International Women in Mathematics Day 2026

12 May 2026

To mark International Women in Mathematics Day on 12^th May, Elsevier’s Mathematics publishing team have curated a collection of papers published since 2023 - each featuring females as corresponding authors. These papers were chosen for their originality, contribution and impact on the field.

12^th May was chosen to honor Maryam Mirzakhani, who was born on this day in 1977. She was the first woman to win the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics.

The collection recognizes women at all career stages whose work continues to advance knowledge and inspire collaboration across the mathematics community. While we can only feature a small selection here, we extend our thanks to all authors, reviewers, and editors whose contributions strengthen the discipline every day.

Explore these papers and join us in celebrating the women shaping the future of mathematics.

2026 article collection

• Effects of diffusion and advection on predator-prey dynamics in closed environments by Hua Nie, Shixia Xin & Hongying Shu

• A study on the flow of couple stress fluid in a porous curved channel by Pramod Kumar Yadav & Nitisha Yadav

• A meshless method based on the generalized finite difference method for three-dimensional elliptic interface problems by Qiushuo Qin, Lina Song & Fan Liu

• A new variable shape parameter strategy for RBF approximation using neural networks by Fatemeh Nassajian Mojarrad, Maria Han Veiga, Jan S. Hesthaven & Philipp Öffner

• Proof of a conjecture of Ballantine and Merca on truncated sums of 6-regular partitions by Olivia Xiangmei Yao

• The Hadwiger theorem on convex functions, IV: The Klain approach by Andrea Colesanti, Monika Ludwig & Fabian Mussnig

• Sub-exponential stability for the beam equation by Roberto Feola & Jessica Elisa Massetti

• On inverse problems in multi-population aggregation models by Yuhan Li, Hongyu Liu & Catharine Wing Kwan Lo

• Rank polynomials of fence posets are unimodal by Ezgi Kantarcı Oğuz & Mohan Ravichandran

• Spectral radius and spanning trees of graphs by Guoyan Ao, Ruifang Liu & Jinjiang Yuan

• Quantum MDS codes with new length and large minimum distance by Weijung Fang, Jiejing Wen & Fang-Wei Fu

• Lower bounds on the irregularity of trees and unicyclic graphs by Mahdieh Azari, Nasrin Dehgardi & Tomislav Došlić

• Spectral radius, fractional [a,b]-factor and ID-factor-critical graphs by Ao Fan, Ruifang Liu & Guoyan Ao

• Convergence for varying measures by Luisa Di Piazza, Valeria Marraffa, Kazimierz Musiał & Anna Rita Sambucini

• On Ricci-Bourguignon solitons: Triviality, uniqueness and scalar curvature estimates by Antonio W. Cuhna, Raquel Lemos & Fernanda Roing

• Oscillation of linear and half-linear difference equations via modified Riccati transformation by Jiřina Šišoláková

• Chromatic symmetric functions of Dyck paths and q-rook theory by Laura Colmenarejo, Alejandro H. Morales & Greta Panova

• Row-strict dual immaculate functions by Elizabeth Niese, Sheila Sundaram, Stephanie J. Van Willigenburg, Julianne Vega & Shiyun Wang

• Every graph is eventually Turán-good by Natasha Morrison, JD Nir, Sergey Norin, Paweł L. Rzążewski & Alexandra Wesolek

• Proofs of some conjectures of Merca on truncated series involving the Rogers-Ramanujan functions by Yongqiang Chen & Olivia Xiangmei Yao

• Time decay of viscoelastic plates with type II heat conduction by Jaime Muñoz Rivera, Elena Ochoa Ochoa & Ramón Quintanilla

• Excision of skein categories and factorisation homology by Juliet Cooke

• Disjoint isomorphic balanced clique subdivisions by Irene Gil Fernández, Joseph Hyde, Hong Liu, Oleg Pikhurko & Zhuo Wu

• An algorithmic framework for the single source shortest path problem with applications to disk graphs by Katharina Klost

• Cambrian combinatorics on quiver representations (type A) by Emily Barnard, Emily Gunawan, Emily Meehan & Ralf Schiffler

• Sparse graphs with bounded induced cycle packing number have logarithmic treewidth by Marthe Bonamy, Édouard Bonnet, Hugues Déprés, Louis Esperet, Colin Geniet, Claire Hilaire, Stéphan Thomassé & Alexandra Wesolek

