Women+ and Mathematics News

  • NEW Jennifer Hom (UG 2004, AG 2008, PD 2012) was awarded the Levi L. Conant Prize from the AMS.
  • Mansi Sood (BG 2022, AM 2023) was selected to the 2024 Cohort for Schmidt Science Fellows. Read more here.
  • Maria Chudnovsky (CM 15-19, 22-23; LE 2013) and Michelle Manes (AG 06) were named AMS Fellows in 2024.
  • Yungqing Tang (UG 10) received the 2024 AWM Microsoft Research Prize in Algebra and Number Theory for her breakthrough work in arithmetic geometry.
  • Robin Neumayer (PD 19) received the 2024 AWM Sadosky Research Prize in Analysis for outstanding contributions to calculus of variations, partial differential equations, and geometric analysis.
  • Zoë Batterman (UG 23) received the 2024 Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics.
  • Ellen Eischen (PD 10), Matilde Lalin (PD 06), Emilie Davie Lawrence (PD 08), Katharine Ott (TA 09), Margaret Maher Robinson (LE 06), and Christina Sormani (CM 12-14) were named AWM Fellows in 2024. 
  • From the IAS Archives: My Journey Through the Archives by Zhengkai Li
  • Faye Jackson (UG 23) will receive the 2024 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student for her work as a mathematics major at the University of Michigan. Read more here. 
  • Women and Mathematics wins 2023 AWM Presidential Recognition Award. Video acceptance can be viewed here. Official AWM announcement.
  • Wei Ho (Director of WAM) and Jennifer Hom (UG 04, AG 08, PD 12) were named AMS Fellows in 2023.
  • Faye Jackson (UG 23) received the Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in mathematics by an undergraduate woman.
  • Anqi Li (UG 23) received runner up for the Alice T. Schafer Prize for excellence in matheamatics by an undergraduate woman.
  • Catharina Stroppel (LE 21) was one of ten recipients of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for 2023.
  • Panagiota Daskalopoulos (LE 09) along with Natasa Sesum have been awarded the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in mathematics.
  • Letong (Carina) Hong, (UG 21) has been awarded the Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for outstanding research in mathematics as an undergraduate.
  • Ingrid Daubechies (PO 08-12) has been awarded the 2023 Wolf Prize.
  • WAM timeline IAS Fall 2022 Newsletter
  • Matilde Lalin (PD 06) has been awarded the 2022 Krieger-Nelson Prize for her outstanding contributions to research in number theory and other related areas.
  • Rachel Ward (UG 03) was selected as the 2022 recipient of the Peter O'Donnell Distinguished Researcher Award by the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.
  • Jennifer Hom (UG 04) was named a 2022 Simons Fellows in Mathematics.
  • Lauren Williams (UG 99, TA 07, LE 17) was awarded the Guggenheim Fellows for 2022.
  • Count Me In, AMS Classroom Resource Materials, The Women and Mathematics Program at IAS
  • In Music and Math, Lillian Pierce Builds Landscapes | Quanta Magazine
  • Carina Letong Hong, (UG 21) was named 2022 Rhodes Scholar for China
  • Maria Chudnovksy, WAM committee member and faculty at Princeton University, will present the Science Achievement Graduate Fellows Lecture, sponsored by the Penn State Department of Mathematics and the Eberly College of Science at 10 am, Monday, Nov. 1, via Zoom.
  • Cynthia Rudin (2000-2006) becomes second recipient of AAAI Squirrel AI Award for pioneering socially responsible AI. 
  • Winners of the 10th Annual Breakthrough Prizes include current Veblen Research Instructor Sarah Peluse (2016 Advanced Grad):  2022 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize
  • Karen Uhlenbeck Interview with the Brazilian Math Society 
  • Rebecca Willett (LE 2011) was named a 2021 SIAM Fellow.
