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President's Report Newsletter Volume 45, No. 5 • SePTemBeR–oCToBeR 2015 PRESIDENT’S REPORT In July, while rooting for the US Women’s National Team to win the Women’s World Cup in soccer, I was reminded by my husband that I should be rooting for women’s teams from around the world, representing countries where opportuni- ties for women to advance are much more limited than they are in the US! But The purpose of the Association even in the US we are still waiting for the Equal Rights Amendment to become for Women in Mathematics is law, we still have severe wage disparity, and the glass ceiling for women and minorities • to encourage women and girls to is still unacceptably low in many professions. Luckily, we also have fabulous study and to have active careers organizations like the AWM to help advance the cause for women in mathematics in the mathematical sciences, and and science, at home and around the globe! • to promote equal opportunity and AWMA. the equal treatment of women and As the first female girls in the mathematical sciences. President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), Ingrid Daubechies oversaw the creation of a new IMU Committee for Women in Mathematics. I cur- rently represent North America and the AWM on this committee, and in its first year, the committee, chaired by Marie-Françoise Roy, decided to give some of its budget Founding members of AWMA to help support the African Women in Mathematics Association (AWMA) to run its first annual general meeting. The 2015 AWMA Workshop was held in July in Kenya, bringing together IN THIS ISSUE African women mathematicians from around the continent. Congratulations to 4 Smith Named 2016 Noether the AWMA! Lecturer Noether Lecture at JMM. The AWM is delighted to announce that the 5 NIMBioS Workshop for Women 2016 AWM-AMS Noether Lecture will be delivered by Professor Karen Smith in Mathematical Biology from the University of Michigan. The lecture takes place at the Joint Mathematics 8 Media Column Meetings (JMM) in Seattle, Washington, January 6–9, 2016. The Noether lecture will be accompanied by the AMS-AWM Special Session on Commutative Algebra, 10 Book Review organized by Karen Smith, Irena Swanson, and Emily Witt. In addition, at JMM 11 Education Column the AWM will host the usual suite of events: the Executive Committee Meeting; 15 PRIMES: Devadas Interview the Business Meeting; the Reception and Prize Session; the AWM Panel focused 21 Announcements on the new Research Collaboration Conferences for Women initiative, organized by Michelle Manes; an AWM-AMS panel on math education, organized by Pao- 21 AWM Thank-yous sheng Hsu and Jackie Dewar; the AWM Workshop on Algebraic Combinatorics, continued on page 2 President’S Report continued from page 1 organized by Gizem Karaali and Rosa Orellana; and the Poster Session for Graduate Students organized by Brenda Johnson and Catherine Searle. Women in Math Biology. A new Research Collaboration Work- shop for Women in Mathematical Biology, organized in cooperation with AWM, took place at NIMBioS from June 22–25, 2015, at the AWM was founded in 1971 at the Joint University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Meetings in Atlantic City. The workshop was organized by Anita The Newsletter is published bi-monthly. Layton and included interdiscipli- Articles, letters to the editor, and announce- nary female researchers in the field ments are welcome. of mathematical biology. NIMBioS Opinions expressed in AWM Newsletter Associate Director for Education and Anita Layton’s group at the articles are those of the authors and do not Collaboration Workshop necessarily reflect opinions of the editors former AWM President Suzanne or policies of the Association for Women Lenhart was the local organizer. in Mathematics. Authors sign consent to publish forms. These collaborative workshops aim to build strong networks of women working in focused areas of research by forming new research groups and encouraging Circulation: 3500. © 2015, AWM them to publish together. Junior women work with senior leaders in groups at EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE the workshop and continue to work together afterwards to publish the outcome President of their research in a proceedings volume. The publication volume from this Kristin Lauter workshop will be edited by Anita Layton and Laura Miller and is under One Microsoft Way contract in the new AWM-Springer publication series! See the article about the Microsoft Corporation Redmond, WA 98052 workshop on pages 5–6 of this issue. [email protected] AWM-Springer Series. In addition to the Past President Ruth Charney first three volumes appearing this year based Treasurer Ellen Kirkman on the Research Collaboration Conferences WiSh, WINE, and WIN3, we now have four new At-Large Members Annalisa Crannell Bryna Kra volumes under contract, based on the AWM Alissa Crans Maura Mast Symposium 2015, the NIMBioS workshop, and Joan Ferrini-Mundy Marie Vitulli Tara Holm Talitha