Oh no. A woman doing mathematics!'

摘要

The 14th general meeting of the European Women in Mathematics (EWM) took place in Novi Sad, Serbia 25-28 August 2009. I was one of the plenary speak-ers and am very grateful for partial support from the Australian Embassy in Serbia for my travel ex-penses. It was such a good feeling for me to see the Australian coat of arms on all the formal con-ference materials, along with logos of other sponsors such as UNESCO. Too often support seems to go to physical/sporting prowess, by-passing intellectual en-deavours. So it was great to see such public support for mathematics from Australia, and public it was.