The Assembly of Academicians of BAS has elected the following new Corresponding Members: Mathematical Sciences: Corresponding member Ludmil Katzarkov (born 1961) He is currently one of the brightest and most respected representatives of Bulgarian mathematics at home and abroad with wide scientific interests. His scientific achievements are in several fields of mathematics and mathematical physics - algebraic, differential and symplectic geometry and topology, string theory, mathematical biology. His rich mathematical background allows him to use approaches and techniques from different mathematical fields to attack classical problems in mathematics that have stood open for a long time. Corr. Memb. Katzarkov has been one of the main driving forces behind the establishment of the International Center for Mathematical Sciences at IMI which occupies a unique place in [...]

Elections for new members of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (academicians and corresponding members) are held from 24 to 28 September. The Assembly of Academicians has elected the following new academicians of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences:       Mathematical Sciences: Academician Stefan Petrov Ivanov (born 1957) His scientific interests are in the field of geometry and mathematical physics. He is an internationally recognized and established specialist in Riemannian and complex differential geometry, string theories, quaternion geometry, etc., with some of his strongest results in string theories and geometry. Acad. Stefan Ivanov has made an indisputable contribution to the development of the Bulgarian school of modern differential geometry and geometry of manifolds. He works at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of Sofia University [...]