The Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society are pleased to announce that Monica Vişan, Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), will be the 2026 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecturer. The Noether Lecture will be delivered at the Joint Mathematics meetings, to be held in Washington, DC, January 4 – 7, 2026. Press release.
The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America are pleased to announce that the 2025 Etta Zuber Falconer Lecturer will be Olivia Prosper Feldman, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee. The Falconer Lecture will be delivered at the MAA MathFest, to be held in Sacramento, CA, from August 6 – 9, 2025. A full press release is attached.
The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2025-2026 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize has been awarded to Ling Xiao, Associate Professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut. Xiao has been selected to receive the Michler Prize for her research accomplishments in geometric analysis and partial differential equations. Professor Xiao will spend an upcoming semester visiting Cornell. Press release
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.