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.
CWM is using its sponsorship to help establish and foster networks of women mathematicians especially in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Asia. See here. From 2015 to 2022, CWM sponsored events took place in Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Senegal, Tunisia, Kenya, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Nepal, South Africa, Vietnam, Austria, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Italy (ICTP), Macedonia, Nigeria, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Cameroon, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Russia, Turkey, Congo, Pakistan, Gabon, Ghana, Oman.
CWM random collection of photos of women mathematicians. Just to make you realise how many women in mathematics there are, who have overcome the multitude of obstacles placed in their paths.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
The CWM led Gender Gap Project has just launched its own website with news and up to date information.
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.