AWM Programs

The Association for Women in Mathematics sponsors a variety of programs and awards to encourage girls and women in the mathematical sciences. Check the AWM Calendar for upcoming deadlines.

Workshops, Conferences, Travel Grants

Lectures

Mentoring and Community Involvement

Prizes

Past Programs

Workshops, Conferences, and Travel Grants

Workshops for Women Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Mathematicians - Since 1988, the AWM has held a series of workshops in conjunction with major mathematics meetings to highlight the accomplishments of women graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s. Join us at the annual Joint Mathematics Meetings, the SIAM annual meeting, and other special events.
Travel Grants for Women Researchers- The travel grants program enables women to attend research conferences in their fields, thereby providing a valuable opportunity to advance their research activities and their visibility in the research community.
Mentoring Travel Grants for Women - The mentoring grants program funds travel, subsistence, and other required expenses for an untenured woman mathematician to travel to an institute or a department to do research with a specified individual for one month.
AWM (Co-)Sponsored Conferences - The AWM in conjunction with a variety of co-sponsors has held a number of conferences including a Kovalevsky Symposium, a Noether Symposium, the Robinson Celebration and the Taussky Todd Celebration. The next co-sponsored conference will be in honor of Cathleen Morawetz at the Fields Institute in September 2008.

Lectures

Noether Lectures - The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) annually presents the Noether Lectures to honor women who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences. A commemorative booklet profiles the lecturers.
Falconer Lectures - The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America annually present the Etta Z. Falconer Lectures to honor women who have made distinguished contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education.
Kovalevsky Lectures - The Association for Women in Mathematics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics annually present the Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture at the SIAM Annual Meeting to honor a woman who has made distinguished contributions in applied or computational mathematics.
Olga Taussky Todd Lecture - The Association for Women in Mathematics, the European Women in Mathematics (EWM) and the organizers of the ICIAM Congress, present the Olga Taussky Todd Lecture at the ICIAM Congress to honor outstanding contributions in applied mathematics and /or scientific computation.

Mentoring and Community Involvement

Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Days - Sonia Kovalevsky Days have been organized by AWM and institutions around the country since 1985. They consist of a program of workshops, talks, and problem-solving competitions for high school women students and their teachers, both women and men.
Teacher Partnership - links teachers of mathematics in schools, museums, technical institutes, two-year colleges, and universities with other teachers working in an environment different from their own and with mathematicians working in business and industry.
Mentor Network - matches mentors, both men and women, with girls and women who are interested in mathematics or are pursuing careers in mathematics. The network is intended to link mentors with a variety of groups: recent Ph.D.s, graduate students, undergraduates, high school and grade school students, and teachers.
AWM Essay Contest: Biographies of Contemporary Women in Mathematics – AWM and Sandia National Labs sponsor an annual contest to increase awareness of women's ongoing contributions to the mathematical sciences. Open to any student in grade 6 through college undergraduate, entries are biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians in academic, industrial, and government careers.
AWM Student Chapters - hold regular meetings and events, open to all undergraduate and graduate students, regardless of major or gender. These meetings and activities allow students to be exposed to the world of professional mathematics, to obtain information about the varied career options in mathematics, to network with professional mathematicians, and to develop leadership skills.

Prizes

Alice T. Schafer Prize - Awarded annually to an undergraduate woman for excellence in mathematics. Past recipients include Ioana Dumitriu who went on to be the first female to score in the top six in the Putnam Mathematics Competition.
Louise Hay Award - Awarded annually to recognize the outstanding achievements of a woman in mathematics education. Past recipients include Etta Z. Falconer, a major figure in promoting minorities as well as women in mathematics.
Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize - presented annually to a midcareer woman to facilitate a semester of mathematical research at Cornell University.

Past Programs

AWM Scholars at AAAS Meeting - Up to six women students will be chosen to attend the AAAS Annual Meeting. There will be daily seminars for these students, where they will discuss the content of the mathematical sessions that have occurred and are about to occur, both with each other and with some of the session organizers and speakers.
Connecting Women in Mathematical Sciences to Industry - This program, jointly sponsored by the IMA and AWM, will connect approximately 60 female graduate students in the mathematical sciences with women mathematicians in industry.