[Todos CMAT] Fwd: Feb 11/ IMU-Net 99: January 2020

[Jana Rodriguez Hertz]

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From: M-F Roy
Date: Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 8:03 PM
Subject: Feb 11/ IMU-Net 99: January 2020
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Dear CWM ambassradors

a) Feb 11 is the International Day for Girls and Women in Science, an
excellent opportunity to disseminate our Gender Gap in  Science Book.

Please note the link to the new version
https://gendergapinscience.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/final_report_2.pdf

It can be reached by the button on https://gender-gap-in-science.org/

b) Here is IMU-Net 99. In case you did not receive it yet. Please subscribe
to get it, it is free.
*IMU-Net 99: January 2020*
A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the International Mathematical Union
Editor: Martin Raussen, Aalborg University, Denmark

CONTENTS

1. Editorial: Ladyzhenskaya medal in mathematical physics announced
2. CEIC: Notes and Comments
3. CDC: Fellowships and visiting scholar program
4. CWM: Recommendations of the Gender Gap in Science project
5. Inside the IMU: Centennial conference
6. International Day of Mathematics
7. John T. Tate (1925 – 2019)
8. Subscribing to IMU-Net

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*1.    *

*Editorial: Ladyzhenskaya medal in mathematical physics announced *

Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya (1922-2004) occupies a very special place
in the history of mathematics and mathematical physics in St Petersburg,
Russia, and worldwide. Her theorems shaped the modern theory of Partial
Differential Equations of mathematical physics. Through her lectures,
seminars, and students, she inspired extraordinary advances in many other
branches of mathematical physics, including Quantum Field Theory and
Statistical Physics.

2022, the year of the St Petersburg ICM, will mark the 100th birthday of
Olga Alexandrovna. The National Committee of Mathematicians of Russia, St
Petersburg State University, and, for the inaugural prize, the Organizing
Committee of the ICM establish a new prize in honor of Ladyzhenskaya to be
awarded for the first time at a special event dedicated to the
Ladyzhenskaya Centennial during ICM 2022.

The Ladyzhenskaya medal in mathematical physics will be awarded every 4
years to recognize revolutionary results in or with applications to
mathematical physics. This includes any existing or future area of research
in mathematical physics and neighboring fields of mathematics.

The winner receives a medal and a cash award of 1 million rubles. If the
main work is joint among several people, the committee may consider a
shared prize. Full statues of the prize may be found at icm2022.org.

Nominations should be submitted to the Chair of the 2022 Prize Committee,
Professor Giovanni Felder at giovanni.felder en math.ethz.ch. Each nomination
should contain a detailed description of the work of the candidate and how
it fits in the overall development of the field, and include references.
Nominations are confidential and must not be disclosed to the candidate.
The deadline for nominations is *December 1, 2021*.

In its decisions, the prize Committee will be guided by the pursuit of
excellence as well as attention to the diversity of both the field of
mathematical physics and the people who work in it.  The winner(s) of the
prize will be announced during ICM 2022.

The organizers of the prize invite proposals for the design of the award
insignia. Proposal should be submitted to loc en icm.org. The best proposal
will receive an invitation to the OAL Centennial and a modest cash award.

To learn more about the extraordinary life and career of Olga Alexandrovna
Ladyzhenskaya, a great resource is the article
https://www.ams.org/notices/200411/fea-olga.pdf in the Notices of the AMS
by S. Friedlander, P. Lax, C. Morawetz, L. Nirenberg, G. Seregin, N.
Uraltseva, and M. Vishik; as well  as the contribution
https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2019-56-01/S0273-0979-2018-01656-X/S0273-0979-2018-01656-X.pdf
to the Bulletin of the AMS by S. Friedlander. Further material and
references may be found on the site of the St. Petersburg Mathematical
Pantheon devoted to O.A. Ladyzhenskaya and on the ICM webpage, see in
particular the collection of essays
https://icm2022.yandex.com/blog/newsletter-1-olga-ladyzhenskaya

Stanislav Smirnov (Head of the ICM 2022 Local Organizing Committee)

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*2.    **CEIC: Notes and Comments*

The last year has had a number of developments in the scholarly publishing
landscape.  The following two articles by Diana Kwon give a very nice
overview of 2019’s news and what might be coming in 2020:

https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/2019-was-big-for-academic-publishing--heres-our-year-in-review-66877
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/what-to-expect-in-the-publishing-world-in-2020--66882
<https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/more-700-german-research-institutions-strike-open-access-deal-springer-nature>

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*3.    **CDC: Fellowships and visiting scholar program*


*a. Nominations for the IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowships solicited *
Thanks to a generous donation by the winners of the Breakthrough Prizes in
Mathematics – Ian Agol, Jean Bourgain, Simon Donaldson, Alex Eskin,
Christopher Hacon, Maxim Kontsevich, Vincent Lafforgue, Jacob Lurie, James
McKernan, Terence Tao and Richard Taylor – IMU with the assistance of FIMU
<http://www.friends-imu.org> is opening a new call of the* IMU Breakout
Graduate Fellowship* program to support postgraduate studies, in a
developing country, leading to a PhD degree in the mathematical sciences.
The* IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowships* offers a limited number of complete
grants, with duration of up to four years, for excellent students from
developing countries.

