Below you can find the details.

• 17:15 – 18:00 Introduction and talk about Mirzakhani’s work (Science Park, C0.110)
• 18:00 – 19:00 Pizza’s (Please fill in this form by Wednesday the 4th of May if you want to have a pizza. The costs will be covered by us. You are free to bring your own dinner of course).
• 19:00 – 20:00 Watch documentary Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani (Science Park, C0.110)
• 20:00 – 21:00 Drinks at the Polder

Every year, on the 12th of May, the "International Women in Maths Day" is celebrated. This is a great opportunity to celebrate women in mathematics and make their achievements more visible. Why May 12? May 12th, 1977, is the birthdate of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian mathematician who was one of the world’s leading experts in geometry and dynamical systems. Her beautiful and astonishing results and her life and career are an inspiration for everyone, women and men, to pursue their dreams in science. She died tragically from cancer in 2017 at the early age of 40.

In 2014, Maryam Mirzakhani was awarded the Fields Medal for her outstanding contributions to the dynamics and geometry of Riemann surfaces and their moduli spaces, becoming the first woman, and the first Iranian, to be recognised for her mathematical achievements by this top mathematical prize.

For questions you can reach Nicos Starreveld at n.j.starreveld@uva.nl.

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