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LG&TBQ2: geometry, topology, and dynamics
Please visit the official event page here: https://www.crmath.ca/en/activities/#/type/activity/id/3991 .
The LG&TBQ2 conference will celebrate LGBTQ mathematicians in geometry, topology, and dynamics. We are designing it as a sequel to the conference LG&TBQ organised in 2019 at the University of Michigan by Autumn Kent, Harrison Bray, Diana Davis, Talia Fernos, and Thomas Koberda. The interface of geometry, topology, and dynamics has seen tremendous growth in the last decades. One example is Perelman's highly acclaimed solution of the Poincare conjecture. Here a problem in topology, asking whether every simply-connected closed 3-manifold is a sphere, was approached using a geometric flow. In order to understand the singularities of the flow, geometric tools from Alexandrov spaces had to be used. Another example is Wise's and Agol's landmark solution to the virtual fibering conjecture for closed hyperbolic 3-manifolds. The first tool they use is the ingenious Kahn-Markovic dynamical method to find a cubulation of the manifold via immersed surfaces. The second is a merge of geometric and combinatorial techniques that fa
By Joseph Nakao, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Delaware
Healthy mathematics departments frequently ask themselves, “Are our students happy?” Although it is a deceivingly straightforward question, the react is difficult to discern. What exactly does it signify for a learner to be ‘happy’? Personally, I feel it boils down to whether or not a pupil is heard, included, and not alone. The success of a department’s diversity and inclusivity actions requires that faculty and students alike keep these in mind.
Many departments are working to develop more welcoming of people from historically marginalized groups in mathematics, such as female, Black, and Latinx mathematicians. Recently, there have been several talks, panels, and articles outlining how departments can better support these communities. This progress is long overdue! But despite existence a marginalized community, LGBTQ+ mathematicians are seldom included in this list. I don’t believe this omission is malicious, but rather because there simply has not been enough focus on the issue for departments to know how to support Gay mathematicians.
I am pleased to be a gay mathematician. Undoubtedly, a major reason for the pri
The Queer Experience in Mathematics
LGBTQ+ mathematicians will discuss what they believe are the priorities for support resources, policy changes, etc. needed by the community; this will be distilled by the organisers into a final report that will be circulated to participants. It will also be used to inform the activities of the QED Maths Network.
This workshop is funded by the LMS Inclusion and Diversity Fund.
Schedule
12.00 Welcome
12.15 Plenary lecture: Marina Logares, U Complutense, Madrid
13.30 Lunch break. Lunch will be provided for all participants.
14.00 Expression of provocations by the panel, and initial panel discussions
15.00 Round-table discussions in small groups
15.45 Coffee break
16.15 Summative discussion
17.00 End, informal dinner to follow
Participants are invited to contribute a short provocation on an aspect of the gender non-conforming experience in mathematics and to join the panel. If you'd like to do that, please mention that when you register.
Organizing Committee
Madeleine Moore, Loughborough
Thomas Bartsch, Loughborough
Alex Fink, Queen Mary
Daniel Ratliff, Northumbria University
Code of conduct
We want the workshop to be a safe and welcoming
LGBTQ+
As a Department, we are committed to ensuring that our staff and students who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual person, Transgender, Queer + (LGBTQ+) are supported and feel content being as reveal as they want to be during their time with us.
Our Department EDI Training policy includes the College LGBTQ+ insight course as one of our recommended teaching courses for all staff. At the South Kensington campus gender neutral toilets are available, and many staff declare their preferred pronouns in their email signatures.
The College has a network, Imperial 600, for all Diverse staff, postgraduate students and their allies which holds events throughout the year and as part of LGBTQ+ History Month. Imperial 600 distributes rainbow lanyards for staff and students to visibly show their aid for out Homosexual staff and students. There are a number of resources available on the College website giving advice for all staff on how to be an LGBTQ+ ally, a bi ally and a trans ally.
The Department of Mathematics aligns with the Imperial College Trans staff policy.
You can also find more back via IQ - Imperial's LGBTQ+ student-le