To commemorate 8 March, International Women’s Day, and 14 March, International Mathematics Day, the ICMAT and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) are organising a performance of the play ‘Ada Byron: The Weaver of Numbers’, followed by a round table discussion on a pioneering mathematician, Ada Lovelace, which will be the starting point for reflecting on the evolution of the situation of women in this discipline.
Date and time: 5 March 2025, 18:00.
Free admission until full capacity is reached. You can book your tickets for free here
Place: Auditorio Universidad Carlos III de Madrid | Campus de Leganés (C. de Butarque, 15, 28911 Leganés, Madrid, Spain).
Programme:
- 18:00 – 18:10. Presentation. Javier Aramayona, Director of the ICMAT and Eva María Blázquez Agudo, Vice-Rector for Institutional Relations, Culture and Equality of UC3M.
- 18:10 – 19:50. ‘Ada Byron: The Weaver of Numbers’. La Westia Producciones.
- 20:00 – 20:45. Round table ‘Ada Lovelace and women in mathematics’.
Participants:
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- César Alonso, author of the work ‘Ada Byron: The Weaver of Numbers’ and professor at the University of Oviedo.
- Celeste Campo Vázquez, lecturer at UC3M, Deputy Vice-Rector for Promotion at the Vice-Rectorate for Students and coordinator of the STEM4GirlsUC3M project.
- María Isabel González Vasco, Professor of Mathematics at UC3M.
- David Martín de Diego, CSIC scientific researcher at the ICMAT, scientific director of the Mathematical Culture Unit and member of the ICMAT Equality Commission.
- Noa López Fernádez, 2nd year student of the Degree in Computer Engineering at UC3M.
Moderator: Ágata Timón García-Longoria (ICMAT).
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