The Association for Women in Mathematics is pleased to announce that the 2023-2024 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize has been awarded to Lauren M. Childs, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech. Childs has been selected to receive the Michler Prize for her research accomplishments in mathematical biology. Professor Childs will spend an upcoming semester visiting Cornell.

The Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize was established through a generous donation from Ruth’s parents Gerhard and Waltraud Michler of Essen, Germany. The award grants a mid-career mathematician a residential fellowship in the Cornell University Mathematics Department without teaching obligations. The Michlers established the memorial prize with the Association for Women in Mathematics to honor Ruth’s commitment to the AWM mission of supporting women mathematicians.

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The Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society are pleased to announce that Anne Schilling, Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Davis, will be the 2024 AWM-AMS Emmy Noether Lecturer. The Noether Lecture will be delivered at the Joint Mathematics meetings, to be held in San Francisco from January 3 – 6, 2024.

AWM established the Emmy Noether Lectures in 1980 to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences.  In April 2013 the lecture was renamed “AWM-AMS Noether Lecture” and in 2015 was jointly sponsored by AWM and AMS. Schilling was recommended for this award by a joint selection committee (William Mark Goldman, Rachel Kuske (Chair), Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, and Emily Riehl).

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The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America are pleased to announce that the 2023 Etta Zuber Falconer Lecturer will be Dr. Tatiana Toro, Director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSRI/SLMath) and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington. The Falconer Lecture will be delivered at the MAA MathFest, to be held in Tampa, Florida, from August 2 – 5, 2023.

The Falconer lectures were established in memory of Etta Zuber Falconer (1933–2002). Her many years of service in promoting mathematics at Spelman College and efforts to enhance the movement of minorities and women into scientific careers through many forums in the mathematics and science communities were extraordinary. Falconer lecturers are women who have made distinguished contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education.

Toro was recommended for this award by a joint selection committee of Reginald Len McGee II, Christina Eubanks-Turner, Bonita Saunders (Chair), and Erica Walker.

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The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Professor Annalisa Buffa  will be the 2023 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. The Kovalevsky Lecture will be delivered at the 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023) taking place in Tokyo, Japan,  August 20 – 25, 2023.

The Kovalevsky Lecture honors Sonia Kovalevsky (1850–1891), the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late 19th century. In 1874, Kovalevsky received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Göttingen and was appointed lecturer at the University of Stockholm in 1883. Kovalevsky did her most important work in the theory of differential equations. Buffa was recommended for this  award by a joint AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Selection Committee.

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The CWM called for proposals for initiatives to be held during 2023 to support women in mathematics. The CWM 2023 call received 48 applications, of which CWM decided to support 11. Some of the selected projects aim at supporting continental networks for women in mathematics, such as the 1st meeting of the Asian and Oceanian Women in Mathematics (AOWM) in India, the 3rd Meeting for Latin American Women in Mathematics in Colombia, the 3rd Southeast Asian Women Mathematicians Meeting in Indonesia, and a network conference organised by the Commission of African Women in Mathematics of the African Mathematical Union (AMU-CAWM) in Morocco. CWM is also supporting networking activities for women in mathematics in Cuba, India, Nepal and Nigeria, the global May 12 initiative, and two research workshops geared towards establishing research networks for women, in Uganda and Uruguay. Depending on the nature of the project, CWM funding goes to infrastructure, webpage’s creation and update, travel expenses and accommodation support for participants from developing countries.

More details on each of these projects can be found here.

Marie-Françoise Roy received the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa on December 7 2022 from the University of Bath "in recognition of her distinguished career as a geometer and her leading role as an advocate for women in mathematics".

Oration  by Gregory Sankaran here.

The CWM 2023 call for Networks, Workshops and other initiatives is opened till 23 December, 2022.

There will be no other CWM call for applications regarding activities in 2022.

Download report here.

The 2021-22 SCGES report, compiled after the Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) ’s first year of existence, is evidence of its current and future work on this endeavor. Starting with a short synthesis by SCGES chair Catherine Jami, it contains short reports by each of the 1 members of SCGES, all of which have a stated commitment to promote gender equality and women in science. Exchanging information on all related issues and making them visible is a major motivation for the partners who work together in SCGES.

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.

Renowned mathematicians from ten countries with a high scientific caliber are participating in this prestigious event.

The main objectives of this event are:

• To build a network at the regional, national and an international level.
• To motivate and encourage participants for research and development activities
• To spread awareness about the funding and career opportunities available.
• To showcase the achievements of women mathematicians globally that can motivate them to pursue their careers in Mathematics.

The online conference "Women in Mathematics", a RIMS conference of Kyoto University, took place from September 7th to 9th in 2022.

There were more than 200 participants, from several countries, one third of them being male.

The program featured mathematical talks, 1-minute speech by the Japanese female participants and discussion about women in mathematics including reports from CWM, EWM, WAM, MSRI and AWM. It was a good opportunity for participants to get to know each other and to learn about many good practices abroad.

See more information here.