In 2013 it was renamed the AWM-AMS Noether Lecture and since 2015 is sponsored jointly with the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
The recipient delivers the lecture at the yearly American Joint Mathematics Meetings held in January.
Beginning in 1994 this lecture was delivered at the International Congress of Mathematicians, held every four years.
[2] The 2021 Noether Lecture was supposed to have been given by Andrea Bertozzi of UCLA, but it was cancelled.
[5] 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.