WomeninMath Google Group

Re: AMD election

2007-08-25T11:01:58Z

Yes, I do have a comment.
George Andrews is disdainful of the mathematics education community.
Many people in the AMS have worked hard to cooperate with this
community, and feel that cooperation is essential (Hy Bass made this
a priority of his administration), but I expect that George Andrews

AMD election

2007-08-25T04:43:38Z

I would like to open up a discussion of the ongoing AMS election.
To start, let me note that one of the candidates for president
supports the AMS Fellows Program. This program is likely to be very
helpful to women in second tier departments who are top quality
mathematicians that are unrecognized by their deans as exceptional.

Re: ICM panel chairs, members and speakers now

2007-06-11T14:43:59Z

For the list of panelists in 2006 please see:
[link]
Notice that it is especially important to recommend panelists for
particular sections and to recommend panelists of a similar caliber.
I don't think it is particularly important to mention that you are a
woman or that you are selecting a panelist based partly on his ability

ICM panel chairs, members and speakers now

2007-06-11T14:18:32Z

I have just been notified that the Executive Committee for the 2010
ICM has appointed Hendrik Lenstra to be the chair of the PC. Other
members of the PC will remain anonymous until after the ICM. Two
members of the Executive Committee, Cheryl Praeger and Ragni Piene,
have contacted me and asked that all members of the Women in Math

View this page "Letter to the AWM, Sept 2006"

2007-05-02T20:08:22Z

Click on [link]
- or copy & paste it into your browser's address bar if that doesn't
work.

How to read old discussions

2007-05-02T19:59:19Z

Click on "Discussions" on the right to see the original closed
discussions.
To post a comment or response just select "new post" and give it an
appropriate topic.

joint letter to the AWM Newsletter continued

2007-02-20T04:10:39Z

The discussion in response to the joint letter to the AWM Newsletter
written by Alexander-Taylor-Uhlenbeck is being continued here. The
first discussion covered issues like promoting women, childcare at
meetings, prizes for work completed by senior mathematicians,
prizes for papers, AAUP policies, IMU and ICM Speaker nomination, and

Re: NSF Grants

2007-02-02T14:14:15Z

Finally, advise from representatives of the NSF who visitted CUNY.
The following points were crucial as not addressing them could lead to
the dropping of a proposal:
Broader Impact: cannot be to the sciences, must be to the community at
large, education of your students, mentoring women, math club talks,

Re: NSF Grants

2007-02-02T14:00:14Z

AIM has a webpage about grants as well, although perhaps this is aimed
at a less experiences group:
[link]
Key points quoted from there:
------------------------------ ------------------------------ -----------------------
Content of Your Proposal
* Mathematical: In your project description, propose a range of

NSF Grants

2007-02-02T13:56:43Z

A representative of a company, CS Cubed, that helps people write grant
proposals came to CUNY yesterday. Basically the company consists of
retired men from the NSF, NSA and other government agencies and they
provide pointed advise about how panels view proposals and help
faculty rewrite theirs in a way which will better sell their ideas.

Prize Committees

2007-01-24T02:21:51Z

Perhaps we could start compiling a list of men and women who have
demonstrated that they might select a women mathematician for an
extremely competitive prize.
I would begin with:
Bernt Øksendal (University of Oslo, Norway),
Jacob Palis (Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Brazil),
Peter Sarnak (Princeton, USA),

Re: Action this winter break

2006-12-11T20:14:20Z

Three more possible actions:
6) Write a description of the research of an Emmy Noether Lecturer at a
level readable by a dean. This includes writing a description of your
own work if you are an Emmy Noether Lecturer. I'll be happy to assist
on making sure it is exciting, readable by deans and perhaps a bit more

Action this winter break

2006-12-11T04:09:44Z

OK it is almost winter break so now is an opportunity to do some action
to advance the situation for women in mathematics. Let's each try to
do three actions selected from the following:
1) choose a woman mathematician with recent excellent work or a
lifetime of good work, and promote her by suggesting her as a speaker

Re: ICM Speakers

2006-11-24T04:21:29Z

I have never heard Marianne's story or that Karen Uhlenbeck was too old
for the Fields Medal.
She was born in 1942 and so was 40 in 1982, the year she won a
MacArthur Fellowship. This info is available in S. Ambrose et al.
"Journeys of Women in Science and and Engineering, No Universal
Constants", Temple University Press and on her webpage:

mentioning maternity on NSF applications

2006-11-24T03:55:28Z

Interestingly I know someone who served on an NSF panel in which a guy
was dismissed for a lack of publishing and then learned later he had
had cancer and felt really bad the decision was made without that
knowledge. This person suggested that I mention my maternity leaves
and particularly the fact that I was seriously ill during the second