The OWSD Annual Report 2020 is now available; start the download of the PDF here.
From the summary of the report announcement: "Despite the pandemic, OWSD managed many accomplishments in 2020. We awarded 26 new PhD fellowships, including to candidates in Afghanistan and Nicaragua for the first time in OWSD’s history, and saw 23 fellows join the ranks of PhD graduates. Twenty-three Early Career fellowships were also awarded, including to 10 women scientists from least developed countries. From March to April, we conducted an update to our membership database to remove inactive members; while this initially dropped the number of OWSD members on record from 8680 to 4830, the difference is already being quickly made up by a record number of new membership applications (1850), with a proliferation of new members in Latin America, as well as in other countries thanks to the efforts of new National Chapters in Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Palestine, and Senegal. By the end of 2020, we had already reached 6230 active members. And in February, we were lucky to be able to recognize the five winners of the 2020 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards in person at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Seattle, Washington, before global travel was halted."

Download report here.

The 2021 SCGES report, compiled after the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) ’s first year of existence, is evidence of its current and future work on this endeavor. Starting with a short synthesis by SCGES chair Catherine Jami, it contains short reports by each of the 15 members of SCGES, all of which have a stated commitment to promote gender equality and women in science. Exchanging information on all related issues and making them visible is a major motivation for the partners who work together in SCGES.

The list of the mathematicians who will give the invited lectures during the ICM2022 program was officially published. CWM is happy to report that the proportion of women (plenary and sectional) lecturers has reached a little more than 20%. For the previous ICMs (Rio 2018, Seoul 2014, Hyderabad 2010) the proportion had stabilized around 15 %, after a period of growth starting in the 1990s.

This prize rewards two very junior female students (last year of bachelor's degree or first year of master's degree) for a first research work or bibliographic study in mathematics. A prize is awarded for work in fundamental mathematics and another for work in mathematics at interfaces.

The first prize was awarded in september 2021 by a jury chaired by Amandine Veber. There were 23 canddates. The awardees are  Bertille Follain for her work on  High dimensional change point estimation with missing data via sparse projection and Blandine Galiay for her work on Lattices of the oscillator group of signature (2,2) .

See the video here (in french).

Three Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prizes were awarded to early-career women mathematicians:

Sarah Peluse, Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University (PhD Stanford University 2019)
For contributions to arithmetic combinatorics and analytic number theory, particularly with regards to polynomial patterns in dense sets.

Hong Wang, University of California, Los Angeles (PhD MIT 2019)
For advances on the restriction conjecture, the local smoothing conjecture, and related problems.

Yilin Wang, MIT (PhD ETH Zürich 2019)
For innovative and far-reaching work on the Loewner energy of planar curves.

The Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize was established in 2019 and named for the famed Iranian mathematician, Fields Medalist and Stanford professor who passed away in 2017.

In 2021 for its first year, the  Prize was awarded to

Nina Holden – "For work in random geometry, particularly on Liouville quantum gravity as a scaling limit of random triangulations.".

Urmila Mahadev – "For work that addresses the fundamental question of verifying the output of a quantum computation.".

Lisa Piccirillo – "For resolving the classic problem that the Conway knot is not smoothly slice."

See more here.

The project МАТЕМАТИКА, through a land of mathematics tells stories of ten Russian women from nine different cities who contribute, directly or indirectly, to the research in mathematics. Each one of them, in her unique way, is engaged into mathematics.

Russia is a very special place for mathematics, and this project is an attempt to sketch an impression of modern Russian mathematics in many of its different aspects.

The choice of the 10  heroines reflects the will to learn and share the stories of women, their fights and their dreams, to celebrate them, be impressed and inspired.

In order to put this project in place,  a Russian mathematician (and interviewer) and a French photographer, Olga and Bertrand, are travelling through Russia from Khabarovsk to Saint Petersburg, in order to meet the heroines of МАТЕМАТИКА. From their discussions and impressions, an exhibition and a book will be created.

The exhibition will be premiered at the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, (WM)² on  July 1 2022.