CAS Society News Member News P rof. Sanjit Mitra was recently elected a member of the Academia Europaea, a pan-European Academy of Humanities, Letters, Law, and Sciences. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCAS.2022.3189871 Date of current version: 5 September 2022 The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as coordinator of European interests in national research agencies. Pioneers in CAS (continued from page 51) he continued his endeavour to prove the 4-color theorem of a planar surface which claims that only 4 colours are required to tint an area in the plane without the same colours touching a border line. This theorem, even though at that time not yet proven, is important for integrated circuits where crossovers of lines have to be insulated in an expensive process. Bader proposed a topological trial and error method to rearrange the layout to one with a minimumhttp://supportcenter.ieee.org