The Spectra Lavender Lecture is an honorary lecture to be given annually at the Joint Mathematics Meeting to recognize and highlight the contributions of LGBTQ+ mathematicians. This event seeks to honor an LGBTQ+ mathematician who has made significant contributions to the mathematical sciences, mathematical education, or the mathematical community at large.

Our annual brainstorming session to hear what Spectra has been up to and to learn everyone would like Spectra to focus on for 2024.

Organized by Devavrat Dabke (Princeton) & Mike Hill (UCLA)

This workshop, organized by Spectra, the association for LGBTQ+ mathematicians, is designed to address the challenges and opportunities in updating undergraduate math curricula to better support students. As higher education institutions and funding organizations prioritize the recruitment and retention of underrepresented and marginalized students in STEM fields, it is essential for faculty members to be equipped with the knowledge and tools to create inclusive learning environments.

Our annual Spectra Reception for LGBTQ+ mathematicians and our allies is a great time to socialize, meet each other, and learn more about our organization and its new directions. Spectra is affiliated with Out to Innovate, the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, Inc, and our reception is partly supported by Elsevier

Organized by Dev Dabke (Princeton), Joseph Nakao (Swarthmore College), Mike Hill (UCLA).

Join us for our second annual special session highlighting the contributions and work of LGBTQ+ Mathematicians.

Updated Time! As in years past, we have a second reception, this one held at Twin Peaks Tavern at 401 Castro. You can easily get there by taking the F line down Market Street (so heading South East) to the end of the line.

This is the 2nd Spectra conference for LGBTQ+ mathematicians. It is an opportunity to share mathematics, to celebrate achievements, to discuss challenges in our community. This is a virtual conference, hosted by Princeton, and registration is available at the linked website.

Join fellow LGBTQ+ mathematicians and allies to socialize, meet each other, and learn more about Spectra and its plans moving forward,

This minisymposium, organized by Ron Buckmire and Alex Hoover, will feature presentations by openly LGBTQ mathematicians. The intention of this minisymposium is to promote the participation of LGBT mathematicians in the SIAM community. Although there is no official data on the percentage of openly LGBT people in mathematics (and very little data on the percentage of openly LGBT people in the general population), it is very likely that openly LGBT people are underrepresented in the industrial and applied mathematics community. This session will feature the following talks

• Ron Buckmire: A Quantitative Justice Primer: The #MetaMath Project and Other Examples
• Asim Patra: Exact Divisibility by the Powers of Some Binary Number Sequences
• Anthony Chen: Fast Summation on a Sphere
• Alexander Hoover: Interfacing in-Silico and in-Situ Experiments of Organismal Fluid Pumping

The Spectra Lavender Lecture is an honorary lecture to be given annually at the Joint Mathematics Meeting to recognize and highlight the contributions of LGBTQ+ mathematicians. This event seeks to honor an LGBTQ+ mathematician who has made significant contributions to the mathematical sciences, mathematical education, or the mathematical community at large.

Our annual Spectra Reception for LGBTQ+ mathematicians and our allies is a great time to socialize, meet each other, and learn more about our organization and its new directions. Spectra is affiliated with Out to Innovate, the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals, Inc.

Organized by Juliette Bruce, University of California, Berkeley; Christopher Goff, University of the Pacific; and Rebecca R.G., George Mason University.

Join us for the first special session at the JMM highlighting the contributions of LGBTQ+ mathematicians to mathematics.

Our annual brainstorming session to hear what everyone would like Spectra to focus on for 2023.

As in years past, we have a second reception, this one held at Club Cafe at 209 Columbus Avenue.

Organized by Ron Buckmire, Occidental College, Chris Goff, University of the Pacific, and Alexander Hoover, University of Akron.

