Publications related to mathematics and social justice

Greenberg, D., Hughes Hallett, D., and Khadjavi, L., “Policing and the Issue of Racial Profiling.” In Mathematics for Social Justice: Focusing on Quantitative Reasoning and Statistics, MAA press, American Mathematical Society, 2021.

Karaali, G. and Khadjavi, L., “An Invitation to Mathematics and Social Justice.” In Mathematics for Social Justice: Resources for the College Classroom, MAA press, American Mathematical Society, 2019.

Gizem Karaali & Lily S. Khadjavi (2019) Unnatural Disasters: Two Calculus Projects for Instructors Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice, PRIMUS, 29:3-4, 312-327, accepted author version published online June 2018. DOI: 10.1080/10511970.2018.1472683

Khadjavi, L., “About the pace of climate change: write a report to the President,” The College Mathematics Journal, special issue on the Mathematics of Planet Earth, Vol. 44, No. 5, November 2013, pp. 428-432.

Khadjavi, L. “Driving while black in the City of Angels.” Chance, 19 (2006), no. 2, pp. 43-46. One of two articles in 2006 featured on the American Statistical Association’s “Press Room: Articles of interest,” now available here: https://amstat.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09332480.2006.10722786#.XxFPkh17nqV

Podcasts

Guest, “You Have the Right,” on Relatively Prime, May 2017, http://relprime.com/youhavetheright/.

Presentations (also in number theory)

Plenary lecture, “Mathematics can take you on unexpected journeys, or ‘What’s a mathematician doing on a California Department of Justice board?’” Math for All conference, virtual/New Orleans, February 2022.

"Social justice in the mathematics classroom: policing and the issue of racial profiling,” Beyond Content: Restructuring Core Courses for Inclusion, Virtual lecture series, Center for Engaged Pedagogy, Barnard College, December 2021. 

Workshop leader, Minicourse on Mathematics for Social Justice. Co-led with M. Franco, G. Karaali, for Project NExT, Mathfest (virtual), August 2021.

“Teaching for Change: Driving While Black in the City of Angels” Launch Years conference, Charles A. Dana Center, UT Austin (virtual), May 2021.

Math Awareness Month and Graduation Awards speaker, Anne Arundel Community College (virtual), April 2021.

Inaugural Core Lecture Series (plenary), Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia (virtual), November 2020.

Workshop leader, Minicourse on Mathematics for Social Justice. Co-led with M. Franco, for Project NExT, Mathfest (virtual), July 2020.

Student Engagement in Mathematics through an Institutional Network for Active Learning (NSF-SEMINAL) web seminar, Association of Public and Land Grant Associations partnering with University of Colorado Boulder; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; and San Diego State University, April 2020.

“Social justice mathematics: policing and the issue of racial profiling.” STEM Education and Social Justice Conference: Creating Balance in an Unjust World, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Oahu, January 2020.

Workshop leader, “Math for Social Justice: Concrete examples for the classroom.” For Project NExT, Mathfest, Cinncinati, July 2019.

Symposium speaker, Teaching Social Justice Mathematics, Associated Colleges of the South Conference.” Plenary presentation, panels, and curriculum development facilitation; Spelman and Morehouse Colleges, Georgia, June 2019. https://socialjusticemathematics.weebly.com/

“An empirical look at race and police practice, for our classrooms and our communities.” Invited to present in Special Session on Social Change in and through Mathematics and Education at the AMS Sectional Meetings, San Francisco, California, October 2018.

Plenary lecture, “The ABC Conjecture and Elliptic Curves,” WimSoCal, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, March 2018. https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/natural-science/undergraduate/mathematics/wimsocal-2018-conference.htm

Plenary lecture, “Policing and the Issue of Racial Profiling in Los Angeles,” Latinx in the Mathematical Sciences Conference, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, March 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ6qnr80U2g

Invited panelist, “Incorporating social justice projects into the college mathematics curriculum,” Project NExT, AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, San Diego, California, January 2018.

Invited panelist, “Being a mathematician and an activist,” AWM, AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, San Diego, California, January 2018.

Plenary lecture: “Women and Mathematics: Inspiration, Obstacles, and Opportunities,” Celebrating the Mathematical Legacy of Professor Maryam Mirzakhani, UCLA, Los Angeles, November 2017. https://allevents.in/westwood/celebrating-the-mathematical-work-of-professor-maryam-mirzakhani/758888630962073

Plenary lecture: “Mathematics for Social Justice, from basic examples to unexpected journeys,” MAA SoCal-Nevada Fall Meeting, Chapman University, Orange, California, October 2017. http://sections.maa.org/socalnv/Meeting2017Fall.html

“Belyi maps and effective bounds.” Invited to present in Women in Sage Math at the AWM Research Symposium, UCLA, Los Angeles, April 2017.

