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SPRING 2008
Upcoming Events
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!
Past Events Spring 2008
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.
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