Bahar Acu
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I mentored a 6-week long mathematics research program, Camp Euclid, for middle and high school students at Euclid Lab directed by Prof. David Gay of UGA. Both being a student and a mentor is a unique experience as it offers a collaborative research opportunity and environment for youth in a wide variety of subjects in mathematics. If you know of any enthusiastic, curious middle/high schoolers who love to ask "Why?'' and enjoy putting small pieces together to see the bigger picture, I strongly recommend you to get them to experience this one of a kind research opportunity.
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Current roles:
(The National Alliance for Doctoral Studies in the Mathematical Sciences)
Click here for my profile.
In the past, I have been involved in the following events as:
The session gathered early career female mathematicians (graduate students and postdocs) with leading senior female mathematicians in the field to present and showcase their research at the largest mathematics meeting in the world.
These seminars aimed to gather PhD students studying geometry and topology at Caltech, UCLA and USC.
One-day symposium full of research talks, a key-note address and a panel discussion for female mathematicians in the Southern California ranging from undergraduates to research faculty.
Women in mathematics group, Charlotte's Web, at USC aims to enhance mentoring and networking possibilities for women at USC and wishes to raise awareness of the contributions of women to mathematics and ensure that women mathematicians at USC have a sense that they belong in the mathematical community through our events.
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Women in Mathematics
Why should one care about the representation of women in mathematics? Well, here is a potential answer:
Some other useful resources working towards bettering the diversity, equity, and inclusion issue in mathematics:
and for those who reside in Southern California:
or in Midwest:
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There were two conferences in honor of Dusa McDuff's Birthday. Follow the links below for more details:
Topological and Quantitative Aspects of Symplectic Manifolds, A Conference in Honor of Dusa McDuff's 70th Birthday, March 17-20, 2016, Columbia University, NY
Symplectic Geometry and Topology: Conference in honor of Dusa McDuff, ICMS, July 25-29, 2016, Edinburgh, Scotland
Some other exciting conference announcements:
AWM Research Symposium 2019, April 6-7, 2019, Rice University, Houston, Texas
AWM Workshop at the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 10–13, 2018, San Diego, California
AWM Workshop at the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meetings, January 4–7, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia
Young Women in Geometry, April 3-5, 2017, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
AWM Research Symposium 2017, April 8–9, 2017, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
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If you are a social media lover, the following would be helpful to keep yourself informed about conferences, workshops, and summer school announcements and also questions you would like to ask a group of people with similar concerns or experiences:
Association for Women in Mathematics
Women in Geometry Topology World
USC Student Chapter of the Association of Women in Mathematics
There are several associations and events addressing issues of gender imbalance in mathematics: one of which is a 11-day mentoring program for undergraduate and graduate women in mathematics hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), together with Princeton University with the support of the NSF called Women and Math (WAM) Program.
Three leading women figures in math are running this important gathering: Sun-Yung Alice Chang (Princeton), Dusa McDuff (Barnard College, Columbia), Christine Taylor (Princeton).
WAM still stands to be the best mathematical event that I have ever attended. I had the chance to think about how to shape an academic career while hearing experiences of several accomplished female figures in the field of contact and symplectic geometry and listening to their engaging research talks and mini lectures.
All ears to Dusa's expertise. Photo credit: IHES, 2015.
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Some expository talks: