EWM and the Women in Mathematics Committee of the EMS organize jointly two events on the occasion of the 6th European Congress of Mathematics in Krakow, Poland, on July 2-7, 2012.

• A series of mathematical lectures by distinguished women lecturers took place on Sunday July 1st in the afternoon in Aula Magna.
• A panel discussion on “Redressing the gender balance in mathematics: strategies and outcomes” open to all participants, during the congress.

Registration was opened till 15 june.

Moreover, thanks to the support of Google and Foundation of Compositio Mathematica, EWM sponsors the participation of over 30 young women mathematicians for their local expenses in 6ECM Krakow.

Program of EMS/EWM Survey Lectures, Sunday July 1, Auditorium Maxium

• 13 H 30- 13 H 45
• Welcome from EWM
• 13 H 45- 14 H 30
• Professor Frédérique Oggier, Singapore
  Construction of Secure Algebraic Lattice Codes
• 13 H 45 – 15 H 30
• Professor Barbara Opozda, Jagiellonian University, Poland
  Affine differential geometry
• 16 H – 16 H 45
• Professor Sheila Sandon, Nantes, France
  Rigidity phenomena in Contact Topology
• 17 H – 17 H 45
• Professor Evelina Viada, Basel, Switzerland and Göttingen, Germany
  On the zeros of polynomials
• 18 H – 18 H 45
• Professor Katrin Wendland, Freiburg, Germany
  A geometric approach to topological field theory
• 19 H
• Reception

The organizing committee is:
Bodil Branner (DTU, Lyngby, Copenhagen); Krystyna Jaworska, Secretary of the Polish Mathematical Society, Poland, member of the 6 ECM Executive Organizing Committee, Institute of Mathematics and Cryptology Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, and the EWM convenor Marie-Françoise Roy (IRMAR, Université de Rennes 1, France) with assistance from Rosa Donat, Anna Grybos, Camilla Hollanti, Lisbeth Fajstrup, Sylvie Paycha, Dusanka Perisic and Alina Vdovina.