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OWSD Early Career Fellowship Open for Applications (Deadline: April 30, 2019)

The Organization for Women in Science for the Developing World (OWSD) is now accepting applications for Early Career Fellowships. The OWSD Early Career Fellowship is a prestigious award of up to USD 50,000 offered to women who have completed their PhDs in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and are employed at an academic or scientific research institute in one of the listed Science and Technology Lagging Countries (STLCs). The OWSD Early Career fellows will be supported to establish an environment at their institution where they can maintain an international standard of research and attract scholars from all over the world to collaborate. For more information, see here.

Application deadline is April 30, 2019.

American Mathematical Society (AMS) celebrates Women's History Month in March

The March 2019 issue of Notices of the AMS, includes tributes to several women mathematicians and their work: “Karen Uhlenbeck and the Calculus of Variations,” “Gertrude M. Cox and Statistical Design,” “The Life and Pioneering Contributions of an African American Centenarian: Mathematician Katherine G. Johnson,” “The Mathematics of Grace Murray Hopper,” “The Mathematics of Joan Birman,” “In Memory of Marina Ratner, 1938-2017,” and “Creating Opportunities and building Confidence: Clare Booth Luce’s Unexpected Support of Women in Math and Science.”

The AMS offers free posters including “Celebrating Women Mathematicians: Researchers & Role Models,” available on request via http://www.ams.org/posters.

Ingrid Daubechies and Claire Voisin Honored with L’Oréal-UNESCO International Awards for Women in Science

On the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science the L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO have announced the laureates of the 21st International Awards For Women in Science, two of whom (out of five) are mathematicians: Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University, United States) and Claire Voisin (Collège de France). It is the first time that the award was extended to mathematics. Read more here.  

Jill Pipher Takes Office as AMS President

Jill Pipher, Vice President for Research and Elisha Benjamin Andrews Professor of Mathematics at Brown University, begins her term as AMS President today, February 1, 2019. “It is quite an honor to be starting my term as President of the American Mathematical Society,” she says. “I’ve spent this past year as President-elect thinking hard about priorities for the next two years. I’ve been listening to the ideas and suggestions of many colleagues and learning in depth about the operations of AMS, from publications to meetings to long-range planning, and have formulated some priorities for this next two years.”

CWM Call 2019

CWM invites proposals for funding of up to €3000 for activities or initiatives taking place in 2019, aimed at either (a) establishing or supporting networks for women in mathematics, preferably at the continental or regional level, and with priority given to networks in developing or emerging countries or (b) organizing a mathematical school open to all with all women speakers and mainly women organisers or (c) other ideas for researching and/or addressing issues encountered by women in mathematics. The applications should be sent to applications-for-cwm@mathunion.org before December 15 2018. For more details see here.

Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics for Alice Guionnet

France

An influential probabilist and inspiring leader in the field of random matrices

Professor Alice Guionnet is an inspiring leader in the field of probability and random matrices. She has established surprizing links with various other fields of mathematics as spectral theory, operator algebra, free probability which lead her to several outstanding results. Her "single ring theorem" is a real masterpiece of analysis. But the most important contribution of Alice Guionnet might be a series of work where she founds the theory of "Matrix Models". She has received a number of prestigious invitations, showing her impressive impact beyond the probability theory. After being an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematician, and at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, she was elected in 2017 at the french Academy of Sciences.

See more here.