Invited speakers
silviana amethyst (she/her)
silviana amethyst is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. She is a visualizing and computational mathematician, mathematical artist, maker, and hacker. Her mathematical interests are numerical algebraic geometry, parallel programming, 3D printing, and computational geometry. Her favorite languages are C++, Python, and OpenSCAD. silviana is a member of the Queer and Trans Action Committee, University Senate, and Vice President of her union at UWEC, has served on a number of EDI-related committees, and was co-host of the University of Wisconsin Women's and Gender Studies Consortium Intersectional Feminist Leadership Working Group from 2020-2022.
Tarik Aougab (he/him)
Tarik Aougab is an associate professor of mathematics at Haverford College, near Philadelphia. His research interests are in geometry, topology, and group theory. Tarik is a member of the Just Mathematics Collective, a group of mathematicians committed to shifting the mathematics community towards anti-(racism/sexism/homophobia/transphobia), anti-militarism, and solidarity with oppressed peoples.
Ron Buckmire (he/him)
Ron Buckmire is Professor of Mathematics at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. His published articles are in an eclectic collection of peer-reviewed journals such as Data, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, and Albany Law Review. In 2023, he was named a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), the first person from a small liberal arts college, the fourth Black person, and the first openly LGBTQ+ person to receive this prestigious honor.
Marco Carfagnini (he/they)
Marco Carfagnini is a Stefan E. Warschawski Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego (UCSD). His research is in stochastic analysis and its interplay with Lie groups/Lie algebras and functional analysis. Marco is an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM, and while he was a graduate student at the University of Connecticut he founded an AWM chapter.
Padi Fuster Aguilera (she/her/ella)
Padi Fuster Aguilera is an NSF MPS Ascend postdoctoral fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is also a musician and an activist. Her research interests are Partial Differential Equations and Riemannian Geometry. Padi co-founded the conference "Math For All" with the main goal of creating a welcoming environment for learning and discussing mathematics, and she also co-founded "Meet a Mathematician"-- a collection of video interviews to mathematicians from historically excluded backgrounds.
Elizabeth Menezes (she/her)
Elizabeth Menezes is a PhD student at Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro. She works under supervision of Carolina Araujo, and has some experience in Toric Varieties and in Defective Varieties, although she loves and is still exploring other parts of algebraic geometry in general. She also got her master's degree from IMPA and her bachelor's from Universidade Federal de Goiás.
Currently, she is interested in advocating for marginalized people like her in order to make mathematics more accessible for everyone; and her favorite hobby is to go to "gender diversity" meetings and point out how they only talked about cisgender women in math.
Omayra Y. Ortega (any/all)
Omayra Y. Ortega is an Associate Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at Sonoma State University in Sonoma County, California.
She is the immediate past president of NAM (National association of Mathematicians), a non-profit professional organization in the mathematical sciences with the aim of promoting mathematical excellence and, in particular, to the mathematical development of all underrepresented minorities. She has directed the Mathematical Epidemiology Research Group (MERG) since 2007, and is a committee member for the AWM (Association of Women in Mathematics).
Omayra's research interests include: mathematical and computational biology, mathematical epidemiology in developing countries, infectious disease epidemiology, the participation of women and minorities in sciences, data science, machine learning, and the participation of minorities, women, and non-gender conforming individuals in STEM.
Kyne Santos (she/her/he/him)
Kyne Santos graduated with a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and has become famous as Kyne, a world class drag queen, mathematics communicator, and keynote speaker.
Kyne began her drag career while at university, and became known for her drag tutorials on YouTube. Afterwards, she took to TikTok (“onlinekyne”) to make short-form math videos where she tells riddles, gives math lessons, and teaches her followers how to spot misleading statistics in media, all while dressed in high-glamour drag.
With an audience of over 1.5 million followers across platforms, Kyne spreads her passion for math education and scientific literacy, and brings STEM education to the queer community and queerness to STEM.
Sylvie Vega-Molino (she/her)
Sylvie Vega-Molino is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway. She studies differential geometry; her focus is on sub-Riemannian geometry, index theory, stochastic analysis, and the intersection of these fields.
Katrin Wehrheim (they/them)
Katrin Wehrheim is an Associate Professor at University of California Berkeley, where in 2013 they were the first woman hired with tenure. Katrin is a Mathematics Educator for Social Justice and an antifascist community organizer. Their research interests are Gauge Theory, Symplectic Geometry, low dimensional topology, and PDE's
Contributed speakers
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