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Plenary and Sectional speakers of ICM 2010 in Hyderabad are announced

The International Mathematical Union prepares the list of invited speakers 
of an International Congress with extreme care. The PC/OC Guidelines, see 
http://www.mathunion.org/fileadmin/IMU/PC-OC-Guidelines.pdf state in the 
beginning: "Every ICM should reflect the current activity of mathematics 
in the world, present the best work being carried out in all mathematical 
subfields and different regions of the world, and thus, point to the 
future of mathematics. The invited speakers at an ICM should be 
mathematicians of the highest quality who are able to present current 
research to a broad mathematical audience."

The IMU president chooses the chair of the program committee (Hendrik 
Lenstra for ICM 2010), then the IMU Executive Committee selects, together 
with the PC chair, the other members of the program committee, which then 
decides on the structure of the next ICM (sections and their definition, 
number of lectures, etc.), and selects panels for each section, which 
recommend the persons to be invited to speak. The PC then composes the 
scientific ICM program taking such issues as gender balance, 
geographical/regional distribution, representation of developing countries 
and of subfields of mathematics into account (as long as these 
considerations do not compromise mathematical quality).

This complicated process has now ended. The ICM 2010 Organizing Committee 
has invited all mathematicians selected by the PC, and almost all have 
accepted this very special honour.

There are two types of Invited Lecturers: Plenary Speakers who will speak 
for one hour without any parallel activity and Sectional Speakers 
lecturing for 45 minutes with five to seven of such lectures in parallel. 
There will be twenty plenary lectures:

PLENARY SPEAKERS
1.  David Aldous, USA
2.  Artur Avila, Brazil and France
3.  R. Balasubramanian, India
4.  Jean-Michel Coron, France
5.  Irit Dinur, Israel
6.  Hillel Furstenberg, Israel
7.  Thomas J.R. Hughes, USA
8.  Peter Jones, USA
9.  Carlos Kenig, USA
10. Ngo Bao Chau, USA
11. Stanley Osher, USA
12. R. Parimala, USA
13. A. N. Parshin, Russia
14. Shige Peng, P.R. China
15. Kim Plofker, USA
16. Nicolai Reshetikhin, USA
17. Richard Schoen, USA
18. Cliff Taubes, USA
19. Claire Voisin, France
20. Hugh Woodin, USA


SECTIONAL SPEAKERS

SECTION 1: LOGIC

1. Justin Tatch Moore, USA
2. Andre Nies, New Zealand
3. Ya'acov Peterzil, Israel &
Sergei Starchenko, U.S.A.
4. Martin Ziegler, Germany

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Also invited in this section:
5. Jaroslav Nesetril, Czech Republic is invited also under Section 14 
(COMBINATORICS)