Our first personal and professional development workshop of the year was a collaboration with the newly reinvigorated WPI chapter of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). AWM created a handwritten worksheet that served as a basis for the workshop; the goal was to, in learning how to typeset in LaTeX, reproduce the content…
For the second meeting of the Fall 2025 AWM Book Club, we read Proof, by David Auburn, a short play about mathematics and madness. Proof won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. It premiered on Broadway in 2000 at the Walter Kerr Theatre and ran until 2003. In…
At the first of our monthly GBMs this semester, we were happy to welcome some new members to the chapter, share about upcoming events, and hear activity ideas from the general body. It was a small but engaged group! We ended the GBM with an arts & crafts activity to make your own (mini) SET…
For our first AWM Book Club meeting of Fall 2025, we read the chapter “Mathematical Institutions and the ‘In’ of the Association for Women in Mathematics” from AWM’s 50th anniversary collection Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics: Reminiscences, History, and Visions for the Future of AWM, the full text of which is available through Springer.…
It was a beautiful day – sunny but cool – for our annual Welcome Event! We host a Welcome Event each year, complete with pizza, cookies, soda, and lawn games, to introduce AWM to new WPI members and say hello to returning ones. This year, we had over two dozen newcomers and many familiar faces…
Welcome back to campus, all! AWM is excited to start up again for the 2025-26 school year. Two of our exec board members from the last academic year, Caitlin Ho (PR Chair) and Natalie Tierney (Vice President), graduated, and we welcome two new members, Mia Zheng (Vice President) and Virginia Iadanza (Treasurer)! Our first gathering…
We successfully held our 7th annual “Sonia Kovalevsky Day (SK Day): An Empowering Day for Middle School Girls Who Love Math!” on campus on Saturday, April 12 (despite the random mid-April snowstorm that swept through on the morning of!). This year’s event included opening remarks by WPI math department chair Prof. Sarah Olson, a Q&A…
For our C-Term GBM, we organized an info session for new and returning members to learn about this year’s SK Day, taking place on Saturday, April 12, and ways that they could be involved in its planning and execution.
For our last event of the fall semester, we collaborated with WPI’s Art and Design Club for a paper crafts night, complete with cocoa and cookies.
Dr. Becca Thomases is Professor and Department Chair of Mathematics at Smith College. She visited WPI in November to deliver a colloquium talk titled “Micro-organism locomotion in viscoelastic fluids.” AWM was honored to host a coffee hour with her before the talk!