Women in Math Dinner 2024

Group of female attendees standing in two rows, blackboard behind them.

While we all miss the annual dinner usually held at the home of WIM director Gigliola Staffilani, who is on sabbatical, everyone enjoyed great conversations, a sumptuous dinner, and fun beverages Oct. 23 at the Wiener Common Room.

Celebrating International Women in Math Day 2024

How will AI affect the lives of women?

Wednesday March 6, 202411:30am-1:00pmWong Auditorium (E51-115) Register Keynote Speaker: Professor Marzyeh GhassemiRemarks by: Kade Crockford, Director, Technology for Liberty Program, ACLUPuja Balaji, Co-President of MITxHarvard Women in AIDiscussion Moderated by: Amy Brand, Director and Publisher of MIT PressHow will AI affect the lives of women in terms of healthcare, bias and careers? Join us and our panel of […]

Film screening Feb 23

film poster

To celebrate Black History Month we organized the projection of the newly released documentary Journey of Black Mathematicians: Forging Resilience by director George Csicsery. This film includes Monica Stephens Cooley “describing the dilemmas faced by Black women with PhDs in math.” Read more about the documentary at  http://zalafilms.com/jbm/forging.html The showing is Friday, February 23, at 4 pm […]

Ewin Tang speaks at WIM lunch

Ewin Tang, a Miller postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, discussed her quantum computing research at a recent Women in Math lunch event.

AWM Student Essay Contest Deadline

The Essay Contest features interview-based biographies of contemporary women mathematicians and statisticians. The submission period begins in December 1 and ends February 1, 2024, through MathPrograms.org.