Washington two volumes in honor of Cora Sadosky based Clerk Janet Beery on the 2014 Cora Sadosky memorial seminar Meetings Coordinator in analysis! These volumes generate much needed Kathryn Leonard revenue for AWM and help to support the forma- [email protected] tion of networks of female collaborators in Newsletter Editor focused areas. The series will also serve to Anne Leggett, [email protected] highlight significant AWM events such as our Associate Editor Sarah Greenwald symposia, workshops, and panels. Two new volumes are in the planning stages [email protected] based on the AMS-AWM panel “Work in mathematics education in departments Web Editor of mathematical sciences” at JMM 2016 and the contributed paper session Adriana Salerno, [email protected] on “The Contributions of Women to Mathematics: 100 Years and Counting” Newsletter Team at MathFest! We look forward to getting these new volumes and others under Margaret Bayer, Book Review contract. Also, the proceedings volume from the first WhAM! conference at the Jacqueline Dewar, Education Column Institute for Mathematics and Applications (IMA) is in production in the IMA Sarah Greenwald, Media Column series and is co-branded with the AWM logo on its cover. Alice Silverberg, Media Column 2 AWM Newsletter Volume 45, Number 5 • September–October 2015 AWM-NSF Travel Grants. A signature program for the AWM for many years Membership Dues has been the AWM-NSF Travel and Mentoring Travel Grants, supporting several Membership runs from Oct. 1 to Sept. 30 generations of women postdocs and junior faculty to advance in the profession. Individual: $65 Family: $30 Contributing: $150 Every three years, the NSF funding needs to be renewed, which gives an opportunity New member, affiliate and reciprocal members, to consider options for rejuvenation. After serving as the lead PI since the 2009 retired, part-time: $30 Student, unemployed: $20 grant cycle, former AWM President Barbara Keyfitzis passing the torch to Lily Outreach: $10 Khadjavi. Lily brings new ideas for reaching women from underrepresented AWM is a 501(c)(3) organization. minorities and considering ways to fund student travel to conferences. Barbara will Institutional Membership Levels Category 1: $325 continue to handle the evaluation component of the grant, and Lily and Barbara Category 2: $325 will be joined by continuing co-PIs Anna Mazzucato, Shari Moskow and former Category 3: $200 AWM President Cathy Kessel. Thank you to Lily and all the continuing PIs for See www.awm-math.org for details on free ads, taking on the mission of keeping this important program vital and impactful. free student memberships, and ad discounts. Scientific Advisory Committee.For the past two years, Ruth Charney, in Executive Sponsorship Levels her role as AWM President, helped to generate nominations for many female $5000+ $2500–$4999 candidates for AMS and SIAM Fellows. Awards Committee Chair Sylvia Wiegand $1000–$2499 was active in generating names and in proposing the establishment of the new Print Subscriptions and Back Orders— Scientific Advisory Committee. Now I am delighted to announce that Ruth and Regular and contributing members living in the US may elect to receive a print version of the Sylvia have agreed to serve on the new committee to help launch it and ensure its Newsletter. Libraries, women’s studies centers, success. The other members will be Georgia Benkart, Suncica Canic, Barbara non-mathematics departments, etc., may pur- chase a subscription for $65/year. Back orders are Keyfitz, and Susan Montgomery. The members will rotate on three-year terms. $10/issue plus shipping/handling ($5 minimum). Please help the committee by sending them names of women to nominate for Payment—Payment is by check (drawn on a prizes and Fellows to be awarded by any of the professional mathematical societies. bank with a US branch), US money order, or international postal order. Visa and MasterCard Equal Pay. Returning to my earlier point about income disparity, last fall are also accepted. Maria Klawe invited Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to a live fireside chat on stage Newsletter Ads—AWM will accept ads for the at the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The interview Newsletter for positions available, programs in any of the mathematical sciences, profes sional ended up sparking an industry-wide public discussion about income disparity activities and opportunities of interest to the AWM member ship and other appropriate subjects. issues for women in computer science. That left some young women in mathe- The Managing Director, in consultation with the matics wondering, why aren’t we having such a discussion in the mathematics President and the Newsletter Editor when nec essary, will determine whether a proposed profession? How can we start such a public discussion to attract the media ad is acceptable under these guidelines. All institutions and programs advertising in the spotlight for this issue? Let’s think of a way! 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