Announced February 2022 - "Talitha Washington Elected President of the Association for Women in Mathematics."
The AWM is a professional society that encourages women and girls to study and have active careers in the mathematical sciences and promotes equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.
Washington says, “I am honored to follow in the footsteps of past AWM President Cora Sadowsky, who was a faculty member at my former institution, Howard University.” As the first Black to be AWM President-Elect, her path has been guided by the AWM community. One of her goals is to advocate for broad engagement and participation which strengthens the entire mathematical community and our nation.
The AWM is a professional society that encourages women and girls to study and have active careers in the mathematical sciences and promotes equal opportunity and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences.
Washington says, “I am honored to follow in the footsteps of past AWM President Cora Sadowsky, who was a faculty member at my former institution, Howard University.” As the first Black to be AWM President-Elect, her path has been guided by the AWM community. One of her goals is to advocate for broad engagement and participation which strengthens the entire mathematical community and our nation.
As a mathematical scholar, Dr. Talitha Washington educates and stewards students, faculty, and the larger community to impact the grand challenges of our world.
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Dr. Washington is the inaugural Director of the Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative. This new initiative seeks to provide data-driven solutions to current and emerging societal problems, especially as it pertains to the African American community. Poised to bring new diverse perspectives to data science, Dr. Washington is a Professor of Mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, and is an affiliate faculty at Morehouse College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Spelman College. She is the President-Elect of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Dr. Washington is a former Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Convergence Accelerator. Previously, as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education, she was instrumental in building and establishing NSF's first Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program which funded $40,000,000 in awards in FY19. Her research interests include the applications of differential equations to problems in biology and engineering, as well as the development of nonstandard finite difference schemes to numerically solve dynamical systems. She was elected to honor societies Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi, and mathematics honor societies Kappa Mu Epsilon and Pi Mu Epsilon. She is the recipient of the 2019 BEYA STEM Innovator Award, MAA's 2018 Leitzel Lecturer, an ASI Fellow, and featured by NSF as a Woman History Maker. In 2019, she received the distinguished Outstanding Faculty Award from Howard University. In 2020, she received the NSF Director's Award for Superior Accomplishment. Washington was elected to the 2021 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society. In 2021, she was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics. Dr. Washington completed her undergraduate studies in mathematics at Spelman College and studied abroad at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico. She earned her master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Connecticut. She was a VIGRE Research Associate in the Department of Mathematics at Duke University. She held assistant professorships at The College of New Rochelle and the University of Evansville, an associate professorship at Howard University, and most recently, a full professorship at Clark Atlanta University. Dr. Washington is an in-demand speaker who enjoys sharing her expertise on applied mathematics as well as STEM diversity to a wide range of audiences. Her work on Dr. Elbert Frank Cox, the first Black in the world to earn a PhD in mathematics, has been shared on radio and television stations, as well as in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Click for high resolution photos. |
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speaking engagements
March 23, 2022, Panelist, Navigating the System, ColdQuanta, Virtual
April 6, 2022, Speaker, Positivity Preserving Hyperbolic NSFD Scheme for Heat Transfer, TJoint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
April 6, 2022, Panelist, Exploring the Future of Mathematics Education - What should we be teaching?, TPSE Panel, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
April 7, 2022, co-Facilitator, How to Create at Data Science Training for Faculty and Students, JMM Workshop, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
April 7, 2022, Panelist, Impact of the Pandemic on the Profession, AMS Committee on the Profession, JMM Workshop, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
May 6, 2022, Panelist, Systemic and Structural Sources of Discrimination, Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 11, 2022, Panelist, Opening Plenary Session, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), Chicago, IL
May 17-18, 2022, Keynote, MATLAB EXPO, Virtual
May 25, 2022, Panelist, AI/ML, NITRD 30th Anniversary, Washington, DC
April 6, 2022, Speaker, Positivity Preserving Hyperbolic NSFD Scheme for Heat Transfer, TJoint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
April 6, 2022, Panelist, Exploring the Future of Mathematics Education - What should we be teaching?, TPSE Panel, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
April 7, 2022, co-Facilitator, How to Create at Data Science Training for Faculty and Students, JMM Workshop, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
April 7, 2022, Panelist, Impact of the Pandemic on the Profession, AMS Committee on the Profession, JMM Workshop, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Seattle, WA
May 6, 2022, Panelist, Systemic and Structural Sources of Discrimination, Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
May 11, 2022, Panelist, Opening Plenary Session, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR), Chicago, IL
May 17-18, 2022, Keynote, MATLAB EXPO, Virtual
May 25, 2022, Panelist, AI/ML, NITRD 30th Anniversary, Washington, DC