CWM 2019 Grants awarded
CWM has awarded 7 new grants for regional activities for women in mathematics in 2019. See here.
CWM News
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.
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.
Release of Journeys of Women in Mathematics
A 20 mn film created by the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics, filmed and edited by Micro-Documentaries, made possible by a grant from the Simons Foundation. Link to the film here.
The film is featured on the Scientific American Roots of Unity Blog.
Hosting Remember Maryam Mirzakhani exhibition
Remember Maryam Mirzakhani is an exhibition with 18 original posters. Institutions interested in hosting the exhibition can consult the rules of use and contact CWM at exhibition-cwm@mathunion.org. The exhibition opened at the (WM)², the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, and remained open during ICM 2018. It contained also a book of condolences, and volumes with Maryam Mirzakhani's mathematical papers as well as a book with papers about her. Curator: Thais Jordao. Designer: Rafael Meireles Barroso.
ICM Emmy Noether Lecture in Rio
ICM Emmy Noether Lecture honors women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences, it was presented for the first time in 1994.
At ICM 2018 in Rio the Emmy Noether Lecture will be given by Alice Chang.
The Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences from a Historical Perspective
CWM Panel and Reception Thursday 2 August Room 204 A/B/C 18:00-20:30. All welcome
PANEL 18:00-19:30
Moderator : Caroline Series (Warwick Univ, UK, CWM Vice-Chair)
18:00-18:05 : Introduction
18:05-18:15 Marie-Francoise Roy (Univ. Rennes, France, CWM Chair): Presenting the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics
18:15-18:40 June Barrow-Green (Open University, UK) : Historical context of the gender gap in mathematics
18:45-19:10 Silvina Ponce-Dawson (Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina): The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Working Group on Women in Physics: Activities and perspectives
RECEPTION 19:30-20:30
Event organized by the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics.
Women lecturers at ICM 2018 in Rio de Janeiro
International Mathematical Union
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Four women are Plenary Speakers at ICM 2018: Nalini Anantharaman, Catherine Goldstein, Sylvia Serfaty and Lai-Sang Young, out of 21 plenary speakers. The proportion of women giving Plenary or Invited Section Lectures at ICM 2018 is 15 %. See a poster on women lecturers at ICM from the origins (presented at the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics) here.
(WM)²: World Meeting for Women in Mathematics
The IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) welcomes the mathematical community to the (WM)²: World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, a satellite event of the ICM 2018.
The (WM)² will bring together mathematicians from all over the world to think about and discuss gender issues in mathematics, its challenges, initiatives, and perspectives for the future, with a strong focus on Latin America.
The (WM)² will take place at Riocentro convention center on July 31, 2018 (the same venue as the ICM). Its program includes research talks, group discussions about gender issues in mathematics, a panel discussion and poster presentation. There will also be a tribute to Maryam Mirzakhani.
Dusa McDuff awarded Sylvester medal
The Sylvester Medal 2018 is awarded to Professor Dusa McDuff FRS for leading the development of the new field of symplectic geometry and topology. Her outstanding work includes many fundamental theorems and she has been inspirational for generations of mathematicians.
See more information here.