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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CWM ambassador Olena Vaneeva was elected corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She is only the second woman mathematician that received these high honors.
More info here.
The Annual Conference of IWM during July 11-13, 2024, aims to bring together women students, college and university teachers and researchers working at the frontiers of mathematics to exchange mathematical ideas and share their experiences. A major goal of this event is to enable junior women mathematicians to interact with their senior colleagues, both individually and in small groups.
The application for participation in the conference will be open till the midnight of May 03, 2024.
The National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of Argentina celebrates its 150 years of existence. Its board of directors will be renewed and a woman was elected for the first time in the history of the prestigious institution. Alicia Dickenstein has been IMU vice-president (2015-2018) and is CWM Ambassador.
The May 12 initiative group is launching the May 12 2024 campaign. The May12 initiative brings together local or virtual events celebrating women in mathematics which take place in the period 1 May to 15 June. The main focus are initiatives coming from within academia.
The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Professor Sunčica Čanić will be the 2024 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. The Kovalevsky Lecture will be delivered at the 2024 SIAM Annual Meeting taking place in Spokane, WA, July 8 -12, 2024. More information here.