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Noetherian Ring and Mentoring Möbius Events
FALL 2009

Upcoming Events

Thursday, November 19, 12PM
The Noetherian Ring is having lunch in the PL in Fine Hall with Colloquium speaker Tatiana Smirnova-Nagnibeda from the University of Geneva. We hope to see many of our members there!

Past Events, Fall 2009

Sunday, October 25, 2PM
(Note event is postponed due to rain!) There is a great apple orchard just outside of Princeton called Terhune orchards, and we are going apple picking! If you are interested, please contact efuchs at math. We will meet on campus and drive over together.

Friday, October 16, 12PM
Come for lunch to the Genomics Cafe in the Carl Icahn Lab on Washington St. If you couldn't make it to the first lunch, you can meet everyone this time around instead!

Wednesday, September 30, 12PM
The first Noetherian Ring lunch of the year will take place in the PL at the top of Fine Hall. Come meet math-minded ladies and see what this year has in store for us!

Events and Announcements from Previous Semesters

NEW!
Mentoring Möbius and Noetherian Ring t-shirts!

Our first ever t-shirts! You can buy them online at: Mentoring Möbius/Noetherian Ring t-shirts.

Friday November 7, 7pm
The first Noetherian Ring dinner of the year

All Noetherian Ring members are invited to join us for a dinner hosted at a restaurant in Princeton. RSVP to Lillian by November 4.

Wednesday November 12, 6:30pm
Math Major dinner at Whitman College Rectangular Private Dining Room

All students interested in the math major are welcome to join Lillian Pierce '02 for dinner at Whitman. Come ask any questions that are on your mind about what it's like to be a math major at Princeton!

Past Events Fall 2008

Wednesday October 15, 7-9 PM, Forbes College Lounge
The Many Faces of Science at Princeton III

Join stellar female science faculty at Princeton for dessert and a chance to hear about what it's like to be a scientist. The faculty will come from a wide range of scientific disciplines, and will be able to address all your questions about majors and careers. More details coming soon; all students of all years welcome.

Friday September 19, 6:30PM
Mentoring Möbius Welcoming Dinner!

Welcome, freshmen! Are you interested in math? Do you want a mentor who can guide you through the math major process? Or do you just have questions about what math class to takethis semester? Join Lillian Pierce (math major '02, grad student) in the Rockefeller College dinning room for a chance to talk about being a math major. All students are welcome! (If you can't come to dinner, but still want to know about the mentoring program, send an email to Lillian at lbpierce.)

Past Events Spring 2008

Monday April 21, 5:30-6:30PM, PL Fine Hall
Noetherian Ring Colloquium by Maryam Mirzakhani, Princeton University

TITLE: "Dynamics on the moduli space of hyperbolic surfaces." Join us for the second Noetherian Ring Colloquium of the year. No advanced background will be assumed and this talk should be understandable by first year graduate students and beyond. All Noetherian Ring members are invited afterwards for dinner at Ichiban, hosted by the Noetherian Ring!

Wednesday April 9, 6PM
What's it like to be a math major?

Join Lillian at Whitman College for a chance to talk about being a math major. All students are welcome!

Monday March 31, 7PM
Dinner with Joyce McLaughlin

Join PACM colloquium speaker Joyce McLaughlin for dinner at J.B. Winberrie.

Tuesday, March 25, 8PM
The Many Faces of Science at Princeton II, at Whitman College

Interested in math, science, or engineering? Join us for a dessert study break: President Tilghman and 10 other stellar female faculty will join us for a casual discussion about life in science. Sponsored by Mathey and Whitman Colleges. Questions? Contact Lillian Pierce.

Wednesday February 6, 9PM
Cookie Night for Mentoring Mobius

Join Lillian at Whitman College for a chance to talk about applying to summer math programs, as well as your spring course choices and independent work.

Past Events Fall 2007

Wednesday November 28, 4:45-6PM
Graduate Women in Science and Engineering negotiation skills workshop

Join GWISE for a workshop on negotiation. They will be discussing techniques that women can use to negotiate for higher salaries and better work conditions. The workshop will take place in the Convocation Room in the Friend Center.

Friday November 9, 6:30-8PM Rocky College Dining Hall
Mentoring Mobius: spring course selection dinner

Join Lillian Pierce for dinner at Rocky to talk about selecting your math courses for the spring semester

Thursday, November 8, 5:30-6:30PM, PL Fine Hall
Noetherian Ring Colloquium by Anna Weinhard, Princeton University

ABSTRACT: "An Introduction to Geometry beyond hyperbolic surfaces" The moduli space of (marked) hyperbolic structures on a surface of genus g is a (6g-6)-dimensional ball. In a more algebraic description, we could describe it as a connected component of the space of homomorphisms of the fundamental group of the surface into SL(2,R), and in this description it has natural higher dimensional analogues. But what is the geometry behind such structures? No advanced background will be assumed and this talk should be understandable by first year graduate students and beyond. Join us afterwards for dinner at Ichiban, hosted by the Noetherian Ring!