“Quantitative Literacy and Social Justice: From Basic Examples to Transformative Experiences.” Invited to present in MAA Invited Paper Session on New Directions in Quantitative Literacy, in Honor of Lynn Steen at the AMS-MAA Joint Math Meetings, Atlanta, GA, January 2017.

Featured podcast guest, “Origins: LIVE!,” on Relatively Prime, recorded live at the AMS-MAA Joint Math Meetings, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2017; released February 2017, http://relprime.com/origins/.

Invited workshop leader, Math and Social Justice Associated Colleges of the South Conference. Gave plenary presentation, sat on panels, and facilitated curriculum development; Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, May 2016.

“The Fourth Amendment, race, and policing in Los Angeles,” D. Greenberg, co-author. Invited to present in Special Session on Mathematics and Public Policy at the AMS-MAA Joint Math Meetings, Seattle, Washington, January 2016.

“A computational approach to the ABC Conjecture,” J. Balakrishnan, J. Berg, A. Deines, Y. Kara, K. Lauter, V. Scharschkin, co-authors. Invited to present in Special Session on Number theory and Cryptography at the AMS-MAA Joint Math Meetings, Seattle, Washington, January 2016.

“The racial context of policing in Los Angeles,” D. Greenberg, co-author. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Washington DC, November 2015.

“Mathematics and Social Justice: Perspectives and Resources for the College Classroom,” G. Karaali, co-author. Presented in “Democratizing Access to Authentic Mathematical Activity” at Mathfest, Washington DC, August 2015.

Invited panelist, “Quantitative Literacy and Democracy,” Mathfest, Washington DC, August 2015.

“To Mauna Loa and back again: bringing analysis of climate change data to life.” Presented at the AMS-MAA Joint Math Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland, January 2014.

“Stop, Frisk, Rinse, Repeat: Police Practice in Los Angeles and New York.” Presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, May 2013.

“Promoting diversity in the mathematical sciences: the Infinite Possibilities Conference” joint with T. Moore. Presented at the AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, San Diego, California, January 2013.

Invited panelist, “Mathematics for Social Justice,” Project NExT, AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, San Diego, California, January 2013.

“Alternatives to Stop and Frisk: the color of consent in Los Angeles” in An All Day Dialogue on Stop and Frisk, Center for Race, Crime, and Justice, John Jay College, New York, New York, October 2012.

“Mathematical Models: Bringing Social and Environmental Justice into the Mathematics Classroom” with E. Kose and F. Lynch. Presented at the Math Education and Social Justice: Creating Balance in an Unjust World conference, San Francisco, California, January, 2012.

Invited panelist, “Proving Hardy wrong: Mathematics Research with Social Justice Applications,” American Mathematical Society, Joint Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2011. (One of 11 sessions reported on by the AMS out of over 2000 conference talks, including over 40 invited addresses and panels, at http://www.ams.org/meetings/national/jmm11-addresses.)

“Climate change and the mathematics of sustainability in student projects for calculus and statistics courses.” Presented at the AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2011.

“Real-world data and social justice in the classroom.” Presented at the AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, San Francisco, California, January 2010.

“Racial profiling in the City of Angels? Analyzing Los Angeles Police Department traffic stops.” Presented at Developing a Good Heart in STEM: The 1st Summit on Incorporating Social Justice and Service-Learning into the STEM Curriculum, Ithaca College, New York, June 2009. Presentation materials posted at http://www.paccompact.org/STEMSummit09Presentations.htm

“Becoming the Man: Can an anti-subordination perspective be reconciled with economic models?” K. Gustafson, co-author. Presented at the CRT 20 Symposium, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, April 2009.

“The Color of Consent: Analyzing police practice in Los Angeles,” Presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association, Montreal, Canada, May 2008.

“Police practice and racial profiling: a statistical analysis of Los Angeles Police Department traffic stops,” Presented at the Infinite Possibilities Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, November 2007.

“Police Stops, Anti-Subordination Perspectives, and Economic Models,” K. Gustafson, co-author. Presented at LatCrit XII, Miami, FL, October 2007.

“Consent, race, and racial profiling in Los Angeles,” K. Gustafson, co-author. Presented at LatCrit XI, William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2006.

“Race-ing cars in Los Angeles,” K. Gustafson co-author. Presented at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2006.

Plenary lecture: “Dessins d’enfants on the Riemann sphere,” 30^th Australasian Conference in Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing, Brisbane, Australia, December 2005.

“Elliptic curves and the abc conjecture,” V. Scharaschkin, co-author. Presented at the AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, Phoenix, Arizona, January 2004.

In concert with “Cohomological conditions for the abc conjecture,” also joint work, presented by Scharaschkin.

“Three-point-ramified maps for elliptic curves and applications,” V. Scharaschkin, co-author. Presented at the AMS-MAA Joint Meetings, Baltimore, Maryland, January 2003.

“Increasing retention of underrepresented students through cooperative learning workshops.” Presented at the International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics II, Crete, Greece, August 2002.