Abstract Submission

Talk Math With Your Friends (TMWYF) is committed to featuring a broad array of voices from diverse backgrounds. We especially encourage people from groups historically underrepresented in mathematics [in the academy] to submit abstracts. We ask for demographic information on the submission form to help with this part of our mission.

During the COVID-19 quarantine, we are also especially interested in hosting talks by junior colleagues who had in-person talks cancelled.

Some guidelines for writing your abstract:

1. Broadly speaking, most talks should aim to answer two questions:

   1. What is X (where X is an object, theorem, idea, conjecture, etc.)?

   2. Why do mathematicians in a particular field care about X? Note that education research and concepts are explicitly included in this seminar.

2. Do not feel obligated to talk about your own work. Expository and/or survey talks are most welcome. A talk about the basic objects in your field of study is much more likely to be accessible and interesting to mathematicians in other fields than your latest technical theorem.

3. A broad cross section of the mathematics community should be able to engage in these sessions. Our context is the higher education mathematics community, but abstracts should make it clear what is assumed about the background of the audience.