World Premiere at (WM)^2, the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics on July 31 2018. A 13mn film with Neela Nataraj (India), Aminatou Pecha (Cameroon) and Carolina Araujo (Brazil). Created by the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics, filmed and edited by Micro-Documentaries, made possible by a grant from the Simons Foundation.
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.
Maryna Viazovksa (École Polythechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), a world-renowned mathematician famous for her solution to the sphere-packing problem, won one of the 2018 New Horizons In Mathematics Prizes, part of the prestigious Mathematics Breakthrough Prizes.
CWM is organising a satellite meeting of ICM 2018: (WM)²: World Meeting for Women in Mathematics to take place, in the same venue as the ICM in Rio,on July 31 2018.
CWM Panel at ICM Rio on August 2 2018. Brief presentation about IMU CWM by Marie-Francoise Roy, a lecture by June Barrow Green (Open University, UK) "Historical context of the gender gap in mathematics" and a lecture by Silvina Ponce-Dawson (University Buenos Aires, Argentina) "The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Working Group on Women in Physics: activities and perspectives" followed by reactions from the floor.
An edited sequence of film clips of women saying into the camera "I am (name) from (country), and I am a mathematician!” in the language of their choice. The 146 clips featured 243 women mathematicians from 36 different countries speaking in 31 different languages. Authors Eugenie Hunsicker and Irina Linke.
Members of the CWM are appointed for four years by the IMU Executive Committee and are widely distributed internationally. The CWM has a chair and vice--chair and 6 to 8 members--at--large. One of the CWM members is responsible for the CWM website and electronic communication.
The 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists has been launched on May 1st, 2018 and will be open for answers until October 31st, 2018. Click to complete the 2018 Global Survey of Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Scientists. You are welcome to forward this link to the survey to your colleagues, both men and women.
CWM posters and flyers are available. If you want to get a few copies to distribute at a mathematical event or for other display purposes, please contact your CWM country's ambassador.