SK Day 2022

UNFORTUNATELY THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED THIS YEAR. WE APPOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE! 

SK Day 2022 is a free, online event scheduled for Saturday, April 23 starting at 10am. SK Day will feature fun math activities, information about careers in math and STEM, and talks from professional women who do math for a living! We anticipate being able to accommodate up to 60 middle and high school students from the Tucson area on a first-come, first-serve basis.

How to Register

You can register for this event by filling out the following Google Form. If you have any questions please contact awmofficers@math.arizona.edu. 

If you have registered, but are unable to attend please notify us at least 48 hours before the event.

About SK Day 2022

Every year in the Department of Mathematics at UA we celebrate Sonia Kovalevsky Day to honor one of the best female mathematicians of all time. We also honor other great female mathematicians like Ruth Gonzalez, who was the first Mexican-American woman to earn a PhD in math. To celebrate women in mathematics, every year we host this workshop for local area high school students. The purpose is to encourage young women and people with non-binary gender to continue their study of mathematics.

All activities will take place over Zoom. 

Tentative Schedule

10:00-10:30 - Welcome/icebreaker 

10:30-11:15 - Keynote speaker 

11:20-12:10 - Workshop 1 

12:15-1:00 - Lunch Break 

1:00-2:00 - Workshop 2 

2:00- 2:45 - Panel

Keynote Speaker

Yuri Leyva

Yuri works with the Center for Healthcare Equity in Kidney Disease (CHEK-D) team as the master’s-level biostatistician. She conducts data management, applies statistical methods to the Center’s biomedical research data, and is involved with publications as a result of analyzing data for our projects. Yuri enjoys the multidisciplinary nature of her work at CHEK-D, where she helps reduce health disparities and helps improve the health of patients with kidney disease. In collaboration with the Albuquerque Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Yuri also enjoy leading outreach efforts in Albuquerque and its surrounding areas with the objective of exposing underserved K-12 students to the fields of statistics and nephrology. 

Undergrad: Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, University of New Mexico, Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, University of New Mexico 

Graduate: Master of Science in Statistics, University of New Mexico