Austrian Day of Women
in Mathematics

The 5th Austrian Day of Women in Mathematics with about 150 participants took place on February 28, 2025 and was hosted by fem*MA at TU Wien. The event was kicked off on February 27 by a networking dinner at Heuriger 10er Marie that was sponsored by the City of Vienna, fem*MA at TU Wien, and the Department of Mathematics at Uni Wien. You can find more information on the event website.

In the morning, plenary talks and a conversation about the career paths of the main speakers at TU the Sky featured

• Vera Fischer (University of Vienna)

• Noema Nicolussi (TU Graz)

• Karin Schnass (University of Innsbruck)

After the lunch break with 15 poster presentations and four contributed sessions with 23 talks, a panel discussion on "The role of third party funding for career development in academia" included

• Alberta Bonanni (vice rector of JKU Linz)

• Christof Gattringer (president of the FWF)

• Erika Hausenblas (member of the FWF Kuratorium)

• Sara Merino-Aceituno (Assoc.-Prof. at the University of Vienna)

We thank everyone who participated and contributed! 

The fourth edition took place on February 22, 2024 at RICAM at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. We kicked off the conference with a networking event and dinner at "Stadtliebe" the day before. In total, there were around 90 participants, 19 talks and 8 poster presentations, including industry contributions from d-fine Austria, KPMG Austria and Sportradar Linz.  See here for the conference's webpage.

The plenary lecture in the morning was given by Julia Eisenberg from the Vienna University of Technology with the title "Retirement: When time no longer equals money". 

In the late afternoon, Melissa Nielsen from LEA-Let's empower Austria gave a gender talk entitled "Do you feel like you belong? Strengthening the future potential of women in STEM". This was followed by a panel discussion on "Empowerment and Outreach" with our panellists

• Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)

• Alexandra Edletzberger (University of Vienna)

• Roswitha Rissner (University of Klagenfurt)

• Susanne Saminger-Platz (JKU Linz)

We thank everyone who participated and contributed! 

The third edition took place virtually on February 28, 2023 with over 100 registered participants. See here for the conference's webpage.

The morning program consisted of three plenary talks by:

• Birgit Rudloff (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business) 

• Birgit Schörkhuber (University of Innsbruck)

• Birgit Vogtenhuber (Graz University of Technology)

In the early afternoon we hosted five sessions with a total of 20 contributed talks. 

The late afternoon was dedicated to the topic "Academia vs. Industry". It consisted of a talk by the Data Scientist and Women in Data Science ambassador Olivia Pfeiler (KAI GmbH) and of a panel discussion with:

• Johanna Grames (AOP Health)

• Petra Grell-Kunzinger (Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe Austria)

• Michaela Szölgyenyi (University of Klagenfurt)

In the evening there was an informal get-together.

We thank everyone who participated and contributed!

The second edition took place virtually on February 2, 2022 with 127 registered participants. See here for the conference's website.

The morning program consisted of four plenary talks by:

• Verena Bögelein (University of Salzburg)

• Susanne Saminger-Platz (JKU Linz)

• Ecaterina Sava-Huss (University of Innsbruck)

• Sonja Wogrin (Graz University of Technology)

The early afternoon was dedicated to four paralled young researchers sessions with a total of 16 contributed talks.

The topic of the late afternoon was the situation of women in mathematics. Our colleage Maria Vlasiou (The Netherlands section of European Women in Mathematics) discussed the topic with us in a gender talk and we had a panel discussion with:

• Vera Fischer (University of Vienna)

• Barbara Kaltenbacher (University of Klagenfurt)

• Birgit Rudloff (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)

• Marie-Therese Wolfram (University of Warwick)

In the evening there was an informal get-together.

The first edition took place virtually on February 23, 2021 with 150 registered participants. See here for the conference's website.

There were six invited talks by:

• Barbara Kaltenbacher (University of Klagenfurt)

• Eva Kopecká (University of Innsbruck)

• Debopriya Mukherjee (Leoben University)

• Elisabeth Gaar (JKU Linz)

• Elizabeth Stephenson (IST Austria)

• Marlene Koelbing (University of Vienna)

The discussions in the afternoon were dedicated to the topic of women in mathematics. Andrea Blunck (Hamburg University) gave a talk about "Facts and Perspectives", followed by a panel discussion with:

• Elisa Davoli (TU Wien)

• Ilse Fischer (Vienna University)

• Mihyun Kang (Graz University of Technology)

• Carola Schönlieb (University of Cambridge)

The event was completed by an informal get-together.