2008 W O M E N and M A T H E M A T I C S
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INS T I T U T E for A D V A N C E D S T U D Y
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P R I N C E T O N U N I V E R S I T Y
Daily Schedule
May 12-23, 2008
Monday, 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" |
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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) |
| (Bus departs from front of Fuld Hall no later than 10 am ) |
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 |
| Close of Program |