Overview
The North West Festival of Women in Mathematics is open to all KS4 and KS5 students of Mathematics (some sessions are only open to KS5 due to their content) but we would particularly like to encourage female students who might be considering studying Mathematics or a STEM subject at A Level or University. There are a number of online workshops over three weeks given by research mathematicians at various career stages.
In all of the sessions the host will introduce herself and give a brief biography of her career and research and there will be time for questions and answers at the end of the session.
Here is a table of all of the sessions. You will need to register to attend any sessions individually
Teachers please sign up for the event (not students individually). We will then contact you with the Zoom webinar registration details before the event for you and your students to register
| Name | Title of Session | age group | Time | Event Number |
| Professor Rebecca Shipley | “Mathematics in Healthcare” | all ages | Wednesday 23rd June 1.30 – 2.30pm | 8419 |
| Eleanor Doman | “Similarities and Scalings in Nature: An Introduction to Mathematical Biology” | all ages | Tuesday 29th June 5.30 pm and Wednesday 30th June 2pm | 8425
8426 |
| Professor Louise Walker | “Origami and the mathematics of paper folding” | all ages | Monday 5th July 10am and Tuesday 6th July 5.30pm | 8430
8431 |
| Dr Demi Allen | “A formula inspired by mice brains and playing darts on fractals” | all ages | Thursday 1st July – 11am | 8429 |
| Dr Yang Han | Statistics and Data Analysis | all ages | Tuesday 29th June 10.30am | 8421 |
| Dr Anastasia Kisil | “Mathematics, Resonance and Metamaterials” | 16+ | Thursday 1st July 7pm | 8408 |
| Dr Vandita Patel | “Fermat’s Last Theorem and Beyond” | all ages | Thursday 24th June 10am | 8420 |
| Dr Vandita Patel | “Decoding Mathematics” | 16+ | Monday 28th June 7pm | 8410 |
| Eleanor Johnstone | “How to get to the edge of the atmosphere, the bottom of the ocean and everything else in between: using fluid dynamics to understand our world” | 16+ | Wednesday 7th July 1pm | 8443 |
| Guest Speaker plus a panel of female mathematicians | Final session plus Q&A | all | Wednesday 7th July 7pm | 8432 |
Aims
- Showcase successful women in mathematics and statistics at various stages of their careers
- Give participants an insight into the careers of female mathematicians, statisticians and operational researchers
- Enrich participants’ knowledge of several interesting topics from mathematics and statistics
Who will benefit from attending?
This session is only open to KS5 maths students (and teachers) due to the level of mathematics involved. We would particularly like to encourage female students who might be considering studying Mathematics or a STEM subject at University.
Content
In this workshop, the goal is to work in a group and build a 3D mathematical object. However, the instructions are all muddled up and in code! Decode the instructions and piece together the 3D object.
Please bring along lots of paper (coloured if you have it), compass (can make one with string if there isn’t one to hand, I will show how to at the beginning of the session), ruler, scissors, glue, pens and pencils.
Please note that this session will be delivered via a zoom meeting and participants will need to work together as a group to decode the problems. This means they will need to be prepared to speak and get involved in the sessions.
I have registered our school for all the relevant sessions and an email with joining links have been sent out.