Women and Mathematics Program

高等研究院的妇女和数学计划(WAM)是一个年度计划，其使命是招募和留住更多数学领域的女性。WAM旨在解决参加数学培训的男女人数最初不平衡的问题，以及在数学职业生涯的每个关键过渡阶段，女性数学家的流失率高于男性同行的问题。WAM鼓励女性数学家形成合作研究关系，并积极参与从本科生到名誉教授的垂直指导网络，这提供了支持，减少了许多数学女性经历的孤立感。该项目围绕当前研究兴趣的一个数学主题组织。该科学计划包括一系列讲座，并伴随着每天的问题会议，旨在提供最高质量的指导和研究经验；博士后和高级研究生的研究研讨会；以及著名女性数学家的座谈会。此外，晚上的女性参与科学研讨会探讨了女性数学家关心的广泛主题。自1994年以来，WAM的科学和指导方面对1000多名女性数学家产生了持久的影响。在将WAM带入其第三个十年期间，以下被视为扩大该计划的覆盖范围和持久性及其对全国STEM社区的影响的关键新目标：扩大WAM的足迹，使更多的女性从该计划的数学和指导方面受益；提高女性数学家在数学界和整个社会的能见度；向更广泛的数学界传播在WAM开发的有效范例；促进女性数学家在数学研究和学术界以外的职业中的机会。

The Women and Mathematics Program (WAM) at the Institute for Advanced Study is an annual program with the mission to recruit and retain more women in mathematics. WAM aims to counter the initial imbalance in the numbers of men and women entering mathematics training as well as the higher attrition rate of female mathematicians compared to their male counterparts at every critical transition stage in mathematical careers. WAM encourages female mathematicians to form collaborative research relationships and to become active in a vertical mentoring network spanning a continuum from undergraduates to emerita professors, which provides support and reduces the sense of isolation experienced by many women in mathematics.The program is organized around a mathematical topic of current research interest. The scientific program is comprised of lecture series accompanied by daily problem sessions designed to offer top quality instruction and research experience; research seminars by post-doctorates and advanced graduate students; and colloquia by prominent women mathematicians. In addition, evening Women in Science seminars explore wide ranging topics of concern to women mathematicians. Since 1994, both the scientific and mentoring aspects of WAM have had a lasting impact on over 1000 women mathematicians. In bringing WAM into its third decade, the following are seen as the key new aims in broadening the reach and longevity of the program and its effects on the national STEM community: expand the footprint of WAM so that more women benefit from both mathematical and mentoring aspects of the program; increase visibility of women mathematicians to both the mathematics community and the society at large; spread effective paradigms developed at WAM to the wider mathematical community; facilitate opportunities for women mathematicians in both research mathematics and careers outside academia.