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 ISMSh (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 ijoiningjinstitutions.
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