  • Interview with Giulia Saccà (Discussion of WAM at 30:48-35:56)
  • Lisa Piccirillo (AG 2012) was named a 2021 Clay Research Fellow and Sloan Fellow.
  • Laura Starkston (AG 2012) was named a 2021 Sloan Fellow.
  • Brittany Fasy (UG 2006, BG 2008-2009) was awarded the NSF five year CAREERS Award.
  • Nalini Anantharaman (LE 2014) was awarded the 2020 Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize in Mathematics.
  • Kristin Lauter (LE 2019) was elected into the 2020 AAAS Fellows.
  • Ingrid Daubechies (CQ 1994, LE 1999, PN 2000, CM (2002-2004), PO (2008-2012)) was named one of the recipients of the 2020 Princess of Asturias Award.
  • Alina Bucur (Grad 2006), Eugenie Hunsicker (Grad 1994), Katherine Stange (Grad 2006) were named 2021 AWM Fellows.
  • Madeline Brandt, (Grad 2016, Ambassador 2017) was named a 2020 NSF Fellow.
  • Ana Caraiani, (TA/SL 2010/2015) was awarded the 2020 EMS Prize for excellent contributions in mathematics.
  • Tatiana Toro, (LE 2019) was awarded the 2020 Blackwell-Tapia Prize for excellence in research among people who have promoted diversity within the mathematical and statistical sciences.
  • Maxine Calle, (UG 2019), Alice Lin, (UG 2018), Katherine Woo (UG 2018), Teresa YU (UG 2019) were named  2020 NSF Graduate Fellows.
  • Ruth Charney, (LE 2005) Theodore and Evelyn Berenson Professor of Mathematics, Brandeis University was elected President of the AMS starting 2021.
  • Celebrating the IAS-NSF partnership (and WAM!) in recognition of NSF's 70th Anniversary
  • 2020 AMS Fellows include WAM alumnae Sarah Greenwald (GS 1994), Michelle Manes (AG 2006, LE 2019), Diane Souvaine (PD 2008), Karen Uhlenbeck (co-founder).
  • Karen Uhlenbeck (co-founder) featured in "The 50 best photos from 2019 [that] will make you emotional" in the New York Times
  • Article on "How to organize a graduate workshop" in the AMS Notices, December 2019, volume 66, number 11, pages 1823 - 1827. Co-Authors: Rohini Ramadas (AG 2015) and Isabel Vogt (BG 2015, PD 2018). Write up about their Ambassador award and how they utilized the funding.
  • Congratulations to Karen Uhlenbeck (co-founder) who was awarded the AMS 2020 Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Uhlenbeck is recognized "for her long-lasting influence in geometric topology and analysis and for her mentorship of young people and women in mathematics." Presented annually, the Steele Prize is awarded for the cumulative influence of the total mathematical work of the recipient, high level of research over a period of time, particular influence on the development of a field, and influence on mathematics through Ph.D. students.
  • Congratulations to Melody Chan (TA 2015) who was awarded the 2020 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize in recognition of her advances at the interface between algebraic geometry and combinatorics. The prize recognizes exceptional research in algebra and number theory by a woman early in her career.
  • WAM receives the 2019 AMS Prize "The Program that Makes a Difference Award"!!
  • Congratulations to Karen Uhlenbeck (co-founder) who was awarded the 2019 Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters — the first woman to receive this prestigious award. 
  • Congratulations to Alice Chang (LE 1999, PN 2000, CM 2002-2018), Ingrid Daubechies (CQ 1994, LE 1999, PN 2000, CM (2002-2004), PO (2008-2012), Dusa McDuff (CQ 1994, LE 2002, CM 2012-2016, PO 2017-2018), Irina Mitrea ( LE 2009, PN 2015), Audrey Terras (LE 2006), Lesley Ward (LE 2004) on being selected to the second class of AWM Fellows. The program recognizes individuals who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the support and advancement of women in the mathematical sciences.
