AWM Novdec 2006
Volume 36, Number 6 NEWSLETTER November–December 2006 President’s Report Congratulations to Our Authors We learned at press time that Complexities: Women in Mathematics, edited by Anne M. Leggett and Bettye Anne Case, has won one of four 2006 Book Awards sponsored by Alpha Sigma Nu and the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universi- ties. The books were judged on the basis of “scholarship, significance of topic to scholars across several disciplines, authority in interpretation, objectivity, presenta- tion, and style,”and theirs was the winning entry in Mathematics and Computer Science. Congratulations, Anne and Bettye Anne (and Vickie and everyone who helped with the conception and execution of this project)! IN THIS ISSUE Women Doing Mathematics Internationally 5 Letter to the Editor This has been a busy period, with AWM members traveling east and west and meeting mathematicians—some of them fellow AWM members—from all over the 8 Book Review world. It has also been a period to work on several projects with our companion society, EWM (European Women in Mathematics). 10 AWM at MathFest 2006 For me, the summer tour began with an unexpected chance to be a member of 15 Happy 100th Birthday! the Canadian delegation to the IMU’s General Assembly in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. (There was a last-minute emergency for one of the Canadian delegates, and 24 AWM in New Orleans he could not make the trip.) The General Assembly is the amazing event, both very formal and delightfully collegial, by which the international community, in the form of the IMU, governs itself.
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