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 20 mn film created by the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics, filmed and edited by Micro-Documentaries, made possible by a grant from the Simons Foundation. Link to the film here.
The film is featured on the Scientific American Roots of Unity Blog.
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.
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.
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.
Four women are Plenary Speakers at ICM 2018: Nalini Anantharaman, Catherine Goldstein, Sylvia Serfaty and Lai-Sang Young, out of 21 plenary speakers. The proportion of women giving Plenary or Invited Section Lectures at ICM 2018 is 15 %. See a poster on women lecturers at ICM from the origins (presented at the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics) here.
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.
The (WM)² will bring together mathematicians from all over the world to think about and discuss gender issues in mathematics, its challenges, initiatives, and perspectives for the future, with a strong focus on Latin America.
The (WM)² will take place at Riocentro convention center on July 31, 2018 (the same venue as the ICM). Its program includes research talks, group discussions about gender issues in mathematics, a panel discussion and poster presentation. There will also be a tribute to Maryam Mirzakhani.
The Sylvester Medal 2018 is awarded to Professor Dusa McDuff FRS for leading the development of the new field of symplectic geometry and topology. Her outstanding work includes many fundamental theorems and she has been inspirational for generations of mathematicians.
See more information here.
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!
Film (14 mn 02) here. Trailer (about 2 mn 41) here.
Press release here, devoted FaceBook page here.
Please help us spread the film as widely as possible. We are proud of all of our fabulous contributors!
Eugenie Hunsicker and Irina Linke
CWM has awarded 12 new grants from €2000o to €3000 for regional activities for women in mathematics in 2018. See here.
For 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 President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. More here.
