Every year on May 12, mathematicians across the world celebrate International Women in Maths day. To mark this, and to promote the great work done by female mathematicians in Denmark, we hold the Fifth Celebration of International Women in Maths Day in Aarhus. 

National Women in Mathematics Conferences have been held at Aarhus University (2022), the University of Southern Denmark (2023), the University of Copenhagen (2024), and Aalborg University (2025).

The conference is open to all students and staff from across Denmark!

This conference is an excellent opportunity for all students to experience some of the important aspects of academia: conferences, networking and sharing mathematical ideas. But ultimately, this is also just a great way for all the female mathematicians in Denmark to get to know each other!

If you have any questions, please send us an email at woman@math.au.dk !

Organisers: Jessica Carter and Corina Ciobotaru

The conference is supported by the Carlsberg Foundation, grant CF26-0139, and by the Danish Mathematical Society. 

Program 

Thursday, May 7

11.00 – 12.00: Welcome and registration (Aud. D2, building 1531)

12.00 – 13.00: Lunch (Aud. D1, building 1531, will be available for us between 11:00 to 18:00)

13.00 – 13.15: Conference opening

13.15 – 13.50: Invited Talk 1 (35 min)

Cordula Reisch: Reaction-diffusion equations in life science and ecology: Insights from mathematical analysis and simulations

13.50 – 14.05: Contributed Talk 1 (15 min)

Maiken Balman Gravgaard: Decomposition of real numbers into sums of Lüroth set

14.05 – 14.20: Contributed Talk 2 (15 min)

Jesper Tinghus Pedersen: A Historical Analysis of Proof Aesthetics

14.25 – 14.45: Coffee break

14.45 – 15.20: Invited Talk 2 (35 min)

Jasmin Matz: Spectral theory and automorphic forms

15.20 – 15.35: Contributed Talk 3 (15 min)

Anne Marie Svane: Detecting tunnels in glass materials using topological data analysis

15.35 – 15.50: Contributed Talk 4 (15 min)

Katrine von Bornemann: Alignment in university mathematics education

15.55 – 16.15: Coffee break

16.15 – 17.15: Invited Talk 3 (60 min)

Colette Guillopé: The Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences

18.00: Conference dinner at the Math Canteen at Aarhus University

Friday, May 8

(Aud. D1, building 1531, will be available for us between 8:30 to 13:00)

08.30 – 09.00: Take away Breakfast  

09.00 – 09.35: Invited Talk 4 (35 min)

Kristin Elizabeth Gabe: The many faces of operator algebras

09.35 – 09.50: Contributed Talk 5 (15 min)

Nina Dörnemann: A Journey into Random Matrix Theory and High-Dimensional Statistics

09.50 – 10.10: Coffee break

10.10 – 10.45: Invited Talk 5 (35 min)

Guenda Palmirotta: Chasing roots with Newton

10.45 – 11.00: Contributed Talk 6 (15 min)

Bipasha Rahman Pinky: Beyond Memorization: Teaching for Understanding in Mathematics

11.00 – 11.20: Coffee break

11.20 – 11.55: Invited Talk 6 (35 min)

Vedrana Andersen Dahl: Seeing Inside Matter: Inverse Problems and Quantification of Microstructure

11.55 – 12.10: Contributed Talk 7 (15 min)

Shan Shan: Computational methods for understanding shape evolution

12.10 – 12.45: Invited Talk 7 (35 min)

Kristi Kuljus: Does your model really fit? A maximum spacing approach to model validation

12.45 – 13.45: Lunch and goodbye