Happy International Women’s Day everyone! And a huge thanks to all the CWM ambassadors and contributors to the Faces of Women in Mathematics film! We ended up getting 146 clips featuring 243 women mathematicians from 36 different countries and speaking 31 different languages. Thanks also to the CWM of the IMU who supported the project. We hope you will enjoy watching it!
CWM Panel and Reception Thursday 2 August Room 204 A/B/C 18:00-20:30. All welcome
PANEL 18:00-19:30
Moderator : Caroline Series (Warwick Univ, UK, CWM Vice-Chair)
18:00-18:05 : Introduction
18:05-18:15 Marie-Francoise Roy (Univ. Rennes, France, CWM Chair): Presenting the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics
18:15-18:40 June Barrow-Green (Open University, UK) : Historical context of the gender gap in mathematics
ICM Emmy Noether Lecture honors women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences, it was presented for the first time in 1994.
At ICM 2018 in Rio the Emmy Noether Lecture will be given by Alice Chang.
We are very deeply saddened by the news that Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the Fields medal, passed away today, Saturday July 15th 2017, at the age of 40.
A brilliant mathematician, she has been an inspiration to so many. She will be sorely missed. Our condolences to her family and friends.
Her beautiful mathematics will stand as a memorial long after those of us who have had the privilege of knowing her personally are gone.
The CWM led Gender Gap Project has just launched its own website with news and up to date information.
Another great female mathematician, Marina Ratner, passed away on July 7th, 2017. Marina played in a key role in linking up the Russian and western schools of dynamical systems and later became famous for her beautiful theorems on unipotent flows on homogeneous spaces, and their application to questions in number theory, see for example on the blog by Terence Tao here.
Watch the great new video of the meeting Women in Mathematics in Latin America: Barriers, Advancements and New Perspectives held in Oaxaca, Mexico, August 2016.
Even if you don’t speak Spanish you can find much to enjoy!
There will be a memorial celebration of the life of Maryam Mirzakhani on Saturday, October 21st, 3:00-5:00 pm in the Cemex Auditorium, Stanford University. It is being organized by the Stanford Mathematics Department, with the guidance of Jan Vondrak and the rest of Maryam’s family.
The ceremony will feature reminiscences from family and friends, including some of Maryam’s mathematical colleagues. It is also expected that there will be visual and musical presentations, reflecting her life and interests.
CWM invites proposals for funding of up to €3000 for activities or initiatives taking place in 2018, aimed at either (a) establishing or supporting networks for women in mathematics, preferably at the continental or regional level, and with priority given to networks in developing or emerging countries or (b) organizing a mathematical school open to all with all women speakers and mainly women organisers or (c) other ideas for researching and/or addressing issues encountered by women in mathematics.
The IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) welcomes the mathematical community to the (WM)²: World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, a satellite event of the ICM 2018.