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The first World Meeting for Women in Mathematics - (WM)² - was a satellite event of the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2018 in Rio de Janeiro. With a focus on Latin America, the first (WM)² brought together mathematicians from all over the world to celebrate women mathematicians, and also to reflect on gender issues in mathematics, challenges, initiatives, and perspectives for the future. Its activities were complemented by a panel discussion organized by the Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) inside the ICM 2018 entitled "The gender gap in mathematical and natural sciences from a historical perspective”.
This historical proceedings book, organized by CWM in coordination with the Association for Women in Mathematics, records the first (WM)² and the CWM panel discussion at ICM 2018. The first part of the volume includes a report of activities with pictures of the first (WM)² and a tribute to Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to be awarded the Fields medal. It also comprises survey research papers from invited lecturers, which provide panoramic views of different fields in pure and applied mathematics. The second part of the book contains articles from the panelists of the CWM panel discussion, which consider the historical context of the gender gap in mathematics. It includes an analysis of women lecturers in the ICM since its inception.
This book is dedicated to the memory of Maryam Mirzakhani.
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Association for Women in Mathematics Series
Carolina Araujo Georgia Benkart Cheryl E. Praeger Betül Tanbay Editors
World Women in Mathematics 2018 Proceedings of the First World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)2
Association for Women in Mathematics Series Volume 20
Series Editor Kristin Lauter Microsoft Research Redmond,Washington, USA
Association for Women in Mathematics Series
Focusing on the groundbreaking work of women in mathematics past, present, and future, Springer’s Association for Women in Mathematics Series presents the latest research and proceedings of conferences worldwide organized by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). All works are peer-reviewed to meet the highest standards of scientific literature, while presenting topics at the cutting edge of pure and applied mathematics, as well as in the areas of mathematical education and history. Since its inception in 1971, The Association for Women in Mathematics has been a non-profit organization designed to help encourage women and girls to study and pursue active careers in mathematics and the mathematical sciences and to promote equal opportunity and equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences. Currently, the organization represents more than 3000 members and 200 institutions constituting a broad spectrum of the mathematical community in the United States and around the world.
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Carolina Araujo • Georgia Benkart Cheryl E. Praeger • Bet¨ul Tanbay Editors
World Women in Mathematics 2018 Proceedings of the First World Meeting for Women in Mathematics (WM)2
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Editors Carolina Araujo Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Georgia Benkart Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI, USA
Cheryl E. Praeger Department of Mathematics University of Western Australia Crawley, WA, Australia
Bet¨ul Tanbay Department of Mathematics Bo˘gaziçi University Bebek, Istanbul, Turkey
ISSN 2364-5733 ISSN 2364-5741 (electronic) Association for Women in Mathematics Series ISBN 978-3-030-21169-1 ISBN 978-3-030-21170-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21170-7 Mathematics Subject