See you in Amsterdam on July 13th 2008

JOINT EWM/EMS MEETING

UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM July 13th 2008

This one-day meeting on the eve of the European Congress of Mathematics and under the auspices of the European Mathematical Society and European Women in Mathematics is organised around four introductory talks :

11 a.m-12 a.m.: Hélène ESNAULT (Duisburg-Essen)
Some aspects of the various notions of fundamental group
2 p.m-3 p.m: Alina VDOVINA (Newcastle)
Non-commutative geometry on trees and buildings
3.30 p.m -4.30 p.m: Christine BERNARDI (Paris)
Spectral methods: Basics and new applications
5 p.m -6 p.m: Francesca RAPETTI (Nice)
A spectral element method on triangles

If you could put the poster joint-meeting-amsterdam-13-july-2008 in your department and/or send it to colleagues who might be interested, we would be grateful !

We encourage everyone and especially young women mathematicians to attend this one-day meeting before the Congress itself. It will provide an opportunity to get acquainted with some of the areas of research represented at the ECM and to meet other women mathematicians present at the ECM.
The organisers
Colette Guillopé (Femmes et Mathématiques), Frances Kirwan (Convenor of EWM), Sylvie Paycha (Coordinator of the EMS committee for women in mathematics) , Charlene Kalle and Karma Dajani (University of Amsterdam)

Updated the 3rd Nordic EWM Summer School INFO

Find out new info about the 3rd Nordic EWM Summer School, which will take place June 22-27 2009,

HERE ……. 3rdsummerschoolposter1

Introducing Novi Sad

The 14th general meeting of EWM will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia, during August 25-28, 2009. We are looking forward to welcoming you to our beautiful town.

Novi Sad is the capital of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, its economic, cultural, scientific, educational, health and administrative center with nearly 200.000 inhabitants. The city is situated on the left bank of the Danube River in South Backa, in the northern part of Serbia.

Many interesting facts and information can be found in Novi Sad.pdf (968KB). Besides the city history, this leaflet presents the city center, together with many churches and buildings. You can also find out more about the cultural life of Novi Sad, its green areas, about the Petrovaradin Fortress, Sremski Karlovci and the National park Fruska gora. Finally, there are special sections “Arriving to Novi Sad” and “Useful information” which will help you in planning your trip to our town.

Links on Novi Sad:

Official presentation of the city of Novi Sad
City of Novi Sad - Official Tourist Presentation
Hotels in Novi Sad
Novi Sad on Wikipedia

3rd Nordic EWM Summer School for PhD students in Mathematics

University of Turku, Finland
June 22-27, 2009

http://www.math.helsinki.fi/EWM/nordic/turku09.html

PhD students in pure mathematics, applied mathematics, mathematical statistics, mathematics education or history of mathematics from the Nordic countries are invited to participate in a summer school in mathematics organized by the European Women in Mathematics (EWM). The summer school is especially aimed at encouraging female students and researchers, but is open also for male students as well as students outside the Nordic countries. Post-docs or advanced undergraduates thinking of PhD studies are also welcome.

The program of the meeting is broad and will be of interest for students working in different research areas. Mini-courses will give an introduction and an overview over three chosen topics of general interest from different areas of mathematics. They will be aimed at all students with a general mathematical background, yet come to touch questions of current research.

Internationally recognized mathematicians will give the mini-courses and special lectures. The participants are invited to contribute to workshops and seminars with their own presentations.

Our goal is to provide a stimulating intellectual environment for female PhD students from different countries and different mathematical specialties to learn new mathematics and meet new colleagues. We expect that much of the long-term benefit of the meeting will come from the personal contacts established and the exchange of ideas taking place during informal discussions. We hope that these contacts will help the forming and development of a network for female PhD students in the Nordic countries and between PhD students and established mathematicians.

The summer school is partially funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation, Nokia, and the Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS), Finland, in an attempt to encourage greater participation of women in mathematical research.

Besides the scientific program there will be an opportunity to meet professional female mathematicians for discussions. Several social events and one excursion will be held. The summer school starts at 10 am on Monday, June 22, and ends at 3 pm on Saturday, June 27.

Scientific program

A number of well-established mathematicians from different countries will be main speakers in the summer school. They will give three mini-courses and a few more specialized 60-minutes lectures. Ample time will be allowed for participants to share ideas and make new contacts, and informal sessions facilitating such interaction will be encouraged.

