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<p>Dear CWM ambassradors</p>
<p>a) Feb 11 is the International Day for Girls and Women in
Science, an excellent opportunity to disseminate our Gender Gap
in Science Book. <br>
</p>
<p>Please note the link to the new version
<a href="https://gendergapinscience.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/final_report_2.pdf" target="_blank">https://gendergapinscience.files.wordpress.com/2020/02/final_report_2.pdf</a><br>
</p>
<p>It can be reached by the button on
<a href="https://gender-gap-in-science.org/" target="_blank">https://gender-gap-in-science.org/</a></p>
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<p>b) Here is IMU-Net 99. In case you did not receive it yet. Please
subscribe to get it, it is free.</p>
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<font size="+1"><b><span lang="EN-GB">IMU-Net 99: January 2020</span></b></font><br>
A Bimonthly Email Newsletter from the International Mathematical
Union<br>
Editor: Martin Raussen, Aalborg University, Denmark<br>
<br>
CONTENTS<br>
<blockquote> 1. Editorial: Ladyzhenskaya medal in mathematical
physics announced<br>
2. CEIC: Notes and Comments<br>
3. CDC: Fellowships and visiting scholar program<br>
4. CWM: Recommendations of the Gender Gap in Science project<br>
5. Inside the IMU: Centennial conference<br>
6. International Day of Mathematics<br>
7. John T. Tate (1925 – 2019)<br>
8. Subscribing to IMU-Net<br>
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<blockquote> <span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b>1. </b></font></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b>Editorial: Ladyzhenskaya
medal in mathematical physics announced<br>
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</b></font></span></span>
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<p>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.<br>
</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://icm2022.org/" target="_blank">icm2022.org</a>.</p>
<p>Nominations should be submitted to the Chair of the
2022 Prize Committee, Professor Giovanni Felder at <a href="mailto:giovanni.felder@math.ethz.ch" target="_blank">giovanni.felder@math.ethz.ch</a>.
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 <strong>December 1, 2021</strong>.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The organizers of the prize invite proposals for the
design of the award insignia. Proposal should be
submitted to <a href="mailto:loc@icm.org" target="_blank">loc@icm.org</a>.
The best proposal will receive an invitation to the
OAL Centennial and a modest cash award.</p>
<p>To learn more about the extraordinary life and career
of Olga Alexandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, a great resource
is the article <a href="https://www.ams.org/notices/200411/fea-olga.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ams.org/notices/200411/fea-olga.pdf</a>
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 <a href="https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2019-56-01/S0273-0979-2018-01656-X/S0273-0979-2018-01656-X.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/2019-56-01/S0273-0979-2018-01656-X/S0273-0979-2018-01656-X.pdf</a>
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 <a href="https://icm2022.yandex.com/blog/newsletter-1-olga-ladyzhenskaya" target="_blank">https://icm2022.yandex.com/blog/newsletter-1-olga-ladyzhenskaya</a><br>
<br>
Stanislav Smirnov (Head of the ICM 2022 Local
Organizing Committee) </p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b> </b></font><font size="+1"><b>2. </b></font></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b>CEIC: Notes and
Comments</b></font></span></span></span><strong><br>
</strong><br>
<div>
<p>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:<br>
</p>
<p><a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/2019-was-big-for-academic-publishing--heres-our-year-in-review-66877" target="_blank">https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/2019-was-big-for-academic-publishing--heres-our-year-in-review-66877</a><br>
<a href="https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/what-to-expect-in-the-publishing-world-in-2020--66882" target="_blank">https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/what-to-expect-in-the-publishing-world-in-2020--66882</a></p>
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<a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/more-700-german-research-institutions-strike-open-access-deal-springer-nature" target="_blank"> </a>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b> </b></font><font size="+1"><b>3. </b></font></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b>CDC: Fellowships
and visiting scholar program</b></font></span></span></span><strong><br>
</strong><br>
<div>
<p><strong>a. Nominations for the IMU Breakout Graduate
Fellowships solicited<br>
</strong><br>
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 <a href="http://www.friends-imu.org" target="_blank">FIMU</a> is opening a new call
of the<em> IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowship</em> program
to support postgraduate studies, in a developing
country, leading to a PhD degree in the mathematical
sciences. The<em> IMU Breakout Graduate Fellowships</em>
offers a limited number of complete grants, with
duration of up to four years, for excellent students
from developing countries.<br>
</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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: <a href="https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/about-cdc/definition-developing-countries" target="_blank">https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/about-cdc/definition-developing-countries</a>.</p>
<p>The 2020 call will be open from February 1 to May 30,
2020. More information on</p>
<p><a href="https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/scholarshipsgraduate-scholarships/imu-breakout-graduate-fellowship-program" target="_blank">https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/scholarshipsgraduate-scholarships/imu-breakout-graduate-fellowship-program</a><br>
<br>
<strong>b. Abel Visiting Scholar program: 2020 deadlines</strong><br>
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:</p>
<p> April 30, 2020 for visits between
September 1 and December 31, 2020<br>
August 31, 2020 for visits between
January 1 and April 30, 2021.<br>
December 31, 2020 for visits between May
1 and August 31, 2021.</p>
