The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) will present AWM Prizes and Awards during the Joint Prize Session of the JMM, scheduled for January 8 – 11, 2025 in Seattle, WA.

The 2025 Fellows of AWM (FAWM) are Katrina D. Barron (University of Notre Dame), Guozhen Lu (University of Connecticut), Marianne Korten (Kansas State University), Kathryn Leonard, (Occidental College), Fengyan Li, (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Lillian B. Pierce, (Duke University), Magdalena Daniela Toda, (Texas Tech University). The AWM Fellows Program recognizes individuals who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences, consistent with the AWM mission: “to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.” Press release.

The 2025 Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry will be awarded to Mona Merling, Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania.Established in 2012, the AWM Joan & Joseph Birman Research Prize highlights exceptional research in topology/geometry by a woman early in her career. Press release.

The recipient of the inaugural AWM Mary & Alfie Gray Award for Social Justice is Chad M. Topaz, Professor of Complex Systems at Williams College and co-founder of the Institute for the Quantitative Study of Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (QSIDE). The Award recognizes Topaz for courageous and innovative research-to-action work that vigorously and imaginatively brings the methods of mathematics and data science to bear on social justice challenges in the legal system, education, arts and media, and other fields, shedding new light on systemic injustice and its consequences. Press release.

The 2025 Gweneth Humphreys Award will be awarded to Dewey Taylor, Professor of Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). The Award recognizes the world-wide reach of Dr. Taylor’s mentorship activities. Press release.

The 2025 Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education will be presented to Pamela E. Harris, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is being honored for her dedication to diversity and equity in academia, for her success in fostering others’ growth in how they support diversity and equity and for her brilliance, dedication, and passion as an educator who teaches both mathematics and equity. Press release.

Isabelle Gallagher was elected SMF president on June 15 2024. A specialist of partial differential equations and fluid mechanichs, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. She won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016 and the Prix Sophie Germain in 2018.

The Annual Conference of IWM during July 11-13, 2024, aims to bring together women students, college and university teachers and researchers working at the frontiers of mathematics to exchange mathematical ideas and share their experiences. A major goal of this event is to enable junior women mathematicians to interact with their senior colleagues, both individually and in small groups.
The application for participation in the conference will be open till the midnight of May 03, 2024.
Information and application here.

The activities of IWM are funded by the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Govt. of India and are supported by the Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM), International Mathematical Union (IMU).

The May 12 initiative group is launching the May 12 2024 campaign. The May12 initiative brings together local or virtual events celebrating women in mathematics which take place in the period 1 May to 15 June. The main focus are initiatives coming from within academia.

One special idea in 2024: Courtesy of Les films d’ici, are offered the two 11 minutes-length animated documentaries "Alicia Boole in the land of polytopes /Alicia Boole au pays des polytopes »  and « Kovaleskaya' Spinning Top/La toupie de Kovaleskaya », to be screened between 1st and 20th of May.

More information here.

CWM ambassador Olena Vaneeva was elected corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is only the second woman mathematician that received these high honors.
More info here.

The National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Argentina celebrates its 150 years of existence. Its board of directors will be renewed and a woman was elected for the first time in the history of the prestigious institution. Alicia Dickenstein has been IMU vice-president (2015-2018)  and is CWM Ambassador.
More information (in Spanish) here and here.

The CWM called for proposals for initiatives to support women in mathematics taking place from February 2024 to February 2025. The CWM 2024 call received 39 applications, of which CWM will support 10. Some of the selected projects aim at supporting continental networks for women in mathematics, such as the Asian-Oceanian Women in Mathematics (AOWM) Workshop in New Zealand and the series of activities organised by the Gender and Diversity Commission of UMALCA (CGD-Umalca) within the Latin American and Caribbean Congress of Mathematics. CWM is supporting networking and visibility activities for women in mathematics in Brazil, India, Malawi, Mexico, Namibia and Senegal, and two research workshops geared towards establishing research networks for women, in Burundi and Uganda. Depending on the nature of the project, CWM funding goes to infrastructure, travel expenses and accommodation support for women participants from developing countries.

More details on each of these projects can be found here.

The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Professor Sunčica Čanić will be the 2024 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. The Kovalevsky Lecture will be delivered at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting taking place in Spokane, WA,  July 8 -12, 2024. More information here.

This year, the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics is awarded to Claire Voisin, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris Rive Gauche, CNRS, France “for outstanding contributions to complex and algebraic geometry, including Hodge theory, algebraic cycles, and hyperkähler geometry”.

More information here.