SONIA KOVALEVSKY
HIGH SCHOOL MATHEMATICS DAY
Thursday April 5, 2001
Assembly Hall (Campus Center, 2nd floor)
University at Albany, SUNY
Sponsored by:
University at Albany, SUNY
Sonia Kovalevsky Days have been organized by the Association for Women in
Mathematics (AWM) and institutions around
the country since 1985, when AWM sponsored a symposium on Sonia Kovalevsky.
This year our program will have a Main Talk given by Merceded Ricahrds,
astronomer at the University of Virginia and the Institute of Advance Study,
Princeton University, who will also offer a Problem Solving Session for the
students. Dr. Roger Cook will give a video presentation on the Life and
Works of Sonia Kovalevsky; and we will have Career Talks offered by local
women professionals.
The purpose of the Sonia Kovalevsky Days is to encourage young women to continue their study
of mathematics, to assist them with the sometimes difficult transition
between high school and college mathematics, to assist the teachers of
women mathematics students, and to encourage colleges and universities
to develop more extensive cooperation with high schools in their area.
Follow-up studies will track whether the participants go to college, what
they major in, and what they do upon graduation from college.
Sonia Kovalevsky's brief
biography
SKD Schedule
| 9:00 -- 9:15 |
Registration. |
| 9:15 -- 10:45 |
Main Lecture and Problem Solving: Dr. Mercedes Richards, Dept.
of Astronomy, Univ. of Virginia and the Institute of Advance Study, Princeton
University. |
| 11:00 -- 11:30 |
Career Talk: Betty Barnet. |
| 11:30 -- 12:00 |
Career Talk: Laura Gross. |
| 12:00 -- 12:30 |
Lunch. |
| 12:30 -- 1:00 |
Sonia Kovalevsky's Life and Works.
|
| 1:00 -- 1:30 |
Career Talk: Karen Gross. |
Main Lecture:
Dr. Mercedes Richards, Dept.
of Astronomy, Univ. of Virginia and the Institute of Advance Study, Princeton
University.
Sonia Kovalevsky's Life and Works:
The Life and Works of Sonia Kovalevsky, by Dr. Roger Cook, the University
of Vermont, author of The Mathematics of Sonya Kovalevskaya
(Springer-Verlag 1984)
Career Talks:
The panelists are successful women of our community. They will talk about
what they do, how they use mathematics in their work, why they chose their
careers and what obstacles they encountered getting there.
Betty Barnet: Albany City's Treasurer
Dr. Laura Gross: University of Ohio, Akron and the University of
Vermont. Dr. Gross is a professor of applied mathematics. She received
her Ph.D. from R.P.I. and is currently working under a NASA space grant
at the University of Vermont.
Karen Gross: Howard Huges Fellow, Brigham and Wome's Hospital, Boston,
MA. Ms. Gross is pursuing a joint MD/PhD at the University of Vermont.
She is currently a Howard Huges Fellow doing statistical studies of fibroid
occurrence in women at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
Campus Center Maps
The room for the event is Assembley Hall which is located on the
2nd floor of the Campus Center .
Map of the University
campus. You can park in the Visitos' Parking Lots marked with a V in this
map. The Campus Center is not marked on this map, but it is the building on
top of building numbered 12.
Campus Center: It is located inside the inner rectangle in the university
campus, facing the fountain.
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