In mathematical analysis, Jans ...

and *1987 –

Johan Håstad Johan Torkel Håstad (; born 19 November 1960) is a Swedish theoretical computer scientist most known for his work on computational complexity theory. He was the recipient of the Gödel Prize in 1994 and 2011 and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation ...

*1988 – and Ulf Persson *1989 –

Arne Meurman Arne Meurman (born 6 April 1956) is a Swedish mathematician working on finite groups and vertex operator algebras. Currently, he is a professor at Lund University. He is best known for constructing the monster vertex algebra together with Igor F ...

*1990 – Håkan Eliasson *1991 – Per Salberger *1992 – Håkan Hedenmalm *1993 – Johan Råde *1994 – Mats Andersson *1995 –

Kurt Johansson Kurt Ivar Björn Johansson (25 February 1914 – 8 August 2011) was a Swedish shooter who competed at the 1948, 1960 and 1968 Olympics. In 1948 in London he placed fourth in the free rifle, three positions, 300 m event. In 1960 he finished 19 ...

and

Anders Szepessy Anders Szepessy (born 1960) is a Swedish mathematician. Szepessy received his PhD in 1989 from Chalmers University of Technology with thesis ''Convergence of the streamline diffusion finite element method for conservation laws'' under the supervi ...

*1996 – *1997 – Erik Andersén and Bernt Wennberg *1998 – Lars Ernström and Timo Weidl *1999 – Olle Häggström *2000 – Tobias Ekholm and Erik Palmgren *2001 – Warwick Tucker *2002 – and Genkai Zhang *2003 – Dmitrij Kozlov and Oleg Safronov *2004 –

Julius Borcea Julius Bogdan Borcea (8 June 1968 – 8 April 2009) was a Romanian Swedish mathematician. His scientific work included vertex operator algebra and zero distribution of polynomials and entire functions, via correlation inequalities and statisti ...

and Serguei Shimorin *2005 – Hans Rullgård and Andreas Strömbergsson *2006 – Mattias Jonsson *2007 – *2008 – Petter Brändén and Anders Karlsson *2009 – Mats Boij and

Kaj Nyström Kaj Nyström is a Swedish mathematician currently at Uppsala University and was awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences () is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal ...

*2010 – Robert Berman *2011 –

Johan Wästlund Johan Wästlund (born 26 February 1971) is a Swedish mathematician currently at Chalmers University of Technology and, in 2013, was awarded Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences's Göran Gustafsson Prize. References

Living people Academic st ...

*2012 – Kristian Bjerklöv and Andreas Rosén *2013 – Håkan Samuelsson Kalm and Elizabeth Wulcan *2014 – Fredrik Wiklund *2015 – Jonatan Lenells and David Rydh *2016 – John Andersson and Erik Wahlén *2017 – Maurice Duits *2018 – Dan Petersen and David Witt Nyström *2019 – Mikael Björklund and Erik Lindgren *2020 – Thomas Kragh *2021 – *2022 – Wushi Goldring and Martin Raum *2023 –

Lilian Matthiesen Lilian Matthiesen (born 1984) is a mathematician whose research involves analytic number theory including the application of Fourier analysis to Diophantine geometry. Educated in England, she has worked in France, Germany, and Sweden, and is Uni ...

and Olof Sisask *2024 – Malin Palö Forsström and Cecilia Holmgren *2025 – Kathlén Kohn and Gaultier Lambert

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Presidents

Wallenberg Prize

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