Women in Mathematics 2024

Workshop “Women in Mathematics”

13 May 2024

Universiteit Gent, Campus Sterre, Building S8, Lecture room 3.1 (third floor)

Dedicated to the International day of women in Mathematics and the birthday of Maryam Mirzakhani

may12.womeninmaths.org

Description

The theme of our Women in Mathematics Workshop centers around “Celebrating Diversity and Advancing Mathematical Frontiers.” Through this theme, we aim to spotlight the great contributions of women mathematicians across a spectrum of specialized fields, including partial differential equations, logic, combinatorics, analysis, graph theory, statistics, algebra, and geometry. This theme reflects our commitment to breaking gender barriers and challenging longstanding stereotypes within the field of mathematics. By showcasing the remarkable diversity of talent among female researchers, we seek to inspire, empower, and foster a sense of inclusivity within the mathematical community.

The primary objective of our conference is to provide a platform for accomplished female mathematicians to share their expertise and insights with a diverse audience. There will be 8 talks by female colleagues working in different areas of mathematics. Additionally, there will be a talk by Prof Colette Guillopé addressing the gender gap in STEM sciences.

Additionally, we strive to create an environment conducive to networking and knowledge exchange, particularly for PhD students, postdocs, and other researchers. By connecting aspiring mathematicians with established role models, we aspire to ignite enthusiasm and encourage a broader participation in the field. Ultimately, our goal is to contribute to a more inclusive and innovative mathematical community.

This workshop continues the sequence of events organised by the Ghent Analysis & PDE Center in support of Women in Mathematics. See, for example, the exhibition “Women in Mathematics from around the world” and the corresponding lecture by Prof Sylvie Paycha (Potsdam University), that took place during our Summer School “Modern Problems in PDEs and applications” in September 2023.

See also our dedicated volume “Women in Analysis & PDE”.

Speakers

Aida Abiad (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Gianira Alfarano (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Paula Cerejeiras (University of Aveiro, Portugal)
Claudia Garetto (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Els Goetghebeur (Ghent University, Belgium)
Colette Guillopé (Université Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne, France)
Smiljana Jaksic (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Irene Sabadini (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Elena Shabalina (Technology Center E-Textiles and Acoustics, Germany)

Timetable

Time slots
09:00-09:15	welcome coffee
09:15-09:30	opening ceremony
09:30-10:30	Colette Guillopé	Université Paris-Est-Créteil-Val-de-Marne	Gender Gap in Mathematical, Computing and Natural Sciences
10:30-10:45	coffee break
10:45-11:15	Paula Cerejeiras	University of Aveiro	Generalised Fock spaces with applications to sampling and interpolation sets
11:15-11:45	Els Goetghebeur	Ghent University	From martingales to quality of life: Mathematics finds statistics to solve real world problems
11:45-12:00	coffee break
12:00-12:30	Smiljana Jaksic	University of Belgrade	Global regularity of Weyl pseudo-differential operators in the Gelfand-Shilov setting
12:30-14:00	lunch break
14:00-14:30	Claudia Garetto	Queen Mary University of London	A survey on hyperbolic equations with multiplicities
14:30-15:00	Irene Sabadini	Politecnico di Milano	The mathematics of superoscillations
15:00-15:20	coffee break
15:20-15:50	Gianira Alfarano	University College Dublin	An Overview on Algebraic Coding Theory
15:50-16:20	Aida Abiad	Eindhoven University of Technology	Are almost all graphs determined by their spectrum?
16:20-16:35	coffee break
16:35-17:05	Elena Shabalina	Technology Center E-Textiles & Acoustics	Acoustic Wave Propagation Through a Cluster of Hard Upright Cylinders: Porous Media and Radiative Transfer Approach
17:05-18:00	short movie exposition (may12.womeninmaths.org) & closing ceremony

Registration

Registration is free but mandatory. However, if you are interested in attending the event, please register to the event before April 30 using the link below:

https://forms.gle/SLtFuxkNWmUfmzTk8