Women in Mathematics at the University of Minnesota

03/01/2021

Hope to see you there!

10/14/2020

Come see an **awesome woman** in the UMN Math Department give a talk!

Time: 1:30pm-2:20pm CT

Speaker: Jasmine Foo
Title: Cancer evolution and personalized medicine
Abstract: In this talk I will introduce some examples of mathematical models of cancer evolution and how they can be leveraged to develop approaches for personalized cancer therapies.

If you need the Zoom link email [email protected]

10/12/2020

We are finally back! WiM undergrad meetings start today. A Zoom link will be send to the WiM listserv. If you do not receive that link. You can fill out the following form to receive one https://forms.gle/PedaTsefevkYhPbp6.

03/20/2020

"Do math because you like it. You don't have to quit when you fail." -- McCleary Philbin 😍😍😍

I grew up mostly in Sherborn, MA, but we also lived in Hong Kong and Singapore before then. I went to Swarthmore College outside of Philadelphia, PA. I spent a year at the Smith College post-baccalaureate program, before starting at the University of Minnesota in 2016.

03/20/2020

Today we're honoring McCleary Philbin. Check our her bio at our website!

I grew up mostly in Sherborn, MA, but we also lived in Hong Kong and Singapore before then. I went to Swarthmore College outside of Philadelphia, PA. I spent a year at the Smith College post-baccalaureate program, before starting at the University of Minnesota in 2016.

03/18/2020

Today's WiM Honoree is Patricia Klein! Check out her bio on the WiM website.

This isn't so inspirational, but I think I liked math when I was younger because it was easier for me than some other things. I've always been a slow reader, and I was embarrassed when we were asked to read out loud in school because I would stumble a lot more than other kids my age. So when we were...

03/16/2020

Today we're honoring Li Wang. Read about her at our website! 😍😍😍

I was born and raised in Wuhan, China. After graduating from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, I came to the US in 2007 to pursue my PhD at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before came to Minnesota, I have spent a few years in Buffalo, New York; Los Angeles, California; and a few mo...

03/13/2020

Today we honor a future faculty member: Chuan Xue. She'll be joining the University of Minnesota faculty next year and we can't wait! 😍😍😍

That’s a hard question. I was mostly interested in physics and biology in high school probably because I had better teachers in these areas. I was always good at math of course. In China, we choose major before we start college. It was my dad’s wisdom that if I want to do well in science, then l...

03/11/2020

Today we honor Carme Calderer. Read about Carme on our webpage!

Yo nací en Berga, una pequeña ciudad al norte de Barcelona, en Catalunya. Estudié Matemáticas y Física en la Universidad de Barcelona y más tarde obtuve el Ph.D. en la Universidad de Heriot-Watt, en Escocia. Vine a los Estados Unidos en 1981 donde he trabajado en varias universidades, ll...

03/09/2020

Today's Women's History Month honoree is Ru-Yu Lai. Thanks to May An for proofreading the Chinese! (scroll down fo the English version)

我在台灣出生長大. 台灣唯一一個不靠海的縣市就是我的家鄉南投縣, 一個被眾山環繞的地區, 同時卻擁有著台灣最著名也是最美的湖-日月潭. 這些山不僅為我們提供了美麗的風景, 在台風季時也阻擋了台風的侵襲. 僅管在學校我.....

03/06/2020

Today we're honoring Anila Yadavalli. Check out her bio below:

I was raised in San Jose, CA, but completed my undergraduate degree at UC San Diego and my Ph.D. at NC State in Raleigh, North Carolina.