Special Activities Related to Women in Mathematics

Friday, August 21, 19:30

Panel Discussion: After recognition of the involvement of women from many countries as ICM participants, women speakers from several countries will discuss

"Events and policies: Effects on women in mathematics".

The panel is being organized by women from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), the European Women in Mathematics (EWM) and the Committee on Women and Mathematics of the European Mathematical Society, represented by a committee consisting of Bhama Srinivasan (chair; Chicago, USA), Bettye Anne Case (Tallahassee, USA), and Christine Bessenrodt (Magdeburg, Germany). The organizers have received planning advice from women in several additional countries. They envision that each speaker will talk about how certain events or policies in her country have affected women in mathematics.

For more information, please contact Bettye Anne Case (case@math.fsu.edu).

Friday, August 21, 21:15

A film titled "Women and mathematics across cultures" will be shown. The film briefly introduces EWM, shows some statistics, and allows four woman mathematicians to share their personal experiences about the impact of cultural differences on the status of women in the profession. The film was directed by Marjatta Naatanen (Helsinki, Finland) in collaboration with Bodil Branner (Lyngby, Denmark), Kari Hag (Trondheim, Norway), and Caroline Series (Warwick, UK).

For more information: http://www.math.helsinki.fi/EWM.

Saturday, August 22, 11:00

Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Courant Institute, New York University, will present an Emmy Noether Lecture with title

"Variations on Conservation Laws for the Wave Equation".

The Emmy Noether Lecture will be chaired by Irene M. Gamba (Austin, USA).

Abstract: The time dependent wave equation has many conservation laws obtainable by using Emmy Noether's theorem for equations coming from Lagrangians. From this nucleus we survey some estimates that can be found for equations close and not so close to the wave equation and show what these estimates are good for (time decay for exterior problems and nonlinear Klein-Gordon, for the reduced wave equation and for the Tricomi equation). On a slightly different note, some weakly quasi and other nonlinear perturbations of the time wave equation have simple formal asymptotic solutions. These formal solutions probably represent real solutions but that requires some new estimates.

For more information: morawetz@.cims.nyu.edu

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