AWM Student Chapter @ LSU

The elections have concluded! Congrats to Laura Kurtz, Hailey Garcia, and Huong Vo for returning to serve another year as officers!
Read about the spring semester here!

AWM@LSU is holding our annual elections at 12:30p on Friday, April 17th in the Lounge. Sign up to run with our candidate form! Catering will be provided
For questions, reach out to Hailey.

AWM@LSU will be having brown bag lunches in the Keisler Lounge around 12:30p on Fridays. Bring your lunch and come hang out with us!
If you want to keep up to date on AWM schedules and events, reach out to Hailey or Bibby.

Everyone (everyone!) is welcome for the Social for Women in STEM! hosted by LSU's AWM student chapter! 📅 Date: Monday, April 6th, 2026

🕔 Time: 5:00 PM CT
🗺️ Location: Atchafalaya Room, LSU Student Union

Join AWM and Math Club for a game of Jeopardy focusing on women in mathematics and especially the department! 📅 Date: Monday, March 23rd, 2026
Noon Session:
🕧 Time: 12:30 PM CT
🗺️ Location: Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall
Afternoon Session:
🕔 Time: 5:00 PM CT
🗺️ Location: Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Student Chapter at LSU is pleased to invite you to a discussion session with Amber Schreve, ASA.
Come learn about what it takes to be an actuary, what a day in the life looks like, and so much more!
📅 Date: Friday, February 27th, 2026

🕧 Time: 12:30 PM CT
🗺️ Location: Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall

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

Read about how the Q&A went here!

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

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
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Q&A Session:
🕦 Time: 11:30 AM CT
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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!

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Student Chapter at LSU is pleased to invite you to a Zoom Q&A session with Prof. Irena Lasiecka, following her talk in the LSU Control and Optimization Seminar Series.
This session offers a unique opportunity to hear from Prof. Lasiecka about her inspiring career journey and her impactful contributions to control theory, partial differential equations (PDEs), and flow-structure interactions. Graduate students and faculty are encouraged to attend and participate in this insightful conversation.
Date: Friday, April 11, 2025
Seminar Talk: Mathematical Theory of Flow-Structure Interactions
🕦 Time: 11:30 AM CST
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Q&A Session:
🕒 Time: 2:00 PM CST
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Meeting ID: 746 972 7061
Passcode: 0117
[Poster]

Join us for an exciting Lunch and Info Session hosted by LSU's Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Student Chapter! Come enjoy refreshments while learning about upcoming events and opportunities to get involved in our chapter.
Whether you're new or a returning member, this is a great chance to connect with fellow students and discuss our plans for the semester.
We hope to see you there on Friday, September 27, 2024, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm in the Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall (3rd Floor)! [Poster]

There is going to be a machine-learning workshop on April 11 and 12 for undergraduate and graduate students. On April 11, Dr. Nadejda Drenska will give a talk sharing her insights and experiences from her journey in the field of machine learning. On the following day, participants will have the opportunity to engage in hands-on experience during the interactive workshop. [Poster]

LSU AWM student chapter is hosting an Ask Me Anything discussion along with Lunch, followed by a Talk with Dr. Lisa Kuhn from Southeastern LA University this Friday, April 5th, from 11.30am-1.30pm. Feel free to join us for some food and good discussions! [Poster]

Please join us for lunch in the lounge every Friday 12-1pm. Feel free to arrive late or leave early, but bring your own lunch!

Come learn about re-establishing our AWM Student Chapter. Friday, February 2, at 12-1pm in Keisler Lounge. Lunch will be provided [Poster]

We are excited to be holding this interactive event promoting mathematics education for middle school girls! If you are interested in volunteering, please email Kimberly D'Souza (ksevin2@lsu.edu ) or Dr. Pallavi Dani (pdani@math.lsu.edu) [Poster]

Bring your lunches!

Bring your lunches!

Interested in working for Google? Come to this info session to learn more! [Poster]

Bring your lunches!

Bring your lunches!

Bring your sand-witches to the terror-tory of Keisler Lounge on Halloween!

Interested in math graduate school? Don't miss this opportunity to discuss the application process with a graduate student panel! [Poster]

Come and enjoy breakfast with Professor Susan Montgomery from the University of Southern California! [Poster]

Dr. Susan Murphy will be giving the Porcelli lectures on Monday, April 28, 2014.

There will be an AWM and SIAM joint lunch with Dr. Susan Murphy.

Pat Bodin has confirmed for a visit to the Math Department for AWM and SIAM on October 11 from 1pm-2:30pm. She is going to give a brief talk about her career and then will open the meeting up for questions. Refreshments will be served.

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 the Association for Women in Mathematics, LSU Chapter will be hosting a Welcome Event from 12:30-2:00 pm in the Keisler Lounge. If you are interested, please stop by to receive more information about our organization. Pizza will be served.

