BYLAWS 2007 (July)

International Society for Mathematical Sciences

 

 

Article I – Board of Officers

Article II – Board of Trustees

Article III – Committees

Article IV – Council

Article V – Election of Officers and Term of Office

Article VI – Members

Article VII – Dues and Privileges of Members

Article VIII – IVMS

Article IX – Annual Meeting

Article X – Business Meeting

Article XI | Publications

Article XII – Amendments

Addendum|Enforcement

 

Article I – Board of Officers

There shall be a president, a president elect, an immediate past president, thirty secretaries and a treasurer.

 

Article II – Board of Trustees

Section 1. There shall be a Board of Trustees consisting of the treasurer, the auditor, the associate treasurer, the immediate past associate treasurer.

Section 2. The function of the Board of Trustees shall be to administer the funds of the Society, to make a budget for the fiscal year, and to produce the statement of account.

Section 3. The auditor and the associate treasurer shall be nominated by the Board of

Officers with a confidence vote by the membership.

 

Article III – Committees

There shall be committees, including the following, which assist the practices of the secretaries.  The committee members shall be appointed by the Board of Officers.

(1) Board of SCMJ Managing Editors, (2) Editorial Committee of gNotices from the ISMSh (3) Board of ISMS and JAMS Prize Nominators (4) International Joint Meeting Committee (5) Board of Business Administrators.

 

Article IV – Council

Section 1. The Council shall consist of fifty two members: thirty four officers, ten foreign members and eight domestic members.

Section 2. The function of the Council shall be to discuss the financial budget, the statement of account and the activities of the Society.

Section 3. The members of the Council shall be nominated by the Board of Officers with a confidence vote by the membership.

 

Article V – Election of Officers and Term of Office

Section 1. The term of office shall be one and a half year in the case of the president, the president elect and the immediate past president; three years in the case of the secretaries, the treasurer.

Section 2. The president elect, the secretaries, and the treasurer shall be elected by ballot of the members.

 

Article VI – Members

There shall be four classes of members: individual, institutional, associate, corporate and

contributing.

 

Article VII – Dues and Privileges of Members

Section 1. The annual dues of an individual member of the Society shall be established by the Board of Officers.

Section 2.  The privileges of an individual member are: (1) Free access to the online version of SCMJ, (2) Free access to the online version of Notices from the ISMS (3) Discounted prices for the printed version of SCMJ, (4) Discounted page charges.

Section 3.  The privileges of an institutional member are: (1) Discounted subscription price (2) Designation of two persons who belong to the institution as associate members

Section 4:  The privileges of an associate member are: (1) No membership dues (2) The same privileges as those of individual members except (1) of the above Section 2.

 

Article VIII – IVMS

Section 1. International Videoconferences of Mathematical Sciences (IVMS) shall be

held from time to time on request basis of the members.  Every member has the right to organize or participate in the IVMS.

Section 2. The IVMS shall be held through the videoconferencing system.  Those members who wish to hold an IVMS shall inform the head office of the ISMS of such intention, and the ISMS shall make an announcement of necessary arrangement among ijoiningjinstitutions.

 

Article IX – Annual Meeting

Section 1. The annual meeting by IVMS (Annual IVMS) shall be held between the first of July and the thirty first of August.

Section 2. The annual assembly meeting of the Society shall be held between the first of July and the fifteenth of October every year.

 

Article X|Business Meeting

Section 1. There shall be a business meeting of the Society in online meetings or assembly meetings.  The agenda for the business meeting shall be determined by the Board of Officers.  A business meeting of the Society can take action only on items notified to the full membership of the Society in the call for the meeting.  A majority of members present and voting is required for passage of such an item with a quorum of two percent of the full membership.  Members simultaneously connected online with the meeting site shall be deemed present at the business meeting and shall have the right to vote.

 

Article XI – Publications

The Society shall publish Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae (SCMJ), Notices from the ISMS, and Kaiho (Newsletter in Japanese).

 

Article XII– Amendments

These bylaws may be amended or suspended on recommendation of the Board of Officers and with the approval of the membership of the Society, the approval consisting of an affirmative vote by two-thirds of the total number of the members present at the business meeting and the members who vote in the mail ballot in advance.

 

Addendum

(1) ISMS and JAMS PRIZES

The ISMS Prize shall include (a) the JAMS PRIZE, (b) the JAMS T. SHIMIZU PRIZE,

(c) the ISMS PRIZE, (d) the ISMS T. KITAGAWA PRIZE in Applied Mathematics, and (e) the ISMS K. KUNUGI PRIZE in Pure Mathematics.  The prizes (b), (d) and (e) are established in order to foster young researchers.  The upper age limits are forty-five years old for (b), forty years old for (d) and (e).

(2) Board of Business Administrators

The Board of Business Administrators shall include (a) Publishing Committee, (b) Membership Committee, and (c) Accounting Committee.

(3) The Half Watch Rule

Half of the secretaries and the Council members shall be elected every one and a half years.

(4) Enforcement

The Bylaws become effective on July 1, 2007.