Committee
for Women
in Mathematics

CWM

CWM News

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.


A data analysis of women’s trails among ICM speakers

A paper by Helena Mihaljević and Marie-Françoise Roy (here)

The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), inaugurated in 1897, is the greatest effort of the mathematical community to strengthen international communication and connections across all mathematical fields. Meetings of the ICM have historically hosted some of the most prominent mathematicians of their time. Receiving an invitation to present a talk at an ICM signals the high international reputation of the recipient, and is akin to entering a ‘hall of fame for mathematics’. Women mathematicians attended the ICMs from the start. With the invitation of Laura Pisati to present a lecture in 1908 in Rome and the plenary talk of Emmy Noether in 1932 in Zurich, they entered the grand international stage of their field. The second plenary lecture was given in 1990 by Karen Uhlenbeck.

The authors dive into assorted data sources to follow the footprints of women among the ICM invited speakers, analyzing their demographics and topic distributions, and providing glimpses into their diverse biographies

Gender Gap in Science Project Final Meeting (4 to 8 november 2019

ICTP
Trieste
Italy


The registration is now open here. Registration will be closed on August 2.

The first aim of the meeting  is to report on the methodology, tools produced and results of the project and formulate recommendations and open questions based on its results. All talks will be informed by the results of the survey, data analysis of publications, and compilation of good practices.  The second aim  is to present the tools  of our project in an interactice way and make it possible for attendees to learn ow to use them and  answer their own questions.

The program of the meeting will include computer activities and discussions in little groups.

There will be a selection process due to budget limitation and the wish to ensure a geographical and thematical balance. More here.

 

CWM Call 2019

CWM invites proposals for funding of up to €3000 for activities or initiatives taking place in 2019, 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 applications should be sent to applications-for-cwm@mathunion.org before December 15 2018. For more details see here.

Blaise Pascal Medal in Mathematics for Alice Guionnet

France

An influential probabilist and inspiring leader in the field of random matrices

Professor Alice Guionnet is an inspiring leader in the field of probability and random matrices. She has established surprizing links with various other fields of mathematics as spectral theory, operator algebra, free probability which lead her to several outstanding results. Her "single ring theorem" is a real masterpiece of analysis. But the most important contribution of Alice Guionnet might be a series of work where she founds the theory of "Matrix Models". She has received a number of prestigious invitations, showing her impressive impact beyond the probability theory. After being an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematician, and at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, she was elected in 2017 at the french Academy of Sciences.

See more here.

Hosting Remember Maryam Mirzakhani exhibition

Remember Maryam Mirzakhani is an exhibition with 18 original posters. Institutions interested in hosting the exhibition can consult the rules of use and contact CWM at exhibition-cwm@mathunion.org. The exhibition opened at the (WM)², the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, and remained open during ICM 2018. It contained also a book of condolences, and volumes with Maryam Mirzakhani's mathematical papers as well as a book with papers about her. Curator: Thais Jordao. Designer: Rafael Meireles Barroso.

The Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences from a Historical Perspective

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

18:45-19:10 Silvina Ponce-Dawson (Univ. Buenos Aires, Argentina): The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Working Group on Women in Physics: Activities and perspectives

RECEPTION 19:30-20:30

Event organized by the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics.