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. The 2022 ICM Emmy Noether Lecture will be delivered by Marie-France Vignéras, Professor Emeritus of the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, France.
More information on the announcement of the Emmy Noether Lecture here.

Professor Neena Gupta received the Prize for her outstanding work in affine algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, in particular for her solution of the Zariski cancellation problem for affine spaces. She is the third woman to receive the Ramanujan Prize, which was first awarded in 2005 and is administered by ICTP jointly with the Department of Science and Technology (DST, Government of India), and the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Prize is awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country who is less than 45 years of age on 31 December of the year of the award, and who has conducted outstanding research in a developing country. More information on the Mathematics Prize announcement here.

Selma Negzaoui, TWMA chair, AXMA member and CWM ambassador in Tunisia, receives the young researcher prize from the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts "Beit Elhikma" for the year 2021 for her work in harmonic analysis. See here.

CWM Ambassador for Argentina Liliana Forzani was elected as UMALCA President for the period 2021-2024.

Liliana graduated with her first degree in Applied Mathematics in 1988 from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, and completed a PhD in Mathematics in 1993 at the Universidad Nacional de San Luis, in Argentina. Then in 2007 she finished a second PhD, in Statistics, at the University of Minnesota.

Liliana now works in both Statistics and Mathematics. She is a Principal Researcher in the National Scientific and Technical Research Council - Argentina (CONICET), and also a Full Professor at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina.

Liliana received a 2008 L'Oreal-UNESCO-Conicet prize for Women in science, and she was formally mentioned by the parliament of Santa Fe province on the occasion of  "International Women's day" in March 2009, both in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

She has supervised several PhD students, written many articles and book chapters, and held various positions in her university and other organizations. Liliana actively encourages young people and children in math. She also promotes gender-equity in the math community, and she is not afraid to speak out against unacceptable behaviour when she sees it, including sexual misconduct and discrimination.

CWM 2019-2022 member Motoko Kotani was designated as ISC president -elect  (2022 – 2024) during ISC GA on October 14 2021. She will become ISC president from 2025 to 2027. See details here.

An interview of Motoko can be found in CWM Newsletter 5.

The EWM announces its General Meeting 2022, to be held at the Aalto University, Finland on August 22-26, 2022.
EMS/EWM speaker will be Claire Voisin (CNRS). Find more information on Plenary and Gender speakers here.
The call for minisymposia will be posted officially in a few weeks.
Deadlines:
February 28, 2022 - Submission of Minisymposium Proposals
March 31, 2022 – Application for Travel/Accommodation Grants
May 31, 2022 - Submission of Abstracts

As part of the Mathematics of Deep Learning programme at the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge it is organised a workshop on “The power of women in deep learning”, 22-23 November 2021. Both in-person and online participation is possible. Speakers include Andrea Bertozzi, Ingrid Daubechies, Stefanie Jegelka, Gitta Kutyniok, Caroline Uhler, Rachel Ward and Marinka Zitnik. To register go here.
Registration closes on the 20th of October!

The OWSD Annual Report 2020 is now available; start the download of the PDF here.
From the summary of the report announcement: "Despite the pandemic, OWSD managed many accomplishments in 2020. We awarded 26 new PhD fellowships, including to candidates in Afghanistan and Nicaragua for the first time in OWSD’s history, and saw 23 fellows join the ranks of PhD graduates. Twenty-three Early Career fellowships were also awarded, including to 10 women scientists from least developed countries. From March to April, we conducted an update to our membership database to remove inactive members; while this initially dropped the number of OWSD members on record from 8680 to 4830, the difference is already being quickly made up by a record number of new membership applications (1850), with a proliferation of new members in Latin America, as well as in other countries thanks to the efforts of new National Chapters in Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras, Malawi, Mozambique, Nepal, Palestine, and Senegal. By the end of 2020, we had already reached 6230 active members. And in February, we were lucky to be able to recognize the five winners of the 2020 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards in person at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, in Seattle, Washington, before global travel was halted."

Download report here.

The 2021 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 15 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.