Women and Mathematics
A Program of the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University
Program for Women and Mathematics Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University Daily Schedule May 14-25, 2007 Program Organizers: Karen Uhlenbeck, Chuu-Lian Terng, Antonella Grassi and Alice Chang Women in Science Seminar Organizers: Katy Bold and Melanie Matchett Wood Research Seminar Organizer: Elizabeth Gasparim Monday, May 14 12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Registration (Fuld Hall Common Room) 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) 4:30 p.m. Tour of Institute campus given by Dinah Kazakoff (meet in Fuld Hall Common Room) 5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Introductions 6:00 p.m. Informal supper and orientation (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Tuesday, May 15 8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall) 9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy, "Enumerative Geometry and String Theory" 10:30 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Frances Kirwan, University of Oxford, "Quotients of Algebraic Varieties by Group Actions" 12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall) 1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) 4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Melissa Liu, "A formula of two-partition Hodge integrals" 4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Alessia Mandini, "Some results on the moduli spaces of polygons" 5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) " A Chat with Karen" 6:15 p.m. Opening Dinner (Dining Hall)
Wednesday, May 16 8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall) 9:00 a.m. Group photo - please be in the front of Fuld Hall if you wish to be in the picture. Please be prompt.
9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy, "Enumerative Geometry and String Theory" 10:30 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Frances Kirwan, University of Oxford, "Quotients of Algebraic Varieties by Group Actions" 12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall) 1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) 4:00 p.m. Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University 5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) "How to Survive Graduate School" Panel Discussion
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Thursday, May 17
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall) 9:00 a.m. T-shirt sale (Harry's Bar, Dining Hall) 9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy, "Enumerative Geometry and String Theory" 10:30 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Frances Kirwan, University of Oxford, "Quotients of Algebraic Varieties by Group Actions" 12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall) 1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) 4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Angela Gibney, Equations and Degenerations I 4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Diane Maclagan, Equations and Degenerations II 5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Helen Grundman, "Identifying and Clarifying Your Personal Teaching Philosophy"
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Friday, May 18
8:00 - 9:45 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall) 9:30-10:00 a.m. Depart for Princeton University (talks, lunch, campus and art museum tour and dinner) (Bus departs from the front of Fuld Hall no later than 10:00 a.m.)
Saturday, May 19
All day Recreational activities organized by participants
Sunday, May 20
All day Recreational activities organized by participants
Monday, May 21
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall) 9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy, "Enumerative Geometry and String Theory" 10:30 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties" 12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall) 1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) 4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jie Sun, "Descent construction for central extensions of infinite dimensional Lie algebras" 4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Elena Poletaeva, "Lie algebras and superalgebras of vector fields" 5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) To be announced 6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Tuesday, May 22
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall) 9:00 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College, "Toric Varieties" 10:00 a.m. Break 10:15 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties" 11:15 a.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Milena Hering, "Syzygies of toric varieties" 12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall) 1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) 4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Alexandra Golubeva, "The main theorem of Galois theory for algebraic groups" 4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Chelsea Walton, "Noncommutative algebraic geometry" 5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) "A Day in the Life" Panel Discussion
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Wednesday, May 23
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall) 9:00 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College, "Toric Varieties" 10:00 a.m. Break 10:15 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties" 11:15 a.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Elizabeth Beazley, Codimensions of Newton strata in the affine flag manifold 12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall) 1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) 4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Lauren Williams, "Total positivity and the Grassmannian" 4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Susan Sierra, Noncommutative algebraic geometry and a general homological Kleiman-Bertini theorem
5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) "A Woman President"
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Thursday, May 24
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall) 9:00 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College, "Toric Varieties" 10:00 a.m. Break 10:15 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties" 11:15 a.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Elizabeth Gasparim, Groups structures on local moduli 12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall) 1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) 3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) 4:00 p.m. Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) William Fulton, Equivariant cohomology of G/B 5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Arlene Fiore, NOAA GFDL, Estimating natural vs. anthropogenic contributions to surface ozone smog: Implications for air quality policy
6:30 p.m. Closing Dinner (Birch Garden, Dining Hall)
Friday, May 25
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall) 9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College, "Toric Varieties" 10:30 a.m. Break 10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties" 12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)
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