Zhengkai Li, a participant in the 2023 Women in Mathematics program, recounts her recent archival investigations into C.S. Wang Chang, the Institute's first woman of color, who joined the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences in 1945.
Distinguished Visiting Professor Karen Uhlenbeck, a founder of modern geometric analysis, spoke with Joanne Lipman about her Abel Prize win, the barriers that she has overcome in her career, and how elevating the role of math in society would help solve problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
The twenty-sixth annual Women and Mathematics (WAM) Program,
“Topics in Geometric Analysis,” was held May 18–24, 2019, at the
Institute for Advanced Study.
Participants explored dynamic shapes and surfaces, along with
the equations that describe...
Since 1994 with the support of the National Science Foundation,
the Institute, together with Princeton University, has hosted an
intensive 11-day mentoring program for undergraduate and graduate
women in mathematics.
Mathematics has a vital role in shaping a product’s life, from
research & development to manufacturing, and from marketing to
supply chain. In this public lecture, Institute Trustee Sandi
Peterson and Kathy Wengel, both Princeton alumnae, explore...
My love affair with George Pólya began when I was seventeen. It
was in Chelyabinsk, Russia, and my first year at the university was
coming to an end. I had come across a tiny local library with an
even tinier math section, which nobody ever seemed...
