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Here you will find news about CWM related or sponsored events, activities, announcements and awards. Further information on CWM, events for women in mathematics, etc. can be found on the various dedicated pages of the CWM website. Suggestions for CWM News and other themes can be sent to cwm.info@mathunion.org.


2024 AWM Awards and Prizes at the Joint Prize Session of JMM

Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)
San Francisco

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) will present AWM Prizes and Awards during the Joint Prize Session of the JMM in San Francisco, scheduled for January 3-6, 2024.

The 2024 AWM Dissertation Prizes will be presented to Abigail Hickok and Parvathi M. Kooloth. The AWM Dissertation Prize was established in 2016, an annual award recognizing exceptional work in a dissertation defended in the last 24 months. The award is intended to be based entirely on the dissertation itself, not on other work of the individual. Press release

The 2024 Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education will be presented to Trena Wilkerson, Professor and Interim Chair in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the School of Education at Baylor University. She is being honored for her leadership at the national, state, and local levels in mathematics education, her transformational teaching and mentorship, and her global initiatives and programs. Press release

The recipient of the 2024 AWM Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis will be Robin Neumayer, Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Neumayer is for outstanding contributions to Calculus of Variations, Partial Differential Equations, and Geometric Analysis. Press release

The recipient of the 2024 M. Gweneth Humphreys Award will be Cristina Villalobos, Myles and Sylvia Aaronson Endowed Professor, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), for her exceptional success in mentoring and its subsequent impact on the mathematical profession as a whole. Press release

The recipient of the 2024 AWM Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory will be Yunqing Tang, Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley. Tang is recognized for her breakthrough work in arithmetic geometry, including results on the Grothendieck-Katz p-curvature conjecture, a conjecture of Ogus on algebraicity of cycles, arithmetic intersection theory, and the unbounded denominators conjecture of Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer. Press release

The 2024 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics will be awarded to Zoë Batterman, a senior mathematics and statistics major at Pomona College and Arianna Meenakshi McNamara, a senior mathematics and physics major at Purdue University. Mattie Ji, a senior at Brown University majoring in Mathematics-Computer Science and Applied Mathematics has been named as Runner-up. Press release

 

CWM member Matilde Lalín named Fellow of AWM

Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has named twelve mathematicians as 2024 AWM Fellows, including CWM member Matilde Lalín. More details, including the citations for the 2024 AWM Fellows can be found here.

Congratulations to Matilde and all new AWM Fellows!

Women of Nepal in Mathematical Sciences (WoNiMS) Annual Conference 2023

Khatmandu
Nepal

This annual conference aims to bring together women mathematicians, women students, college and university teachers, and novice researchers working at the frontiers of mathematics to interact and exchange mathematical ideas and share their experiences with their colleagues, both in groups or individually. It also aims to promote scientific communication in mathematics through Keynote speeches, plenary talks, invited talks, contributory talks, and panel discussions on issues for women in mathematics in Nepal. 

Registration here until Sunday, October 15, 2023 (Asoj 28, 2080).

This project submitted to the CWM Call 2023 has been selected for funding by CWM.

Women in Sage - Uganda

Uganda

Since 2007, more than 100 Sage Days have been organized around the world. During these days, participants discover the SageMath software, develop their programming skills and contribute to the development of the software. Women in Sage days have already been organized in seven different countries. The upcoming Women in Sage - Uganda will take place at Makerere University, Uganda, on September 04-08, and is supported by CWM.

More information can be found here.

Professor Caroline Series awarded a CBE for her services to mathematics

CWM congratulates its former vice-chair, Professor Caroline Series, for being awarded a CBE for her services to mathematics. Professor Series was the third female president of the London Mathematical Society (LMS), holding the post from 2017 to 2019. She was also a founding member of European Women in Mathematics, and was CWM first vice-chair from 2015 to 2017.

More information can be found here.

3rd Meeting for Latin American Women in Mathematics supported by CWM

Tunja
Colombia

The Meetings for Latin American Women in Mathematics aim to strengthen the Latin American network of women in mathematics. The 1st edition took place in Mexico in 2016, and the 2nd edition took place in Chile in 2018. The 3rd one will take place in Tunja, Colombia, on June 2-4, 2023, and is supported by CWM.
More information here.

 

"Math Maker" of the months May and June 2023 by DMV

DMV - German Mathematical Society

Former CWM chair Marie-Francoise Roy is awarded with the title "Math Maker" of the months May and June 2023 by DMV, the German Mathematical Society. She is known for her work and books on algorithms for real algebraic geometry. She is a member of several associations for the advancement of women in mathematical and general scientific and technical studies and careers. She is also a member of associations working for scientific development in Africa, particularly in Niger. Reasons enough to award the dedicated mathematician for her numerous activities. Her motto: „Mathematics counts because it is fascinating, surprising and requires creative minds, so many problems easy to formulate are still unsolved ...“

More information and interview here.

Ph.D. Honoris Causa for Ingrid Daubechies in Rome

May 12, 2023

CWM is happy to announce that the May 12 - Celebrating Women in Mathematics website for the 2023 edition has been launched, and is now available at may12.womeninmaths.org

May 12 is the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani. This date was chosen to celebrate Women in Mathematics in her memory, with the goal of inspiring women everywhere in the world, celebrating their achievements in mathematics, and encouraging an open, welcoming and inclusive work environment for everybody.

In this 5th edition of the May 12 initiative, 150+ events have been registered on May 12 website. Arrangements have been made to allow free screenings of the film "Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya”, produced and directed by Ekaterina Eremenko. This movie was first presented during the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics in 2022, and tells the story of the great woman and mathematician Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhnskaya, whose 100th birthday was in 2022. The May 12 initiative produced subtitles of the OAL film in french, italian, persian, portuguese, spanish and turkish on top of the original subtitles in english and russian.

The May 12 initiative is supported by several organisations for women in mathematics: the European Women in Mathematics, the Association for Women in Mathematics, the African Women in Mathematics Association, the Indian Women and Mathematics, the CGD-UMALCA (Commission on Gender and Diversity of the Mathematical Union of Latin America and the Caribbean) and the Women’s Committee of the Iranian Mathematical Society. It is currently funded by CWM.