The Clayman Institute for Gender Research residential fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011

Stanford University, California, USA

Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research

 

Faculty Research Fellowship Program

Call for Applications: 2010-2011

 

Deadline: December 15, 2009

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The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University invites applications for residential fellowships for the academic year 2010-2011 from tenured and tenure-track faculty (or the equivalent), and postdoctoral scholars, from the U.S. and international universities.

 

Applications for one, two or three quarters will be considered. Fellows must remain on faculty and be in residence at the Clayman Institute for the duration of their fellowship. Fellowships will be non-stipendiary in 2010-2011, except for the postdoctoral appointment where stipend and benefits will be set and adjusted in accordance with Stanford University rules.

 

Fellows are provided with faculty-equivalent privileges for using Stanford’s library and other facilities, an office at the Institute, and the collegiality of a diverse community of gender scholars from across the spectrum of academic disciplines and ranks.

 

Thematic Focus:

“Reinvigorating the Revolution: Advancing Gender Equality in the Twenty-first Century”

 

Projects are supported in all disciplines including the humanities, social sciences, science and engineering, business, law, and medicine, among others, so long as they focus centrally on gender. Possible sub-topics include (but are not limited to):

***The gender division of household labor

***Families and women’s careers: the 2nd shift, opting out, on-ramping, and flexible schedules

***Representations of women in culture and history

***Gender stereotyping and bias in the workplace

***Gendered meanings and practices at work and home

***Women’s experiences in male-dominated fields, such as science and engineering

***Gendered innovations in knowledge: Bringing gender analysis into the practice of science

***Gender and culture in history or literature

***Advancing women’s progress in the professions of business, medicine, and law

***Historical and cross-national comparisons of women’s educational and occupational progress

***Effects of legal mandates (such a Title IX and FMLA) on women’s careers

***National policies, organizational polices, and work-family balance: what works?

***Men’s involvement in gender equality movements

***Gender, leadership, and entrepreneurship

 

How to Apply:

Applications are to be received in our office by 5:00pm (PST) on Tuesday, December 15, 2009.  Instructions and detailed information are available at http://gender.stanford.edu under “Fellowships.”

 

 

Two Professorships in Pure Mathematics,

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON School of Mathematics

Two Professorships in Pure Mathematics,

Ref: 3957-09-E

We are seeking to appoint two outstanding mathematicians with excellent track records of research and research leadership in areas which will enhance and extend the current interests of the Pure Mathematics Group. For at least one of the positions preference may be given to experts with an international reputation for excellent research in Algebra, though exceptional candidates in any area will be seriously considered. Duties, as determined by the Head of School, will include: conducting research of international status in pure mathematics, applying for externally funded research grants and enhancing the international profile of the research group; teaching undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics and supervision of research students. As part of the role you will also be expected to support effective management and administration of the School. Both positions are available from 1 October 2010, or as soon as possible thereafter. It is intended that applicants short-listed for interview will be invited to give a lecture in the School. The provisional date for interviews is Tuesday 16 March 2010.

Informal enquiries can be made at any time to: Professor G.A.Niblo, email: G.A.Niblo@soton.ac.uk, tel. +44 (0)23 8059 3674, Fax. +44 (0)23 8059 5147.

The closing date for applications is 13 January 2010 at 12.00 noon.

Please quote reference number 3957-09-E in all correspondence. For more information or to apply online please visit www.jobs.soton.ac.uk.

Alternatively please call +44 (0)23 8059 2750.

As part of your completed application you will be required to include addresses of 3 referees and your full CV.

 

 

At the University of Southampton we promote equality and value diversity.

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Stochastic Optimisation, Oxford Brookes University

Starting salary: £24,273, rising annually to £26,524

You will be responsible for:

- developing algorithms and software in C/C++ for optimising repairable flow networks and application of the developed soft ware to real oil and gas production networks.

You should have:

- first-class degree in computing, mathematics, engineering or physics

- strong numerical programming skills in C/C++

- knowledge and experience with algorithms for stochastic optimisation and network flow algorithms

Ref: 107/16970/AAP

Closing date: 15 December 2009

Further details at https://edm.brookes.ac.uk/hr/hr/vacancies.do

–

Dr Catherine Hobbs

Head of Research

School of Technology

Oxford Brookes University

Wheatley Campus

Oxford, OX33 1HX.

