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        "Volker"
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  "title": "A message from the president / Brief words from the editor-in-chief",
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      "content": [
        "Dear members of the EMS,"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "id": "p2",
      "content": [
        "There is a light on the horizon: the hope that the vaccination campaign will\nnormalize the way we do our research and teaching, getting us out of the video\nconferences and back into the classroom. But there is still a long way to go,\nand it is possible that our mathematical life may continue to be different from\nbefore."
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      "content": [
        "The EMS needs to find new post-pandemic procedures, and learn how to perform\nresearch and communication within the mathematics community of the future. The\nvirtual European Congress 8ECM in Portorož will be a major test case for these\nnew procedures. Although we will certainly miss the aspects of personal meeting\nand communication, it will also open new possibilities, in particular the\nopportunity for young mathematicians everywhere to participate in the online\ncommunity life. I am looking forward to the congress, and hope that many of you\nwill join us online."
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    },
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      "content": [
        "One of the new initiatives that the EMS executive committee hopes to pursue in\nthe future is the creation of an EMS Youth Academy. The idea is that each year,\nmember societies will propose excellent young mathematicians just before and\nafter their Ph.D., from among which a committee will then select young academy\nmembers for a period of four years. The members of the Youth Academy will then\norganise themselves, initiating new activities and also participating in the\nalready-established EMS committees. This idea will be discussed in detail at\nthe EMS president’s meeting on May 29, 2021, and hopefully approved at the next\nEMS council in 2022."
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    },
    {
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      "id": "p5",
      "content": [
        "Let us make the best out of the terrible pandemic experience and move the EMS\nforward."
      ]
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      "content": [
        "Volker Mehrmann"
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        "President of the EMS"
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      "content": [
        "Dear readers of the EMS Magazine,"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "id": "p9",
      "content": [
        "In this issue of the EMS Magazine you can find two more articles written by\n2020 EMS Prize winners, this time by Alexander Efimov and Joaquim Serra.\nAdditionally, as usual, there are articles on a variety of topics, for\ninstance: the one by Emmylou Haffner on the edition of Riemann’s collected\nworks, or the article by Quentin Mérigot and Boris Thibert about mirrors,\nlenses and Monge–Ampère equations, among many other contributions to the usual\ncolumns on societies, research centres, or maths education."
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    },
    {
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      "id": "p10",
      "content": [
        "The current issue is also the first with Donatella Donatelli as the new editor\nfor book reviews, substituting in this role Jean-Paul Allouche who completed\nhis second term as editor at the end of 2020."
      ]
    },
    {
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      "id": "p11",
      "content": [
        "Finally, you may have noticed that the first two issues of the EMS Magazine\n(Issue 119 and the current one, 120) have arrived to your mail box later than\nexpected. I apologize for this delay and assure you that we (the editors and\nthe EMS Press staff) are doing our best to smooth processes so that the\nMagazine reaches you on time in future.\n"
      ]
    },
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      "content": [
        "Fernando Pestana da Costa"
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        "Editor-in-chief"
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