The LSU Student Chapter of the AWM invites you to join us for breakfast with Inka Klostermann (University of North Carolina) on Monday, March 26 at 9:10am in the Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall Room 321.
This is a good opportunity to speak candidly about the job process and other professional experiences. Feel free to stop by anytime and leave early. Breakfast event poster by Laura Rider

The LSU Student Chapter of the AWM invites you to join us for our welcome event on Tuesday, February 14, 12pm to 1:30pm, in the Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall Room 321.
Come learn about the AWM and enjoy pizza and drinks with us! Welcome event poster and funny comic by Laura Rider.

Welcome back all! A new semester is upon us. Here's to making this semester as productive and successful as the last!

Thanks to all who helped make our breakfasts with Professor Loredana Lanzani and Angela Pasquale huge successes. Be sure to check out our photos of the events.

The LSU Student Chapter of the AWM invites you to join us for breakfast with Professor Loredana Lanzani (University of Arkansas) on Wednesday, November 9 at 9:30am in the Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall Room 321.
This is another great opportunity to meet and learn from someone who has successfully gone through the career process. Stop by and have some breakfast with us!

The LSU Student Chapter of the AWM invites you to join us for breakfast with colloquium speaker Angela Pasquale (Université de Metz et CNRS) on Friday, October 21 at 9:30am in the Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall Room 321.
This will be a great opportunity to converse with a successful researcher in the relaxed setting of the lounge.

There will be a brief interest meeting to discuss high school outreach on Friday September 30 at 10:00am in the Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall Room 321.
Our aim is to visit local high schools to share the joy of math(!) with students or talk about career options for math majors, among other possibilities.

The welcome event was a great success. Thank you to all who decided to drop by. Our photo gallery includes some photos of the event.

The LSU Student Chapter of the AWM invites you to join us for our welcome event on Friday, September 16, 12pm to 1:30pm, in the Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall Room 321.
Come learn about the AWM and enjoy pizza and drinks with us! Welcome event poster by Amber Russell.

Hi all! The officers will be meeting soon to discuss activities for this fall and a time for our welcome event. I will update the site once we pick a date! We are looking forward to seeing you.

The SIAM and AWM chapters would like to invite you to this year's Career Day on Friday April 8th at 3:40pm in Room B5 of Lockett Hall.
The speakers are Shawn Walker, Michael Neilan, Rachael Miller Neilan, and Heather Russell. They have recently found jobs at LSU or outside of LSU, and they will provide useful information on applying for jobs. Hope to see you there.

Here some negotiation tips and resources.

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)-LSU Student Chapter is planning a small Sonia Kovalevsky Day. For more information, please contact Zuhal Yeter (email: zyeter1@math.lsu.edu).
AWM is on facebook! This is a great way to keep up to date with AWM events.

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)-LSU Student Chapter had a successful welcome event. Check out the pictures! Thank you for participating if you came. If you were not able to make it, we hope you will become involved in the future.
We talked about the undergraduate mentor program. If you are interested in this, check out our mentor program pdf. Want to know what you missed or would like a recap? Here are the power point slides.

The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM)-LSU Student Chapter invites you to join us for pizza and an informational meeting on Tuesday February 22nd, at 3:30 pm in the Keisler Lounge, Lockett Hall Room 321.
We hope to see you at our upcoming welcome event.

Professor Birgit Speh from Cornell University visited with our AWM on January 20th. She spoke with us about her career experience, answered questions, and gave us career advice. Birgit Speh is a professor in the Department of Mathematics at Cornell University. Her research interests are Lie groups, automorphic forms, representation theory.
We hope to see you at our upcoming welcome event.

Silvia Jimenez, Zuhal Yeter, and Anna Zemlyanova, with Prof. Brenner's help,wrote a proposal during the summer 2009 to organize a SK Day at LSU. On October 8th, 2009 we received a letter from AWM with the news that the proposal was approved and we were awarded $1500 for support of the SK Day. But on November 20th, 2009 we received an email notifying us that the AWM had to rescind the award. Luckily, the LSU VIGRE Program decided to help us by funding the activity. We will need the collaboration of all the members to make this activity a success!

Starting next Summer, the Chapter will have new officers: Zuhal Yeter (President), Maria Vega (Vice-President), Susan Abernathy (Secretary), Amber Russell (Treasurer) and Laura Rider (WebMaster). Congratulations to all of them!!!

The Chapter had the event "A conversation with Prof. Irina Mitrea" last Tuesday Nov 3. Later that day, Prof. Mitrea gave a Colloquium talk "Boundary Value Problems for Higher Order Elliptic Operators".

Mentor Program: To learn more about opportunities for undergraduate students or if you are interested in becoming a mentor or to request a mentor.