Past Events

AWM hosts a mixture of academic seminars, social events, and personal and professional development workshops.
This page lists events up through the 2024-2025 school year.
For more on our past events and for events from 2025-2026 on, see our blog at https://wp.wpi.edu/awm/.

2024 - 2025

Spring 2025

  • Feb 26     C-Term General Body Meeting
  • Mar 30    Women in STEM Activities Fair
  • Apr 10     SK Day Overview
  • Apr 12     Sonia Kovalevsky Day

Fall 2024

  • Aug 19     3rd Annual ODIME Annual Reception
  • Sep 05     AWM Welcome Event
  • Sep 13     Coffee Hour with Dr. Jen Hom: AWM hosted coffee, snacks, and conversation with Dr. Hom, who was awarded the 2024 Levi L. Conant Prize for her paper "Getting a handle on the Conway knot" (Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (2021), 19–29). She delivered the 2024 Levi L. Conant Lecture at WPI.
  • Sep 20     A-Term General Body Meeting: Brainstorm ideas for the upcoming term and discuss our WPI experiences with Lauren Feldman, Assistant Director for Gender Equity and Sexuality at ODIME.
  • Sep 22     Women in STEM Activities Fair
  • Oct 04     Destress Night: Coffee + Crochet (in collaboration with Crochet Club)
  • Nov 04     AWM Seminar Series: Prof. Maria Fung (Worcester State): A Journey to the Open Heart: Reflections on Teaching, Trauma, and Healing
  • Nov 08     Milk & Cookies with ODIME
  • Nov 15     Coffee Hour with Becca Thomases: AWM hosted coffee, snacks, and conversation with Dr. Thomases before her colloquium presentation on micro-organism locomotion in viscoelastic fluids.
  • Dec 06     Winter Paper Crafts (in collaboration with Art & Design Club)

2023 - 2024

Spring 2024

  • Feb 02     Lunch and Lecture with Dr. Lisa Fauci: Waving, rotating, buckling: filaments in flow at the microscale
  • Mar 27     Seminar Series: Student Seminar: Presentations from Marcela Vasconcellos, Scarlett Clarke, and Augustine Benjamin (see flyer here)
  • Apr 06     Sonia Kovalevsky Day

Fall 2023

  • Sep 13     AWM Welcome Event
  • Sep 27     Seminar Series Student Talks: Presentations from Sarah LaRusso, Camille Williams, and Peiyao Lai (see flyer here)
  • Nov 17     Seminar and Lunch with Dr. Elizabeth Newman: Training Made Easy: Harnessing Structure and Curvature Information to Train Neural Networks Efficiently

2022 - 2023

Spring 2023

  • Feb 03     AWM Seminar Series: Beth Blumberg: Women in Competition Math
  • Feb 15     Personal and Professional Development Series: Graduate School Panel
  • Feb 20     Coffee Hour Social
  • Apr 15     Sonia Kovalevsky Day

Fall 2022

  • Sep 02     AWM Welcome Event
  • Sep 27     Meet the Mathematicians (Part I): Meet-and-greet with the women mathematicians at WPI
  • Nov 10     Board Game Social
  • Nov 16     Meet the Mathematicians (Part II): Meet-and-greet with the women mathematicians at WPI
  • Dec 05     Personal and Professional Development Series: Industry Panel: With representatives from Amazon Robotics, Boston Scientific, Hanover Insurance and Santander.

2021 - 2022

Spring 2022

  • Feb 10     Personal and Professional Development Series: Graduate School Panel
  • Mar 23     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Elisenda Grigsby (Boston College): The Topology, Geometry, and Combinatorics of Neural Network Functions
  • Apr 09     Sonia Kovalevsky Day

Fall 2021

  • Sep 03     AWM Welcome Event
  • Sep 27     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Misha Kilmer (ICERM, Brown University): The Case for Tensor Factorization: Compression, Analysis and Reconstruction of Image Data
  • Oct 04     Personal and Professional Development Series: Resume & CV Workshop
  • Oct 26     AWM & SIAM Joint Seminar: Dr. Geneta Gray: Turning Your Math Skills into a Career in Data Science

2020 - 2021

Spring 2021

  • Feb 04     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Tracy Stepien (University of Florida): Using Mathematics to Understand Cancer and the Growth and Treatment of Tumors
  • Mar 02     Personal and Professional Development Series: Recognizing and Overcoming Gender Bias: With keynote speaker Dr. Tiffiny Butler
  • Apr 10      Sonia Kovalevsky Day
  • Apr 21      AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Francesca Bernardi (WPI): From Italy to WPI: Story of a PhD
  • May 04     Personal and Professional Development Series: Graduate School Experience

Fall 2020

  • Sep 21     Personal and Professional Development Series: Summer Opportunities
  • Sep 28     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Lucia Carichino (Rochester Institute of Technology): My Journey in Mathematical Biology
  • Oct 19     Movie Night: Secrets of the Surface
  • Oct 29     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Margaret Callahan (U.S. Dept of State): Quantitative Approaches to Global Conflict Analysis
  • Nov 17     Personal and Professional Development Series: Industry Opportunities for Women in Mathematics (see flyer here)

2019 - 2020

Spring 2020

  • Apr 04     Sonia Kovalevsky Day (held virtually)
  • Apr 28     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Sarah Gaichas (NOAA Fisheries): What Does Math Have to Do with Fish?

Fall 2019

  • Sep 27     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Laura Miller (University of Arizona): My Trajectory from Mathematics to Biology to Mathematics and Back to Biology
  • Nov 06     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Ruth Charney (Brandeis University): Groups, Geometry, and How I Got Here
  • Nov 20     Coffee Hour Social

2018 - 2019

Spring 2019

  • Feb 20     AWM Seminar Series: Clara Vu (VEO Robotics)
  • Mar 23     Sonia Kovalevsky Day
  • Apr 08     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Catherine Buell (Fitchburg State University): From Algebra to Ethics: Finding Meaningful Work and Navigating Academia

Fall 2018

  • Sep 21     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Daniela Calvetti (Case Western Reserve University): Inverse Problems, The Brain, and My Mathematical Journey
  • Nov 06     AWM Seminar Series: Dr. Sarah Spence Adams (Olin College): A Discussion and Mini-Workshop on Charting Your Professional Career