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Standing Committe for Gender Equality in Science

The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) was established by 9 International Unions, including IMU and has already 21 partners. Third annual report (2022-2023) available here. The purpose of SGES is to circulate information among its partners, and promote cooperation on among them, in particular by supporting women and girls’ equal access to science education and fostering equal opportunity and treatment for females in their careers.

Organisation

Carolina Araujo

Brazilian mathematician at IMPA

Research area: Algebraic geometry, in particular in birational geometry and the theory of extremal rays; Fano varieties, and algebraic foliations

L'Oreal Award for Women in Science in Brazil in 2008, Ramanujan Prize for Young Mathematicians from Developing Countries 2020

Invited speaker ICM 2018
led the inaugural World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)2 2018

Vice-chair of CWM for the period 2019-2022

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Georgia Benkart

(1947 - 2022)

American mathematician

Research area: structure and representation theory of Lie algebras and related algebraic structures

Polya Lecturer by the Mathematical Association of America, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, President of the Association for Women in Mathematics (2009 - 2011)

ICM 2014 Emmy Noether Lecture

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Women Mathematicians in South Asian and Middle Eastern Region

The hybrid event "To constitute a network of Women Mathematicians in South Asian and Middle Eastern Region" will be held on 4 th -5 th October 2022 at the University of Technology and Applied Sciences-Suhar for two days. The first day (4 th October, 2022) of the hybrid event is in person at UTAS-Sohar, Oman and the second day (5 th October, 2022) of the event will be continued on virtual mode.

The event is sponsored by CWM-International Mathematical Union and UTAS-Suhar.

Maria Eulália Vares

Professor of statistics in the Institute of Mathematics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Research area:  stochastic processes and large deviations theory.

Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

Invited speaker (WM)² 2018

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Salomé Martínez

Professor of the Universidad de Chile and an academic of the Department of Mathematical Engineering, researcher at the Center of Mathematical Modeling and director of the Education Lab of that same unit.

Research area: Nonlinear Analysis and Partial Differential Equations.

Academic Excellence Young Investigators Award from the Chilean Academy of Sciences.

Invited speaker (WM)² 2018

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