International Conference of Women Mathematicians Hyderabad August 17-18 2010

ICWM 2010: Second Announcement

International Conference of Women Mathematicians Hyderabad August 17-18 2010 http://www.icm2010.org.in/icwm2010.php

ICWM 2010 will take place at the University of Hyderabad over the two days immediately before the International Congress in 2010. The meeting is aimed principally at women mathematicians attending the ICM (though men are also very welcome to attend), and in particular at young women mathematicians  and women from Asia and from developing countries.The talks will be colloquium style lectures aimed at a general mathematical audience, and it is hoped that participants will be provided with an opportunity to meet other women mathematicians about to take part in the ICM and to find out about some of the areas of research to be covered at the ICM.

There will be nine lectures of 45 minutes each from the following speakers:

Julie Deserti (Paris, France)

Frances Kirwan (Oxford, UK)

Maryam Mirzakhani (Stanford, USA)

Neela Nataraj (IIT Bombay, India)

Raman Parimala (Atlanta, USA)

Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR Bangalore, India)

Maria Saprykina (KTH Stockholm, Sweden)

Nathalie Wahl (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Di Yana (CAS Beijing, China)

In addition to the lectures there will be a discussion forum and a conference dinner on the evening of 17 August.

Registration will begin on 1 January 2010. More information (on the venue, programme, accommodation etc) will be available on the website at

http://www.icm2010.org.in/icwm2010.php

by then.

ICWM 2010 is being organised with the support of European Women in Mathematics (http://www.math.helsinki.fi/EWM/), the European Mathematical Society (http://www.emis.de/) and the Association for Women in Mathematics (http://www.awm-math.org/). Financial support is being provided by the National Board for Higher Mathematics (NBHM), India and by Schlumberger. There will be some funding available to support the travel and accommodation costs of women participants from Asian and developing countries, and women from these countries are encouraged to apply to the local organizing committee.

Local organising committee (set up by the ICM Executive Organizing

Committee):

Shobha Madan  (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur), chair

Mahuya Datta   (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

S.G. Dani  (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai) Jaya N. Iyer  (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai) B. Sri Padmavathy  (University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad) Rahul Roy (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi) Geetha Venkataraman  (St. Stephen’s College, Delhi)

The scientific programme has been planned by the EWM/EMS Scientific Committee, co-opting two mathematicians from India.

Scientific committee:

Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford, UK), chair

Viviane Baladi (ENS, Paris, France)

Eva Bayer (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Christine Bernardi (Paris VI, France)

Christine Bessenrodt (Hannover, Germany) Antonella Grassi (U Penn, USA) Ursula Hamenstaedt (Bonn, Germany) Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook, USA) Ragni Piene (Oslo, Norway) Mythily Ramaswamy (TIFR Bangalore, India) Sujatha Ramadorai (TIFR Mumbai, India) Vera Sos (Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary) Nina Uraltseva (St Petersburg, Russia) Michele Vergne (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France).

For more information contact the chair of the organising committee Shobha Madan (email address: madan@iitk.ac.in).

Chaires Blaise Pascal 2010

Objet : Chaires Blaise Pascal : Région Ile de France

Merci de diffuser auprès de vos collègues étrangères : le Conseil régional d’Ile de France aimerait pouvoir nommer plus de femmes.

Voir http://www.chaires-blaise-pascal.org/index.html

Chaires Blaise Pascal 2010

L’Etat et la Région Ile-de-France publient l’appel à candidatures pour l’attribution des Chaires Blaise Pascal 2010. Elles permettent d’accueillir, pour une durée de 12 mois à partir de septembre 2010, des chercheurs étrangers de renommée internationale dans tous les domaines scientifiques. Date limite de dépôt des dossiers de candidature : 11 janvier 2010.

Why the percentages of female mathematicians vary so much in Europe

The UPGEM project finds that problems of retaining competent
researchers in academia can be related to problems of perceived
stereotypes and gender categories which hinder especially female
researchers in reaching the top.

Caroline Series

PostDoc position in Hannover

Please note the following job offer:

PostDoc position for two years in Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory, IAZD, Leibniz University, Hannover, see:

http://www.iazd.uni-hannover.de/news-iazd_stelle2.html

(deadline: Sept. 25(!) – send an email to Prof. Wewers if you are interested)

European Level Organisations for Women Mathematicians

There are several organisations and committees supporting women mathematicians in Europe. The first is the membership organisation European Women in Mathematics (EWM), http://www.math.helsinki.fi/EWM/. Founded in 1986, EWM has several hundred members in over 30 European countries. Its executive consists of a convenor, currently Frances Kirwan, Oxford, UK (Marie-Fran\c{c} ois Coste Roy, Rennes from January 2010) and a standing committee. EWM holds a biennial scientific meeting and general conference: recent meetings have been in Cambridge, UK (2007) and Novi Sad, Serbia (2009), and the next will be in CRM Barcelona, Spain (2011). EWM also sponsors or coorganises various interim meetings and other activities, for example the ICM satellite meeting ICWM 2010 Hyderabad, http://www.icm2010.org.in/docs/ICWM2010.pdf. EWM is independent from, but has links to, its sister organisation the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) based in the United States. It also has close links to various national level organisations, for example Femmes et Math\’ematiques in France.