The scientific program is planned in collaboration with the Scientific Committee of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Invited speakers so far include (preliminary, changes possible):

Number theory, algebra, and applications

Sujatha Ramadorai, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India

John Coates, University of Cambridge, UK

Kaisa Nyberg, Helsinki University of Technology, Nokia Research Centre, Finland

Eva Bayer-Fluckiger, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Analysis Lecturers to be announced

Biomathematics Lecturers to be announced

Gender and mathematics Lecturers to be announced

All participants are strongly encouraged to attend seminars where they will have an opportunity to present their results, research projects or intended research areas. This is an important part of the summer school providing a chance for students to show and exchange ideas in mathematics. Depending on the number of interested participants, we may have to make a selection based on a reviewing process.

Accommodation

We have a preliminary booking for a few low budget beds and rooms at the university guesthouse Villa Hortus. There are also many other options you can choose from. The price ranges from 14 € to 60 € /night/person depending on the facilities. Contact the hotel or guesthouse directly to make your reservation.

If you need assistance (e.g. want to share a room with another participant) or wish to book a room at Villa Hortus, contact Eeva Suvitie at eevsuv[at]utu.fi.

We cannot guarantee the stability of the example prices shown below. The hotels are conveniently located with respect to the university and city center, if nothing else is mentioned.

Hotels

Omenahotelli (starting from 36 €/night)

http://www.omena.com/hotelpresentation?hid=662800

Scandic Julia (single room 56 €/night)

http://www.scandichotels.com/en/Hotels/Countries/Finland/Turku/Hotels/Scandic-Julia/

Hesehotelli (single room 40 €/night, web page in Finnish)

http://www.hesburger.fi/hesehotelli/

Centro (starting from 65 €/night)

http://www.centrohotel.com/en/index.html

Low budget

Hostel Turku (starting from 14 €/night, 3 km from the university)

http://www.turku.fi/Public/Default.aspx?nodeid=8794&culture=en-US&contentlan=2

Guesthouse Kultainen Turisti (40 €/single room, web page in Finnish)

http://www.hotellikultainenturisti.com/palaute.html

Bed & Breakfast Tuure (starting from 23 €/night, single room 38 €/night, prices include wireless and computers, kitchen and washing machine are also available free of charge)

http://www.netti.fi/~tuure2/tuuren_sivu%202.htm

Apartment hotel Tapuli (single room 35 €/night)

http://www.tapulitalo.fi/hinnasto.htm

We do not expect to be able to contribute to travel expenses or accommodation for all participants. Participants should apply for funding from their own institutions and other sources. However, we hope that we will be able to provide all participants with lunches and dinners.

Travel information

Turku can easily be reached by either plane or train. A train ticket from Helsinki to Turku costs around 50 € (return).

Social program

A reception for all participants will be held in the evening on Friday, June 26. During the week there will also be an excursion.

Organizing committee:

• Camilla Hollanti, TUCS / University of Turku, Finland
• Aasa Feragen, University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Dusanka Perisic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia
• Laura Fainsilber, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
• Christin Borge, University of Oslo, Norway

Local committee:

• Camilla Hollanti, TUCS / University of Turku, Finland
• Anne-Maria Ernvall-Hytönen, University of Turku, Finland
• Eeva Suvitie, University of Turku, Finland
• Kaisa Nyberg, Helsinki University of Technology / NRC, Finland

Registration and information

If you got interested and want to receive further information, please let us know (we would like to have an idea of how many may be coming).

Registration deadline: April 1, 2009

Deadline for contributions: April 15, 2009

Registration fees:

Master and graduate students 50 €

Other participants 75 €

To register or to get more information please contact Camilla Hollanti at the Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, Finland:

e-mail: cajoho[at]utu.fi

tel: +358-50 33 79 104.

 

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Joint EMS/EWM meeting in Amsterdam on July 13th 2008.

Dear all,

We would like to invite you to the joint EMS/EWM meeting to take
place in Amsterdam on July 13th 2008.
If you intend to take part in this meeting, please contact before May 16th
one of the following two organisers:

Sylvie Paycha: sylvie.paycha@math.univ-bpclermont.fr
or
Frances Kirwan: kirwan@maths.ox.ac.uk

This one-day meeting on the eve of the European Congress of  Mathematics
and under the auspices of the European Mathematical Society and  European
Women in Mathematics is organised around four introductory talks by

Hélène Esnault: Some aspects of the various notions of fundamental group
Alina Vdovina: Non-commutative geometry on trees and buildings
Christine Bernardi: Spectral methods: Basics and new applications
Francesca Rapetti: A spectral element method on triangles.

which can serve as an introduction to some of the central themes of the
congress.

We encourage everyone and especially young women mathematicians to attend
this one-day meeting before the Congress itself. It will provide an
opportunity to get acquainted with  some of the  areas of research
represented  at the ECM and to meet other women mathematicians present at
the ECM.

