Women in Science Week: Ada Lovelace Day 2022

Open to all King’s staff and students (limited seats). Please use your kcl email address in the registration form.

Please join us for a guest lecture to mark Ada Lovelace Day 2022. This is an annual celebration of women in science.

If you can’t make it in person you can still attend the talk virtually by registering here.

Title: Reinventing my Career as I Go

Guest speaker: Dr Eugénie Hunsicker

Abstract: When I started on my academic career as a graduate student, I imagined that a career in mathematics meant steady progress through the ranks and prestige hierarchy. My career wasn’t like that. Instead, I ended up making a major career transition at several points, with the last leading me out of academia and into an industry role. As a result, at many points, I struggled to see my career as successful. But as I have gotten older and understood myself, the way I work, my goals and motivations better, I know it has been. I am now in a fantastic job I absolutely love, and I have no regrets. But boy do I have advice now, which the audience will get. I hope also with some interesting stories and a view into many interesting mathematical questions.

Speaker bio: Dr Eugénie Lee Hunsicker is an American mathematician who works at Loughborough University as a senior lecturer in pure mathematics and as director of equality and diversity for the school of science. Her research in pure mathematics has concerned topics “at the intersection of analysis, geometry and topology”; she has also worked on more applied topics in data science and image classification.

Event details:

• Date: Tuesday 11 October, 2022
• Time: 14:00 -16:00
• Venue: Strand Campus – Council Room, K2.29

Programme:

• 13:45 – 14:00 Registration opens
• 14:00 – 14:05 Opening remarks
• 14:05 – 14:50 ‘Reinventing my Career as I Go’ Talk by Dr Eugénie Hunsicker
• 14:50 – 15:00 Q&A
• 15:00 – 16:00 Networking & light refreshments

About Women in Science Week

Women in Science Week celebrates women in STEM and highlights the issues surrounding the representation of women. Bringing together both staff and students from across the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences at King’s College London, the events demonstrate that gender equality is a relevant and important topic for all.