Dear EWM members,
One of the questions which was raised at the EWM meeting in Cambridge in September, was “Do we still need EWM”? The answer seemed to be a loud YES, but there was not enough time for a lot of discussion.
I would like to bring the question back in the form of a newsletter article, for which I need your thoughts. Therefore I would like to invite you to answer the following questions:
-Why do we still need EWM?
-What should the role of EWM be in the mathematical society today?
Thank you!
I would also like to remind everyone of the deadline for the newsletter, December 15th. Contributions are warmly welcome!
Best wishes,
Aasa Feragen
Newsletter editor
The idea to try and provide European women mathematicians with a meeting point between the two EWM meetings, was born at the EWM Cambridge meeting. The European Mathematical Society Committee Women and Mathematics launched the blog on September 12, 2007, with a wish to put this idea into work.
We are doing our best to publish the materials as regularly as possible. Of course, people are more than welcome to leave their comments. (Unfortunately, this opportunity has not been very much exploited.) So far we have published various materials : statistical data, reports on past activities of the Committee, materials about EWM; we have also started a gallery of portraits of living women mathematicians, each of whom is introduced by one of her women colleagues.
We believe that the role models are very important. It is important to give people a chance to see that women mathematicians are common human beings, who happen to work on interesting projects, who come from various places (with different backgrounds), speak different languages.
It seems now that the blog will survive (the statistics look better and better), and that we are making a community.
The first steps have been made, but we are still at the very beginning, and we need all the support we can get.
WE NEED CONTRIBUTORS !!!
There are technical possibilities, which we have not used yet, to have several editors, who can do the editing on line. Contributors can make their contributions on line, as well. The contributions get to be published after the approval of one of the editors. Hopefully, we will use these possibilities in the near future. (For the moment we have two editors: S.Paycha and D. Perisic, and one contributor Marjo Lipponen)
EWM mail network and the EWM website were of a great help in the first steps of our blog. The web page of EWM (Marjo Lipponen has been taking care of it for six years), EWM mail network (Elizabeth Baldwin is in charge of it), and the Committee weblog are complementary ways to keep in touch, and people behind the projects work as a team.
Dušanka Perišić
The University of Aberdeen is about to announce a large scale recruitment drive. The purpose is to enhance the University’s research profile across all disciplines. The intention is to recruit at all levels on a competitive basis across all academic departments.
Candidates will be evaluated by their qualifications and promise, but the emphasis may be on the Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level. This initiative may result in a number of appointments for Mathematics.
The Department of Mathematical Sciences in Aberdeen has a thriving research group, with particular strength in Algebraic Geometry, Representation Theory, Topology (Algebraic and Low Dimensional), and Mathematical Physics. We will consider applications from all areas of mathematics, but preference may be given to subjects where the department already has a considerable strength.
This is not a formal advertisement, but mathematicians who may wish to be considered for a job in Aberdeen are invited to send an informal inquiry to Prof. Michael Weiss at m.weiss@maths.abdn.ac.uk.
Further information will appear shortly on the University web site http://www.abdn.ac.uk/idx.php.
Michael Weiss,
Head of Mathematical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Dear all,
Here is a modified announcement taking into account some recent
information we got from the European Congress of Mathematics organizing committee.
Best wishes,
Sylvie
Joint EWM/EMS Worskhop
Amsterdam, July 13th 2008
This one day workshop (on sunday afternoon, 2pm-6pm), organized under the auspices of the European Mathematical Society and European Women in Mathematics, aims at introducing the audience to the
topics of the two main women speakers at the European Congress of Mathematics, Christine Bernardi and Matilde Marcolli. Its program will be
organized around three to four introductory talks on their research areas,
and will end with a social gathering and informal discussions. The
speakers at the workshop
will include Christine Bernardi and Alina Vdovina..
We encourage young women mathematicians to attend this one day
meeting before the Congress itself. It will provide an opportunity to get
acquainted with two areas of research represented by two of the main
speakers at the ECM, namely applied mathematics (spectral and variational
problems) on the one hand and applications of
noncommutative geometry (e.g. to quantum field theory and number theory) on
the other hand.
We draw your attention to the fact that early registration at the ECM
brings down the costs (”earlybird” fee) and that you can ask for help
from the ECM to find accomodation via the university if you apply before
January 1.
We encourage those of you who can benefit from a grant delivered by the
EMC, to apply for a “one day” extension to be able to attend this meeting.
Hoping to see you in Amsterdam,
Best wishes,
Colette Guillopé (Femmes et Mathématiques), Frances Kirwan (convenor of EWM), Sylvie Paycha (Coordinator of the EMS committee for women in mathematics)
This one-day workshop, organized under the auspices of the EMS and EWM, aims at introducing the audience to the topics of the two main women speakers at the European Congress of Mathematics, Christine Bernardi and Matilde Marcolli. Its program will be organized around three to four introductory talks on their research areas, and will end with a social gathering and informal discussions. The speakers at the workshop will include Christine Bernardi and Alina Vdovina.
We encourage young women mathematicians to attend this one-day meeting before the Congress itself. It will provide an opportunity to get acquainted with two areas of research represented by two of the main speakers at the ECM, namely applied mathematics (spectral and variational problems) on the one hand and applications of noncommutative geometry (e.g. to quantum field theory and number theory) on the other hand.
We draw your attention to the fact that the EMS offers grants to graduate students and postdocs to attend the ECM. Unfortunately the deadline is Nov. 15th, but we encourage you to send in an application even after that date in case it can be accepted because of this late announcement; please explicitly mention in your application that you want to take part in this workshop.
Hoping to see you in Amsterdam,
Best wishes,
The organizers,
Colette Guillopé (Femmes et Mathématiques), Frances Kirwan (convenor of EWM), Sylvie Paycha (Coordinator of the EMS committee for women in mathematics)
Sarah Rees forwarded notice of Anne McLaren Fellowships 2007 to the EWM mailing list
University of Nottingham,
Anne McLaren Fellowships 2007Science,
Engineering and Technology, Medicine
Applications are invited for these prestigious postdoctoral fellowships funded by the University and targeted at excellent women scientists and engineers, under-represented in these subjects, who wish to establish a research career in the UK.
As this scheme offers a recognised first step into an independent research career, candidates must have submitted a PhD and have had no more than four years’ full-time postdoctoral experience by 1 October 2007. The scheme is designed to offer support and flexibility.
Subjects covered: Science, Engineering and Technology, Medicine.
Further details and application forms are available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ris/html/Anne_McLaren_Fellowship_Information_2007_2008.php. Please quote ref. AMF/07. Closing date: 23 November 2007.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Rebecca Stokes, tel: 0115 846 7408 or Email: Rebecca.Stokes@Nottingham.ac.uk.
For all our vacancies and more about working at the University of Nottingham see: http://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/.
A message from Lisbeth Fajstrup
Dear All,
On the topology mailing list, Steve Wilson from Johns Hopkins announced the following:
For the next year only we have a special 2 year graduate fellowship for a woman at Johns Hopkins University that pays $30,000 a year (gulp).
The student must be a citizen or at least have a green card. We don’t get a lot of applicants who meet these boundary conditions so this is well worth sending your students to.
I’m on the committee.
Steve
It requires a green card, but maybe some of the EWM-members have one? You could write to Steve and ask for more info, or check the Johns Hopkins webpages.
Best wishes
Lisbeth
