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Women and Mathematics
A Program of the Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University
2008 W O M E N and M A T H E M A T I C S --------------------------------------------------------------INS T I T U T E for A D V A N C E D S T U D Y and P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y Daily ScheduleMay 12-23, 2008Monday, May 12| 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Registration (Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Special Lecture – Professor Eric Maskin, 2007 Nobel Laureate of Economics, “Implementation of Society’s Goals”, Wolfensohn Hall | | 6:00 p.m. - | Welcome dinner and orientation (Dining Hall) |
Tuesday, May 13 | 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Breakfast (Dining Hall) | | 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Tour of Institute campus given by Dinah Kazakoff (meet in Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University, “Surfaces, orbifolds and knots” | | 10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. | Break | | 10:40 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. | Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Rachel Roberts, Washington University, St. Louis, “Foliations and laminations” | | 11:45 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Tanya Khovanova, MIT, “Topology in Art” | | 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch (Dining Hall) | | 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Brandy Guntel, University of Texas, “Dean Knots” | 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. | Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Introductions | | 6:15 p.m. - | Opening Dinner (Dining Hall) |
Wednesday, May 14| 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Breakfast (Dining Hall) | | 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University, “Surfaces, orbifolds and knots” | | 10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. | Break | | 10:40 a.m. – 11: 40 a.m. | Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Rachel Roberts, Washington University, St. Louis, “Foliations and laminations” | | 11: 45 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)Chia-yen Tsai, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Bounds of least pseudo-Anosov dilatations” | | 12:30 p.m. – 1: 30 p.m. | Lunch (Dining Hall) | | 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 4:15 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)Kate Petersen, Queen’s University, “Character varieties of a family of two-bridge knots” | | 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. | Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)A chat with Alice and Ingrid | | 6:15 p.m. - | Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) |
Thursday, May 15| 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Breakfast (Dining Hall) | | 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Genevieve Walsh, Tufts University, “Surfaces, orbifolds and knots” | | 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | T-shirt Sale, Harry’s Bar – Dining Hall | | 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Break | | 10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Rachel Roberts, Washington University, St. Louis, “Foliations and laminations” | | 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Lunch (Dining Hall) | | 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Dusa McDuff, Stony Brook University, “Symplectic embeddings of 4-dimensional ellipsoids” | | 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. | Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Shelley Costa, Swarthmore College, “Women in Mathematics” | | 6:15 p.m. - | Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) |
Friday, May 16 | 8:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Breakfast (Dining Hall) | | 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Depart for Princeton University(talks, lunch, campus and art museum tour, and dinner) |
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Saturday, May 17| All day | Recreational activities organized by participants |
Sunday, May 18| All day | Recreational activities organized by participants |
Monday, May 19| 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Breakfast (Dining Hall) | | 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Maggy Tomova, Rice University, “Knots and their invariants” | | 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Break | | 10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jennifer Schultens, University of California, Davis “Surfaces in 3-manifolds” | | 12:00 pm – 1:15 p.m. | Lunch (Dining Hall) | | 1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University, “Dynamics: wild and 2-wild” | | 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. | Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) “A Day in the Life” Panel Discussion | | 6:15 p.m. - | Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) |
Tuesday, May 20 | 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Breakfast (Dining Hall) | | 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Maggy Tomova, Rice University, “Knots and their invariants” | | 10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. | Break | | 10:40 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. | Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jennifer Schultens, University of California, Davis, “Surfaces in 3-manifolds” | | 11:45 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Joan Licata, Stanford University, “Local link alterations and the Thurston norm” | | 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch (Dining Hall) | | 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Zsuzsanna Dancso, University of Toronto, “Algebraic knot theory and the Kontsevich integral” | | 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. | Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) “Flatland: The Movie” | | 6:15 p.m. - | Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) |
Wednesday, May 21 | 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Breakfast (Dining Hall) | | 9:00 a.m. – 9:15 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. – 10:30 a.m. | Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Maggy Tomova, Rice University, “Knots and their invariants” | | 10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. | Break | | 10:40 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. | Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jennifer Schultens, University of California, Davis, “Surfaces in 3-manifolds” | | 11:45 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Emily Landes, University of Texas, “2-bridge knots and the character variety” | | 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch (Dining Hall) | | 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Vera Vertesi, Columbia University, “A way of distinguishing transverse knots | | 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. | Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) "The next step: applying and surviving the graduate school and a postdoc position." Discussion | | 6:15 p.m. - | Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) |
Thursday, May 22| 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Breakfast (Dining Hall) | | 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Maggy Tomova, Rice University, “Knots and their invariants” | | 10:30 a.m. – 10:40 a.m. | Break | | 10:40 a.m. – 11: 40 a.m. | Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jennifer Schultens, University of California, Davis, “Surfaces in 3-manifolds” | | 11:45 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Melissa Macasieb, University of British Columbia, “Commensurability classes of (-2,3,n) pretzel knot complements” | | 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch (Dining Hall) | | 1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 2:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) | | 4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room) | | 4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Keiko Kawamuro, Rice University, “Classification of transverse knots in contact manifolds” | | 5:15 p.m. – 6:15 p.m. | Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall) Deborah Lockhart, NSF "An Introduction to the National Science Foundation and Funding Opportunities" | | 6:15 p.m. - | Closing Dinner (Birch Garden, Dining Hall) |
Friday, May 23| 8:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Breakfast (Dining Hall) | | 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Maggy Tomova, Rice University, “Knots and their invariants” | | 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Break | | 10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room) Jennifer Schultens, University of California, Davis, “Surfaces in 3-manifolds” | | 12:00 p.m. - | Lunch |
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