Amanda Glazer “You’re a girl, you overthink the problem too much.” Introduction For several decades now, the gender gap in mathematics degree attainment has remained static while the gender gap in college degree conferment has disappeared. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (U.S. Department of Education), women earned 57%, 60% and 52% […]
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The Gender Gap in Math and Math Prize for Girls
September 9, 2018
There is a huge gender gap in high school mathematics, according to a recent paper by Professor Glenn Ellison, “Dynamics of the Gender Gap in High Math Achievement.” Of the top 5,000 9th graders participating in the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) from 1999 to 2007, just 30 percent were young women. By senior year, the number drops […]
Gigliola Staffilani Receives MIT’s Earll M. Murman Award
April 1, 2018
Gigliola Staffilani is this year’s recipient of the Earll M. Murman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising. The award is “presented to a faculty member who has served as an excellent advisor and mentor for undergraduates and who has had a significant impact on their personal lives and academic success.” The award was presented at the 2018 Awards […]
2018 Women in Math Conference
March 1, 2018
Members of the MIT math community were among those attending a Women in Math conference at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst March 2-4, 2018. Gigliola organized this event with her colleague Andrea Nahmod from UMass, as part of a Focused Research Group Grant from the NSF. For the grant, Gigliola worked with Andrea Nahmod along with […]
Notices of the AMS – Women’s History Month
March 1, 2018
Please check out the March edition of Notices of the AMS, which features many women mathematicians with a current or past MIT affiliation, including Math Professor Gigliola Staffilani, Lauren Williams, Christine Taylor, Karen E. Smith, Eva Tardos, Chelsea Walton, and Tara S. Holm.
Giulia Saccà Receives Molteni Award
November 1, 2017
Assistant Professor Giulia Saccà received the Anna Maria Molteni Award in Mathematics and Physics for her research on hyper-Kähler geometries. She was among five young Italian researchers working in North America who received 2017 ISSNAF Awards on November 8 at the Italian Embassy in Washington, D.C. In 2016 Saccà constructed a hyper-Kähler compactification of the intermediate Jacobian […]