Meeting on the occasion of WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS DAY
Day: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 at 12:00 PM
Place: IEC virtual platform
On July 31, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, the Committee on Women and Mathematics of the International Mathematical Union approved, at the proposal of the Iranian Mathematical Society, that May 12, Maryam Mirzakhani's birthday, be Women in Mathematics Day.
From the Catalan Society of Mathematics, and despite the lockdown, we want to join this celebration. Maryam Mirzakhani was the first, and only, woman to win a Fields Medal (the equivalent of the Nobel Prize in Mathematics). She received the distinction in 2014, and in 2017 she died of cancer before turning 40.
Program
12:00-12:15 Opening of the event by Ms. Dolors Herbera, president of the SCM.
12:15-12:30 Introduction to the film and the figure of Maryam Mirzakhani by Prof. Hugo Parlier (University of Luxembourg).
12:30-1:30 PM Screening of the film Secrets of the surface (http://zalafilms.com/secrets/).
The film presents Maryam Mirzakhani as a mathematician and as a person. The beginning of her career in Iran, her move to Harvard for her doctoral thesis, and her entire mathematical and life journey through the United States. The narrative thread, half in Iran and half in the United States, is carried through the accounts of Maryam's friends, collaborators, and family. The film can be broadcast free of charge thanks to an agreement between the production company and the May12 initiative, see https://may12.womeninmaths.org/screening-secrets.
1:30-2:00 PM Film Forum with Hugo Parlier (University of Luxembourg), and Raheleh Jafari (Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences, Tehran, Iran), Teresa M. Seara (UPC) and Núria Fagella (UB), with Ágata Timón (ICMAT) moderating the forum.
2:00 PM Closing.
Organized by Dolors Herbera and Inmaculada Baldomá