Department of Mathematics

Horizons Seminar

Horizons is a seminar organized by members of the math department with the following goals: to discuss issues of gender, racial, and sexual inclusivity in STEM fields; to provide career advancement and job placement advice to graduate students; and to promote the research and work of traditionally under-represented mathematicians by hosting several colloquium-style mathematics talks.

Horizons is supported by the Mathematics Department, ICERM, the C. V. Starr Foundation Lectureship Fund, and Professor Melody Chan’s NSF CAREER Award. 

Past Speakers

2024-2025

  • Tai-Danae Bradley, Sandbox AQ/The Master's University - “Some Thoughts on the Art of Communicating Mathematics
  • Mabel Abraham, Columbia University - “(Not) Getting What You Deserve: How Misrecognized Evaluators​ Reproduce Misrecognition in Peer Evaluations”

2023-2024

  • Alison Marr, EDGE/Southwestern University - “From Absence to Excellence: The Impact of the EDGE Summer Program on Women in Math”
  • Jo Hardin & Sharhiar Sharhiari, Pomona College - “Struggling with the lack of success in attracting students from underrepresented groups into the mathematics major, the math & stats department at Pomona College slowly moved away from a deficit model (e.g., lack of preparation among students) to focusing on the experiences of all of the students in the department. We will discuss the successes and challenges of a few of our concrete cohort programs as well as the role of collaboration, community, and climate in expanding access to educational opportunities in the mathematical sciences.”

2022-2023

  • Gregory Herschlag, Duke University - "Quantifying Gerrymandering via Monte Carlo Sampling on Graph
    Partitions"
  • Samuel Hansen, University of Michigan - “The Hidden Narratives of Mathematics”
  • Ismar Volic, Wellesley College - “Mathematical foundations of democracy”
  • Candice Price, Smith College - “Can we make grace the norm in our classrooms?”

2021-2022

  • Moira Chas, Stony Brook University - “Diversity in three and four dimensions”
  • Marissa Loving Yu, Georgia Institute of Technology - “Where do I belong? Creating space in the math community”

2020-2021

  • Autumn Kent, University of Wisconsin-Madison - “A queer math conference.”
  • Adriana Salerno, Bates College - “Rehumanizing a Math Department
  • Chandra Prescod-Weinstein, University of New Hampshire - “Scientists vs. Science: Race, Gender, and Anti-Intellectualism in Science”

2019-2020

2018-2019

  • Pamela Harris, Williams College - The Lonely Reality of an Academic Dreamer"
  • Michael Ching, Amherst College - “Inequality (BLST/HIST/MATH 205”

2017-2018

  • Adriana Salerno, Bates College - “Curating your teaching and research through blogging”
  • Tilak Ratananather, Johns Hopkins University - “Making Mathematics Accessible at Colleges and Universities”

Organizers