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.
The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) announced Dr. Matilde Lalín (Université de Montréal) as the recipient of the 2022 Krieger-Nelson Prize for her outstanding contributions to research in Number Theory and related areas.
More here.
The CWM called for proposals for initiatives to be held during 2022 to support women in mathematics. The CWM call received 31 applications of which CWM decided to support 10. The website of the AOWM (Asian and Oceanian Women in Mathematics) platform and the update of the website of AWMA (African Women in Mathematics Association), as well as three regional meetings, the third Central Asian Women in Mathematics in Tadjikistan, the second Women in Sage in Africa meeting in Nigeria and the Latin American and Caribbean Workshop on Mathematics and Gender in Oxoaca (Mexico) are selected. The other five supported events will take place in Gabon, Ghana, India, Oman and Brail (II Brazilian Meeting for Women in Mathematics).
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.
Young gifted women in mathematics welcome at the 9th HLF!
At the HLF, all winners of the Fields Medal, the Abel Prize, the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the ACM Prize in Computing are invited to attend. In addition, young and talented computer scientists and mathematicians are invited to apply for participation. Young researchers at all phases of their careers (Undergraduate/Pre-Master, Graduate PhD, or PostDocs) are encouraged to complete and submit their applications by February 11 (midnight CET).
The 9th HLF will take place at September 18-23, 2022.
Find here the “Apply Now” flyer and information on the 9th HLF.
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).
The Award ceremony was organised by the TWMA at the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis on Wednesday, December 15, 2021.
The CWM 2022 call for Networks, Workshops and other initiatives is opened till 15 December, 2021.
Because the COVID crisis is far from being over, (totally or partially) virtual on-line events are welcome and non -virtual projects should explain their plans in case they have to turn virtual.
There will be no other CWM call for applications regarding activities in 2022.
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.
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). The Prize is awarded annually to a researcher from a developing country who is less than 45 years of age on 31 December of the year of the award, and who has conducted outstanding research in a developing country. More information on the Mathematics Prize announcement here.
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.
Liliana now works in both Statistics and Mathematics. She is a Principal Researcher in the National Scientific and Technical Research Council - Argentina (CONICET), and also a Full Professor at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina.
Liliana received a 2008 L'Oreal-UNESCO-Conicet prize for Women in science, and she was formally mentioned by the parliament of Santa Fe province on the occasion of "International Women's day" in March 2009, both in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
She has supervised several PhD students, written many articles and book chapters, and held various positions in her university and other organizations. Liliana actively encourages young people and children in math. She also promotes gender-equity in the math community, and she is not afraid to speak out against unacceptable behaviour when she sees it, including sexual misconduct and discrimination.