The Standing Committee for Gender Equality in Science (SCGES) is an independent committee formed in 2020 by several international scientific organizations, including the IMU, to promote gender equality in science. The SCGES third Annual Report has just been published and can be found here on the SCGES website.
This annual conference aims to bring together women mathematicians, women students, college and university teachers, and novice researchers working at the frontiers of mathematics to interact and exchange mathematical ideas and share their experiences with their colleagues, both in groups or individually.
(1776 - 1831)
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.
Largely self-taught in mathematics.
Correspondence with Lagrange and Gauss using the male pseudonym Antoine-Auguste Le Blanc.
Research interests: elasticity, number theory (Fermat's Last Theorem).
Honour:
Sophie Germain Prize
Since 2007, more than 100 Sage Days have been organized around the world. During these days, participants discover the SageMath software, develop their programming skills and contribute to the development of the software. Women in Sage days have already been organized in seven different countries. The upcoming Women in Sage - Uganda will take place at Makerere University, Uganda, on September 04-08, and is supported by CWM.
More information can be found here.
CWM congratulates its former vice-chair, Professor Caroline Series, for being awarded a CBE for her services to mathematics. Professor Series was the third female president of the London Mathematical Society (LMS), holding the post from 2017 to 2019. She was also a founding member of European Women in Mathematics, and was CWM first vice-chair from 2015 to 2017.
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Profesor Asociado at Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios (FEN).
Research interests:optimization, sustainable management of natural resources, mathematical economics
First woman to obtain a PhD degree from UNI-IMCA (Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería – Insituto de Matemática y Ciencias Afines) in Lima, Peru.
Full-time Professor in the Department of Economics at Universidad del Pacífico, Peru.
Research area: applied mathematics and mathematical economics
“Sofia Kovalevskaya: Mujer peruana investigadora senior destacada en matemáticas” awarded 2019
Mexican mathematician
Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Research area: Discrete Mathematics and Graph Theory (finite geometries and cage graphs)
"Sofía Kovalevskaia 2003" Award presented by the Mexican Mathematical Society.
"Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" prize 2013 awarded by the UNAM.
Fellow of the Mexican Academy of Sciences since 2013.
President of the Mexican Mathematical Society (2022-2024)
Cuban mathematician
PhD in Physics and Mathematics in 1989.
promoter of gender discussions, book “To be a woman in science or to die trying” (2010).
Member ICSU Regional Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (2014-2018).
Merit Member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
Since 2008 member of the World Academy of Science for the developing world (TWAS).
National Prize for the Best Scientific Book written in Cuba (1989).
National Medal Carlos Finlay for relevant contributions to the Cuban Sciences (2001).
Turkish-Brazilian mathematician
Education and carrier:
University of Brazil (today UFRJ), Iniversity of Michigan, doctoral program at IMPA Brazil, postdoctoral position at University of California
Full Professor at UFRJ 1989
First woman to be president of the Brazilian Mathematical Society (1989-1991)
First female member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 1991