> The petition cites the 2022 decision by the ICM’s organizing body, the International Mathematical Union (IMU), to move the last congress out of Saint Petersburg, Russia, in response to the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine earlier that year. The event was moved mostly online, with a small in-person awards ceremony held in Helsinki, Finland. > > “Holding the ICM in the United States, after it started two illegal wars, represents a double standard, given that, practically immediately after Russia invaded Ukraine, the ICM in Russia was canceled,” says Michael Harris, a mathematician at Columbia University. Harris is a scheduled panelist for the conference, though he is listed by the petition as an ICM speaker who shares its values.

The logic checks out. Must have some logician signatories.

Not to mention the risk of getting blocked at customs or arrested by ICE.