LSUAWM

Welcome to the LSU AWM Student Chapter Website!

This is the website of the Louisiana State University Student Chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics. The Chapter was formed at the end of Fall 2008 and was approved by the AWM on December 22, 2008. After lying dormant since 2015, a devoted team of mathematicians breathed new life into the chapter in 2024. We owe our present existence to Rachel Myers, Gowri Sunkara, Christian Ennis, Huong Vo, Nuwanthi Samarawickrama, and our past and present sponsor Christin Bibby.
Our charter may be found at www.math.lsu.edu/~awm/charter.pdf. This document serves as the constitution of the student chapter and provides bylaws and protocols for its operations. Additionally, here are the Old Bylaws of our Student Chapter: This is the document we sent to the AWM to form our Chapter.
The Student Chapters of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) serve as a mechanism for all students, regardless of major or gender, to be exposed to the world of professional mathematics, to obtain information about the varied career options in mathematics, to network with professional mathematicians, and to develop leadership skills.
We'll have meetings and events during the semester and post about them under Recent Posts. Please click on the links above to find out about our members, how to become a member, view photos, and more!

To encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.

Last Updated: December 2025 by _haileyjay

Recent Posts

End of Semester Recap - Fall 2025

Posted by Hailey Garcia

Hey all,
Whoo, the semester’s almost over, isn’t it? Hopefully, it’s been fun and productive and challenging... read the full semester recap

AWM - Q&A with Prof. Galen Dorpalen-Barry

Hosted by LSU AWM

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Student Chapter at LSU is pleased to invite you to a Q&A session with Prof. Galen Dorpalen-Barry, preceding her talk at the LSU Combinatorics Seminar.
As a professor at Texas A&M, Dorpalen-Barry works in the rich field of geometric and algebraic combinatorics, focusing especially on hyperplane arrangements and polytopes.
📅 Date: Friday, November 7th, 2025
Q&A Session:
🕧 Time: 12:30 PM CT
🗺️ Location: Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall
Seminar Talk:
🕝 Time: 2:30 PM CT
🗺️ Location: Lockett 233

AWM - Q&A with Prof. Naira Hovakimyan

Hosted by LSU AWM

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Student Chapter at LSU is pleased to invite you to a Zoom Q&A session with Prof. Naira Hovakimyan, following her talk in the LSU Control and Optimization Seminar Series.
As director of the AVIATE Center and through her work in the Advanced Controls Research Laboratory, Dr. Hovakimyan is known and celebrated for her work in robotics and engineering. Join us to get a peek into the life and work of a celebrated scientist!
Date: Friday, October 24th, 2025
Seminar Talk: Safe Learning in Autonomous Systems
🕦 Time: 10:30 AM CT
🔗 Join Seminar Zoom
Q&A Session:
🕒 Time: 11:30 AM CT
🔗 Zoom link expired!

AWM & SIAM - Q&A with Dr. Carol Woodward

Hosted by LSU AWM and SIAM

Thank you to all who attended the joint Q&A with Dr. Carol Woodward!
Both SIAM and AWM members had the opportunity to ask questions of the well-decorated President of SIAM. Dr. Woodward, as a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is also the head of the SUNDIALS project for C and Fortran, providing a robust toolkit for scientists and applied mathematicians alike.
Go check out the pictures in our photo gallery!