The second organisation is the European Mathematical Society’s Women and Mathematics Committee (http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/comm-women.html), currently chaired by Sylvie Paycha, Clermont-Ferrand ( Du\v{s}anka Peri\v{s}i\’c, Novi Sad from January 2010). The function of this committee is to undertake any actions which will help or promote women mathematicians in Europe. Past activities have included gathering statistics on the numbers of women in different countries and setting up a blog for women mathematicians, see http://womenandmath.wordpress.com/ Currently the committee is exploring possible further collaboration with both EWM and with the European Research Institutes on Mathematics (ERCOM).

Finally, in 2008, EWM and the EMS Women in Maths Committee jointly set up the EWM/EMS Scientific Committee, http://womenandmath.wordpress.com/ emsewm-scientific-committee/ The members of this committee are twelve distinguished women mathematicians, including Dusa McDuff, Nina Uraltseva and Mich{\`e}le Vergne. Currently chaired by Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford), the main function of this committee is to advise on scientific programmes and speakers for EWM and other related events.

Caroline Series

The 2010 Call for proposals in the field of Science in Society

The 2010 Call for proposals in the field of Science in Society is now
published on CORDIS at
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.Capacitie
sDetailsCallPage&call_id=271
<http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.Capaciti
esDetailsCallPage&call_id=271

We would like to draw your attention on some specific topics:

1. SiS 2010 – 1-0-1 Mobilisation and Mutual Learning Actions which is
designed to support multi-annual partnerships between different types
of actors (research organisations, universities, civil society
organisations, science centres, public authorities, etc) on issues of
common interest where science is at stake (sustainable development,
health, transport, social issues, etc), with special attention to
science in society themes (education, governance, ethics, gender,
scientific culture and communication).

2. SiS-2010-2.1.3-1 Women in Science: Euro-Mediterranean Cooperation
which is designed to build on the theme of gender equality in science.
The research to be implemented under this action will bring a
significant contribution to the understanding of the situation of
women in science in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco,
Palestinian-administered areas, Syrian Arab Republic, and Tunisia. It
will be important to take into account cultural diversities and
traditions to analyse how all these countries are addressing this issue.

Funding scheme: Collaborative Project for Specific International
Cooperation Actions (SICAs) dedicated to international cooperation
partner countries

3. SiS-2010-2.1.1-1 Implementing structural change in research
organisations/ universities designed to support groups of research
organisations/universities that will cooperate on common actions in
order to implement the best systemic organizational approaches to
increase the participation and career advancement of women
researchers.

The deadline for the submission of proposals is the 21 January 2010.

For further information and help:
- General Cordis helpdesk at
http://cordis.europa.eu/guidance/helpdesk/home_en.html
- Cordis enquiry service: http://ec.europa.eu/research/enquiries
- National contact points : http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ncp_en.html

Call for Applications for the 2010 Faculty for the Future Fellowships

Candidates have from October 5th to November 30th 2009 to apply for the Schlumberger Foundation 2010 Faculty for the Future fellowships.

Faculty for the Future fellowships are awarded to women from developing and emerging economies who are preparing for PhD postdoctoral study in the physical sciences, engineering and related disciplines* to pursue advanced graduate study at top universities in their disciplines abroad.

Launched by the Schlumberger Foundation in 2004, Faculty for the Future has grown to become a community of 110 women from 35 countries.

The long-term goal of the Faculty for the Future program is to generate conditions that result in more women pursuing scientific disciplines. Grant recipients are therefore selected as much for their leadership capabilities as their scientific talents and they are expected to return to their home countries to continue their academic careers and inspire other young women.

Faculty for the Future grants are in the range of USD 25,000 to 50,000 per year, and may be renewed through to completion of studies subject to performance, self-evaluation, and recommendations from supervisors. The amount of the grant depends on the actual costs of study and living in the chosen location.

Candidates should be enrolled or applying to their selected graduate schools when submitting their Faculty for the Future grant request.

Candidates must have a proven track record of teaching experience, demonstrate active participation in faculty life and outreach to encourage young women into the sciences and hold an excellent academic record.

The online application form will be available as of October 5th, 2009.

Sample versions of new forms are now available for consultation at the link below so candidates can start preparing their application content.

Further information about the Faculty for the Future fellowship program can also be found at www.foundation.slb.com/fftf

Call for applications poster is available for download for your notice boards.

*Awards in biological sciences are limited.