In celebration of International Women's Day (IWD), Maria Vlasiou will give a lunch lecture about women in mathematics! Free lunch will be provided.

Maria Vlasiou is a professor on Stochastic Processing Interacting Networks at the University of Twente (UT), the director of the Dutch Network on the Mathematics of Operations Research (LNMB). Next to her research she is active in promoting gender diversity in academia through her roles as the representative for the Netherlands to the European Women in Mathematics association and to the Committee for Women in Mathematics of the International Mathematical Union.