• Burling graphs revisited, part I: New characterizations by Pegah Pournajafi & Nicolas Trotignon

• Primes between consecutive powers by Michaela Cully-Hugill

• Localization for random CMV matrices by Xiaowen Zhu

• Weighted Subspace Designs from q-Polymatroids by Eimear Byrne, Michela Ceria, Sorina Ionica & Relinde Jurrius

• Linear implicit approximations of invariant measures of semi-linear SDEs with non-globally Lipschitz coefficients by Chenxu Pang, Xiaojie Wang & Yue Wu

• Sets arising as minimal additive complements in the integers by Amanda Burcroff & Noah Luntzlara

• Three-torsion subgroups and wild conductors of genus 3 hyperelliptic curves by Elvira Lupoian

2025 article collection

• Non-symmetric stable operators: Regularity theory and integration by parts by Serena Dipierro et al.

• New type of solutions for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in R^N by Monica Musso et al.

• Forced waves for a three-species predator-prey system with nonlocal dispersal in a shifting environment by Chin-Chin Wu at al.

• Elliptic quintics on cubic fourfolds, O'Grady 10, and Lagrangian fibrations by Laura Pertusi et al.

• Adaptive regularization for nonconvex optimization using inexact function values and randomly perturbed derivatives by Stefania Bellavia et al.

• Asymptotic Floquet theory for first order ODEs with finite Fourier series perturbation and its applications to Floquet metamaterials by Thea Kosche et al.

• Algebraic model selection and experimental design in biological data science by Elena Dimitrova et al.

• Regularity of solutions to the fractional Cheeger-Laplacian on domains in metric spaces of bounded geometry by Riikka Korte, Nageswari Shanmugalingam, et al.

• Density of rational points on a family of del Pezzo surfaces of degree one by Julie Desjardins and Rosa Winter

• Universality of Euler flows and flexibility of Reeb embeddings by Eva Miranda et al.

• Uniform lower bounds on the dimension of Bernoulli convolutions by Polina Vytnova et al.

• A higher order hybrid-numerical approximation for a class of singularly perturbed two-dimensional convection-diffusion elliptic problem with non-smooth convection and source terms by Vembu Shanthi et al.

• Complex network model for COVID-19: Human behavior, pseudo-periodic solutions and multiple epidemic waves by Cristiana Silva et al.

• A space-time discretization of a nonlinear peridynamic model on a 2D lamina by Sabrina Pellegrino et al.

• Lowest order stabilization free virtual element method for the 2D Poisson equation by Francesca Marcon et al.

• Reliability analysis of the uncertain heat conduction model by Ting Jin et al.

• Fast BDF2 ADI methods for the multi-dimensional tempered fractional integrodifferential equation of parabolic type by Jing Guo et al.

• Mean field game for modeling of COVID-19 spread by Viktoriya Petrakova et al.

• Numerical modeling of geometrically nonlinear responses of smart magneto-electro-elastic functionally graded double curved shallow shells based on improved FSDT by Hanen Jrad et al.

• Well-posedness and stationary solutions of McKean-Vlasov (S)PDEs by Michela Ottobre et al.

• On a connection between the N-dimensional fractional Laplacian and 1-D operators on lattices by Marina Murillo-Arcila et al.

• Linear cutting blocking sets and minimal codes in the rank metric by Gianira Alfarano et al.

• On a conjecture of spectral extremal problems by Liying Kang et al.

• Colouring graphs with sparse neighbourhoods: Bounds and applications by Marthe Bonamy et al.

• Graph product structure for non-minor-closed classes by Vida Dujmović et al.

• Student-project allocation with preferences over projects: Algorithmic and experimental results by Sofiat Olaosebikan et al.

• How to build a pillar: A proof of Thomassen's conjecture by Irene Gil Fernández et al.

• The multicolored graph realization problem by Öznur Yaşar Diner, Maria Serna, et al.

• Travelling salesman paths on Demidenko matrices by Eranda Çela et al.

• On integer matrices with integer eigenvalues and Laplacian integral graphs by Sasmita Barik et al.

• Dynamic data structures for k-nearest neighbor queries by Sarita deBerg et al.

• Routing by matching on convex pieces of grid graphs by Hannah Alpert et al.