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!
AWM was excited to have Prof. Maria Fung visit us and share about her experiences as a college professor at a state university serving a diverse body of students. Maria Fung is a professor of mathematics at Worcester State University. Her main interests lie in the mathematical preparation of K-12 teachers, inquiry-based and active learning pedagogy, and…
AWM hosted coffee, snacks, and conversation with Dr. Hom, who was awarded the 2024 Levi L. Conant Prize for her paper “Getting a handle on the Conway knot” (Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (2021), 19–29). She delivered the 2024 Levi L. Conant Lecture at WPI.
AWM is excited to announce that we will be having our D-term seminar on Wednesday, March 27 from 11am-12pm in UH 520. For this seminar, we will have three students (Marcela Vasconcellos, Scarlett Clarke, and Augustine Benjamin) discuss their research. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about MQP and research opportunities other undergraduate…
We are excited to have Dr. Lisa Fauci come to WPI to give the HJ Gay Lecture on Friday, February 2. Before her talk at 4 pm, join us for lunch with the speaker from 12-1 pm at the Armenian Church. This will be a great opportunity to meet Dr. Fauci and other AWM members. Later in the…
AWM is excited to announce that for our B-term Seminar, Dr. Elizabeth Newman will be coming to give a talk on “Training Made Easy: Harnessing Structure and Curvature Information to Train Neural Networks Efficiently” at the Math Department Colloquium this Friday, November 17 from 11am – 12pm in UH 520. Join us for this great talk! Afterward, we…
AWM is excited to announce that we will be having our A-term seminar on Wednesday, September 27 from 11 am-12 pm in UH 400. For this seminar, we will have 3 students (Sarah LaRusso, Camille Williams, and Peiyao Lai) discuss their research and internship experience. This will be a great opportunity to learn more about research and internship projects other…
I’m excited to announce that AWM will be having Beth Blumberg come give a talk on February 3rd from 1-2pm in SH 304! Beth is a mathematics tutor and the head coach of the Western Massachusetts ARML (American Regions Mathematics League) team. See the flyer for more details, and hope to see you all there!!
Hi everyone! We’ll be having another session of our AWM Speaker Series: Meet the Mathematicians on November 16th, 1-2pm!! Come stop by SH 306 for flash talks from some of our wonderful faculty in the Mathematical Sciences Department. See you all there!
Come join us for our A-term seminar, Meet the Mathematicians!! This is a great opportunity to meet some of the female math faculty at WPI and learn a bit more about the department. See the flyer for more details. Hope to see you there on September 27th, 10-11am in SH 309!