WIM News

Janabel Xia: Algorithms, dance rhythms, and the drive to succeed

Woman dancing in front of chalkboard.

When the senior isn’t using mathematical and computational methods to boost driverless vehicles and fairer voting, she performs with MIT’s many dance groups to keep her on track. Read more at MIT News

Celebrating International Women in Math Day 2024

Isabella Zhu earns Elizabeth Lowell Putnam prize

Michel Goemans and Yufei Zhao flank Isabella Zhu, who is holding her certificate.

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 […]

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 […]

A Visit to JMM

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 […]