Carolina Araujo Featured in Quanta Magazine on "Closing the Gender Gap in Mathematics"
Click here to read the interview with Carolina Araujo in Quanta Magazine. See also the report of (WM)^2, the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics.
Here you will find news about CWM related or sponsored events, activities, announcements and awards. Further information on CWM, events for women in mathematics, etc. can be found on the various dedicated pages of the CWM website. Suggestions for CWM News and other themes can be sent to cwm.info@mathunion.org.
Click here to read the interview with Carolina Araujo in Quanta Magazine. See also the report of (WM)^2, the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics.
CWM invites proposals for funding of up to €3000 for activities or initiatives taking place in 2019, aimed at either (a) establishing or supporting networks for women in mathematics, preferably at the continental or regional level, and with priority given to networks in developing or emerging countries or (b) organizing a mathematical school open to all with all women speakers and mainly women organisers or (c) other ideas for researching and/or addressing issues encountered by women in mathematics. The applications should be sent to applications-for-cwm@mathunion.org before December 15 2018. For more details see here.
An influential probabilist and inspiring leader in the field of random matrices
Professor Alice Guionnet is an inspiring leader in the field of probability and random matrices. She has established surprizing links with various other fields of mathematics as spectral theory, operator algebra, free probability which lead her to several outstanding results. Her "single ring theorem" is a real masterpiece of analysis. But the most important contribution of Alice Guionnet might be a series of work where she founds the theory of "Matrix Models". She has received a number of prestigious invitations, showing her impressive impact beyond the probability theory. After being an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematician, and at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics, she was elected in 2017 at the french Academy of Sciences.
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A 20 mn film created by the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics, filmed and edited by Micro-Documentaries, made possible by a grant from the Simons Foundation. Link to the film here.
The film is featured on the Scientific American Roots of Unity Blog.
A crucial component of the Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing, and Natural Sciences project is the compilation of self-reported data from scientists via a global, multilingual, and multidisciplinary survey. This survey, which targets 45,000 respondents in multiple languages, will explore comparisons across regions, countries, disciplines, level of development of the country, sector of employment and age.
The survey is now open to respondents from all over the world and is available in English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic. If you have studied or worked in mathematical, computing or natural sciences, or in the history and philosophy of science and technology, we encourage you to visit the link below to complete the survey and to also share this link with your colleagues:
The survey will remain open until December 31, 2018.
Remember Maryam Mirzakhani is an exhibition with 18 original posters. Institutions interested in hosting the exhibition can consult the rules of use and contact CWM at exhibition-cwm@mathunion.org. The exhibition opened at the (WM)², the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics, and remained open during ICM 2018. It contained also a book of condolences, and volumes with Maryam Mirzakhani's mathematical papers as well as a book with papers about her. Curator: Thais Jordao. Designer: Rafael Meireles Barroso.
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has awarded the 2019 Louise Hay Award to Jacqueline Dewar of Loyola Marymount University for her exceptional contributions to mathematics education. Click here for the press release.
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has awarded the 2019 M. Gweneth Humphreys Award to Suzanne Weekes, Professor of Mathematics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) for her exceptional contributions to student mentoring. Click here for the press release.
Nalini Joshi AO, Chair of Applied Mathematics at the University of Sydney, was awarded the University of Technology Sydney Eureka Prize for Outstanding Mentor of Young Researchers. She has mentored over thirty researchers throughout her life and was an initiator of the Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE) Program.
Nalini Joshi AO is the vice president of the IMU.
Giulia Di Nunno, Professor of stochastic analysis at the University of Oslo, was awarded the ICIAM Su Buchin Prize for 2019 for her long-lasting record actively and efficiently encouraging top-level mathematical research and education in developing African countries.
The prize was created and first awarded in 2007.