EDGE Webinar

October 19, 2026
9 am PT, 12 pm ET
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The EDGE Webinar invites you to a graduate panel discussion on academic productivity, featuring 3rd-year+ PhD students in mathematics. Come hear panelists share their experiences and practical strategies for navigating research, writing, time management, collaboration, and staying productive during graduate school. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions and learn from math PhD students’ experiences.

September 28, 2026
10 am PT, 1 pm ET

A Fun Time with Numbers
Through my career, I have dabbled in a variety of number theoretic areas, choosing not to focus on any particular topic. We will briefly discuss some of these research areas including: rational points on surfaces, solving simple equations, codes constructed from geometric objects, and special primes in recurrence relations. Importantly, we will also discuss that path leading between each of these projects and how my experience and interests brought me to where I am.

How Mathematics Helps Us See Disease, Movement, and Inequity
Mathematical models can help us understand patterns that are difficult to see from data alone. In this talk, Dr Ponce shares some of her paths into mathematical biology and discusses how she uses mathematics to study infectious diseases, human movements, and inequities in access to healthcare.

She gives an overview of several research directions in her work, including models for mosquito-borne diseases, spatial approaches to healthcare accessibility, and questions about how geography and movement shape disease transmission and public health interventions. Her goal is to show how mathematics can be used not only to describe biological systems, but also to ask questions about who is most affected, who has access to care, and how interventions can be designed more equitable.

June 17, 2026
12 pm PT, 3 pm ET

The Mathematics of Collective Decision-Making: Mean Field Games and Inverse Problems
Large groups of people, animals, or artificial agents often display complex collective behavior: pedestrians navigating a crowded space, drivers choosing routes, or individuals competing for limited resources. A natural mathematical question is: can we predict how such systems evolve, and can we understand what motivates the decisions we observe?

In this talk, Dr. Liu will introduce mean field games, a mathematical framework for studying decision-making in large populations. She will explain how ideas from partial differential equations, optimization, probability, and game theory come together in these models. She will also discuss inverse problems for mean field games, where the goal is to infer hidden objectives or costs from observed behavior.

May 20, 2026
10 am PT, 1 pm ET

You Choose the Adventure: 20 Years at a Liberal Arts College
What happens when a mathematician says “yes” to unusual opportunities for nearly two decades at a liberal arts college? In this audience-driven conversation, participants can choose the topics, from mentoring and interdisciplinary courses to study abroad, research experiences, and the communities and collaborations that make those experiences meaningful.

April 22, 2026
1 pm PT, 4 pm ET

Algebra in Topology and Topology in Algebra
How do we quantify the difference between the surface of a basketball and the surface of a doughnut? Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics that uses the tools of algebra to study and distinguish topological spaces. But the tools of topology can also be used to study objects in algebra. In this talk we will explore the fascinating interplay between algebra and topology, and see how it is manifested in a tool called algebraic K-theory.

March 16, 2026
10 am PT, 1 pm ET

Evaluating and Applying Mathematics Education Research: Examining a Study on Self-Efficacy Beliefs in Discrete Mathematics
In this webinar, Dr. Phelps-Gregory explains how to evaluate and apply mathematics education research to teaching and learning. She will present a study on students’ mathematics self-efficacy in collegiate discrete mathematics, which qualitatively explores how students’ self-efficacy changed as a result of their experiences in the course

February 24, 2026
11 am PT, 2 pm ET

Being a RippleMaker: Advocacy Through Your Mathematical Journey
Good news: advocacy doesn’t require a cape (Edna Mode approves of this message). Drawing on my journey, Dr. Price will share stories of advocacy in action: negotiating for yourself, hyping up your peers, creating inclusive classrooms, and nudging systems toward change. Whether you’re an undergrad figuring things out, a grad student surviving (thriving?), or faculty with a bit more leverage, your specific identities and privileges shape what advocacy looks like for you.

The main takeaway? Advocacy is doable, looks different for everyone, and doesn’t have to be your whole personality. Small actions create big ripples. Let’s talk about what that could mean for you.