The goal of this interactive workshop is to gather and share information about and suggestions for best practices that foster the inclusion and retention of LGBTQ mathematicians. Specifically, this workshop will identify specific things any department of Mathematics can do to be supportive and welcoming for LGBTQ graduate students, postdocs as well as for tenured and non-tenured faculty. Panelists are

• Ron Buckmire, Occidental College,
• Amanda Folsom, Amherst College,
• Joseph Nakao, University of Delaware, and
• Keri Sather-Wagstaff, Clemson University.

In the second part of the Meeting, the audience will be asked to brainstorm and make suggestions on how Spectra can contribute to make these best practices known to the mathematical community and to help departments implement these best practices. During the workshop, the audience will be split into breakout sessions focused on specific topics, such as:

• Supporting transgender mathematicians in the work place,
• LGBTQ mathematicians balancing work choices with family,
• Best practices for recruitment of LGBTQ faculty,
• Supporting LGBTQ graduate students.

Keri Sather Wagstaff, Marie Vitulli, and Ursula Whitcher are hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to improve profiles of LGBTQ+ mathematicians on Wikipedia.

Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Time: 12:30 - 5:00 pm Eastern(dropping in is fine!)
Place: On the web (details will be posted on our Meetup page)

More information can be found on the Meetup page for the event, which gives and provides links to helpful information.

The organizers have created a Google form to gather information, including the opportunity to nominate yourself or someone else for a profile on Wikipedia and to ask if you want to be identified as an LGBTQ+ mathematician if someone creates a Wikipedia profile of you. This information will be kept private. No one will see it other than the Edit-a-thon organizers. Only a handful of LGBTQ+ mathematicians have been nominated for pages. It would be super helpful if you would nominate someone, including yourself if you meet the Wikipedia “Prof Test”.

Organized by Juliette Bruce, University of California, Berkeley and Alexander Hoover, University of Akron.

The Spectra Lavender Lecture honors LGBTQ+ mathematicians who have made significant contributions to the mathematical sciences, mathematical education, or the mathematical community at large. This year, the Spectra Lavender Lecture will be presented by Autumn Kent, University of Wisconsin - Madison, and titled ``Families''.

Our annual Spectra Reception for LGBTQ+ mathematicians and our allies is a great time to socialize, meet each other, and learn more about our organization and its new directions.

The 2021 Joint Mathematics Meeting is online this year, and we again have several events for participants!

On-site Reception

Spectra Brainstorming Session

At the 2020 Joint Mathematics Meeting, we again have three more social and activism events

On-site Reception

Off-site Reception

Spectra Brainstorming Session

• AWM Panel: Queer Families and Mathematical Careers, Wednesday, January 15, 2:15-3:40PM
• MAA Panel: Supporting Transgender and Non-binary Students, Saturday, January 18, 9-10:20AM

Come to a round-table discussion of issues facing LGBTQ+ mathematicians and discuss the ways Spectra can help. Possible topics include:

• Hiring & job search best practices
• Tensure & promotion issues and questions
• Teaching issues related to LGBTQ+ identities
• Departmental inclusive best practices for transgender mathematicians
• Ways Spectra, as an association of volunteers, can contibute

At the 2019 Joint Mathematics Meeting, we again have three more social and activism events

On-site Reception

Off-site Reception

Spectra Brainstorming Session

Moderator: Lily Khadjavi (Loyola Marymount University) Panelists:

• Shelly Bouchat (Indiana Univeristy of Pennsylvania)
• Juliette Bruce (University of Wisconsin Madison)
• Ron Buckmire (National Science Foundation)
• Frank Farris (Santa Clara University)
• Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University)

At the 2018 Joint Mathematics Meeting, we again have three more social events

On-site Reception

Off-site Reception

Spectra Business Meeting

At the 2017 Joint Mathematics Meeting, we have 3 events. More information (and a history) can be found on this year's flier.

On-site Reception

Off-site Reception

Spectra Business Meeting

At the 2016 Joint Mathematics Meetings, there were two receptions:

On-site reception

Off-site reception

David Crombecque moderated a lively panel discussion featuring

• Andrew Bernoff
• Julie Blackwood
• Kristina Garrett
• Michael Hill
• Marie Vitulli