Women and Mathematics Program

高等研究所的妇女与数学方案是一个年度方案，其使命是招募和留住更多的妇女从事数学工作。 WAM的目的是解决最初的男女数学培训人数的不平衡，以及在数学职业生涯的每个关键过渡阶段，女性数学家的自然减员率高于男性。 WAM鼓励女性数学家建立合作研究关系，并积极参与从本科生到荣誉教授的垂直指导网络，这为许多女性数学家提供支持并减少他们所经历的孤立感。该计划围绕当前研究兴趣的数学主题组织。科学计划包括系列讲座，并伴有旨在提供高质量教学和研究经验的日常问题会议;博士后和高级研究生的研究研讨会;以及杰出女性数学家的座谈会。 此外，晚上的妇女在科学研讨会探讨广泛的关注女性数学家的主题。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带入第三个十年时，以下被视为扩大该计划的范围和寿命及其对国家STEM社区的影响的关键新目标：扩大WAM的足迹，使更多的妇女从该计划的数学和指导方面受益;提高女性数学家对数学界和整个社会的可见度;将WAM开发的有效范例传播到更广泛的数学界;为女性数学家在研究数学和学术界以外的职业生涯提供机会。

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.