Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series Home Upcoming Speakers Past Speakers Horton-Jacobs/Wins Lecture Series UT Math Department Contact Us About Us The Distinguished Women in Mathematics Lecture Series seeks to foster the growth and development of the members of the mathematics community at the University of Texas at Austin through exposure to outstanding women mathematicians.  This series was established in the fall of 2007 and brings four leading women mathematicians to campus every year. Initial support was provided by Karen Uhlenbeck's chair funds and by the department's lecture funds. This program is run entirely by graduate students and continues to be generously supported by Professors Karen Uhlenbeck and William Beckner.  We are in our fourth semester and are experiencing great success!   This has been particularly exciting opportunity for the women graduate students of the department.  Upcoming Speaker We are pleased to welcome Kristin Lauter as our next speaker, she will be giving our February 8th Colloquium. Dr. Lauter is a Principal Researcher and the head of the Cryptography Group and Microsoft Research.  Her personal research interests iclude algorithmic number theory, elliptic curve cryptography, hash functions, and security protocols.  For more information on Dr. Lauter's visit, please see the  Upcoming Speakers page.