Congratulations to Anna Kiensenhofer for her gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics
CWM congratulates Austrian mathematician Anna Kiesenhofer for her stunning performance in the women’s road race, road cycling, winning a gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics
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Tatiana Toro Named Next MSRI Director, 2022-2027
Distinguished University of Washington mathematician will lead international math institute
Addressing the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is a major goal of many countries. Initiatives established to meet this challenge are broad ranging from intervention programs in primary, secondary and tertiary education to industry-based interventions targeted at the workplace
Shabnam Akhtari receives the 2021–2022 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and Cornell University are pleased to announce that Shabnam Akhtari (University of Oregon) has been awarded the 2021–2022 Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize. Shabnam Akhtari was selected to receive the Michler Prize to pursue her proposed research on classical Diophantine equations, in particular to study index form equations and their applications to understanding the structure of rings in algebraic number fields. A full press release is attached.
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(WM)², the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics in 2022
The second (WM)^2 was held virtually on July 1-2 2022, as a special satellite event of the ICM 2022. An Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya celebration where Ladyzhenskaya Prize in Mathematical Physics (OAL Prize) was awarded for the first time, took place on July 2, in a joint session of (WM)² 2022 and the Probability and Mathematical Physics ICM satellite event.
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CGD-Umalca
UMALCA (Unión Matemática de América Latina y el Caribe) recentey launched its Commission on Gender and Diversity (Comisión de Género y Diversidad de Umalca, CGD-Umalca.
Joint CWM-EWM meeting on the Gender Gap in Mathematics in Europe
CWM and EWM are organizing a joint meeting on Gender Gap in Science Project that will take place on 16 March 2021, 16:00-18:00 CET. In the meeting, Colette Guillopé, Helena Mihaljević, Rachel Ivie and>Marie-Françoise Roy will present various chapters from the final report of the Gender Gap in Science Project.
The registration for the event is open here . The registration deadline is March 14 and the link to the event will be emailed to registered participants on March 15.
Panel discussion on gender balance in mathematics
EWM and MATH+ are organizing a panel discussion on gender balance in mathematics in connection with the movie "Picture a Scientist".
The panel discussion will take place on March 11 from 19:30-21:00 CET. The panel will start by a 30-min talk by K. Clancy on sexual harassment (and more generally gender gap). The talk will be followed by a panel discussion involving her as well as Ingrid Daubechies, Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb, Bernd Sturmfels, and Andrea Walther.
OWSD PhD Fellowships Call for Application 2021
The OWSD Fellowship is offered to women scientists from Science and Technology Lagging Countries to undertake PhD research in the natural, engineering and information technology sciences at a host institute in the South.
Costs covered include travel to the host country, tuition fees, board, accommodation and living expenses, and a special allowance for travel to international conferences.
Two types of fellowship are available: A full-time fellowship (maximum 4 years funding), or a sandwich fellowship (minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 research visits at the host institute).
Marianna Csörnyei Named AWM-AMS 2022 Noether Lecturer
The Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society are pleased to announce that Marianna Csörnyei, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, will deliver the Noether Lecture at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings to take place January 5 - 8 in Seattle, Washington.