Girls’ Math Night is a free math enrichment program offered by the Department of Mathematics. Participants are paired with a graduate student mentor to work on engaging projects outside of the usual high school math curriculum. Over the course of ten weeks, participants explore topics to develop creative reasoning and problem-solving skills and engage in independent mathematical investigation and collaborative discussion. Each Girls’ Math Night session culminates in a presentation night hosted at the university.
Our program runs twice per year, during UW-Madison’s Fall and Spring Semesters. We are currently accepting participants for our next cohort. Our interest form deadline is September 30, 2025.
Girls’ Math Night Student Interest Form
Meeting times are arranged individually by mentorship groups. The meeting times for the Fall cohort mentor groups are still being confirmed. The anticipated timeline is that they will meet once per week between October 13 and December 12, 2025.
What are you curious about?
Topics included in the past:
- Tiling with Domino shapes
- Fractals
- Cryptography
- Exploring Number Theory with Fermat’s Little Theorem
- Weather Modeling with Dynamical Systems
Contact: Bella Finkel (blfinkel@wisc.edu)
Faculty Contact: Tullia Dymarz (dymarz@math.wisc.edu)
History: Now in its 17th year, this program was originally created with a grant from the National Science Foundation to integrate education, teaching, and research. The program is now one of the yearly outreach programs of the UW-Madison mathematics department.