European Women in Mathematics (EWM)


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Definitive Schedule
Parallel sessions, Schedule

PRESENTATION SLIDES NOW AVAILABLE:
Huber-Klawitter, Annette: Period Numbers
Rippon, Gina: Sex, Maths and the Brain (VIDEO FILE. Slide complement)
Series; Caroline: Recent developments in hyperbolic geometry
Terracini; Susanna: Entire Parabolic Trajectories as minimal phase transitions
Ulcigrai; Corinna: Dynamical properties of mathematical billiars and surface flows

Dates: September 5 to 9, 2011

Place: Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

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Objectives

This meeting is the 15th general meeting of European Women in Mathematics (EWM), and is being held with the support of the Foundation Compositio Mathematica.

For more than 20 years EWM has organized biennial conferences, which are open to members and non-members of EWM. The 14th general meeting took place in Novi Sad (Serbia) in 2009, and the 13th in Cambridge (England) in 2007. These biennial general meetings are a very important focus of EWM activity, in particular to provide support for younger women mathematicians. The speakers at these meetings are women, though men are very welcome to join the audience and participate. The aim is that the speakers should have exciting mathematics to present and at the same time are able to communicate their mathematics to an audience with quite varied mathematical backgrounds. In 2008 the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and EWM jointly established a Scientific Committee, consisting of internationally leading women mathematicians (the membership of the committee is given below), to provide advice on scientific issues related to women and mathematics including the scientific programme of the general meetings of EWM.

European Women in Mathematics is an international association of women working in the field of mathematics. Its aims are:

to encourage women to study mathematics;
to support women in their careers;
to provide a meeting place for like-minded people;
to promote scientific communication;
to cooperate with groups and organizations with similar goals; to gather and provide information on women in mathematics.

EWM hosts a website (http://www.europeanwomeninmaths.org/), publishes an annual newsletter, and provides an e-mail network connecting its members. Every two years there is a general EWM meeting; in addition EWM participates in and organises sessions in international mathematical conferences. EWM's standing committee is assisted by international and regional coordinators from different European countries, with activities and publicity within each country organised by the regional coordinators.

List of Speakers

Professor Karen Vogtmann of Cornell University will be the 2011 EMS lecturer, and she will give three of her EMS lectures at EWM2011. The plenary speakers at the meeting will include:

Pilar Bayer, Universitat de Barcelona

Annette Huber-Klawitter, Freiburg Universität

Laure Saint-Raymond, Université de Paris VI

Caroline Series, University of Warwick

Catharina Stroppel, Universität Bonn

Susanna Terracini, Università di Milano Bicocca

Corinna Ulcigrai, University of Bristol

Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University (2011 EMS lecturer)

In addition there will be parallel sessions of shorter talks and poster sessions.

Scientific Committee

Chair: Nina Uraltseva (St Petersburg, Russia)

Viviane Baladi (ENS, Paris, France)

Eva Bayer (Lausanne, Switzerland)

Christine Bernardi (Paris VI, France)

Christine Bessenrodt (Hannover, Germany)

Antonella Grassi (U Penn, USA)

Ursula Hamenstaedt (Bonn, Germany)

Dusa McDuff (Stony Brook, USA)

Ragni Piene (Oslo, Norway)

Vera Sos (Renyi Institute, Budapest, Hungary)

Ulrike Tillmann (Oxford, UK)

Michele Vergne (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France)

Organising Committee

Maria Aguareles (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Laura Ciobanu (Fribourg University)

Núria Fagella (Universitat de Barcelona)

Lisbeth Fajstrup (Aalborg University)

Gemma Huguet (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Frances Kirwan (Oxford University, Deputy EWM Convenor)

Maria del Mar Gonzalez Nogueras (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Tere Martinez-Seara (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

Sanja Rapajic (Novi Sad University)

Marie-Francoise Roy (University of Rennes, EWM Convenor)

Contributed Talks

There will be a limited number of contributed talks by the participants, and also the possibility to present a poster.
Abstracts should be sent through the online application

Deadline for abstract submission: June 1, 2011

Registration

Registration fee: 200€

Registration includes: attendance to the lectures, documentation package, social dinner, lunch tickets, cultural activity, and coffee breaks

Deadline for registration and payment: July 31, 2011 (NOTE: unfortunately we are experiencing some on-line payment problems. If this is your case, please contact the conference secretariat at ewm@crm.cat. We apologize for the inconvenience).

Available Grants

Young researchers may apply for a grant and take advantage of a reduced registration fee and a lodging grant.
Awards are determined based on academic criteria and/or country of residence (giving special attention to advanced researchers from less favoured countries).
There are two grants available:

Full Grant: access to reduced registration + lodging (during the days of the activity in a shared apartment)
Registration Grant: access to reduced registration

Reduced registration fee for either type of grant holders: 60€

You will be informed as soon as possible whether support is available.

Deadline for grant applications: May 30, 2011

Registration and application for financial support

Late applications will not be accepted.

Accommodation

Participants awarded with accommodation grants will have their lodging arranged through the organisation. The remaining participants are encouraged to book their lodging as soon as possible.

Information on accommodation options for participants

For further information, please contact the CRM Administration.