From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
IMS Fellow and former president Srinivasa S.R. Varadhan, New York University, has been named a recipient of the US National Medal of Science- the highest honor bestowed by the government- for “his work in probability theory, especially his work on large deviations from expected random behavior, which has revolutionized …
The Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) calls for nominations for the Alice T. Schafer Mathematics Prize to be awarded to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics. All members of the mathematical community are invited to submit nominations for the Prize. The nominee may be…
Please note that the next deadline for the AWM/NSF Travel Grant is October 1, 2011. The Association for Women in Mathematics travel program supports these opportunities for women:
1. Travel Grants in mathematics, for women mathematicians attending mathematics conferences.
2. Travel Grants for women mathematicians attending a mathematics education research…
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) established the annual Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture to highlight significant contributions of women to applied or computational mathematics. This lecture is given annually at the SIAM Annual Meeting. In 2012, the Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture will…
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) annually presents the Noether Lectures to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. These one-hour expository lectures are presented at the Joint Mathematics Meetings each January. Emmy Noether was one of the great mathematicians of her time,…