Open letter to the Spanish Scientific Authorities
We, as members of the International Mathematical Community, respectfully present our support for Prof. Manuel de León after his dismissal as director of ICMAT.
We learned from some major scientific publications that Prof. de León was dismissed in spite of winning a vote for a new term, due to his very successful leadership.
Moreover, thanks to the efforts of Manuel de León, the activity conducted at the ICMAT during its brief existence has been truly remarkable. In this short period, the ICMAT has risen to become a leading center for mathematical research world-wide, a universal “home-away-from-home” for mathematicians.
The international mathematical community is extremely concerned. This interference in the result of a vote by his colleagues is causing serious damage to ongoing activities and future mathematical programs in which Spain participates.
During his many years of productive work, Dr. de León has not only established a reputation as a leading researcher in Geometric Mechanics, but he has also offered, generously, a great deal of his time both to the international and Spanish mathematical communities, as described below.
Prof. Manuel de León, internationally, has been
- Member-at-Large of the International Mathematical Union Executive Committee, 2007-2014 (two terms).
- Member of the Core Group of the PESC Committee, European Science Foundation, 2006-2012 (two terms).
- Coordinator for the World Mathematical Year 2000 in Spain.
- President of the ICM 2006, Madrid
- Advisor for ICM 2010, 2014, 2018.
- Executive Board of the International Council for Science, ICSU (2014-).
Dr. de León has also many other activities in which he has served the mathematical
community at large and has influenced the careers of many young scientists.
- He is a member of important international and Spanish scientific societies such as AMS, SIAM, RSME, RSEF, EMS, AGAPEMA-FESPM.
- He is on the editorial boards of journals such as Extracta Mathematicae, Reports on Math. Physics, Journal of Geometry and Symmetry in Physics, Mediterranean Mathematical Journal, International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Editor-in-Chief).
- He has been on the organizing committees and scientific committees of a great number of workshops and conferences world wide.
In Spain, he has been
- Vice-president of the Real Sociedad Matemática Española (until 2005)
- Founder and President of the Spanish Committee of Mathematics (CEMAT), 2004-2007.
- Founder and Director of the Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas, ICMAT (CSIC-UAM-UC3M-UCM).
- Member of the Committee of Physics and Engineering Physics, CSIC, 2001-2008 (two terms).
- Coordinator of Mathematics of the Spanish Agency for Evaluation and Prospective (Ministry of Education and Science), 2003-2005
- Member (Experimental Sciences) of the Advisory Committee for Evaluation and Prospective (Ministry of Education and Science), 2005-2010
- Fellow of the Real Academia de Ciencias and the Academia Canaria de Ciencias.
| Name | Organization |
|---|---|
| Guillermo Capobianco | Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina |
| Hong Wang | Nankai University, P.R. China |
| Daniel Lear | ICMAT |
| Tudor Ratiu | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
| Paula Balseiro | UFF - Brazil |
| Rui Loja Fernandes | University of Illinois |
| Sonia Tarragona | Universidad de León |
| Martintxo Saralegi Aranguren | Université d'Artois |
| Daniel Tanré | Université de Lille |
| Raúl Ibáñez Torres | Universidad del País Vasco |
| M. Victoria Otero Espinar | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela |
| César de la Prida | Editor |
| José G. Llavona | Universidad Complutense |
| Emilio Bujalance | UNED |
| Miguel Sánchez Caja | Universidad de Granada |
| Francisco Urbano | Universidad de Granada |
| Juan de Dios Pérez | Universidad de Granada |
| Salvador Segura | Universidad de Alicante |
| María A. Hernández Cifre | Universidad de Murcia |
| Vicente Miquel Molina | Universidad de Valencia |
| Luis J. Alías | Universidad de Murcia |
| Pascual Lucas | Universidad de Murcia, Spain |
| Angel Ferrández | Universidad de Murcia |
| Katarzyna Grabowska | University of Warsaw |
| Pawel Urbanski | University of Warsaw |
| Janusz Grabowski | Polish Academy of Sciences |
| Manuel López Pellicer | Universidad Politécnica de Valencia |
