Presentation of EWM

European Women in Mathematics (1986-)

Caroline Series, Dublin, 2018

European Women in Mathematics (EWM)

www.europeanwomeninmaths.org• Founded in 1986 to support,

encourage and bring together women mathematicians across Europe

• Membership organization open to all

• Organizes biennial general meetings and other local or specialist conferences

• Has several hundred members and coordinators in 34 countries

• Has email net, newsletter and website

• Offers mentoring and travel grants for members

EWM Aims•to encourage women to study mathematics.•to support women in their careers in mathematics.•to shape research and university policies.•to provide a meeting place for like-minded people.•to promote scientific communication.•to cooperate with groups and organizations with similar goals.

Ingrid Daubechies EMS LecturerEWM Meeting, Novi Sad 2009Past President of IMU

Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (UK)Convenor

Elena Resmerita (Austria)Deputy convenor

Newsletter

(twice a year)

Portraits of women

Reports on countries

Reports on EWM activities

EWM NEWSLETTERhttp://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org

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Anna Maria Cherubini (University of Salento, Italy), Coordinator anna.cherubini(at)unisalento.it

Francesca Arici (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)

Olga Kuznetsova (Aalto University, Finland)

Mihaela Prikop-Jeckstadt (TU Dresden, Germany)

Editorial Team

Useful Links and ContactsEWM website http://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/

EWM convenor Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb  cbs31(at)cam.ac.uk

EWM deputy convenor  Elena Resmerita  elena.resmerita(at)aau.at

EWM email list  Katrin Leschke  k.leschke(at)le.ac.uk

Other organisations with similar aims to the EWM:

The European Mathematical Society (EMS): http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/

EMS Women in Mathematics Committee: http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/comm-women.html

Committee for Women in Mathematics: http://www.mathunion.org/cwm

France: Femmes et mathématiques: http://www.femmes-et-maths.fr/

UK: LMS Women in Mathematics Committee: http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/women_maths_com/

Job announcements:

http://www.math-jobs.com http://www.jobs.ac.uk/ http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/jobs.html

Membership: The membership fee can be paid by credit card or Paypal via the EWM website, or by direct transfer to the EWM bank account. For more details, see http://europeanwomeninmaths.org/about-us/membership

EWM and EMS WiM Committee Joint activities

EWM is a membership organisation

EMS Women in Maths Committee is a committee of the EMS

Set up a Joint Scientific Committee

12 leading female mathematicians to advise on speakers for meetings etc

Current chair Cornelia Drutu (Oxford)

Institut Mittag Leffler Summer schools with large female participation

Other EWM activities

Round tables and lectures(starting in Berkeley 1986)

ICWM in Seoul 2014

EWM-EMS summer schoolsMittag-Leffler Institute

ECM in Krakow in 2012, Berlin in 2016, and in

Portoroz 2020

EWM next steps

• Statistics: Collecting and publishing statistics on female math faculty in European countries.

• European women in mathematics database

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International Networks and Meetings

Association for Women in Mathematics (US)

European Women in Mathematics

Indian Women in Mathematics

African Women in Mathematics Association

IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics CWM

International Conference of Women in Mathematics (2010, 2014)

World Meeting of Women Mathematicians (WM)^2 (Rio 2018)