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.
Marie-Françoise Roy received the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa on December 7 2022 from the University of Bath "in recognition of her distinguished career as a geometer and her leading role as an advocate for women in mathematics".
Oration by Gregory Sankaran here.
The CWM 2023 call for Networks, Workshops and other initiatives is opened till 23 December, 2022.
There will be no other CWM call for applications regarding activities in 2022.
The 2021-22 SCGES report, compiled after the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) ’s first year of existence, is evidence of its current and future work on this endeavor. Starting with a short synthesis by SCGES chair Catherine Jami, it contains short reports by each of the 1 members of SCGES, all of which have a stated commitment to promote gender equality and women in science. Exchanging information on all related issues and making them visible is a major motivation for the partners who work together in SCGES.
The hybrid event "To constitute a network of Women Mathematicians in South Asian and Middle Eastern Region" will be held on 4 th -5 th October 2022 at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Suhar for two days. The first day (4 th October, 2022) of the hybrid event is in person at UTAS-Sohar, Oman and the second day (5 th October, 2022) of the event will be continued on virtual mode.
The event is sponsored by CWM-International Mathematical Union and UTAS-Suhar.
Renowned mathematicians from ten countries with a high scientific caliber are participating in this prestigious event.
The main objectives of this event are:
The online conference "Women in Mathematics", a RIMS conference of Kyoto University, took place from September 7th to 9th in 2022.
There were more than 200 participants, from several countries, one third of them being male.
The program featured mathematical talks, 1-minute speech by the Japanese female participants and discussion about women in mathematics including reports from CWM, EWM, WAM, MSRI and AWM. It was a good opportunity for participants to get to know each other and to learn about many good practices abroad.
See more information here.
Asia-Oceania Women in Mathematics (AOWM), the continental organization for women in mathematics in Asia and Oceania was established on August 1 2022 by an on line meeting.
There are more than 200 founding members from 18 Asian and 0ceanian countries (Australia, China, India,
Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE, Uzbekistan) . The CWM ambassadors and their continental meeting played a key role in the creation of AOWM. The preparation process was taken care of by a group led by Motoko Kotani and Kyewon Koh Park.
The AOWM Executive Committee is the following.
President : Sanoli Gun (India)
Vice President : Melissa Tacy (New Zealand)
Vice President : Polly Sy (Philippines)
Secretary: Hyang-Sook Lee (Korea)
Ordinary EC members
Budi Nurani Ruchjana (Indonesia)
Yukari Ito (Japan)
Dongmei Xiao (China)
Bakhyt Alipova (Kazakhstan)
Zohreh Mostaghim (Iran)
Contact AOWM: here.
Joint Panel organized by the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) and the IMU Commitee on Diversity (CoD) during the virtual ICM2022.
Schedule: Friday July 8, 14:15-16:15 (CET)
Moderators: Motoko Kotani (CWM), Edray Goins (CoD)
More here
We are absolutely delighted to congratulate Maryna Viazovska on her achievement in being awarded the Fields medal "for the proof that the E8 lattice provides the densest packing of identical spheres in 8 dimensions, and further contributions to related extremal problems and interpolation problems in Fourier analysis". See here.
The inaugural Ladyzhenskaya Prize in Mathematical Physics (OAL Prize) is awarded to Professor Svetlana Jitomirskaya “for her seminal and deep contributions to the spectral theory of almost periodic Schrödinger operators” in a session jointly organized by the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics and the Probability and Mathematical Physics conference on July 2 2022.
Georgia Benkart (December 30, 1947 – April 29, 2022) was known for her work in the structure and representation theory of Lie algebras and related algebraic structures. A tribute to her contributions to her field, "Gems from the Work of Georgia Benkart", appeared in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
She was elected and served as president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2009 to 2011. In 2014 at the International Congress of Mathematicians held in Seoul, she delivered the ICM Emmy Noether Lecture.
Georgia Benkart collaborated with CWM in several occasions. In particular, she was the chair of the (WM)² 2018 program committee, and one of the editors of its Proceedings. We will miss her.