Thursday, October 18, 9-11PM
The Many Faces of Science at Princeton, at the Forbes College Lounge

Interested in math, science, or engineering? Join us for a dessert study break and a chance to find out more about life as a scientist from some of Princeton's stellar female faculty. Not sure what exactly you want to do yet? From computer science to mathematics, molecular biology to psychology, geosciences to electrical engineering, phsyics to biology, we've got you covered! Place: Forbes College Lounge. Ice cream and cupcakes from The Bent Spoon. Sponsored by Forbes and Whitman Colleges. Questions? Contact Lillian Pierce.

Wednesday, September 26, 6:30PM
Fall 2007 Kick-off dinner at Masala Grill

Join us at 6:30 at the Masala Grill for a relaxed chance to catch up with everyone after the summer and meet the new young women in the Princeton department and the IAS.

Tuesday, September 25, 5:00PM
Ice Cream Social with GWISE

A great chance to get to know the Graduate Women in Science and Engineering!

Past Events Spring 2007

Tuesday, January 30, 3:30PM
Tea and Cakes at Lillian's apartment

Tuesday, February 20, 7PM
Dinner with Feb. 21 colloquium speaker Sylvia Serfaty at La Mezzaluna, 25 Witherspoon Street. RSVP to Melanie.

Sylvia Serfaty is a 1999 graduate of University of Paris-Sud who has been an Associate Professor at NYU since 2003. She is the recipient of the 2002 NYU Research Challenge Fund, a 2003 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, a 2003 NSF CAREER award, and a 2004 European Mathematical Society Prize. She works in the field of PDE's.

Wednesday, February 21, 4:00PM in Fine 314
Department Colloquium by Sylvia Serfaty, NYU
"A game interpretation of curvature flows and other nonlinear PDE's"
ABSTRACT
Mean curvature flow is the motion of a curve (or hupersurface) with normal velocity equal to its mean curvature. In a joint work with Robert Kohn, we showed how an elementary two-person deterministic game converges to the viscosity solution of the mean curvature equation (in level set formulation). This gives a parallel to the optimal control interpretation of first order Hamilton-Jacobi equations. In recent progress, we are able to find analogous interpretations for all parabolic and elliptic nonlinear PDEs. I should add that the abstract has many technical words, but the talk is quite easy to follow for anyone with a very basic knowledge of PDEs (and maybe even for those who don't have it...)

Thursday, March 29, 6PM
Festival of Short Talks
Dinner for graduate students and undergraduate Mentoring Möbius participants

Come to dinner in the Professor's Lounge, catered by Olives. During dinner, the graduate students will give very brief informal descriptions of their research areas.

Wednesday, April 11, 6-8PM at Butler College, 1915 Room
Major Choices Dinner: Math, Physics, and Computer Science

Learn about the challenges and opportunities for women in math, physics, and computer science at a dinner where you can discuss these fields with women faculty, current majors, and grad students.
6PM Panel Discussion with the veteran insight of:
Prof. Ingrid Daubechies (Math and Applied and Computational Math)
Prof. Jennifer Rexford (Computer Science)
Prof. Suzanne Staggs (Physics)
7PM Informal Dicussion with graduate students and current majors.
A special buffet dinner will be served.
This is a Major Choices event sponsored by Butler College.

Tuesday, May 1, 7PM
Dinner with May 2 colloquium speaker Tamar Ziegler.
RSVP to Lillian by April 23.

Tamar Ziegler is a postdoc at the University of Michigan. During the academic year 2005-2006 she visited the Institute of Advanced Study. Her current research interests are in structures related to the phenomenon of multiple recurrence in ergodic theory and applications of ergodic theory to combinatorical number theory. A recent paper she has written jointly with Terence Tao is entitled "The primes contain arbitrarily long polynomial progressions."

Wednesday, May 16, 8PM at Lillian's place
Desserts Night: Postdocs from All Angles

Join us for a casual question and answer session over dessert on how to apply for postdocs and what to do with one once you have it. Noetherian Ring members are invited, as well as several recent postdocs and guest faculty members who can give us their expert opinions.

Noetherian Ring and Mentoring Möbius Events FALL 2009