The Centre de recherches mathématiques will be hosting the virtual workshop "Women in Mathematics during the time of COVID" on International Women's Day, March 8th, 1PM-8PM EST, aiming to raise awareness of the career challenges experienced by women mathematicians during the pandemic. <

Four outstanding mathematicians will highlight their recent work, as well as the unusual circumstances that either led to it or challenged it. These talks will be followed by an informal panel discussion held in the evening, with a focus on the perspective of junior women mathematicians.

All members of the mathematical community are welcome. Please register in advance here.

The OWSD Fellowship is offered to women scientists from Science and Technology Lagging Countries to undertake PhD research in the natural, engineering and information technology sciences at a host institute in the South.
Costs covered include travel to the host country, tuition fees, board, accommodation and living expenses, and a special allowance for travel to international conferences.
Two types of fellowship are available: A full-time fellowship (maximum 4 years funding), or a sandwich fellowship (minimum of 1 and a maximum of 3 research visits at the host institute).

All information regarding the OWSD PhD Fellowship application are available on the OWSD website. There are all application materials also available in French and Spanish.
Find here the list of eligible countries.
The deadline for applications for this fellowship is April 15, 2021.

 

The Association for Women in Mathematics and the American Mathematical Society are pleased to announce that Marianna Csörnyei, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, will deliver the Noether Lecture at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings to take place January 5 - 8 in Seattle, Washington.

The lectures honor Emmy Noether (1882 – 1935), one of the great mathematicians of her time. She worked and struggled for what she loved and believed in. Her life and work remain a tremendous inspiration. AWM established the Emmy Noether Lectures in 1980 to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences.  In April 2013 the lecture was renamed “AWM-AMS Noether Lecture” and in 2015 was jointly sponsored by AWM and AMS. These one-hour expository lectures are presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January.

Please join at JMM 2022
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The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are pleased to announce that Vivette Girault, Professor Emeritus at Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, Paris, France, has been named the 2021 Sonia Kovalevsky Lecturer. Professor Girault will be honored for the award at the SIAM Annual Meeting in Spokane, WA, to be held in hybrid or virtual format, July 19 - 23, 2021, where she will deliver the lecture “From linear poroelasticity to nonlinear implicit elastic and related models.''

Sonia Kovalevsky (1850-1891) was the most widely known Russian mathematician of the late 19th century. In 1874, she received her Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Gottingen and was appointed lecturer at the University of Stockholm in 1883. Kovalevsky did her most important work in the theory of differential equations. AWM and SIAM established the annual Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture to highlight significant contributions of women to applied or computational mathematics.

Please join us at SIAM AN21 to honor Vivette Girault.
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Aline Bonami receives the Bergman Prize for her highly influential contributions to several complex variables and analytic spaces. She is being especially recognized for her fundamental work on the Bergman and Szegö projections and their corresponding spaces of holomorphic functions. Bonami’s work has had long-lasting impact on the theory of several complex variables, operator theory, and harmonic analysis, and it continues to be a strong influence on present-day research in all these fields.

Bonami is an emeritus professor at Université d’Orléans in France, where she has been a professor since 1973. Originally specializing in harmonic analysis, she received her PhD in 1970 at Université Paris-Sud in Orsay under the direction of Yves Meyer. During the first years of her career, she was a full-time researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Orsay.

Bonami has received the Prix Petit d’Ormoy, Carrière, Thébault from the French Academy of Sciences (2001), the Prize of the Polish Ministry of National Education for Research in Collaboration (2005), the Commandeur des Palmes Académiques (2005), and the Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (2010). She has served as coordinator of the IHP network of the European Commission on Harmonic Analysis and Related Problems (2002–2006), scientific director for mathematics in charge of evaluation in the French Ministry of Research (2003–2006), and president of the French Mathematical Society (2012–2013). She was a member of the Scientific Committee of the Simons Foundation for its African program (2012) and of the Scientific Committee for European Prizes for Young Researchers (2016), and she co-organized CIMPA schools in Argentina (2008) and Cameroon (2011). She has served in editorial positions of several mathematics journals.

The other recipient is Peter Ebenfelt from the University of California, San Diego.

Every year, the Fondation L'Oréal and UNESCO celebrate the scientific excellence of five eminent women scientists, each from a major region of the world. In 2021, the L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Awards honors Laureates in the field of Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science. See  here.

LAUREATE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEANS

Professor Alicia DICKENSTEIN – Mathematics Professor of Mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Awarded for her outstanding contributions at the forefront of mathematical innovation by leveraging algebraic geometry in the field of molecular biology. Her research enables scientists to understand the precise structures and behavior of cells and molecules, even at a microscopic scale. Operating at the frontier between pure and applied mathematics, she has forged important links to physics and chemistry, and enabled biologists to gain an in-depth structural understanding of biochemical reactions and enzymatic networks.

Alicia has been vice-president of IMU in 2015-2018 and remains a CWM ambassador.