| Xavier Gràcia | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona |
| Rafael Granero Belinchon | University of California, Davis |
| Miguel C. Muñoz Lecanda | Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, España |
| Alejandro Cabrera | UFRJ |
| Laszlo Feher | University of Szeged and Wigner RCP Budapest, Hungary |
| José F Cariñena | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| Victoria Ley | Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte |
| Antonio Gómez-Corral | ICMAT-UCM |
| Miguel A.F. Sanjuán | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos |
| Silvia Vilariño | Centro Universitario de la Defensa |
| Germán Zorba | Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina |
| Manuel F. Rañada | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| Cristina Vidal Castiñeira | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela |
| Isabel Marrero | Universidad de La Laguna |
| Jaime H. Ortega | Universidad de Chile |
| Santiago Capriotti | Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina |
| José Manuel Méndez Pérez | Universidad de La Laguna |
| Cecilia Cimadamore | Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina |
| Daniel Peralta | ICMAT, Madrid |
| Juanjo Rué | Freie Universität Berlin |
| Gianne Derks | University of Surrey, UK |
| Eduardo Garcia Rio | University of Santiago de Compostela |
| Alberto Enciso | ICMAT |
| Antonio Fernández Martínez | Universidad de Salamanca |
| Pedro Luis García Pérez | Real Academia de Ciencias y Universidad de Salamanca |
| Pablo Miguel Chacón | Universidad de Salamanca |
| María Eugenia Garcia | Universidad Nacional de La PLata, Argentina |
| Jesús Marín Solano | Universitat de Barcelona |
| Domingo Chinea | University of La Laguna |
| Ramiro Lafuente | Universität Münster |
| Arjan van der Schaft | University of Groningen, the Netherlands |
| Ernesto Perez-Chavela | Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México |
| Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard | ICMAT |
| Jürgen Scheurle | Technical University of Munich |
| José Carlos Díaz Ramos | Universidade de Santiago de Compotela |
| María Etchechoury | Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina |
| Sheldy Ombrosi | Universidad Nacional del Sur |
| Tom Mestdag | Ghent University, Belgium |
| Marcela Zuccalli | Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina |
| Diego Catalano Ferraioli | Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil |
| Walter Reartes | Universidad Nacional del Sur |
| Agustín Bonome Dopico | Universidad Santiago de Compostela |
| Narciso Román Roy | Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña |
| Francisco Martín Cabrera | Universidad de La Laguna |
| Maria Lopez Fernandez | Universidad de Málaga |
| Hernán Cendra | Universidad Nacional del Sur and CONICET, Argentina |
| Jesús Antonio Álvarez López | University of Santiago de Compostela |
| Victor Planas-Bielsa | International University in Geneva |
| Marina Delgado | UPM |
| Angel Ballesteros | University of Burgos, Spain |
| Joana Nunes da Costa | University of Coimbra, Portugal |
| Raffaele Vitolo | Universita' del Salento, Italy |
| Diana Sosa Martín | Universidad de La Laguna |
| Esmeralda Sousa-Dias | IST, Lisboa, Portugal |
| Antonio Cordoba | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| María José Souto | Universidade da Coruña |
| Frans Cantrijn | Deot. of Mathematics - Ghent University (Belgium) |
| Franco Magri | Universita' di Milano Bicocca |
| Luis Angel Cordero Rego | Universidad de Santiago de Compostela |
| Lyudmila Grigoryeva | Universitat Konstanz |
| Ademir Fernando Pazoto | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| Jorge Cortes | UC San Diego |
| César J. Niche | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil |
| Florin Diacu | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Rodrigo T. Sato Martín de Almagro | ICMAT / UCM |
| Hiroaki Yoshimura | Waseda University |
| Javier de Lucas Araujo | University of Warsaw |
| Pedro Daniel Prieto-Martínez | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya |
| David Rios | Royal Academy of Sciences and ICMAT, Spain |
| Mark J Gotay | Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, U of British Columbia |
| Ana D. Tarrío | Universidade da Coruña |
| David Iglesias Ponte | University of La Laguna, Spain |
| Sebastián J. Ferraro | Universidad Nacional del Sur and CONICET, Argentina |
