Research Collaborations

This 5-day collaborative research workshop will facilitate new, mixed-gender research collaborations on algebraic aspects of automorphic forms, L-functions, and related topics.  PhD students, postdocs, and faculty of all levels are encouraged to apply.  We aim to have senior men and women and junior men and women on each team, as well as at least 50% women on each team.  While the format will be similar to the highly successful Women in Numbers (WIN) collaborative workshops, this workshop will drive progress by building connections between underrepresented and overrepresented groups (in this case, determined primarily by gender). To increase their visibility, research teams will be expected to publish results in respected, peer-reviewed journals.  

Ideally, a mathematics research team comprises individuals with expertise in the specific techniques required to solve the problem under consideration, without regard to the researchers' gender or other extraneous factors.  Even as efforts to train and retain members of underrepresented groups have increased, though, members of overrepresented groups (e.g. men) are less likely than members of underrepresented groups (e.g. women) to collaborate with members of underrepresented groups in their research field [1].  This inhibits potentially fruitful collaborations.

While there have been shifts in the gender balance in some fields, a significant imbalance persists in some areas of number theory [2, 3], including in the research communities studying algebraic and p-adic aspects of automorphic forms, L-functions, and related topics.

What are the odds?

If you poke around on the web, you will see that some prolific mathematicians in our field have almost no women collaborators (or none at all).  What are the odds of this?   For an answer, see the web app below, adapted from Aanand Prasad's "Conference Diversity Distribution Calculator"...

Want to get involved?

A key goal of this workshop is to get people doing mathematics together in diverse groups, rather than merely having purely academic conversations about why that is not happening.  Interested in participating?  See the following links for more details: