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Rethinking gender in mathematics
Start: 10/08/2020, 12:00
End: 10/08/2020, 13:00
Contact:Dr Karin-Theresa Howell - Register at https://forms.gle/ZSHRuYyqNVukCM7i9
Location: Online seminar

​Dr Eugenia Cheng will be the guest speaker at the African Women in Mathematics (AWI) seminar on 10 August.

Dr Cheng is an accomplished mathematician, pianist and writer of several books, including A Mathematician's manifesto for rethinking gender, How to bake Pi (2015), Beyond Infinity (2017) and The Art of Logic in an Illogical World (2018). Cheng is scientist in residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is honorary fellow at the University of Sheffield and honorary visiting fellow at City University, London. Learn more about her in this in-depth biographic interview on the BBC's Life Scientific.

The aim of the online African Women in Mathematics seminar is to showcase African women mathematicians, while featuring international speakers of interest. It provides a forum for women mathematicians from across Africa to meet regularly, be inspired, and to meet peers from across the world.

The annual seminar is hosted by Stellenbosch University's Department of Mathematical Sciences.

Anybody with an interest in mathematics and gender are welcome to attend the online seminar. Register at https://forms.gle/ZSHRuYyqNVukCM7i9