2007 Schedule
Program for Women and Mathematics
Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University
Daily Schedule
May 14-25, 2007
Program Organizers: Karen Uhlenbeck, Chuu-Lian Terng, Antonella Grassi and Alice Chang
Women in Science Seminar Organizers: Katy Bold and Melanie Matchett Wood
Research Seminar Organizer: Elizabeth Gasparim
Monday, May 14
12:00 - 5:00 p.m. Registration (Fuld Hall Common Room)
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:30 p.m. Tour of Institute campus given by Dinah Kazakoff (meet in Fuld Hall Common Room)
5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Introductions
6:00 p.m. Informal supper and orientation (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Tuesday, May 15
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall)
9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy, "Enumerative Geometry and String Theory"
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Frances Kirwan, University of Oxford, "Quotients of Algebraic Varieties by Group Actions"
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Melissa Liu, "A formula of two-partition Hodge integrals"
4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Alessia Mandini, "Some results on the moduli spaces of polygons"
5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
" A Chat with Karen"
6:15 p.m. Opening Dinner (Dining Hall)
Wednesday, May 16
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall)
9:00 a.m. Group photo - please be in the front of Fuld Hall if you wish to be in the picture. Please be prompt.
9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy, "Enumerative Geometry and String Theory"
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Frances Kirwan, University of Oxford, "Quotients of Algebraic Varieties by Group Actions"
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 p.m. Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Andrei Okounkov, Princeton University
5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
"How to Survive Graduate School" Panel Discussion
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Thursday, May 17
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall)
9:00 a.m. T-shirt sale (Harry's Bar, Dining Hall)
9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy, "Enumerative Geometry and String Theory"
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Frances Kirwan, University of Oxford, "Quotients of Algebraic Varieties by Group Actions"
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Angela Gibney, Equations and Degenerations I
4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Diane Maclagan, Equations and Degenerations II
5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Helen Grundman, "Identifying and Clarifying Your Personal Teaching Philosophy"
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Friday, May 18
8:00 - 9:45 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall)
9:30-10:00 a.m. Depart for Princeton University (talks, lunch, campus and art museum tour and dinner) (Bus departs from the front of Fuld Hall no later than 10:00 a.m.)
Saturday, May 19
All day Recreational activities organized by participants
Sunday, May 20
All day Recreational activities organized by participants
Monday, May 21
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall)
9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Amy Ksir, United States Naval Academy, "Enumerative Geometry and String Theory"
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties"
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Jie Sun, "Descent construction for central extensions of infinite dimensional Lie algebras"
4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Elena Poletaeva, "Lie algebras and superalgebras of vector fields"
5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
To be announced
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Tuesday, May 22
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall)
9:00 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College, "Toric Varieties"
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties"
11:15 a.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Milena Hering, "Syzygies of toric varieties"
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Alexandra Golubeva, "The main theorem of Galois theory for algebraic groups"
4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Chelsea Walton, "Noncommutative algebraic geometry"
5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
"A Day in the Life" Panel Discussion
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Wednesday, May 23
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall)
9:00 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College, "Toric Varieties"
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties"
11:15 a.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Elizabeth Beazley, Codimensions of Newton strata in the affine flag manifold
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Lauren Williams, "Total positivity and the Grassmannian"
4:40 p.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Susan Sierra, Noncommutative algebraic geometry and a general homological Kleiman-Bertini theorem
5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
"A Woman President"
6:30 p.m. Informal Supper (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Thursday, May 24
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall)
9:00 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College, "Toric Varieties"
10:00 a.m. Break
10:15 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties"
11:15 a.m. Research Seminar (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Elizabeth Gasparim, Groups structures on local moduli
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)
1:15 p.m. Review Session: Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
2:30 p.m. Review Session: Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
3:45 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Fuld Hall Common Room)
4:00 p.m. Colloquium (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
William Fulton, Equivariant cohomology of G/B
5:15 p.m. Women in Science Seminar (Dilworth Room, Dining Hall)
Arlene Fiore, NOAA GFDL, Estimating natural vs. anthropogenic contributions to surface ozone smog: Implications for air quality policy
6:30 p.m. Closing Dinner (Birch Garden, Dining Hall)
Friday, May 25
8:00 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast(Dining Hall)
9:30 a.m. Beginning Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
Jessica Sidman, Mount Holyoke College, "Toric Varieties"
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. Advanced Lecture Course (Simonyi Hall Seminar Room)
V. Lakshmibai, Northeastern University, "Flag Varieties"
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Dining Hall)
Close of program