CWM approved the Maryam’s Museum request to host Remember Maryam Mirzakhani Exhibition permanently.
Maryam Mirzakhani’s family and the Foundation of Maryam Mirzakhani – a charity organization supporting talented girls continuing their study, have prepared a place in her mother’s hometown named Taleghan for a museum named Maryam’s Museum. The Museum is intended to show some of Maryam’s belongings.
Tunisian Women Mmathematicians’ Association (TWMA) best thesis Awards for Tunisian women in pure mathematics and in applied mathematics were given respectively to Dr Sabrine Chebbi from Tunis El Manar University and to Dr Nahed Naceur from Sousse University/Lorraine University. For this edition, the president of the jury for the best thesis in pure mathematics was Professor Hajer Bahouri (University Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne) and the president of the jury for the best thesis in applied mathematics was Professor Nahla Abdellatif (Tunis El Manar University).
On this page you will find a selection of exhibitions with galleries of portraits of women mathematicians created by institutes, organizations or private persons. Please let us know if you are aware of other good sources which might be included.
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).
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.
Young gifted women in mathematics welcome at the 9th HLF!
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.
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.