Online event

Women mathematicians before Maryam

Maryam and medals

Women mathematicians on these days

Online meeting to which all women - students, postdocs, administrative staff, professors - from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics (IME) are invited. We will present our group of women of the institute and discuss how is it to be a woman at our institution.

12th May is the "women in math day" in honor of Maryam Mirzakhani's birthday, an Iranian mathematician who in 2014 became the first and so far only woman to be awarded the Fields Medal. On that occasion, our professors Folkmar Bornemann, Marco Cicalese, Jürgen Richter-Gebert, and Elisabeth Ullmann will tell us about their personal mathematical heroines – female mathematicians who inspire them, influenced them, or whom they admire. 

In this event, we celebrate Professor Maryam Mirzakhani's birthday as ``Women in Mathematics'' Day. This is a three hours online program organised by Women's Committee of the Iranian Mathematical Society and Bu-Ali Sina University from 16:00 to 19:00 (Iran local time). 

We offer a public screening of the Film "Picture a scientist" between May 12 and May 14. The week afterwards, on Monday 17th , 7 p.m. we offer a common and free Zoom discussion about the film and the underlying topic, the gender gap particularly in mathematics, grievances, negative or positive personal experiences but also chances that come along with gender equality and more diversity.

In this event, we will invite renowned female Mathematician from reputed institutions(India) to encourage the female students towards higher studies in Mathematics 

We will have 2 webinars in two days, May 12 (3 talks) and May 14 (2 talks)

 1. Maryam's father, Ahmad Mirzakhani (the chairman of the board of Maryam Mirzakhani Foundation) talks on "Flourishing and Educating Talents".

2. Maryam's friend, Roya Beheshti, talks on "Maryam, School days and Memories".

3. Maryam's classmate and collaborator, Amir Jafari, talks on "Beauties of Math".

4. Mir-Omid Mir Sadeghi talks on "Who says Math is Useful?"

5. Javad Ebrahimi Boroojeni talks on "From Games to Math".

The 7th Lorna Casselton Memorial Lecture, entitled "Mathematics and Art Conservation", will be given by Professor Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University), first woman President of the International Mathematical Union, at 5 pm BST on Thursday 13th May online by Zoom.

It is an online gathering to watch "Picture a Scientist". 

Then we will have a panel discussion about the opportunities and challenges of female scientists in Iran.