Jan 29, 2026
12 pm PT, 3 pm ET

The Mathematics of Big Data and Its Challenges
Data manifests in diverse forms in large-scale data settings, often accompanied by noise, corruption, or missing values. In addition to these challenges, data can be difficult to work with due to its scale, representation, and storage. Randomized algorithms can help tackle these challenges, allowing practitioners to solve large-scale problems with low memory cost and avoid or otherwise handle corrupted or missing entries. This presentation introduces simple yet powerful iterative methods for solving large-scale linear systems from the linear algebraic and optimization perspectives and connections between such methods and their applications.

December 2, 2025
9 am PT, 12 pm ET

Understanding Math Identity through Intersectionality: A Measure Development Project Co-Designed with Early/Adolescent Black Girls
Dr. Joseph shares her own story of how she became a mathematics educator that fights for justice and advocates for Black girls and women. She also discusses the state of Black girls and women’s achievement in mathematics including how factors such as underrepresentation, limited access to high quality mathematics teachers, and Black girl stereotypes get in the way of Black girls internalizing and seeing themselves as strong mathematicians.  Finally, she shares her latest project of developing and validating a mathematics identity assessment measure co-designed with adolescent Black girls. 

Oct 27, 2025
7 am PT, 10 am ET

Discover MathMatize
In this webinar, Herman provides an overview of MathMatize, an instructional technology designed to facilitate active learning and online assessment in university classrooms. He also shares the MathMatize content editor, created specifically for STEM content creators.

August 15, 2025
10 am PT, 1 pm ET

Helping Early Career Researchers to Get Published and Navigate the Process
Our workshop aims to provide early career researchers and authors of varying degrees of experience with the guidance necessary to get published and disseminate their research to as broad an audience as possible. Featuring Razia Amzad, Brittni Holland, Anna Lombardo, and Marc Strauss.

May 27, 2025
12 pm PT, 3 pm ET

Equity, Data, and Health: Navigating a Career of Values-Driven Mathematics
In this talk, Dr. Santorella will share how her path as a mathematician has been shaped not only by curiosity and problem-solving, but also by personal values and experience with disability. From exploring single-cell alignment to confronting racial bias in federal sentencing data, her graduate work reflected a commitment to using mathematics for social good. Today, as a data scientist in the healthcare sector, she applies those same values to work that directly impacts patient care and equity.

April 24, 2025
12 pm PT, 3 pm ET

Navigating the ups and downs of a postdoc
Dr. Capovilla-Searle talks about the process of going on the academic job market and finding community as a postdoc. She also talks about navigating unexpected life events (deaths) while being a postdoc and how she found support.

November 14, 2024
1 pm PT, 4 pm ET

Math in the Biopharma Industry
Dr. Moore discusses math modeling in the biopharma industry, including problems industry math modelers work on, and how their jobs compare with academic jobs. She also discusses how to get a math modeling job in biopharma.

Making a Big Change for your Students with a Small Change in your Teaching
Dr. Leitner will share how using self-work combined with peer learning in calculus can contribute to higher student self-efficacy, student engagement, and achievement, and lower the failure rate! Along the way, I’ll explain how to get started in writing and a publishing a math education paper. The webinar will be interactive.

May 31, 2024
9am PT, 12 pm ET

Mathematics, Life, and a Global Pandemic
Dr. Wilson highlights her life’s journey of becoming a Mathematician and the skills it took to get here. We’ll discuss where the discipline of mathematical biology has taken her (both literally and figuratively), the major professional and personal forks in the road, and the important life lessons learned along the way.

February 27, 2024
2pm PT, 5 pm ET

Playing the Changes: The Math & Art of Graceful Transitions
Transitions in our professional lives are inevitable. Switching academic institutions, fields of research, or even entire career paths! I will talk about my own circuitous career path and share best practices for staying sane and playing the changes.

Presentation Tips for Engaging Talks
In this webinar, Tai-Danae will share some of her favorite tips and suggestions for delivering engaging and accessible research-level math talks. She will also share some of her math journey from basketball to industry and everything in between.