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1011: The Math Still Matters: Deep Skills in the Age of AI, with Dr. Catherine Williams

📅 July 21, 2026 ⏱️ 1h 9m

Dr. Catherine Williams, Chief Data Officer at the nonprofit Candid, was solving black-hole equations with pen and paper before she ever wrote a line of code. She earned a PhD in math researching general relativity and black holes, did postdocs at Stanford and Columbia and then became one of the very