The organisers
Colette Guillopé (Femmes et Mathématiques), Frances Kirwan (Convenor of
EWM), Sylvie Paycha (Coordinator of the EMS committee for women in
mathematics) , Charlene Kalle and Karma Dajani (University of Amsterdam

EWM 2009 Novi Sad Meeting

EWM is an association whose aims are to encourage women to study mathematics and work in the field of mathematics and to support women mathematicians in their careers. EWM links women from different countries and different mathematical specialties so that they can exchange their ideas and establish new contacts and collaborations. The ethos of EWM is described by one of the pioneers of this association, Caroline Series: “…We have a network not only of contacts but of warm friendships right across Europe and beyond. In bringing together our ideas and our problems we have discovered a sense of identity that we did not know we possessed. We have shared more than our mathematics, we have shared our songs and our dreams…” (‘A brief and personal history of EWM’ http://www.math.helsinki.fi/EWM/info/history.html by Caroline Series).

For more than 20 years EWM has organized biennial conferences which are open to members as well as non-members of EWM. The next 14th general meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM) will take place at the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, during August 25-28, 2009. It will include some lectures by the 2009 European Mathematical Society lecturer, Professor Ingrid Daubechies of Princeton University. Professor Jelena Kovačević from Carnegie Mellon University has also agreed to give a plenary lecture at the meeting. The complete list of invited speakers and the scientific programme will be planned in collaboration with the Scientific Committee, consisting of twelve internationally leading women mathematicians, which has been recently established jointly by the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and EWM.

EMS/EWM Scientific Committee:

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)

Vera Sos (Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary)

Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford, UK), chair

Nina Uraltseva (St Petersburg, Russia)

Michele Vergne (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France).

Organizing Committee:

Jelena Aleksić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Laura Ciobanu, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Jasmina Jocić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Ruth Kellerhals, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

Frances Kirwan, Oxford University, UK (Convenor of EWM),

Sylvie Paycha, Clermont-Ferrand, France (Chair of EMS Committtee Women and Mathematics)

Mirjana Penić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Dušanka Perišić, University of, Novi Sad (EMS Committtee Women and Mathematics)

Sanja Rapajić, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Caroline Series, Warwick University, UK

Sheung-Tsun Tsou Oxford University, UK (EMS Committtee Women and Mathematics)

Zorica Uzelac University of Novi Sad (Regional Coordinator of EWM),

Gordana Vlahović, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

Helena Zarin, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

The most recent of the biennial meetings, the 13th general meeting, was held in September 2007 at the University of Cambridge, UK, where more than 100 women mathematicians from various fields of research participated. The invited speakers included:

Ana Achucarro, Lorenz Institute, Leiden;

Toni Beardon, OBE Cambridge, UK;

Natalia Berloff, DAMTP, Cambridge UK;

Lenore Blum, Carnegie Mellon University, USA;

Simone Gutt Univ. Libre de Bruxelles;

Eleny Ionel, Stanford, USA;

Dusa McDuff, Stonybrook, USA;

Cheryl Praeger, University of Western Australia;

Vera Sos, Renyi Institute, Budapest;

Ramdorai Sujatha, Tata Institute, Mumbai.

The 5th Pan-Siberian Congress of Women Mathematicians, Report

From January 15 – 17, 2008, Krasnoyarsk, the centre of Eastern Siberia, was a host to The 5^th Pan-Siberian Congress of Women Mathematicians. The Congress itself is a biennial event, starting form year 2000. The first Congress, which took place from January 15 – 17, 2000, was devoted to the fact that it was 150 years from birth of Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya. The number of participants in first five events was around 1000 people.

The Congress took place at the Siberian Federal University, and was presided over by Olga Gennadievna Provorova – holder of PhD in Technical Sciences, with the support of the Institute of Numerical Modelling of Russian Foundation for Basic Research, and Krasnoyarsk Regional Science Foundation.

The traditional first and plenary session was devoted to Kovalevskaya. Even though the temperature in Krasnoyarsk was freezing - 32° C, the Congress was attended by fifty women from different parts of Russia: Moscow, Kaluga, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Irkutsk, etc. Scientific Forum was attended by 197 participants.

The main goal of the Congress is to expand professional engagement of women that work in the fields of theoretical and applied mathematics.

There were five active mathematical groups, informational numerical systems, education in the field of mathematics and informatics.

All Abstracts from all of the presentations were published in the conference material. The best among those will be published in a scientific magazine of the Siberian Federal University.

Special attention was given to young mathematicians. Two-thirds of the participants were young.

