There are several organisations and committees supporting women mathematicians in Europe. The first is the membership organisation European Women in Mathematics (EWM), http://www.math.helsinki.fi/EWM/. Founded in 1986, EWM has several hundred members in over 30 European countries. Its executive consists of a convenor, currently Frances Kirwan, Oxford, UK (Marie-Fran\c{c} ois Coste Roy, Rennes from January 2010) and a standing committee. EWM holds a biennial scientific meeting and general conference: recent meetings have been in Cambridge, UK (2007) and Novi Sad, Serbia (2009), and the next will be in CRM Barcelona, Spain (2011). EWM also sponsors or coorganises various interim meetings and other activities, for example the ICM satellite meeting ICWM 2010 Hyderabad, http://www.icm2010.org.in/docs/ICWM2010.pdf. EWM is independent from, but has links to, its sister organisation the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) based in the United States. It also has close links to various national level organisations, for example Femmes et Math\’ematiques in France.
The second organisation is the European Mathematical Society’s Women and Mathematics Committee (http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/comm-women.html), currently chaired by Sylvie Paycha, Clermont-Ferrand ( Du\v{s}anka Peri\v{s}i\’c, Novi Sad from January 2010). The function of this committee is to undertake any actions which will help or promote women mathematicians in Europe. Past activities have included gathering statistics on the numbers of women in different countries and setting up a blog for women mathematicians, see http://womenandmath.wordpress.com/ Currently the committee is exploring possible further collaboration with both EWM and with the European Research Institutes on Mathematics (ERCOM).
Finally, in 2008, EWM and the EMS Women in Maths Committee jointly set up the EWM/EMS Scientific Committee, http://womenandmath.wordpress.com/ emsewm-scientific-committee/ The members of this committee are twelve distinguished women mathematicians, including Dusa McDuff, Nina Uraltseva and Mich{\`e}le Vergne. Currently chaired by Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford), the main function of this committee is to advise on scientific programmes and speakers for EWM and other related events.
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