European Women in Mathematics at the
6ECM.
Krakow July 1-7 2012.

Joint EMS/EWM Survey lectures.

A satellite to 6ECM
July 1, 2012 from 13.30 to 19.30.
Location: Auditorium Maximum, Kraków, Poland
Attendance is free. Both women and men are welcome.
Lunch There is a lunch at 12:00 together with the EMS-council - price 10 Euro. If you want to join, please indicate so on the registration.

Schedule:

• 13:30 Welcome
• 13:45 Professor Frédérique Oggier, Singapore
  Construction of Secure Algebraic Lattice Codes.
• 14:45 Professor Barbara Opozda, Jagiellonian University, Poland
  Affine differential geometry.
• 15:45-16:00 Break.
• 16:00 Professor Sheila Sandon, Nantes, France
  Rigidity phenomena in Contact Topology.
• 17:00 Professor Evelina Viada, Basel, Switzerland and Göttingen, Germany
  On the zeros of polynomials.
• 18:00 Professor Katrin Wendland, Freiburg, Germany
  A geometric approach to topological field theory.
• 19:00 Reception.

The organizing committee is:
Bodil Branner (DTU, Lyngby, Copenhagen); Krystyna Jaworska, Secretary of the Polish Mathematical Society, Poland, member of the 6 ECM Executive Organizing Committee, Institute of Mathematics and Cryptology Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, and the EWM convenor Marie-Françoise Roy (IRMAR, Université de Rennes 1, France) with assistance from Rosa Donat, Anna Grybos, Camilla Hollanti, Lisbeth Fajstrup, Sylvie Paycha, Dusanka Perisic and Alina Vdovina.

Registration

Deadline: June 15.
There is no fee for attending the survey lectures, which are a satellite to the 6ECM. The panel is part of the main 6ECM activities and is open to any registered participant of 6ECM.
Please send an email to
with the following information:
Registration has been closed in the following sense: Lunch and reception has been ordered now. If you want to come for talks, reception or panel, you are very welcome, and please register. But not for lunch. Name
Affiliation
Will attend the Joint EMS/EWM Survey Lectures (including the reception)
Will have lunch before the Joint EMS/EWM Survey Lectures (price 10 Euro)
Will attend the reception on Sunday, not the talks
Will attend the panel discussion (see below).

List of participants

Panel discussion

September 2012: Slides, Pictures etc. may be found at the EWM site
The EWM and the EMS Committee Women in Mathematics arrange a panel discussion Tuesday July 3.c.a.15:45 - 17:45. OBS: The timeslot has changed (March 15)
Redressing the gender imbalance in mathematics: strategies and outcomes.
Chair: Professor Caroline Series. Chair of the EMS Committee on Women in Mathematics.

Panellists

• Dr Penelope Bidgood
  Kingston University, UK
  Chair, Committee on Women in Statistics
  Topic: Committee on Women in Statistics
  http://isi-web.org/news/2011-dec-cws-news
• Professor Kari Hag
  NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
  Topic: Scandinavian initiatives for Women Mathematicians
• Professor Marja Makarow, University of Helsinki.
  Chief Executive of the European Science Foundation 2008-2011.
  Topic: Does a research career in mathematics attract women?
• Dr Christie Marr.
  Deputy Director, The Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK
  Topic: The Newton Institute Gender Balance Initiative
• Professor Marie-Françoise Roy,
  Univ. de Rennes. France. Convenor of EWM.
  Topic: Women in Mathematics in France and Germany in the last 25 years

The organizing committee consists of Caroline Series together with two other members of the EMS WiM Committee: Bodil Branner (DTU, Lyngby, Copenhagen) and Elena Fernandez (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain).

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