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Other initiatives & Organisations
Supporting diversity in Mathematics and Stem
Femafricmaths
This is a network of female African mathematicians, led by Dr Angela Tabiri. At Femafricmaths they interview female African mathematicians to highlight the different career options available when you study mathematics. More information + links to the videos can be found on their website: https://femafricmaths.github.io or check out their Twitter page, @femafricmaths.
International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS)
- Upcoming events, workshops and news listed here: https://www.icms.org.uk/
- Black Heroes of Mathematics Meeting (co-hosted together with LMS, IMA, and the British Society for the History of Mathematics). Recordings can be found here: https://media.ed.ac.uk/playlist/details/1_5w0hm537
- A film launch and panel discussion: “Words of Women in Mathematics in the Time of Corona” – 12th May 2021. The film presents words and images of women in mathematics, sharing their experiences during the pandemic. There is a link to the film on the event’s eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/words-of-women-in-mathematics-in-the-time-of-corona-tickets-153855675467
- ICMS hosted the “LMS Prospects in Mathematics 2021” meeting – 9-10th September, featuring speakers from a wide range of mathematical fields across the UK. Slides/recording available here: https://www.icms.org.uk/events/event/?id=1160
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI)
MSRI hosted a Celebration of Women in Mathematics on 12th May 2021. MSRI’s event included a short film about women in mathematics; clips from a film about Maryam Mirzakhani; a panel discussion; breakout rooms on the subjects of Math and Racial Justice, Balancing Family and Work, Imposter Syndrome, and the Impact of COVID-19; and a virtual social tea. Some slides and conversations of the event are available here: https://www.msri.org/general_events/25991
The London Mathematical Society (LMS)
- Organises the annual Mary Cartwright Lecture, This year’s edition takes place on 10th November 2022 and is hosted by ICMS. More details can be found here: https://www.icms.org.uk/MCartwright
- Organises the annual Women in Mathematics Day.
- The LMS Committee for Women and Diversity in Mathematics (https://www.lms.ac.uk/about/committees/women-mathematics-committee) organises a wide range of events. You can check out their “Success Stories” page featuring profiles of diverse mathematicians here: https://www.lms.ac.uk/careers/success-stories
Update: they are currently looking for a student to maintain and add to their Success Stories project, more info and how to apply: https://www.lms.ac.uk/careers/jobs-lms
WeCREATE
Professor Mihaela van der Schaar (University of Cambridge) is launching WeCREATE — an engagement series to inspire women students and young professionals to embrace creative careers in engineering, computer sciences, applied mathematics’ and related disciplines — on International Women’s Day on 8 March.
Women in Mathematics Day – 12th May
May 12 was the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician who was one of the world’s leading experts in geometry and dynamical systems and who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2014 for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces. You can learn more about this amazing mathematician in these notices by the American Mathematical Society: https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201810/rnoti-p1221.pdf.
May 12 was also the birthday of Florence Nightingale, who is not only considered the founder of modern nursing, but who was also an amazing statistician and the first female Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Last year the IMA wrote this article to celebrate the bicentenary of her birth: https://ima.org.uk/13854/florence-nightingale-200-years-since-her-birth-and-we-are-still-making-the-same-errors-with-data/
LGBTQ+ STEM
LGBTQ+ STEM aims to showcase LGBTQ+ people in STEM. You can find interviews with LGBTQ+ people working in diverse areas of STEM (both in industry and academia) on their website: https://lgbtstem.wordpress.com and sign up for their mailing list. They also have an annual conference, which unfortunately already took place in January 2021, but you can find an interview with one of the keynote speakers Professor Marina Logares, who works in Algebraic Geometry, on the IMA website: https://ima.org.uk/about-us/diversity-statements/lgbtq/
Further contacts/initiatives
- The Mary Lister McCammon Summer Research Fellowship: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mathematics/postgraduate/the-mary-lister-mccammon-summer-research-fellowship/
- The EDGE Program: https://www.edgeforwomen.org/about-edge/
- Institure for Advanced Study: Women and Mathematics – for US students only – https://www.ias.edu/math/wam
- Center for Women in Mathematics Postbaccalaureate Program: https://www.smith.edu/academics/graduate/mathematics-postbaccalaureate
- European Women in Mathematics: https://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org
- African Women in Mathematics Association: http://africanwomeninmath.org
- Association for Women in Mathematics: https://awm-math.org – 2021 is their 50th anniversary, so they’ll be hosting quite some events this year, e.g., in the We Speak Series https://awm-math.org/50th-anniversary/we-speak-series/. Also check out the Women in Math Playing Cards they’re developing: https://awm-math.org/publications/playing-cards/
- Lauryn Mwale, a Mathematics students at the University of Edinburgh published a book called “The Shuri Effect” about the experience of black women in STEM.
- Black STEMM Futures supports secondary school students from black and other BAME backgrounds through showcasing the work of black and BAME scientists. Find out more info at: https://blackstemmfutures.org/about/
- Equate Scotland supports women working in or studying STEM subjects in Scotland. They run a student network and a variety of free events – check out what’s coming up here.
- Based in Australia? The WIMSIG group is an initiative supporting women, trans and gender diverse people in the mathematical sciences in Australia.
Are you aware of any other initiatives or events that promote diversity in STEM? Get in touch, so we can list them on our website and advertise them to our mailing list!
Page last updated: 06/10/2023
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