ICM98-CL24 (98/03/11): Special Activities Related to Women in Mathematics
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24th Circular Letter
Subject: ICM98-CL24: Special Activities Related to Women in
Mathematics
Dear Colleague:
The Local Organizing Committee has set up - in accordance with
the IMU Program and Executive Committee - a "Section of Special
Activities", see B.7 in the Second Announcement. These activities
will complement the Scientific Program determined by the Progam
Committe, see ICM98-CL19: List and Schedule of the Plenary
Speakers and ICM98-CL23: List and Schedule of the Invited Speakers
for details.
One series of special activities is going to highlight women in
mathematics. These activities have been arranged in cooperation
with the European Women in Mathematics, the Association for Women
in Mathematics, and other groups representing women mathematicians.
The letter below, an invitation to participate in these events,
provides information about women related activities at ICM'98.
Best Regards
Martin Groetschel
President of the
ICM'98 Organizing Committee
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SPECIAL ACTIVITIES RELATED TO WOMEN IN MATHEMATICS, AN INVITATION
All who are interested in the participation of women in the study of
mathematics and in the community of mathematicians are invited to the
following activities:
FRIDAY, August 21, 19:30:
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PANEL DISCUSSION: After recognition of the involvement of women
from many countries as ICM participants, women speakers from several
countries will discuss
"Events and policies: Effects on women in mathematics".
The panel is being organized by women from the Association for Women
in Mathematics (AWM), the European Women in Mathematics (EWM) and
the Committee on Women and Mathematics of the European Mathematical
Society, represented by a committee consisting of Bhama Srinivasan
(chair; Chicago, USA), Bettye Anne Case (Tallahassee, USA), and
Christine Bessenrodt (Magdeburg, Germany). The organizers have
received planning advice from women in several additional countries.
They envision that each speaker will talk about how certain events
or policies in her country have affected women in mathematics.
For more information, please contact Bettye Anne Case
(case@math.fsu.edu).
FRIDAY, August 21, 21:15:
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A film titled "Women and mathematics across cultures" will be
shown. The film briefly introduces EWM, shows some statistics, and
allows four woman mathematicians to share their personal experiences
about the impact of cultural differences on the status of women in
the profession. The film was directed by Marjatta Naatanen (Helsinki,
Finland) in collaboration with Bodil Branner (Lyngby, Denmark), Kari
Hag (Trondheim, Norway), and Caroline Series (Warwick, UK).
For more information: http://www.math.helsinki.fi/EWM.
SATURDAY, August 22, 11:00:
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Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Courant Institute, New York University, will
present an EMMY NOETHER LECTURE with title
"Variations on Conservation Laws for the Wave Equation".
The Emmy Noether Lecture will be chaired by Irene M. Gamba (Austin,
USA).
Abstract: The time dependent wave equation has many conservation laws
obtainable by using Emmy Noether's theorem for equations coming from
Lagrangians. From this nucleus we survey some estimates that can be
found for equations close and not so close to the wave equation and
show what these estimates are good for (time decay for exterior
problems and nonlinear Klein-Gordon, for the reduced wave equation and
for the Tricomi equation). On a slightly different note, some weakly
quasi and other nonlinear perturbations of the time wave equation have
simple formal asymptotic solutions. These formal solutions probably
represent real solutions but that requires some new estimates.
For more information: morawetz@.cims.nyu.edu
Sincerely
Bettye Anne Case (Tallahassee, Florida)
Sylvia Wiegand (Lincoln, Nebraska)
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