  • Congratulations to Lillian Pierce (UG 2001-2002; AG 2006, 2010; PD 2014-2016; Committee 2018) on winning the 2018 AWM-Sadosky Research Prize. The prize serves to highlight exceptional research in analysis by a woman early in their career. The field will be broadly interpreted to include all areas of analysis. The award is named for Cora Sadosky, a former president of AWM.
  • Congratulations to Melanie Matchett Wood (BG 2006; AG 2007) on winning the 2018 AWM-Microsoft Research Prize. The prize serves to highlight exceptional research in some area of algebra by a woman early in their career. The field will be broadly interpreted to include number theory, cryptography, combinatorics and other applications, as well as more traditional areas of algebra.
  • Congratulations to Dusa McDuff, a program organizer of WAM, was selected as the 2018 Sylvester Medal winner. The Sylvester Medal is now awarded annually for an outstanding researcher in the field of mathematics. McDuff was awarded at the Royal Society’s Anniversary Day in November 2018 for leading the development of the new field of symplectic geometry and topology.
  • Congratulations to Alana Huszar (UG 2015-2017; AG and Ambassador 2018) on receiving a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship in 2018.
  • Congratulations to Emmy Murphy (AG 2012) on winning the 2017 AWM Joan & Jospeh Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry. The purpose of the award is to highlight exceptional research in topology and geometry by a woman early in her career. The field will be broadly interpreted to include topology, geometry, geometric group theory and related areas. The award is made possible by a generous contribution from Joan Birman whose work has been in low dimensional topology and her husband, Joseph, who is a theoretical physicist whose specialty is applications of group theory to solid state physics.
  • WAM is most grateful for renewed funding from the NSF as well as a generous grant from Lisa Simonyi, which will enable WAM to enact many new initiatives to continue its mission to recruit and retain more women in mathematics. Please check out the 2016 Yearbook , 2017 Yearbook and 2018 Yearbook.
  • WAM organizers Christine Taylor and Margaret Readdy were guest editors for AMS Notices - Women History Month (March 2018)!
  • Exciting news from Antonella Grassi, UPenn faculty and WAM organizer alumni!
    • A little more than two years later, the 2015 WAM program in algebraic geometry is having a great impact on the community of young algebraic geometers. One visible effect is the number of young, active and high quality women researchers in the field: "there has never been before a critical mass of women in the field of algebraic geometry in the US", said Grassi.
    • A few highlights worth mentioning:
  • Support for the 2017 Women and Mathematics program was provided by a grant from the Schwab Charitable Fund made possible by the generosity of Eric and Wendy Schmidt.
  • Congratulations to Wei Ho (BG 2005; AG 2006, 2008; TA 2007; LE 2015) and Chelsea Walton (BG 2006, 2007) on winning the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships. The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. They are awarded in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field.
  • Congratulations to Yuliya Nesterov (BG 2015), a finalist in the Canadian National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)'s contest for students to describe their research accessibly to the public in a 1-minute video. Of the 40 Canada-wide finalists, Yuliya was the only pure mathematician to advance as a finalist. Yuliya's video, Lives of Shapes in Space is based on her master's thesis, greatly helped by her experiences in the 2015 WAM program on Aspects of Algebraic Geometry. The video demonstrates the enthusiasm and adventure of mathematical research.
  • In Summer 2017, six WAM alumnae returned to IAS as researchers in the inaugural Summer Collaborators Program: Ana-Maria Brecan (PD 2015), Laure Flapan (PD 2015), Alessia Mandini (AG 2007), Elizabeth Milicevic (BG 2007; LE 2015); Ana Pires (BG 2007, TA 2016), and Kaisa Taipale (PD 2015).
  • In 2017-2018, IAS welcomed back WAM alumnae Helen Wong (PD 2008) as a Member; and Ana Caraiani (TA 2010) and Lillian Pierce (UG 2001, 2002; AG 2006; PD 2014) as Von Neumann Fellows.