<p>For more information: <a href="https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/grantsresearch-travel-grants/abel-visiting-scholar-program" target="_blank">https://www.mathunion.org/cdc/grantsresearch-travel-grants/abel-visiting-scholar-program</a></p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span> </p>
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b> </b></font><font size="+1"><b>4. </b></font></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b>CWM:
Recommendations of the Gender Gap in Science
project</b></font></span></span></span><strong><br>
</strong><br>
<div>
<p>The recommendations stem from the findings of the
project tasks and discussions held within the network
created around the project.<br>
<br>
<strong>Please use them as a tool to reduce the gender
gap in mathematics!</strong><br>
<br>
<strong>For instructors and parents</strong><br>
<br>
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.<br>
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.<br>
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. <br>
1.4 Encourage relevant single-sex activities to raise
girls’ self-confidence and possibilities for expressing
themselves.<br>
</p>
<p><strong>For local organizations</strong></p>
<p>By local organizations we mean scientific or
educational organizations of all kinds: science
departments at universities, conference centers,
research groups in industry, etc.<br>
2.1 Promote a respectful, collegial working atmosphere
in your organization. Monitor support, well-being and
mentoring of female academics.<br>
2.2 Define best practices to prevent report and address
sexual harassment and discrimination in professional
spaces.<br>
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. <br>
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.<br>
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 (<em>e.g.</em>,
children's toys, high chairs and changing tables for
babies).<br>
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.<br>
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.</p>
<p>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 <a href="https://www.mathunion.org/cwm" target="_blank">CWM website</a>.</p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span> </p>
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b> </b></font><font size="+1"><b>5. </b></font></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b>Inside the IMU:
Centennial conference</b></font></span></span></span><strong><br>
<br>
<br>
</strong>The IMU was officially established on 20 September
1920 in Strasbourg, France, just prior to the ICM in
Strasbourg. The conference <strong>Mathematics without
Borders, Strasbourg, 28–29 September 2020</strong>, 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.<br>
<div>More information, including a list of
speakers: <a href="https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/5375/" target="_blank">https://indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/5375/</a>
. Registration will open very soon.
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span> </p>
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b> </b></font><font size="+1"><b>6. </b></font></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b>International Day
of Mathematics</b></font></span></span></span><strong><br>
</strong><br>
<p><strong>a. Launch</strong><strong> </strong>at UNESCO on
March 13 2020. The preliminary program is now online at <a href="https://www.idm314.org/resources/files/idm-launch-program.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.idm314.org/resources/files/idm-launch-program.pdf</a>.<br>
Attendance is by invitation only. <br>
</p>
<p><strong>b.</strong> Call for <strong>video submission</strong>:
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. </p>
<p>Join in and take part! Please send us a short recording
of 15 seconds following the instructions at <a href="https://www.idm314.org/maths-everywhere-video.html" target="_blank">https://www.idm314.org/math-everywhere-video.html</a>
before February 21, 2020. </p>
<p><strong>c.</strong> Explore on the <strong>website </strong><a href="http://everywhere.idm314.org/" target="_blank">http://everywhere.idm314.org</a>
how ''Mathematics is everywhere’’.</p>
<p><strong>d.</strong> If you have not yet done so and plan
to organize an event, then <strong>pre-announce</strong>
your event at <a href="http://www.idm314.org/" target="_blank">http://www.idm314.org</a>.
Your event will then join the many other dots on the map. </p>
<p><strong>e.</strong> If you have not done so, <strong>register
</strong>to the IDM newsletter at <a href="http://www.idm314.org/" target="_blank">http://www.idm314.org</a>.
This is how you will be made aware of the new
developments.<a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/more-700-german-research-institutions-strike-open-access-deal-springer-nature" target="_blank"> </a> </p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span> </p>
<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b> </b></font><font size="+1"><b>7. </b></font></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b>John T. Tate (1925
– 2019)</b></font></span></span></span><strong><br>
</strong><br>
<div>
<p>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.<br>
</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>After having circulated as a preprint for years, Tate’s
article <em>Rigid Analytic Spaces</em> was finally
published in the mathematical journal <em>Inventiones
Mathematicae</em> 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.<br>
<br>
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.</p>
<p>In 2010, he was awarded the Abel Prize, one of the two
most prestigious awards in mathematics, for <em>“his
vast and lasting impact on the theory of numbers“</em>.
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.</p>
<p>(Abridged version of an <a href="https://www.ihes.fr/en/mathematician-john-t-tate-died-aged-94/" target="_blank">obituary</a> from the website
of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques,
Bures-sur-Yvette, France; reproduced with permission)</p>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b>8. </b></font></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><font size="+1"><b><strong>Subscribing
to IMU-Net</strong></b></font></span></span></span><br>
<br>
There are two ways of subscribing to IMU-Net:<br>
1. Click on <a href="https://www.mathunion.org/organization/IMU-Net" target="_blank">https://www.mathunion.org/organization/IMU-Net</a>
with a Web browser and go to the "Subscribe" button (at the
bottom) to subscribe to IMU-Net online.<br>
2. Send an e-mail to <a href="mailto:imu-net-request@mathunion.org" target="_blank">imu-net-request@mathunion.org</a>
with the Subject-line:<br>
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