Christiane Rousseau, Université de Montréal, receives the inaugural Bertrand Russell Prize of the AMS in recognition of her many contributions furthering human values and the common good through mathematics.
We are delighted to announce an $800,000 gift pledge from distinguished engineers and entrepreneurs Dr. Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard and Anousheh Ansari to establish an endowed graduate fellowship in honor of our late colleague, Professor of Mathematics Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017). The Maryam Mirzakhani Graduate Fellowship will support graduate students in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford.
Stanford Department of MathematicsFor the first time ever, three of the five learned mathematics societies in the UK are concurrently led by female presidents: Caroline Series is President of The London Mathematical Society, Ruth Kaufman is President of the Operational Research Society, and Ineke De Moortel is Preside
CWM has awarded 12 new grants from €2000o to €3000 for regional activities for women in mathematics in 2018. See here.
The Iranian Women’s section of the Iranian Mathematical Society held its first meeting on August 21, 2017, in Bu-Ali Sina University which is in Hamedan, a city in the west of Iran.
The meeting was open to all Iranian Women Mathematicians. It was sponsored by CWM.
For more details see the report here (page 9), email contact: w.iranmath@ims.ir, poster here.
Professor, University of Warwick and Cornell University
Speaker at 2006 ICM
Noether Lecture (2007)
European Mathematical Society Lecturer (2010)
Humboldt Prize (2014)
This comprehensive list of resources is part of the AWM website.
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Here you will find news about CWM related or sponsored events, activities, announcements and awards. Further information on CWM, events for women in mathematics, etc. can be found on the various dedicated pages of the CWM website. Suggestions for CWM News and other themes can be sent to cwm.info@mathunion.org.
CWM was approved by the IMU Executive Committee in March 2015. Its first meeting took place in Cortona, Italy in September 2015; a detailed report can be found here. The second meeting was in Berlin, July 2016 and the third in Berlin in May 2017.
CWM is organizing the first Worldwide Meeting for Women in Mathematics in Rio as a satellite event of ICM. See report here.