Professional mathematicians are invited to nominate highly motivated and
mathematically talented students from developing countries who plan to
complete a doctoral degree in a developing country, including their own
home country. Nominees must have a consistently good academic record and
must be seriously interested in pursuing a career of research and teaching
in mathematics.

For a nomination to be eligible, the country of citizenship of the student,
the country of residency and the country where the study will take place
must be contained in the list of Developing Countries as defined by IMU for
the period 2019-2022:
https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/about-cdc/definition-developing-countries.

The 2020 call will be open from February 1 to May 30, 2020. More
information on

https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/scholarshipsgraduate-scholarships/imu-breakout-graduate-fellowship-program

*b. Abel Visiting Scholar program: 2020 deadlines*
The Abel Visiting Scholar program, funded by the Niels Henrik Abel Board
(Norway), supports young mathematicians professionally based in developing
countries to visit an international research collaborator for a period of
one month. Deadlines:

                April 30, 2020 for visits between September 1 and December
31, 2020
                August 31, 2020 for visits between January 1 and April 30,
2021.
                December 31, 2020 for visits between May 1 and August 31,
2021.

For more information:
https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/grantsresearch-travel-grants/abel-visiting-scholar-program

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*4.    **CWM: Recommendations of the Gender Gap in Science project*

The recommendations stem from the findings of the project tasks and
discussions held within the network created around the project.

*Please use them as a tool to reduce the gender gap in mathematics!*

*For instructors and parents*

1.1 Avoid gender stereotyping and unconscious gender bias in interactions
with female students and children. Adopt practices that encourage girls to
participate in STEM activities in schools and non-school settings. Teach
boys and girls about gender equity.
1.2 Avoid books and social media that reinforce the gender gap in science.
Use books and media promoting gender balance and highlighting the
contributions of women in science.
1.3 Develop gender awareness in the classroom and encourage girls in their
learning of STEM subjects. Track whom you are engaging in class to ensure
that every student has a chance to participate and that girls feel
comfortable in speaking up.
1.4 Encourage relevant single-sex activities to raise girls’
self-confidence and possibilities for expressing themselves.

*For local organizations*

By local organizations we mean scientific or educational organizations of
all kinds: science departments at universities, conference centers,
research groups in industry, etc.
2.1 Promote a respectful, collegial working atmosphere in your
organization. Monitor support, well-being and mentoring of female academics.
2.2 Define best practices to prevent report and address sexual harassment
and discrimination in professional spaces.
2.3 Address the impact of parenthood on the careers of women. Introduce
proper accounting (18 months per child recommended) for childcare
responsibilities when evaluating candidates in hiring and promotion
processes. In practice, this applies mainly to women. Encourage provision
of a research-only year after maternity leave or parental leave.
Acknowledge and accept the existence of discontinuous careers and family
responsibilities and consider these in hiring and funding policies.
2.4 Ensure transparency of statistics on salaries, course loadings,
bonuses, hiring and promotion, observing progress or difficulties
experienced by female academics. Encourage policies to help reduce gendered
salary disparities. Ensure female and male representation on recruitment
committees and provide unconscious bias training for all members. Make the
gender lens the responsibility of a dedicated person.
2.5 Welcome families and provide child friendly environments. Provide
improved support systems for parents. Allocate teaching loads with suitable
hours for parents. For conference centres, take care of the issues of
families attending with children and equip family rooms in the guest houses
to cater for all basic needs (*e.g.*, children's toys, high chairs and
changing tables for babies).
2.6 Address gender equality in all institutional policies. Identify a
person or a group in charge of gender equality inside the organization,
looking at the gender balance in all kind of activities. Put in place
initiatives encouraging women. Involve men in identifying barriers and
addressing them. Diversity action plans should have financial consequences
if not met.
2.7 In all outreach and educational programs, include the aim of reducing
the gender gap. Adapt such programs to the region or discipline concerned
by the organization and evaluate their effectiveness. Develop gender
awareness of future teachers and provide training in critical thinking.

