Our Story
A Timeline
In retrospect, the story of IWM has three phases. The period 2009-15 saw several precursor events and the first Indian Women and Mathematics project. Then, during 2016-19, IWM was re-organized following suggestions by the National Board for Higher Mathematics and took its current form. In 2019 the project was renewed, its Executive Committee strengthened with new members, and the activities expanded.
For more details of the IWM story, you can read the following article:
- Agarwal, N., Habib, A., Venkataraman, G. (2022). Indian Women and Mathematics. In: Beery, J.L., Greenwald, S.J., Kessel, C. (eds) Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics. Association for Women in Mathematics Series, vol 28. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82658-1_87
Here are some highlights of the initial years (2009-15):
- October 2009: Conference Advances in Mathematics: Focus on Women in Mathematics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi. The convenor of the conference was Riddhi Shah (JNU).
- August 2010: The first International Conference of Women Mathematicians at Hyderabad, organised with support from the European Women in Mathematics, the European Mathematical Society and the Association for Women in Mathematics.
- January 2012: Conference Indian Women and Mathematics at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai. Organised by Jaya Iyer (IMSc) and Vyjayanthi Chari (University of California, Riverside).
- 2013: First funding from NBHM for a project titled Indian Women and Mathematics, for the period 2013-15. The main coordinators were Vyjayanthi Chari, Jaya Iyer, Girija Jayaraman (IIT Delhi) and Suneeta Vardarajan (IISER Pune).
- 2013-15: Annual conference at IISER Pune (2013), a teacher training program at University of Mumbai (2013), and Young Women and Mathematics (2014), a conference held at IISER Pune.
- An Indian Women and Mathematics conference at University of Delhi - South Campus (2015). Main organiser was Sachi Srivastava (DU).
