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Events
2009
Women in IT Pizza Lunch
Friday, November 13th, 12:00-1:00, Walter Library
101.
The Institute of Technology is hosting the semester's last pizza lunch
presentation this Friday. This week's speaker is Marie Lopez del Puerto, an
assistant professor in Physics at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
Marie recently finished up her
Ph.D in physics here at the University of Minnesota in 2008.
If you are interested, let Alexandra
Ortan know by Wednesday at noon.
Previous 2009 Event
WIM lunch with Yuriko Renardy
Friday, November 6th, 12:00-1:00, Walter Library
404.
Professor Yuriko
Renardy, an IMA visitor this year,
has agreed to join us for an informal lunch tomorrow, Friday at 12:00.
Yuriko is currently a professor at Virginia Tech, but has also held
positions at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the U, and has been
a visitor in various other places. The lunch will be very informal,
providing a good opportunity us to ask any career-related (or unrelated)
questions you can think of.
If you are interested, let Alexandra Ortan
know as soon as possible, as places are limited.
Invited Speaker: Monika Nitsche
Friday, October 23rd, 12:00-1:00, Vincent Hall 570.
Professor Monika Nitsche,
from the Uiversity of New Mexico, will give presentation about her work in
the numerical study of fluid flows, as well as answer questions about her
experience as a woman in mathematics. Professor Nitsche is currently an IMA visitor in the context of their
thematic year in Complex Fluids and Complex Flows.
WOMEN IN IT PIZZA LUNCH
Friday, October 9th, 12:00-1:00, Walter Library
101. As they have
done for a few years now, the Institute of Technology is organizing
monthly pizza lunches for women graduate students and postdocs.
These lunches feature a brief talk by women faculty, researchers, or
grad students, usually about what it's like to be a female working
or studying in a technical field and balancing
professional and personal life.
This Friday, the speaker will be Professor Susan Mantell
from the
Department of Mechanical Engineering. Professor Mantell has earned
her PhD in 1981 from Stanford, and is curently Associate Department
Head in the department of Mechanical Engineering, so she has a lot
of experience to share about studying and working as a woman in a
technical field.
If you are interested in coming, you should RSVP to Marilyn Nelson
(nelso036@umn.edu), to make sure you'll
have your slice of pizza :).
And if you want to hang out with the other women in math, we'll be
meeting in the Vincent Hall lobby at 11:50 on Friday and walk
together to Walter Library.
Speaker: Hannah Callender, IMA Postdoc, Career Advice - April 9, 2009
Grad Planning Discussion
Friday, February 20 from 3:45 - 5:30 pm, Vincent Hall 570, The WIM (Women In Mathematics) and the AWM (The Association for Women in
Mathematics) U of MN Chapter, will be holding a discussion for undergraduates who are interested in graduate school. The panel will consist of 7 current graduate students (Samantha, Jessica, Esther, Erin, Lu, Kaisa, and myself) in the U of MN Mathematics program. The panelists are both pure and applied mathematicians and are all at different stages of the program. Professor Carme Calderer will also be present to provide her opinions. We plan to discuss topics such as:
- how to prepare for graduate school (i.e., what undergraduate courses to take)
- graduate student lifestyle (i.e., what courses do we take, what are our responsibilities as TAs, how we do research)
- career options for math PhDs
- as well as other questions the undergraduates may have
If you are interested in attending and have "not" yet notified me of this, please let me Catherine Micek, know by Monday, February 16. Please note that we do not have any graduate students from Financial Mathematics or Math Education, so this panel willnot be addressing questions specific to those programs.
Hope to see dome of you there!
Catherine A. Micek
Graduate Assistant, U of MN Mathematics Department
http://www.math.umn.edu/~mice0012
Update: Photos from the grad school planning event are now online.
Movie Night
Saturday, January 31 at 7:00 pm, Coffman Union, AWM (The Association for Women in
Mathematics) U of M Chapter startup event, movie "The Express". Socialize afterwards at "Gophers After Dark" (more info at
http://www.coffman.umn.edu/afterdark/?day=2009/1/30).
Free and open to all University of Minnesota students; be sure to bring your student ID and arrive
a little early so that you can meet up with the group and we can sit together.
If you are interested, please let Catherine Micek, know so she has a rough estimate
of how many people will attend. Hope to see you there!
Catherine A. Micek
Graduate Assistant, U of MN Mathematics Department
http://www.math.umn.edu/~mice0012
2008
Speaker: Li, Fengyan - Lunch Photos - November 4, 2008
Speaker: Chang, Alice  -
DWSESP,
Breakfast & Lunch Photos
- September 26, 2008
Sobolev embeddings and application to problems in conformal geometry
2007
Dinner with Marta Lewicka - January 2007
2006
Sexual Harassment Awareness Training - October 2006
Potluck Dinner - September 2006
Speaker: Dusa McDuff - September 2006
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