Movie projection

We are celebrating International Women in Mathematics Day on 13 May. Join us for a film screening, careers panel and light refreshments.

About this event

Are you interested in mathematics/statistics/data science and wondering where it might lead you?

Would you like to hear personal stories from some recent and not-so-recent female/gender diverse graduates?

Then come along to our event in honour of International Women in Mathematics Day, with lots of stories/discussion followed by lunch.

May 12

Movie projection and discussion about women in mathematics and breast cancer prevention.

The event details are as under:

As suggested by the May12 Initiative, we will be screening the award-winning film "Women in science in Africa, A SILENT REVOLUTION" (in English). In order to participate, please register at the following link: https://www.mis.mpg.de/calendar/lectures/2022/abstract-33934.html.

May 12 was the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 - 2017), an Iranian mathematician and professor at Stanford University. She worked on geometry and dynamical systems and in 2014 she was the first woman to win the FIelds medal (the “Nobel prize of mathematics”). In her memory, May 12 was chosen as a day to globally celebrate women in mathematics. 

The Mathematical Institute is therefore organising an event on May 12, 2022. Students, staff and other interested people are all very welcome!

The programme consists of two parts and will be as follows:

Fourteen  people registered in the school.

The documentary film Secrets of the Surface by George Csicsery will be available for view by students and staff of the

Mathematics Department of the Université de Lille in France.

The School of Mathematics and Statistics is hosting an in-person (and online) celebration for International Woman's Mathematics Day!

he 12th of May is the birthday of the extraordinary mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, who in 2014 became the first woman and the first Iranian to be awarded a Fields Medal. Maryam died of cancer in 2017, at just 40 years of age. We will host a free screening of the documentary:

Secrets of the Surface: the Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani

We're hosting a virtual screening of the Picture a Scientist documentary, with virtual socialising before and after via Zoom