The Noether Lecture is a distinguished lecture series that honors women "who have made fundamental and sustained contributions to the mathematical sciences". The

Association for Women in Mathematics The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment o ...

(AWM) established the annual lectures in 1980 as the

Emmy Noether Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She also proved Noether's theorem, Noether's first and Noether's second theorem, second theorems, which ...

Lectures, in honor of one of the leading mathematicians of her time. In 2013 it was renamed the AWM-AMS Noether Lecture and since 2015 is sponsored jointly with the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

(AMS). The recipient delivers the lecture at the yearly American Joint Mathematics Meetings held in January. The ICM Emmy Noether Lecture is an additional lecture series, sponsored by the

International Mathematical Union The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is an international organization devoted to international cooperation in the field of mathematics across the world. It is a member of the International Science Council (ISC) and supports the International ...

. Beginning in 1994 this lecture was delivered at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...

, held every four years. In 2010 the lecture series was made permanent. The 2021 Noether Lecture was supposed to have been given by

Andrea Bertozzi Andrea Louise Bertozzi (born 1965) is an American mathematician. Her research interests are in non-linear partial differential equations and applied mathematics. Education and career She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from Princeton ...

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...

, but it was cancelled. The cancellation was made during the

George Floyd protests The George Floyd protests were a series of protests, riots, and demonstrations against police brutality that began in Minneapolis in the United States on May 26, 2020. The protests and civil unrest began in Minneapolis as Reactions to the mu ...

: "This decision comes as many of this nation rise up in protest over racial discrimination and brutality by police".Re: 2021 Noether Lecture
/ref> Although she intended to speak on other topics, Bertozzi is known for research on the mathematics of policing, and in a letter to the AMS, Sol Garfunkel concluded that "the reason for her exclusion was one of her areas of research". In an official blog of the AMS, a group calling themselves The Just Mathematics Collective called for a boycott of mathematical collaborations with police, dismissing Garfunkel's letter as "intended to further dismiss the boycott" and celebrating the cancellation of Bertozzi's lecture.

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* {{Official website, https://awm-math.org/awards/noether-lectures/ Lists of women scientists Women in mathematics Science awards honoring women Awards and prizes of the Association for Women in Mathematics Lecture series American Mathematical Society Quadrennial events Awards established in 1980 Awards established in 1994 1980 establishments in the United States 1994 establishments in the United States International Congress of Mathematicians

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