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We are pleased to be hosting Dr. Bianca Viray (University of Washington) for a research colloquium in honor of International Women in Math Day.

Rae Harbird Day celebrates the legacy of Rae’s life through a dedicated day of activities in subjects dear to her, such as promoting diversity, fostering education, and championing gender equality.

Over the past two years, we’ve celebrated Rae Harbird Day by carrying forward her legacy of outreach and community impact. Each year, this day reminds us of Rae’s dedication to creating opportunities and building connections that make a lasting difference.

The Umalca Gender and Diversity Commission invites everyone to an online Cine Forum on May 26, at 2:00 p.m. (Mexico), 3:00 p.m. (Bogotá), 4:00 p.m. (Santiago), 5:00 p.m. (Brasília, Buenos Aires, Montevideo).

For this conversation, we have invited:

- Claudia Correa Deisler (University of Tarapacá, Chile)

- Manuela da Silva Souza (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)

- Samaria Montenegro Guzmán (University of Costa Rica)

Celebrating Women in Mathematics day in Velayat University.

Celebrating Women in Mathematics day in Velayat Univercity.

There are three talks on the movie by Shun’ichi Yokoyama, on mathematics on the movie by Shinichiro Seki and The way to Mathematicians by Yukari Ito before the movie show.

Then we watched the movie with Japanese subtitles which was added by Shun’ichi Yokoyama.

There were 200 participants of several generations and 40% females.

The International Women in Mathematics Day Colloquium is an annual faculty-wide event that recognizes and celebrates women's achievements in mathematics.

Speaker: Laura DeMarco (Harvard University)

Title: The (algebraic) geometry of the Mandelbrot set
 

The National congress on mathematics and international women in mathematics day

Public lecture by prof. Boštjan Kuzman (UL PEF) entitled

"Nadarjene, izjemne, (ne)pozabljene: življenjske poti prvih slovenskih profesoric matematike in fizike."

(angl. translation: "Gifted, exceptional, (un)forgotten: life paths of the first slovenian female professors in Mathematics and Physics"). The lecture will be followed by a discussion.

As part of the international celebration of Women in Mathematics Day, Saša Popović, associate of the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, will give a lecture on the doctoral dissertation of Ksenija Atanasijević — the first woman in Serbia to earn a PhD and the first female docent at the University of Belgrade.