Women in Mathematics
A group of women in the Mathematics Department at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Founded in 1992, by Sarah J. Greenwald,
the group meets each month for lunchtime discussions.
Past activities of the group have included:
- Annual events for undergraduate women interested in math,
and for prospective women graduate students.
- Dinner for women attending the 1993 Geometry Festival.
- Lunches with senior women mathematicians, sponsored by the Trustee
Council of Penn Women and the Department of Mathematics. Our first such lunch
was with Fan Chung, who has since joined the Penn faculty as the Class of 1965
Term Professor of Mathematics. More recently, we had lunch with Dusa McDuff,
Professor of Mathematics at SUNY Stony Brook, and
Carolyn Gordon, Professor of Mathematics at Dartmouth.
- An open meeting with the department on ways to increase the
applicant pool of women and minority graduate students.
- Lunch with Ellie Dilapi, director of the Penn Women's Center.