Carola Schönlieb has  received the 2019 Calderon Prize, which is a prize for the Inverse Problems field (awarded biennially  starting in 2007). Carola Schönlieb is the first woman mathematician that received this award, her work being in image processing and partial differential equations.

Carola Schönlieb is the current covenor of European Women in Mathematics.

Carmen Torras and Elisa Lorenzo Garcia received the Prize for Pioneer Women in the Physical, Chemical and Mathematical Sciences of the Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno Foundation.

The awards ceremony  took place on June 4 2019 at the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences.In this fourth edition the prize was awarded to Carme Torras (Barcelona, 1956) and for the first time the Young Modality of the Prize was awarded: the recipient was Elisa Lorenzo García (Madrid, 1987).

Carmen Torras is a specialist in artificial intelligence and robotics, she opened a novel line of research on the temporal processing of motor signals.

Elisa Lorenzo García is working at the frontier of number theory and arithmetic geometry, with applications in cryptography. Click here to read an interview with Elisa Lorenzo García on the European Platform of Women Scientists.

"For her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics" Karen Uhlenbeck (University of Texas at Austin, USA) will be awarded the Abel Prize for 2019 on May 21 in Oslo.

The Abel Prize recognizes mathematicians who have greatly influenced their field and is awarded by the King of Norway. The prize was first awarded in 2003.

A short movie on Karen Uhlenbeck

The Abel Prize Award Ceremony, with Karen Uhlenbeck's speech starting at 33:00 minutes.

In its 2019 elections the National Academy of Sciences added four women mathematicians to its membership: Jennifer Chayes (Microsoft Research), Bryna Kra (Northwestern University), Kathryn Roeder (Carnegie Mellon University) and Karen Smith (University of Michigan). For the full list of newly elected members see here.

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) announced its new class of more than 200 members for the year 2019, amongst them Sylvia Serfaty, a professor in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Sylvia Serfaty's work focusses on the calculus of variations, nonlinear partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. 

May 12 was chosen for the Celebration of Women in Mathematics because it is the birthdate of Maryam Mirzakhani. The initiative was  proposed by the Women's Committee of the Iranian Mathematical Society and voted by a vast majority of attendees to (WM)², the World Meeting for Women on Mathematics on last July 31 in Rio.

Several suggestions for local activities around May 12 are listed here.Please feel free to organize one and mention it on May 12 website.

The initiative is  supported by several organisations for women in mathematics worldwide (European Women in Mathematics, Association for Women in Mathematics, African Women in Mathematics Association, Indian Women and Mathematics, Colectivo de Mujeres Matemáticas de Chile andthe Women's Committee of the Iranian Mathematical Society).

The initiative is welcoming  the support of more organizations, the conditions are as follows

- accepting to put the name of their organization on the website
- sending a contact name
- disseminating the initiative through their channels
- post the information of their activities around May 12 on the May 12 website.

Organizations are invited to contact the coordination group of May 12  through the website.

More information here.
 

Alessandra Celletti (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Chair of the Women in Mathematics Committee of the European Mathematical Society (EMS),  has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is still accepting applications for PhD Fellowships and Early Career Fellowships. 

The PhD Fellowship is offered to women scientists from Science and Technology Lagging Countries to undertake PhD research in the natural, engineering and information technology sciences at a host institute in another developing country in the South.

Costs covered include travel to the host country, tuition fees, board, accommodation and living expenses, and a special allowance for travel to international conferences. The program is administered with funds generously provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and is offered in partnership with host institutes throughout the developing world.

For more information on Early Career Fellowships, see here.

Application deadline is April 30, 2019 for Early Career Fellowships and May 30, 2019 for PhD Fellowships.

A paper by Helena Mihaljević and Marie-Françoise Roy (here)

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), inaugurated in 1897, is the greatest effort of the mathematical community to strengthen international communication and connections across all mathematical fields. Meetings of the ICM have historically hosted some of the most prominent mathematicians of their time. Receiving an invitation to present a talk at an ICM signals the high international reputation of the recipient, and is akin to entering a ‘hall of fame for mathematics’. Women mathematicians attended the ICMs from the start. With the invitation of Laura Pisati to present a lecture in 1908 in Rome and the plenary talk of Emmy Noether in 1932 in Zurich, they entered the grand international stage of their field. The second plenary lecture was given in 1990 by Karen Uhlenbeck.

The authors dive into assorted data sources to follow the footprints of women among the ICM invited speakers, analyzing their demographics and topic distributions, and providing glimpses into their diverse biographies