Distinguished University of Washington mathematician will lead international math institute

The Board of Trustees of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) announced on June 15, 2021 the appointment of Tatiana Toro to the position of Director of MSRI. Toro is the Craig McKibben & Sarah Merner Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Washington in Seattle. MSRI is one of the world’s leading centers for collaborative research in mathematics, overlooking the campus of the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay. Read more about the announcement here.

UMALCA (Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe) recentey launched its Commission on Gender and Diversity (Comisión de Género y Diversidad de Umalca, CGD-Umalca.

Its members are

• Carolina Araujo, Impa, Brasil
• Gabriela Araujo, UNAM, México
• Eugenia Ellis, UdeLAR – Uruguay
• Gabriela Ovando, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
• Eddy Pariguan, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
• Andrea Vera-Gajardo, Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile

See more information here. Face book page here.

CWM and EWM are organizing a joint meeting on Gender Gap in Science Project that will take place on 16 March 2021, 16:00-18:00 CET. In the meeting, Colette Guillopé, Helena Mihaljević, Rachel Ivie and>Marie-Françoise Roy will present various chapters from the final report of the Gender Gap in Science Project.

The registration for the event is open here . The registration deadline is March 14 and the link to the event will be emailed to registered participants on March 15.

The Gender Gap in Science Projec is a multidisciplinary project in which eleven organisations contributed to the analysis of the gender gap in science from three complementary perspectives:

• The Global Survey of Scientists addresses issues related to the absence of role models, feelings of exclusion, harassment, low participation, and retention rates.
• The Study of Publication Patterns provides insights on the proportion of women as research authors or the presence of women publishing in top scientific journals.
• The Database of Good Practices introduces a conceptual framework to analyse good practices, in order to provide evidence of effectiveness and impact.

Further information about the project can be found here.

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. Free screenings on line of Picture a scientist are proposed in agreement with Roccofilms.

In the countries where there are restrictions to gatherings because of the coronavirus crisis, organizing collective events with physical presence might  be difficult this year. But, adapting our suggestions, it might be possible to organize events differently and virtually. .

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 and the Women's Committee of the Iranian Mathematical Society).

More information here.

EWM and MATH+ are organizing a panel discussion on gender balance in mathematics in connection with the movie "Picture a Scientist".
 
The panel discussion will take place on March 11 from 19:30-21:00 CET. The panel will start by a 30-min talk by K. Clancy on sexual harassment (and more generally gender gap). The talk will be followed by a panel discussion involving her as well as Ingrid Daubechies, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Bernd Sturmfels, and Andrea Walther.
Register for the discussion panel here.
The link to the panel will be emailed to everyone who registers latest on March 9.

The Centre de recherches mathématiques will be hosting the virtual workshop "Women in Mathematics during the time of COVID" on International Women's Day, March 8th, 1PM-8PM EST, aiming to raise awareness of the career challenges experienced by women mathematicians during the pandemic. <

Four outstanding mathematicians will highlight their recent work, as well as the unusual circumstances that either led to it or challenged it. These talks will be followed by an informal panel discussion held in the evening, with a focus on the perspective of junior women mathematicians.

The OWSD 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 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.
Two types of fellowship are available: A full-time fellowship (maximum 4 years funding), or a sandwich fellowship (minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 research visits at the host institute).

All information regarding the OWSD PhD Fellowship application are available on the OWSD website. There are all application materials also available in French and Spanish.
Find here the list of eligible countries.
The deadline for applications for this fellowship is April 15, 2021.

The Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society are pleased to announce that Marianna Csörnyei, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, will deliver the Noether Lecture at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings to take place January 5 - 8 in Seattle, Washington.

The lectures honor Emmy Noether (1882 – 1935), one of the great mathematicians of her time. She worked and struggled for what she loved and believed in. Her life and work remain a tremendous inspiration. AWM established the Emmy Noether Lectures in 1980 to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences.  In April 2013 the lecture was renamed “AWM-AMS Noether Lecture” and in 2015 was jointly sponsored by AWM and AMS. These one-hour expository lectures are presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January.

Please join at JMM 2022
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The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Vivette Girault, Professor Emeritus at Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Paris, France, has been named the 2021 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. Professor Girault will be honored for the award at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Spokane, WA, to be held in hybrid or virtual format, July 19 - 23, 2021, where she will deliver the lecture “From linear poroelasticity to nonlinear implicit elastic and related models.''

Sonia Kovalevsky (1850-1891) was the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late 19th century. In 1874, she received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Gottingen and was appointed lecturer at the University of Stockholm in 1883. Kovalevsky did her most important work in the theory of differential equations. AWM and SIAM established the annual Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture to highlight significant contributions of women to applied or computational mathematics.

Please join us at SIAM AN21 to honor Vivette Girault.
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