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.
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!
The meeting was hosted by the Casa Matemática Oaxaca in collaboration with the Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery, and part sponsored by CWM.
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.
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.
The following is taken from the UC Berkeley website: Marina Ratner Professor Emeritus passed away on July 7, 2017, at her home in El Cerrito, California. Professor Ratner was educated in Moscow, obtained her doctoral degree at the Moscow State University, emigrated to Israel in 1971, and joined the Berkeley Mathematics Department in 1975. Her work was mainly in ergodic theory and its connections with other parts of mathematics, and earned many honors, including the Ostrowski prize and the John J. Carty Award. She was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She was also an outstanding and beloved teacher and cared deeply about mathematics education.She is survived by her daughter Anna Ratner, son-in-law Charles Cox, grandchildren Bryan and Maya, and nephews Michael Bialy (a Professor of Mathematics at Tel Aviv University) and Alex Bialy.
The CWM led Gender Gap Project has just launched its own website with news and up to date information.
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.
Various links with tributes and information on her life and career can be found on the EWM website here.
For a page of tributes set up by the AMS see here.
Here is an interview with Maryam in the Guardian from August 2014, together with some more links and here is an obituary by Martin Bridson, July 2017.
A very nice and informative interview by Erica Klarreich which appeared in Quanta magazine in 2014 is here.
