What Is WIM?
Women in Mathematics is a group of undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, instructors, and other faculty members of the mathematics department at Penn State. Our main objective is to provide support and information to the women within the mathematics community at PSU at all levels, from undergraduate students to faculty members.
Our activities include:
- Meeting monthly to share information about career opportunities and to discuss issues facing women in science and mathematics,
- Supporting undergraduate and graduate students in their research,
- Sponsoring visits of women mathematicians to the mathematics department,
- Getting together in a friendly atmosphere for refreshments.
Join Us!
If you are interested in our activities and would like to receive our emails, please sign up using the Registration Form on this page. You must be affiliated with the Pennsylvania State University.
Meet with Us!
The next WIM meeting
will be May 8 at 12:30 PM in 114 McAllister. Professor
Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach from Ecole
Polytechnique, Paris will be our special guest.
To sign-up for the meeting, please register using the Meeting Registration Form on this page at least four days before the meeting.
Undergraduate Research Support
WIM will partially support undegraduate female students undertaking Mathematics research at Penn State. For more information and to apply for support, click here.
AWM Travel Grants
The AWM, together with the NSF, sponsors Travel Grants to attend mathematical conferences in the US and abroad. You must have a PhD to apply. The next deadline is May 1, 2008. For more information visit the AWM web site.
Topics of discussion
These are some topics we discussed in our previous meetings:
- Gender, the teaching and the learning of mathematics.
- What impact does pregnancy have to a female mathematician?
- Future opportunities in Mathematics and related fields.
- Facets of majoring in Mathematics for women.
- What's it like to be a female mathematician at NSA?
- A discussion on the annual survey by the American Mathematical Society on employment in the Mathematical Sciences.