Report on Activities of Association for Turkish Women in Mathematics Since June 2020

The Association for Turkish Women in Mathematics has been established in June, 2012 with the aim
to support women in mathematics, in social and scientific areas. The Association tries to create
opportunities for woman mathematicians to facilitate the advancement of their careers by cooperating
with similar associations like EWM.

In order to achieve this goal the association, tries to bring women mathematicians, graduate students together to share their research, experience and ideas by organizing Women and Science events, Workshops of Association for Turkish Women in Mathematics, Graduate Summer Schools, and Women and Maths events, every year. The aim is to organize Women and Science events and Workshops in a different university in Turkey each year. But due to Covid-19 pandemic, face to face events has been canceled. After a while the association has managed to organize online version of the events. Since May 2022, the association has started to organize hybrid events.

In this report, I will try to give details of the events that have been organized by ATWM since my last
report, June 2020:

ATWM International Women’s Day Events: We have organized two online events. There was a talk
titled “Being a female academic in difficult times: Pandemic and Beyond” on March 06, 2021 by Zuhal
Yesilyurt Gunduz ve Birgul Demirtas. The second event was a talk given by Yesim Aydin Soy and Seher
Nur Sulku about their work on probabilistic modeling of the course of Covid-19 outbreak in Turkey, on
March 08, 2021.

Association for Turkish Women in Maths May 12, Women in math Event: To celebrate Women in
Maths day, there was an online event on May 19, 2021. In the event there was an opening talk on the
life and work of Maryam Mirzakhani then there was a talk given by Munevver Tezer and an interview
with her. We have also shown part of the movie “Words of women in mathematics in the time of
Corona”.

Women and Science VII : The seventh Women and Science event has been held on November 26 and 27, 2021 as online this year . The event was consisting of two main talks and a panel discussion on
mathematics education. Talks were “Evaluation of mathematics education within the framework of
STEM education” given by Beste Güçler and “Creative drama in mathematics education” given by Z. Sonay Ay. The panel was on “Difficulties in mathematics education” and the panelists were Emine Erktin, Renan Sezer, Didem Akyüz.

VII-th Workshop of Association for Turkish Women in Maths : The seventh Workshop of Association
for Turkish Women in Maths has been held on April 27 and 28, 2022 as online this year. There
were four invited talks on Mathematical Biology and Algebra. On day one Hayriye Gülbudak, gave a talk
on “Modeling the co-dissemination of infectious diseases in immunological and societal dimensions” and
Meltem Gölgeli, talked about “Periodic exacerbations of infectious diseases and mathematical modeling
approaches”. On day two, Songül Esin, gave a talk titled “Generalized Catalan numbers, series, truncated stack-sortable permutations” and Evrim Akalan, talked on “On the multiplicative theory of
ideals”.

Association for Turkish Women in Maths May 12, Women in math Event: To celebrate Women in
Maths day, there was a hybrid event on May 28, 2022. In the event there was an opening talk on the life
and work of Maryam Mirzakhani, then there was a talk given by Ayşe Hümeyra Bilge on Industrial
Mathematics after that there was an interview with her. Then there was a free platform on the thoughts
of women mathematicians working in different areas about the effect of math education.

We have also planned Fifth Graduate Summer School of Association for Turkish Women in Maths
which will take place during July 13-22, 2022 in METU, Ankara. The topics of this year are Geometric
Group Theory and Applied Algebraic Topology.

More details about these events can be found in the webpage “https://tkmd.org/?lang=en”. One can
also find the uploaded recordings of all the events in the YouTube channel of ATWM, “KadinMatematikcilerDernegi“

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2bCaTAa9aCcotOn4Oje8Qg/videos .

Lastly, to my knowledge there is no other event or activity for woman mathematicians organized
throughout Turkey.