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Welcome to the Association for Women in Mathematics! The purpose of the Association for Women in Mathematics is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences. Have fun investigating our web pages! - Georgia Benkart, President of the AWM

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2009 Janet L. Norwood Award Call for Nominations For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences

The Section on Statistical Genetics and the Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) are pleased to request nominations for the Eighth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences. The award recipient will be invited to deliver a lecture at the UAB award ceremony, and will receive all expenses paid to deliver this lecture, a plaque, and a $5,000 prize. Deadline for receipt of nominations is Mon 6/29/2009. For additional details about the award, please feel invited to visit our website at www.soph.uab.edu/ssg/norwoodaward/aboutaward .

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) are pleased to announce that Andrea Bertozzi will deliver the Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the 2009 SIAM Annual Meeting. Bertozzi is Professor of Mathematics and Director of Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, The Kovalevsky Lecture recognizes her work in a wide range of areas in applied mathematics. Press Release

Barbara Faires Elected to Serve as MAA Secretary The MAA Board of Governors has elected Dr. Barbara T. Faires of Westminster College as Secretary-Elect of the Association. Dr. Faires will serve as Secretary-Elect from April 1, 2009, until the conclusion of the Joint Mathematics Meetings in January 2010. At that time, she will begin a five-year term as MAA Secretary (January 2010- January 2015).
More information at: http://www.maa.org/news/040109faires.html

New book surveys early women PhD’s in math - More than 14 percent of the PhD's awarded in the United States during the first four decades of the twentieth century went to women, a proportion not achieved again until the 1980s. Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's is the result of a study in which the authors identified all of the American women who earned PhD's in mathematics before 1940.

Extended biographies and bibliographical information are available from the companion website for the book: www.ams.org/bookpages/hmath-34.

Career Mentoring Workshop for women in the mathematical sciences (CaMeW) will be held July 26-28, 2009 at Wheaton College (Massachusetts). The goals of the workshop are to help inform women finishing their PhDs about different aspects of the job search and different career paths and to introduce them to peers and mentors on whom they can call over the next year (and beyond). More information at the website: http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/CaMeW/. The application deadline is May 15th.

Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day at University of Texas at Tyler was featured on their local news. You can see the video clip here. For more information on having a Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day at your school, please see http://www.awm-math.org/kovalevsky.html.

Update from Washington, DC - The President today signed an executive order creating a White House Council on Women and Girls. The new White House Council is similar to the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach that was created by President Clinton and subsequently closed by President Bush. Legislation to create a Presidential Commission on Women is moving forward in Congress. The White House Council and the Presidential Commission on Women are perfect companions and can work together to improve the future of women in this country. Be a part of the movement that will participate in this important initiative as it moves through Congress by signing the petition put forth by WomenCount at http://womencount.org/its_our_time.

The 14th General Meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM) will be held from August 25-28, 2009 at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Novi Sad, Serbia with the following invited speakers: Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton University, USA; 2009 EMS lecturer), Nalini Anantharaman (Centre de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz, France), Barbara Lee Keyfitz (The Ohio State University, USA), Jelena Kovacevic (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), Marta Sanz-Solé (University of Barcelona, Spain), Tatyana Suslina (St. Petersburg State University, Russia), Reidun Twarock (University of York, UK), Brigitte Vallée (CNRS, France).

Ingrid Daubechies, the 2009 European Mathematical Society lecturer, will deliver three of her EMS lectures at this meeting. For more details about the meeting see http://ewm2009.wordpress.com.

The 3rd Nordic EWM Summer School for PhD Students in Mathematics will take place inTurku, Finland from June 22-27, 2009. The summer school is open to everybody interested in mathematics. More details and information on registration, travel grants and accommodation can be found at http://www.math.utu.fi/projects/ewm.

The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications are pleased to co-sponsor the workshop Career Options for Women in Mathematical Sciences http://www.awm-math.org/conferences.html#2009 which will be held at the Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications in Minneapolis on April 2-4, 2009.

Graduate students and Ph.D.s in the early stages of their post-graduate careers are encouraged to attend. For further information about poster submissions, the application for travel support, registration, travel and accommodations, please visit http://www.ima.umn.edu/2008-2009/SW4.2-4.09/

The Mathematics Education into the 21st Century Project & The University of Applied Sciences (FH), Dresden (Germany) announce our 10th (Anniversary!) International Conference: " Models in Developing Mathematics Education" to be held Sep 11-17, 2009 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany in full cooperation with the Saxony Ministry of Education.

For ALL further conference details and updates please email alan@rogerson.pol.pl

Deadline for applications to the 2009 Program for Women and Mathematics at IAS is February 20. This year's program runs June 8 - 19, and the theme is Geometric PDE. More details can be found on the website: http://www.math.ias.edu/wam/2009.

AWM and Cornell University announce Maria Gordina as the winner of the third Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize of the AWM. Press release.

The 2008 Sacks Prize Awarded jointly to I. Epstein and D. Raghavan. - The ASL Committee on Prizes and Awards has selected Inessa Epstein of the California Institute of Technology and Dilip Raghavan of the University of Toronto as the recipients of the 2008 Sacks Prize. The prize consists of a cash award plus five years free membership in the ASL for each awardee. For more information, see http://www.aslonline.org/asl_announcements.php#11.

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