There is a third part with recommendations for scientific unions and other
worldwide organizations, including IMU. We do not include them here for
lack of space but they will be posted in the next days on the CWM website
<https://www.mathunion.org/cwm>.

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*5.    **Inside the IMU: Centennial conference*


The IMU was officially established on 20 September 1920 in Strasbourg,
France, just prior to the ICM in Strasbourg. The conference *Mathematics
without Borders, Strasbourg, 28–29 September 2020*, will celebrate the
centennial of this historic event. The opening of the conference will take
place in the same building in which the 1920 ICM was held in Strasbourg.
More information, including a list of speakers:
https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/5375/ . Registration will open very soon.

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*6.    **International Day of Mathematics*

*a. Launch* at UNESCO on March 13 2020. The preliminary program is now
online at https://www.idm314.org/resources/files/idm-launch-program.pdf.
Attendance is by invitation only.

*b.* Call for *video submission*: we are putting together a collective
video for the first official International Day of Mathematics centered on
this year’s topic “Mathematics is Everywhere” and showing that mathematics
is celebrated all around the world. Individually submitted clips from all
over the world will illustrate the manifold places where math can be found.
The final video will be presented during the two launch events at the
UNESCO headquarters and at the African launch NEF 2020 on March 13, 2020
and shared online.

Join in and take part! Please send us a short recording of 15 seconds
following the instructions at
https://www.idm314.org/math-everywhere-video.html
<https://www.idm314.org/maths-everywhere-video.html> before February 21,
2020.

*c.* Explore on the *website *http://everywhere.idm314.org how
''Mathematics is everywhere’’.

*d.* If you have not yet done so and plan to organize an event, then
*pre-announce* your event at http://www.idm314.org. Your event will then
join the many other dots on the map.

*e.* If you have not done so, *register *to the IDM newsletter at
http://www.idm314.org. This is how you will be made aware of the new
developments.
<https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/more-700-german-research-institutions-strike-open-access-deal-springer-nature>

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*7.    **John T. Tate (1925 – 2019)*

The American mathematician John Torrent Tate passed away on October 16,
2019. He was known worldwide for his work in number theory and algebraic
geometry.

His influence in these areas is reflected in the many concepts bearing his
name: Tate torsion, Tate-Shafarevich group, Tate module, Tate algebras,
Tate cohomology, Tate duality theorem, Tate trace, Hodge-Tate theory, and
Sato-Tate conjecture, are some examples.

After completing a master’s degree in mathematics at Harvard University and
a PhD at Princeton on “Fourier analysis in number fields and Hecke’s zeta
function”, under the supervision of Emil Artin, Tate taught at Harvard for
36 years. In 1990, he joined the University of Texas at Austin, from which
he retired in 2009.

Throughout his career, John T. Tate developed strong connections with the
French mathematical community. From the 1950s, and for about ten years, he
was part of the Bourbaki group. He gave seminars at Collège de France and
was a visiting professor at IHES on several occasions. He is co-author,
together with J.-P. Serre, of the theory that now bears their names, the
Serre-Tate theory. From the 1950s onwards, they maintained a long
scientific correspondence, which was partly published in 2015 by the
Société mathématique de France.

After having circulated as a preprint for years, Tate’s article *Rigid
Analytic Spaces* was finally published in the mathematical journal *Inventiones
Mathematicae* in 1971; it served as a basis for the development of rigid
geometry. Tate came up with the idea that his p-adic uniformization of
elliptic curves indicated the existence of a general theory of p-adic
analytical spaces. This idea was so radically new that even Grothendieck
was very skeptical at first; changing his mind once Tate began to develop
his theory in 1961.

John T. Tate was a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), the
Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, an associate foreign member
of the French Academy of Sciences, and an honorary member of the London
Mathematical Society.

In 2010, he was awarded the Abel Prize, one of the two most prestigious
awards in mathematics, for *“his vast and lasting impact on the theory of
numbers“*. The Wolf Prize (2002), the Steele Prize (1995), and the Cole
Prize in Number Theory (1956), are some of the several other honours he
received throughout his career.

(Abridged version of an obituary
<https://www.ihes.fr/en/mathematician-john-t-tate-died-aged-94/> from the
website of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette,
France; reproduced with permission)

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*8.    **Subscribing to IMU-Net*

There are two ways of subscribing to IMU-Net:
1. Click on https://www.mathunion.org/organization/IMU-Net with a Web
browser and go to the "Subscribe" button (at the bottom) to subscribe to
IMU-Net online.
2. Send an e-mail to imu-net-request en mathunion.org with the Subject-line:
Subject: subscribe
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