The top-scoring female in the 2023 annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is first-year Isabella Zhu, who received the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize for her efforts. She received a $1,000 award for the achievement. Zhu is the seventh MIT student to receive this honor since the award began in 1992. For the fourth time in […]
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How will AI affect the lives of women?
March 1, 2024
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
February 15, 2024
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 […]
A Visit to JMM
February 2, 2024
Former MIT postdoc Maggie Miller had just one day to spend at JMM 2024 in San Francisco. A first-year assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) and a Clay Research Fellow, Miller had another math conference to go to that week. But having attended JMM for more than a decade meant she knew […]
Dr. Lenore Carol Blum PhD ’68: ‘Accidental Activist’ Who Changed the Face of Mathematics
January 4, 2024
Throughout her 60-year career, Lenore Blum has developed new perspectives on logic and computation while championing women in mathematics and computer science. Now consciousness is on her mind. Read more in Quanta.
Ewin Tang speaks at WIM lunch
November 20, 2023
Ewin Tang, a Miller postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, discussed her quantum computing research at a recent Women in Math lunch event.