July 20th at 9:00 am Eastern Daylight Time (1:00 pm GMT)

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Agenda/Schedule

9:00 AM EDT / 1:00 PM GMT  OPENING REMARKS

9:15 AM  EDT / 1:15 PM GMT  STORYTELLING (<- recording linked here) 

  Prof.  José Julián Díaz Pérez, University of Havana  

9:30 AM EDT / 1:30 PM GMT  MATHEMATICS & SOCIETY

  Prof.  Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University  

"Deep Unlearning: Reimagining Mathematics Beyond Empire"

10:30 AM EDT / 2:30 PM GMT  DISCUSSION

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Speaker Bios

José Julián Díaz Pérez is a mathematician from Cuba who works in probabilities, particularly with stochastic processes in continuous time and space. His research includes modeling the first passage time problem for Brownian motion particles to enhance stochastic optimization algorithms.

Dr. Ruha Benjamin is a transdisciplinary scholar, writer, educator, and cultural worker, currently Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, Founding Director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab, and author of four books, Imagination: A Manifesto (2024), Viral Justice (2022), Race After Technology (2019), and People’s Science (2013), and editor of Captivating Technology (2019). Benjamin writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice.