The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Professor Yongjie Jessica Zhang will be the 2025 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. The Kovalevsky Lecture will be delivered at the 2025 SIAM/CAIMS Annual Meeting taking place in Montréal, Québec, Canada, July 28 - August 1, 2025. Press release.
The CWM called for proposals for initiatives to support women in mathematics taking place from March 2025 to February 2026. The CWM 2025 call received 61 applications, of which 13 will be supported.
US President Joe Biden has announced that Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Mathematics, will receive the National Medal of Science in 2025. She is being honored for her pioneering work on signal processing. More information here.
The Committee for Women in Mathematics hosted a webinar on November 27 to provide information on the CWM Call 2025.
We are pleased to share the recording of the event for those who were unable to attend. You may also download the slides below.
The CWM Call will run until December 13. Submit your application here if you have not done so!
What is the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES)?
The Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) is pleased to announce the CWM 2025 Call for activities or initiatives aimed at supporting women in mathematics. These activities should take place between March 2025 and February 2026.
The CWM grant offers financial support of up to €3,000 per initiative.
Application Deadline: December 13, 2024
How to Apply: Submit your application via IMU Grants.
The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) has just launched “Women scientists around the world: strategies for gender equality”, a new joint project with the International Science Council (ISC). The project consists in a series of articles, based on interviews with women scientists from various disciplines and geographic regions, several of whom have attained leadership roles in scientific organizations.
Isabelle Gallagher was elected SMF president on June 15 2024. A specialist of partial differential equations and fluid mechanichs, she was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014. She won the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016 and the Prix Sophie Germain in 2018.
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