Horizons is supported by the Mathematics Department, ICERM, the C. V. Starr Foundation Lectureship Fund, and Professor Melody Chan’s NSF CAREER Award.
Department of Mathematics
Horizons Seminar
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
- Dagan Karp, Harvey Mudd College - “Fiber Bundles and Intersectional Feminism”
- Edray Goins, Pomona College - “Critical Theory in Postsecondary Mathematics Education”
- Rochelle Guitierrez, Bates College - "Rehumanizing Mathematics: Why it matters for Students and Society"
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
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Steven Creech
Graduate Student -
Marino Echavarria
Graduate Student -
Thomas Goodwillie
Professor -
Amanda Hernandez
Graduate Student -
Lori Nascimento
Academic and Financial Coordinator -
Ethan Partida
Graduate Student -
Ella Wilson
Graduate Student