SWIMM: Stanford Women in Math Mentoring

Stanford Resources

• The Stanford University Mathematical Organization (SUMO) runs several programs, including a speaker series, peer math tutoring, and social events.
  
  
• Noetherian Ring meets up occasionally for lunches or dinners with all women in the math department. Sign up for the mailing list here.
  
  
• The Stanford Math Directed Reading Program is an opportunity to do some independent reading outside of your official coursework under direction of a graduate student. See here for more details.
  
  
• WiMSCE(pronounced "whimsy") is a student and faculty group at Stanford University established with the aim of retaining graduate women in higher education by providing opportunities to interact with their peers and mentors across the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME), Mathematics, Statistics and Management Science and Engineering (MS&E) departments. WiMSCE aims to provide members with knowledge and guidance pertaining to professional opportunities and personal challenges faced both during and after graduate school.
  
  

Summer Programs and Fellowships

• The NSF funds summer REUs (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) all over the country. For more information, see the webpage here, where you can also search for sites. We can help connect you to a mentor here who has attended one of these REUs, as many SWIMM mentors have experienced a wide variety of REUs, including the ones held at Williams, Emory, Berkeley, Chicago, and Duluth.
  
  
• The NSA runs a director's summer program, very similar to an REU but with a longer application process (including background checks). For more information see here
  
  
• Our mentors collectively have experience with a number of undergraduate and post-graduate fellowships, including NSF graduate fellowships, Fulbright fellowship for study abroad, Simons math+x graduate fellowship, Goldwater Fellowship, and the Department of Energy Computational Science graduate fellowship.
  
  
• Our mentors have worked for a variety of private companies, through internships or full-time before starting graduate school. In particular, we have mentors with experience at various national labs, at research labs at IBM, at research labs at Microsoft, at Goldman Sachs, as a software developer, and working at various start-ups.
  
  
• There are a variety of summer programs aimed at high schoolers or middle schoolers that welcome undergraduate students to serve as mentors and teachers. Examples include BEAM, HCSSiM, MathILY, PROMYS, MathPath, and Canada/USA Mathcamp.

Conferences and Workshops

• In the fall, Northwestern offers a short conference for undergraduate women-identified students interested in graduate school in the mathematical sciences.
  
  
• The Institute for Advance Study in Princeton offers the Woman and Mathematics Program (WAM) with the mission to recruit and retain more women in mathematics. WAM is open to undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers, and the topic changes from year to year. See here for details. Several mentors have attended and highly recommend it.
  
  
• In the late winter, University of Nebraska holds the annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics.
  
  
• Right here at Stanford, there is a Global Women in Data Science conference during winter quarter.
  
  
• Every year in January, the American Mathematical Society (AMS) and Mathematical Association of America (MAA) hold the biggest meeting of mathematicians in the country, the Joint Mathematics Meetings
  
  
• Women in Number Theory regularly hosts workshops. Most of these are geared towards researchers, but their mailing list is open to anyone interested.

More General Resources

• Association for Women in Mathematics
  
  
• Here are notes from the Q&A session held on January 22, 2021 with Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) clinician and coaches from Wellbeing at Stanford where we talked about mental health and coping strategies.