LAUREATE FOR NORTH AMRICA

Professor Shafi GOLDWASSER – Computer Science
 
Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, professor in electrical engineering and computer sciences at University of California Berkeley, RSA professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, United States of America and professor of computer science and applied mathematics at Weizmann Institute, Israel.
 
Awarded for her pioneering and fundamental work in computer science and cryptography, essential for secure communication over the internet as well as for shared computation on private data. Her research has a significant impact on our understanding of large classes of problems for which computers cannot efficiently find approximate solutions.

Shafi has been invited speaker at  ICM Kyoto 1990 in the section Mathematical aspects of computer science and plenary speaker at ICM Beijing 2002.

Other awardees are

Françoise COMBES, Astrophysics, France

Catherine NGILA, Chemistry, South Africa

Kyoko NOZAKI, Chemistry, Japan.

Cameroon
"Women Scientists at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19" - celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science in Maroua on February, 10.
We are going to celebrate it in person while respecting the barrier measures against COVID 19. The number of participants is limited.

Germany
A journey through the natural and mathematical sciences with female
PhD students, University of Potsdam, Germany. See here.

Indonesia
The Indonesian Mathematical Society (IndoMS) together with Universitas Padjadjaran and Universitas Sriwijaya in Indonesia will organize the Webinar on Service Community with the theme of Ethnomathematics and Ethno-informatics by online meeting on Saturday, 20 February 2021, at 09.00-12.00 at Western Indonesia time (in the Indonesian language). Link to join the event.

Italy
In Cagliari: we are organizing an online event for Mathematics at the University of Cagliari in Italy on February 11th dedicated to the students of secondary schools all over the region of Sardinia. In a few words, we proposed a competition between groups of 5 students (60% female). Each group, led by a girl, challenges the others with a presentation on a female mathematician or a mathematical topic of their choice. On February 11th, the students will present their work and the best group will get a prize. More details here

In Turin: for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, on 11 February 2021 at the Politecnico of Turin, Italy. Female PhD students and postdoc researchers will introduce their research work in the fields of Pure and Applied Mathematics and Data Sciences.  Link to join the event:  Password: IDWGS

Nepal
WoNIMS  is also going to organize a mini webinar on this day especially for undergrad girls, and promote them in mathematics studies through participation and communication. More details here

Norway
To show our appreciation to our female colleagues,  on the occasion of 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science students and collaborators, the IDUN project has prepared a short video.. Have a look and share it to acknowledge the efforts of women scientists worldwide!
The IDUN project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology is named after the mathematician Idun Reiten, the first woman professor at the Faculty

Panama
On Wednesday, February 11th, 2021 at 2 pm EST, the Panamanian Association for the Advancement of Science (APANAC), the Panamanian Foundation for the Promotion of Mathematics (FUNDAPROMAT) and the Panama Pod of 500 Women Scientists are organizing a special event, which is free and open to the general public, to commemorate this special day. Our invited speakers are three female scientists Eugenia Rodriguez, Marleny Vargas and Argentina Ying. The event will be held in Spanish. Registration link

Romania
We are celebrating the IDWGS by organizing a seminar concerning the best ways of teaching and communicating Mathematics. We will keep this first meeting inside our small Google Group of Romanian Women in Mathematics (RWM) which has 27 members. We decided to have a meeting on 11 February which will have two parts. The first part contains 2 talks given by two of our members + free discussions on the online teaching of Mathematics. The second part is devoted to making decisions concerning the organization of this seminar in a regular basis.

South Africa
To celebrate the IDWGS day, AIMS House of Science will be hosting a webinar - Après-Lunch with the Mathematical Scientist - on the 11th February 2021, at 2:45pm SAST. The webinar aims to provide a platform for graduate students to engage with esteemed mathematical scientists/role models in academia/industry and other sectors. Registration link

UK
Women in Mathematics Webinar:  An opportunity to discuss and promote the work of women and non-binary people in maths, University of Leeds, England. Thursday 11TH(PM) & Friday 12TH(AM) February 2021  Registration link

 

Professor Ulrike Tillmann has been named as the next Director of INI, a position she will take up from 1 October 2021.
A Professor of Mathematics at Oxford University and Fellow of the Royal Society with multiple awards to her name, Professor Ulrike Tillmann boasts established connections across the international mathematical sciences community from the London Mathematical Society to the Fields Institute. Her five-year appointment means that she will follow in the footsteps of Sir Michael Atiyah, Keith Moffatt, Sir John Kingman, Sir David Wallace, John Toland and current Director David Abrahams to become the seventh holder of the role since Isaac Newton Institute’s opening in 1992.

 

Cheryl Praeger had been appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia in 1999. She is ppromoted to Companion in 2021 "for eminent service to mathematics, and to tertiary education, as a leading academic and researcher, to international organisations, and as a champion of women in STEM careers." See here.

Prof. Cheryl Praeger is is also a member of the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics.

Three women in mathematics, Sanoli Gun, Neena Gupta  and Neela Nataraj were elected fellows of the Indian Academy of Sciences. See here

Prof. Neela Nataraj is also a member of the IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics.