Association for Women in Mathematics
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a US non-profit organization dedicated to the advancement of women in mathematics.
It was founded in 1971 by Mary W. Gray and others.
Members are also men (in 1999 around seven percent of 4,500 members were male). At the moment (2018) they have 5200 members, including 250 institutional members. A newsletter appears every two months. Their headquarters are in Fairfax, Virginia .
They organize the Noether Lectures awarded at their joint meetings with the American Mathematical Society and, together with the Mathematical Association of America, the Falconer Lecture (also for mathematics didactics), as well as the Kovalevsky Lecture for applied and numerical mathematics together with SIAM . They also award a number of other prizes, for example for students or in mathematics education (Louise Hay Award).
President
- Mary W. Gray , 1971-1973
- Alice T. Schafer , 1973-1975
- Lenore Blum , 1975-1979
- Judith Roitman , 1979-1981
- Bhama Srinivasan , 1981-1983
- Linda P. Rothschild , 1983-1985
- Linda Keen , 1985-1987
- Rhonda J. Hughes , 1987-1989
- Jill P. Mesirov , 1989-1991
- Carol Wood , 1991-1993
- Cora Sadosky , 1993-1995
- Chuu-Lian Terng , 1995-1997
- Sylvia M. Wiegand , 1997-1999
- Jean E. Taylor , 1999-2001
- Suzanne Lenhart , 2001-2003
- Carolyn Gordon , 2003-2005
- Barbara Keyfitz , 2005-2007
- Cathy Kessel , 2007–2009
- Georgia Benkart , 2009-2011
- Jill Pipher , 2011-2013
- Ruth Charney , 2013–2015
- Kristin Lauter , 2015–2017
- Ami Radunskaya , 2017–2019
- Ruth Haas , 2019–
literature
- Lenore Blum: A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives, Notices AMS, September 1991, Volume 38, Online
- Jean E. Taylor, Sylvia Wiegand: AWM in the 90s: a recent history of the Association for Women in Mathematics, Notices of the AMS, January 1999, Volume 46, p. 27, Online