Issue of August 29, 2025
eds: Jeremy Bailin, Sethanne Howard, Ferah Munshi, Stella Kafka, and Ben Keller
[We hope you all are taking care of yourselves and each other. --eds.]
This week's issues:
1. Women in Astronomy: Space for Students Part 11: Hurum Maksora Tohfa
2. Soar Together Family Activities: Celebrating Women in Astronomy
3. The Vera Rubin Observatory is ready to revolutionize astronomy
4. 'Starsailor' rocket to lift off from Cree territory — Canada's first space launch in more than 25 years.
5. Why the Key to a Mathematical Life is Collaboration
6. How Teen Mathematician Hannah Cairo Disproved a Major Mathematical Wave Conjecture
7. How to Submit to the AASWOMEN newsletter
8. How to Subscribe or Unsubscribe to the AASWOMEN newsletter
9. Access to Past Issues
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Meet Hurum Maksora Tohfa, a third-year Astrophysics PhD student at the University of Washington. When this interview was conducted, she was just about to enter her second year. Alongside her PhD, Hurum is also a Graduate Assistant for Professor Matt McQuinn, where she works on projects that explore the effects of baryon streaming velocity on structure formation in the early universe.
Read more at: https://womeninastronomy.blogspot.com/2025/08/women-in-astronomoy-space-for-students.html
The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution is celebrating the groundbreaking achievements of women in astronomy through hands-on activities, storytelling, and sky-themed exploration for all ages. These online activities will be presented on November 7, 2025.
Read more at: https://airandspace.si.edu/whats-on/events/soar-together-family-activities-celebrating-women-astronomy
To answer big cosmic questions, “you need something like Rubin. There is no competition.” It was too late for funding cuts to prevent the telescope’s completion. But scientists worry about continuity of funding over the next decade, and for the careers of the young scientists who will continue that work.
Read more at: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/vera-rubin-observatory-digital-camera
The "Starsailor" rocket will take off from a trapline in northern Quebec, marking the first time in more than 25 years that a Canadian-made rocket will reach space. Pamela MacLeod, a member of the Mistissini council, values how the project merges Cree heritage with modern science. She enjoys seeing the outreach team engage Mistissini youth through educational programs and mini-rocket activities.
Read more at: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/starsailor-concordia-rocket-launch-cree-mistissini-1.7603551
In 1971, Fan Chung(opens a new tab), then in her second year of graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, received an assignment. Her thesis adviser, Herbert Wilf, asked her to read the proof of a problem in Ramsey theory, an area of mathematics that explores the inevitable emergence of patterns in networks of vertices and edges called graphs.
Read more at: https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-key-to-a-mathematical-life-is-collaboration-20250728/
When Hannah Cairo was 17 years old, she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a long-standing guess in the field of harmonic analysis about how waves behave on curved surfaces. The conjecture was posed in the 1980s, and mathematicians had been trying to prove it ever since. If the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture turned out to be true, it would illuminate many other significant questions in the field.
Read more at: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-teen-mathematician-hannah-cairo-disproved-a-major-conjecture-in-harmonic/
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