SK Day 2021

SK Day 2021 is a free, online event scheduled for Saturday, April 17th from 10am-12pm and 1pm-3pm. 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. 

All participants are required to fill out the following Release Form. Once you are registered for the event, please email the participant release form to 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 2021

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

        10:00am-10:15am            Welcome

        10:15am-10:45 am           Keynote Address

        10:45am-12:00pm            Workshop #1

        12:00pm-1:00pm              Break for lunch

        1:00pm-1:15pm                Welcome Back

        1:15pm-1:45pm                Second Speaker

        1:45pm - 2:45pm              Workshop #2

        2:45pm-3:00pm                Closing 

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Erika Camacho

Professor of Mathematics, Arizona State University, 

Program Director, National Science Foundation 

http://www.greatmindsinstem.org/role-model-of-the-week/erika-t-camacho-ph-d

http://www.public.asu.edu/~etcamach/

Dr. Erika Camacho is a product of the East Los Angeles community, where she was taught by famed math teacher, Jaime Escalante at Garfield High School in California. After graduating from high school, Dr. Camacho was determined and eager to get started in attaining her educational dreams. She enrolled and eventually graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts with a degree in mathematics and economics and continued on to Cornell University in New York, ultimately earning a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. 

Degrees in tow, Dr. Camacho next set out to share her passion for the field of mathematics with future generations. She held a tenure-track faculty position at Loyola Marymount University before joining the faculty at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2007. She is currently a tenured faculty member at the West Campus of the university in the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. In this role, Dr. Camacho teaches at the undergraduate level, since there are no graduate degrees currently offered in math at ASU. She also engages in research and scholarly activity and provides service to the school and the profession. 

Dr. Camacho’s lifelong journey is to change the landscape of the mathematics field by greatly diversifying it. Described as a selfless mentor, she has committed herself to ensure her mentees and others from marginalized communities have an opportunity to realize their dreams. Her drive to make a difference led to her creating and/or co-directing two summer research programs. The Applied Mathematical Sciences Summer Institute, dedicated to the recruitment of undergraduate women, underrepresented minorities and those that might not otherwise have the opportunity and the Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Institute (MTBI). 

In the same fashion that her math teacher, Mr. Escalante brought out the best in her, Dr. Camacho strives to provide the same for her students.  She has mentored numerous MTBI students as a faculty member or graduate student significantly impacting under-represented minorities and women and consistently involves students in her own work, which is at the interface of mathematics and its applications to biology and sociology.

Second Speaker

Alicia Dominguez

Graduate Student, University of Michigan, 

Alumni, University of New Mexico

https://sph.umich.edu/stories/2020posts/alicia-dominguez.html 

Alicia Dominguez grew up in the small, rural New Mexican town of Ojo Caliente. After graduating from high school, she began her undergraduate studies at the University of New Mexico (UNM). As a first-generation student, Dominguez initially had a hard time adjusting to college and living in the bigger city of Albuquerque but quickly began to take advantage of the resources and opportunities academia presented her. During her time at UNM, Dominguez was able to participate in several extracurricular organizations, a study abroad program in Spain, and even research opportunities at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 

Dominguez graduated from UNM in December of 2017 with a B.S. in Mathematics and B.S. in Statistics. In the fall of 2018, she decided to continue with her studies and pursue a master’s and doctoral degree in biostatistics at the University of Michigan (UM). Her most current research interests primarily include statistical genetics and genomics, specifically population genetics and developing statistical methodology for admixed populations. There were many experiences throughout her life that helped Dominguez cultivate a wide set of interests in mathematics, statistics, and specifically biostatistics and she is excited to discuss them in further detail with you at SK Day 2021.