40 Years and Counting: AWM's Celebration of Women in Mathematics

在国家科学基金会补助金#dms-1108916的支持下，妇女数学协会将于2011年9月17日至18日在罗德岛州普罗维登斯市的布朗大学举行为期两天的会议：40年和倒计时：妇女数学协会庆祝活动。这笔赠款的主要研究人员是会议的组织者乔治亚·本卡特、克里斯汀·劳特和吉尔·皮弗。自1971年以来，妇女数学协会一直站在鼓励妇女和女孩在数学科学领域学习和从事积极职业的努力的前沿。该会议将向公众开放，庆祝该组织成立40周年，庆祝该组织在促进女性数学方面取得的成就，以及过去40年来女性在数学领域做出的许多重大贡献。将有四场由理论数学和应用数学领域的杰出女性主持的全体讲座，超过15场关于数学科学中广泛主题的特别会议，为最近的博士和研究生举办的海报会议，一个小组讨论，一个宴会，以及指导和讨论的时间。这一事件发生在一个关键时刻，女性在一年级数学研究生中的比例从2001年的35%下降到2009年的29%。许多职业生涯早期的女数学家，特别是那些在较小学校的女数学家，以及许多研究生，除了在自己的研究领域与顶尖女性研究人员接触之外，往往很少或根本没有接触。会议的长期好处将是提高对女性数学家成就的认识，增加妇女参与研究活动，扩大潜在合作者的研究网络，并为年轻研究人员提供能见度和连接性。

With support from National Science Foundation Grant #DMS-1108916, the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) will hold a two-day meeting, 40 Years and Counting: AWM's Celebration of Women in Mathematics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, September 17-18, 2011. The principal investigators on this grant are the organizers of the meeting, Georgia Benkart, Kristin Lauter, and Jill Pipher.Since 1971, the Association for Women in Mathematics has been at the forefront of efforts to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences. The meeting 40 Years and Counting: AWM's Celebration of Women in Mathematics, which will be open to the public, celebrates the 40th anniversary of the organization, its accomplishments in promoting women in mathematics, and the many significant contributions of women in mathematics over the last forty years. There will be four plenary lectures by distinguished women in pure and applied mathematics, over 15 special sessions on a wide range of topics in the mathematical sciences, poster sessions for recent PhD recipients and graduate students, a panel, a banquet, and time for mentoring and discussion. This event comes at a critical time when the percentage of women among the first-year graduate students in mathematics has declined from 35% in 2001 to 29% in 2009. Many early-career female mathematicians, especially those at smaller schools, and also many graduate students, often have little or no contact with leading women researchers, with the exception of a few in their own research area. The long-term benefits of the meeting will be a heightened awareness of the accomplishments of female mathematicians, an increase in the participation of women in research activities, an expanded research network of potential collaborators, and visibility and connectivity for younger researchers.