Martin Demaine is an artist and mathematician, and the Angelika and Barton Weller artist in residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After studying glassblowing in England, he started the first private hot glass studio in Canada and has been called the father of Canadian glass. Demaine's pieces from this period are represented in the permanent collections of half a dozen major museums including the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the National Gallery of Canada.

Erik Demaine is a Professor in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Demaine's research interests range throughout algorithms, from data structures for improving web searches to the geometry of understanding how proteins fold to the computational difficulty of playing games. He received a MacArthur Fellowship as a “computational geometer tackling and solving difficult problems related to folding and bending—moving readily between the theoretical and the playful, with a keen eye to revealing the former in the latter”. He appears in the origami documentaries Between the Folds and NOVA's The Origami Revolution, cowrote a book about the theory of folding (Geometric Folding Algorithms), and a book about the computational complexity of games (Games, Puzzles, and Computation).

Together, Martin and Erik’s interests span the connections between mathematics and art, including curved-crease sculptures in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Renwick Gallery in the Smithsonian. They recently won a Guggenheim Fellowship (2013) for exploring folding of other materials, such as hot glass.

Suzanne Dorée is Professor of Mathematics and chair of the Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at Augsburg University in Minneapolis where she has taught since 1989.  She earned her Ph.D. in Character Theory from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests include curriculum and materials development and directing undergraduate research in combinatorics. She enjoys teaching mathematics at all levels using pedagogies that support active and inquiry-based learning. Dr. Dorée is active in the Mathematical Association of America, currently serving as Chair of the MAA Congress and Chair of the Council on Programs and Students.  An avid gardener, cook, and designer, she appreciates the importance of getting her hands dirty, and not just in mathematics.

Skip Garibaldi's interest in mathematical aspects of the lottery was ignited by teaching finite probability to UCLA undergrads in the early 2000s, by trying to justify the seemingly-obvious statement that buying lottery tickets is a poor investment.  Since then, Skip has received the MAA's Lester Ford Award for his work, assisted reporters with lottery-related investigations, and appeared on news shows such as 20/20.  In the academic world, he is known for his work on E8, on other algebraic groups, and on cohomological invariants.  Skip is Director of IDA's Center for Communications Research in La Jolla.

Kristin Estella Lauter is a mathematician and cryptographer whose research areas are number theory, algebraic geometry, and applications to cryptography. She is particularly known for her work on homomorphic encryption, elliptic curve cryptography, and for introducing supersingular isogeny graphs as a hard problem into cryptography. She is a Principal Researcher and Research Manager of the Cryptography Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. She served as President of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2015 –2017. She has published more than 100 papers and holds more than 50 patents.

Lauter was awarded the Selfridge Prize in Computational Number Theory in 2008 and was elected to the 2015 Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to arithmetic geometry and cryptography as well as service to the community." In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class. She is the 2018-2020 Polya Lecturer for the Mathematical Association of America.

Lauter received her BA, MS, and Ph.D degrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago, in 1990, 1991, and 1996, respectively. Prior to joining Microsoft, she held positions as a visiting scholar at Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik in Bonn, Germany (1997), T.H. Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (1996-1999), and a visiting researcher at Institut de Mathematiques Luminy in France (1999).

She is a co-founder of the Women in Numbers Network, a research collaboration community for women in number theory, and she is the lead PI for the AWM NSF Advance Grant (2015-2020) to create and sustain research networks for women in all areas of mathematics. She serves on the Board of Trustees of MSRI, the Advisory Board of the Banff International Research Station and has served on the Council of the American Mathematical Society (2014-2017).

Darryl Yong is a Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. This year, he is on leave from Harvey Mudd to serve as the Founding Director of the Claremont Colleges Center for Teaching and Learning.  Previously, he served as Associate Dean for Diversity at Mudd from 2011-2016 and has served as associate chair of the mathematics department.  He received his PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Washington.  His scholarly activities focus on the retention and professional development of secondary school mathematics teachers and improving undergraduate mathematics education.  He is also passionate about broadening participation in STEM and helping institutions build capacity for increasing diversity and inclusion.  Darryl serves on the Steering Committee for Math for America Los Angeles and helps to design professional development for its Fellows.  Since 2007, he has also been an instructor for the Secondary School Teacher Program at IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute.