Young gifted women in mathematics welcome at the 9th HLF!

At the HLF, all winners of the Fields Medal, the Abel Prize, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the ACM Prize in Computing are invited to attend. In addition, young and talented computer scientists and mathematicians are invited to apply for participation. Young researchers at all phases of their careers (Undergraduate/Pre-Master, Graduate PhD, or PostDocs) are encouraged to complete and submit their applications by February 11 (midnight CET).
The 9th HLF will take place at September 18-23, 2022.
Find here the “Apply Now” flyer and information on the 9th HLF.

Tunisian Women Mmathematicians’ Association (TWMA) best thesis Awards for Tunisian women in pure mathematics and in applied mathematics were given respectively to Dr Sabrine Chebbi from Tunis El Manar University and to Dr Nahed Naceur from Sousse University/Lorraine University. For this edition, the president of the jury for the best thesis in pure mathematics was Professor Hajer Bahouri (University Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne) and the president of the jury for the best thesis in applied mathematics was Professor Nahla Abdellatif (Tunis El Manar University).

The Award ceremony was organised by the TWMA at the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis on Wednesday, December 15, 2021.

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. The 2022 ICM Emmy Noether Lecture will be delivered by Marie-France Vignéras, Professor Emeritus of the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, France.
More information on the announcement of the Emmy Noether Lecture here.

Professor Neena Gupta received the Prize for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, in particular for her solution of the Zariski cancellation problem for affine spaces. She is the third woman to receive the Ramanujan Prize, which was first awarded in 2005 and is administered by ICTP jointly with the Department of Science and Technology (DST, Government of India), and the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Prize is awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country who is less than 45 years of age on 31 December of the year of the award, and who has conducted outstanding research in a developing country. More information on the Mathematics Prize announcement here.

Selma Negzaoui, TWMA chair, AXMA member and CWM ambassador in Tunisia, receives the young researcher prize from the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts "Beit Elhikma" for the year 2021 for her work in harmonic analysis. See here.

CWM Ambassador for Argentina Liliana Forzani was elected as UMALCA President for the period 2021-2024.

Liliana graduated with her first degree in Applied Mathematics in 1988 from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, and completed a PhD in Mathematics in 1993 at the Universidad Nacional de San Luis, in Argentina. Then in 2007 she finished a second PhD, in Statistics, at the University of Minnesota.

Liliana now works in both Statistics and Mathematics. She is a Principal Researcher in the National Scientific and Technical Research Council - Argentina (CONICET), and also a Full Professor at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina.

Liliana received a 2008 L'Oreal-UNESCO-Conicet prize for Women in science, and she was formally mentioned by the parliament of Santa Fe province on the occasion of  "International Women's day" in March 2009, both in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

She has supervised several PhD students, written many articles and book chapters, and held various positions in her university and other organizations. Liliana actively encourages young people and children in math. She also promotes gender-equity in the math community, and she is not afraid to speak out against unacceptable behaviour when she sees it, including sexual misconduct and discrimination.

CWM 2019-2022 member Motoko Kotani was designated as ISC president -elect  (2022 – 2024) during ISC GA on October 14 2021. She will become ISC president from 2025 to 2027. See details here.

An interview of Motoko can be found in CWM Newsletter 5.

The EWM announces its General Meeting 2022, to be held at the Aalto University, Finland on August 22-26, 2022.
EMS/EWM speaker will be Claire Voisin (CNRS). Find more information on Plenary and Gender speakers here.
The call for minisymposia will be posted officially in a few weeks.
Deadlines:
February 28, 2022 - Submission of Minisymposium Proposals
March 31, 2022 – Application for Travel/Accommodation Grants
May 31, 2022 - Submission of Abstracts

As part of the Mathematics of Deep Learning programme at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge it is organised a workshop on “The power of women in deep learning”, 22-23 November 2021. Both in-person and online participation is possible. Speakers include Andrea Bertozzi, Ingrid Daubechies, Stefanie Jegelka, Gitta Kutyniok, Caroline Uhler, Rachel Ward and Marinka Zitnik. To register go here.
Registration closes on the 20th of October!