Natalia Lyulko natalialulko.jpg
Sobolev Institute for Mathematics,
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
4 Acad. Koptyug avenue,
630090 Novosibirsk, Russia

Emmy Noether Lecture for the first time at a DMV meeting

Dear All,

Here is a piece of good of news! I am very happy to announce that at the
annual meeting of the DMV (the German Mathematical Society) this year,
Sept 15-19, there will be, for the first time at a DMV meeting, a special
Emmy Noether Lecture,
which will be given by Karin Erdmann (University of Oxford).
Her presentation is about “Representations of symmetric and general linear groups”,
which is closely related to Emmy Noether’s research.

It is more than appropriate to have it just in Erlangen in 2008, since Emmy Noether was
born in Erlangen. Her PhD Thesis was published in 1908 (it was
submitted late in 1907, but the publication dates at 1908, due to the fact that there was first
the oral exam to be passed).

Here is the webpage for the DMV meeting in Erlangen in September, where the
plenary talks are listed:
http://www.dmv2008.uni-erlangen.de/hauptvortraege.shtml
The Emmy Noether Lecture features very prominently on top of the list!
It is planned to take place on Monday.

Webpage will provide you with all details about the
DMV meeting (unfortunately, it seems that they still don’t have an
English version of the conference website, as far as I could see).

I’d be happy to see many women mathematicians at the DMV meeting come in crowds to make the Emmy Noether Lecture a success so that the
DMV will keep this as a regular event at their meetings!

Best regards,
Christine Bessenrodt

(DMV Representative for Diversity and Equal Opportunities)

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Prof. Dr. Christine Bessenrodt
Director of the Institute for Algebra,
Number Theory and Discrete Mathematics

Department of Mathematics and Physics
Leibniz University of Hannover
Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover
Germany

Tel.: +49-511-762-3294 (-3337 Viola Hauschild)
Fax : +49-511-762-5490
email: bessen@math.uni-hannover.de
URL: www-ifm.math.uni-hannover.de/~bessen
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The 2009 European Mathematical Society lecturer

The 2009 European Mathematical Society lecturer will be Professor Ingrid Daubechies of Princeton University, and she will give some of her EMS lectures at the 14th general meeting of EWM, which is to be held in August 2009, at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Professor Daubechies will also , as EMS lecturer of the year 2009, give presentations at NuHAG (Numerical Harmonic Analysis Group), the University of Vienna.

Ingrid Daubechies has had a significant impact in numerous areas of applied mathematics and signal and image processing, with research accomplishments bridging across many scientific and engineering disciplines, resulting in over 100 publications and an influential and widely-read book. Her service record is also impressive, most notably in science and engineering publications as well as professional societies. She has directed programs with high impact on young scientists in a variety of fields. She is an inspiration to the entire mathematics community, especially to the women’s mathematics community.

Ingrid Daubechies received her BS and PhD in Physics at the Free University in Brussels, where she also taught for 12 years. She then moved to AT&T Bell Labs where she served as a leading authority on wavelet theory. Since 1993, she has been at the Mathematics Department and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University. She became the first woman full professor in mathematics at Princeton University. She now holds the William R. Kenan Jr. Professorship.

Professor Daubechies has also received many awards and honors, including the Louis Empain Prize for Physics, MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, AMS Steele Prize for Exposition and Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize, and membership in the National Academy of Sciences. She was also awarded the International Society for Optical Engineering Recognition of Outstanding Achievement and the IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee award for Technological Innovation. In 2000, she became the first woman to receive the National Academy of Sciences Medal in Mathematics. She gave the Gibbs Lecture in 2005 and the Noether Lecture in 2006.

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The 14th general meeting of European Women in Mathematics

 

The 14th general meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM) will take place in Novi Sad, Serbia during August 25-28, 2009.

For more than 20 years EWM organizes biennial conferences that are open to members as well as non-members of EWM. The last 13th general meeting took place in September 3-6, 2007, at the University of Cambridge, UK, gathering more than 100 women mathematicians from various fields of research.

Next year, the 14th general meeting of EWM will be organized at the Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad. Located on the Danube River, Novi Sad is the urban center of northern Serbia, its second largest city and the capital of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, a hospitable town and open-hearted to all of its visitors.

 

In order to successfully organize our conference, we are kindly asking you to let us know in advance:

1. Whether you will

(a) very likely or

(b) possibly participate in the conference.

2. Would you like to join our conference mailing list? The members of the mailing list will be informed about our meeting regularly.

3. Whether you would like to participate but need financial support.

We are currently asking some institutions for financial support for the meeting. Financial support for participants will be very limited and will in any case not cover more than partial living expenses during the meeting. Travel expenses will be left for the home institutions.

Please reply us as soon as possible at ewm2009@im.ns.ac.yu.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

 

On behalf of the local organizing committee,

Frances Kirwan

Dušanka Perišić