Colloquium talk presented at the University of Arizona Mathematics Department. Abstract is below, slides are attached above. I also led a workshop using case studies, materials from that will not be posted publicly.

Abstract:

There are many reasons, moral or practical, why we need to diversify our mathematics departments — and more generally STEM departments — at all levels. But how do we go about pursuing this daunting and difficult goal of supporting diversity in mathematics?

In this talk I will try to convince you that doing a little every...

This talk actually consisted of a short diversity training through case studies. Attached slides show two case studies, but we only got through the first one during the actual training (25-30 minutes). The slides also contain some ground rules about what we expect of participants in such a training. Thanks to Professor Cynthia Anhalt of the University of Arizona for her help with writing the first case and running the training.

This talk was part of a minisymposium I...

I ran a session of the Boston Teachers Math Circle on the topic of averages. We talked about different types of "averages": the arithmetic mean, the mode, the median... We even talked about the standard deviation, and other measures of spread.

But the bulk of the session was spent on exploring the fact that different data sets can have, for example, the same mean and the same standard deviation. Does that mean they "look" the same? You can find here my slides and my teaser flyer for this session.