Tenth anniversary
The 2008 Laureates are:
Professor Lihadh AL-GAZALI (United Arab Emirates, UAE), Laureate for Africa and the Arab States;
Assistant Professor V. Narry KIM (Republic of Korea), Laureate for Asia-Pacific;
Professor Ada YONATH (Israel), Laureate for Europe;
Professor Ana Belén ELGOYHEN (Argentina), Laureate for Latin America;
Professor Elizabeth BLACKBURN (USA), Laureate for North America.
The L’ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards For Women in Science recognize five laureates annually, one from each of the five continents. They are conferred to scientists working in life sciences and material sciences in alternating years. With the 2008 Awards in life sciences, a total of 52 women scientists from 26 countries, whose work has improved human well-being, will have been recognized. More
Knots, surfaces, the curve complex, foliations, and all that…
May 12-23, 2008
The program will provide an introduction to low-dimensional topology with a focus on 3-dimensional manifolds.
The program is being organized by
Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Princeton University;Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University; Antonella Grassi, University of Pennsylvania;Tanya Khovanova; Chuu-Lian Terng, University of California, Irvine;and Karen Uhlenbeck, The University of Texas at Austin.
The lecturers of the program are Genevieve Walsh of Tufts University for the Beginning Lecture Course and Rachel Roberts of Washington University, St. Louis and Jennifer Schultens of the University of California, Davis for the Advanced Lecture Course. Women and Mathematics is a joint program of the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University.
The 2009 European Mathematical Society lecturer will be Professor Ingrid Daubechies 
of Princeton University, and she will give some of her EMS lectures at the 14th general meeting of EWM, which is to be held in August 2009, at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Professor Daubechies will also , as EMS lecturer of the year 2009, give presentations at NuHAG (Numerical Harmonic Analysis Group), the University of Vienna.
Ingrid Daubechies has had a significant impact in numerous areas of applied mathematics and signal and image processing, with research accomplishments bridging across many scientific and engineering disciplines, resulting in over 100 publications and an influential and widely-read book. Her service record is also impressive, most notably in science and engineering publications as well as professional societies. She has directed programs with high impact on young scientists in a variety of fields. She is an inspiration to the entire mathematics community, especially to the women’s mathematics community.
Ingrid Daubechies received her BS and PhD in Physics at the Free University in Brussels, where she also taught for 12 years. She then moved to AT&T Bell Labs where she served as a leading authority on wavelet theory. Since 1993, she has been at the Mathematics Department and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She became the first woman full professor in mathematics at Princeton University. She now holds the William R. Kenan Jr. Professorship.
Professor Daubechies has also received many awards and honors, including the Louis Empain Prize for Physics, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, AMS Steele Prize for Exposition and Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences. She was also awarded the International Society for Optical Engineering Recognition of Outstanding Achievement and the IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee award for Technological Innovation. In 2000, she became the first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Medal in Mathematics. She gave the Gibbs Lecture in 2005 and the Noether Lecture in 2006.
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We are pleased to announce three posts in Pure Mathematics at the University of Southampton, please distribute this info to any of your colleagues who may be interested: Lectureship in Pure Mathematics (2 posts) Salary: £33,615 - £42,583 per annum School of Mathematics Applications are invited for two Lectureships in Pure Mathematics, with a start date of 1 October 2008. You will have a record of research achievement at international level, and be able to interact with existing members of the Pure Mathematics Group. We particularly seek your application if you have a background in geometry, geometric group theory or geometric analysis. Informal inquiries concerning this posts are welcome and may be made to Professor G A Niblo +44 (0)23 8059 3674, email G.A.Niblo@soton.ac.uk. The closing dates for applications is 10 March 2008 at 12.00 midday. Please quote reference number 2018-08-E on all correspondence. Professor in Pure Mathematics School of Mathematics You will have an excellent track record of research leadership and achievement, and be able to interact with existing members of the Pure Mathematics Group. We particularly seek your application if you have a background in algebra (including group theory, representation theory, algebraic geometry, algebraic number theory, and algebraic topology), though exceptional candidates in any area will be seriously considered. You will be expected to take up the post on 1 October 2008 or as soon as possible thereafter Duties, as determined by the Head of School, will include: undertaking research of international status, applying for externally funded research grants and supervising research students, all broadly in line with the School’s research strategy; teaching of mathematics or related courses at BSc, MMath and postgraduate level; service teaching of mathematics to science and engineering undergraduates; participation in the administration of the School. Informal inquiries concerning this posts are welcome and may be made to Professor G A Niblo +44 (0)23 8059 3674, email G.A.Niblo@soton.ac.uk. The closing dates for applications is 17 March 2008 at 12.00 midday. Interviews will take place on 1 May. You can find the further particulars and application details online at http://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/soton/jobboard/JobDetails.aspx? __ID=*A9A2563F10F57F42 (Chair) http://www.jobs.soton.ac.uk/soton/jobboard/JobDetails.aspx? __ID=*A1C41009E9031CC5 (Lectureships)
The 14th general meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM) will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia during August 25-28, 2009.
For more than 20 years EWM organizes biennial conferences that are open to members as well as non-members of EWM. The last 13th general meeting took place in September 3-6, 2007, at the University of Cambridge, UK, gathering more than 100 women mathematicians from various fields of research.
Next year, the 14th general meeting of EWM will be organized at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Located on the Danube River, Novi Sad is the urban center of northern Serbia, its second largest city and the capital of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, a hospitable town and open-hearted to all of its visitors.
In order to successfully organize our conference, we are kindly asking you to let us know in advance:
1. Whether you will
(a) very likely or
(b) possibly participate in the conference.
2. Would you like to join our conference mailing list? The members of the mailing list will be informed about our meeting regularly.
3. Whether you would like to participate but need financial support.
We are currently asking some institutions for financial support for the meeting. Financial support for participants will be very limited and will in any case not cover more than partial living expenses during the meeting. Travel expenses will be left for the home institutions.
Please reply us as soon as possible at ewm2009@im.ns.ac.yu.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
On behalf of the local organizing committee,
Frances Kirwan
Dušanka Perišić
Dear EWM members,
We have applied and received funding for **EWM 3rd Nordic Summer School for Female PhD Students in Mathematics** to be organized in Turku, Finland.
The exact dates haven’t been set up yet, but most probably the summer school will take place in the summer 2009 prior to the EWM 2009 general meeting.
Details will follow as soon as we make some decisions. If you are (tentatively) interested in applying, you can contact me at cajoho@utu.fi for more information.
You can find information from the 2nd summer school from the EWM web page.
Best regards,
Camilla Hollanti
EWM Standing Committee
International Coordinator
Coordinator of Finland
Dep. of Math.
University of Turku
Finland
