In Fall 2024, a series of lunch seminars, named Math Sphere, for female graduate students and other minority genders was started in our department. Everyone is welcome. The goal is to have super friendly and casual meetings for our community where we learn about the research areas of the speakers, their experiences in doing research, and ask them tons of questions. Here is a tentative schedule:

• 4/29/2025, 12-1pm. Speaker: Kavita Ramanan

• 2/28/2025, 12-1pm. Speaker: Melody Chan

• 12/9/2024, 12pm-1pm. Speaker: Amalia Culiuc

• 11/1/2024, 12pm-1pm. Speaker: Mara Freilich