for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs

Supported by the National Security Agency
the Office of Naval Research, and
the Association for Women in Mathematics

Over the past seventeen years, the Association for Women in Mathematics has held a series of workshops for women graduate students and recent PhDs (referred to as "postdocs" below) in conjunction with major mathematics meetings.

• AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, DC - Deadline for applications is August 25, 2008
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• AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs, held in conjunction with the 2008 SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA- Deadline for applications has been extended to January 23, 2008.
• Past Workshops - Programs, pictures, and so forth
• Information for Applicants and Participants

AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs

SIAM Annual Meeting
San Diego, CA, July 2008
Deadline for Applications Extended to January 23, 2008

When: An AWM Workshop is scheduled to be held in conjunction with the SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, July 7-11, 2008.

Format: The workshop will consist of a poster session by graduate students and two - three minisymposia featuring selected postdocs, plus an informational minisymposium directed at starting a career. The graduate student poster sessions will include all areas of research but each postdoc minisymposium will have a definite focus, and will be selected from the research areas of Mathematical Biology, Modeling, Control, Optimization, Scientific Computing, and PDEs and Applications. AWM will offer funding for travel and two days' subsistence for up to 20 participants. Departments are urged to help graduate students and postdocs obtain some supplementary institutional support to attend the Workshop and the associated meeting. All mathematicians (female and male) are invited to attend the entire program.

Discussion Group Leaders: We also seek volunteers to lead discussion groups and to act as mentors for workshop participants. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact the AWM office.

Eligibility: To be eligible for selection and funding, a graduate student must have begun work on her thesis problem, and a recent Ph.D. must have received her degree within approximately the last five years, whether or not she currently holds a postdoctoral or other academic or non-academic position. All non-US citizens must have a current US address.

All applications should include

1. Summary Sheet (pdf file available for printing)
2. a cover letter,
3. a summary of research work (one-two pages),
4. a title of the proposed poster or talk (with abstract of 75 words or less),
5. a curriculum vitae, and
6. a supporting letter of recommendation from a faculty member or research mathematician who knows their research is required for graduate student applicants and recommended but not required for recent Ph.D.'s. Additional letters of support are encouraged.

All selected and funded participants are invited and strongly encouraged to attend the full AWM two-day program. Those individuals selected will be notified by the AWM Office and will need to submit a final title and abstract with name, affiliation, address, etc. by mid-February to SIAM for the meeting program; AWM will provide instructions with the notification. For some advice on the application process from some of the conference organizers see Advice to AWM Workshop Applicants.

Send five complete copies of the application materials (including the cover letter) to:

Workshop Selection Committee
Association for Women in Mathematics
11240 Waples Mill Road
Suite 200
Fairfax, Virginia 22030

Questions? Call 703-934-0163 or email awm@awm-math.org.

Applications via e-mail of fax are not acceptable.
Deadline is the received date, not the postmarked date.

Workshop Application Deadline: January 23, 2008

• Advice to AWM Workshop Applicants
• Advice & Information for AWM Workshop Poster Presenters

• Joint Mathematics Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2008 - Program and Pictures
• SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, Snowbird, Utah, May 2007- Program and Pictures
• Joint Mathematics Meeting, New Orleans, CA, January 2007 - Program and Pictures
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, July 2006 - Program and Pictures
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, January 2006 - Program and Pictures
• SIAM Annual Meeting, New Orleans, July 2005 - Program
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Atlanta, January 2005 - Program
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Portland, July 2004 - Program
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix, January 2004 - Program
• Special Minisymposium at ICIAM 2003, July 2003 - Program
• SIAM/CAIMS/SCMAI Joint Mathematics Meetings, Montréal June 2003 - Program
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, January 2003 - Program
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, July 2002 - SIAM Workshop Program
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Diego, January 2002 - Program
• SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, July 2001 - Program and Pictures
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans, January 2001 - Program and Pictures
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Puerto Rico, July 2000 - Program and Pictures
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, D.C., January 2000 - Program and Pictures
• Special Minisymposium at ICIAM 99, July 1999 - Program
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Atlanta, May 1999 - Program
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, San Antonio, January 1999 - Program and Pictures
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Toronto, July 1998 - Program and Pictures
• Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, January 1998 - Pictures
• SIAM Annual Meeting, Stanford, July 1997 - Report from Newsletter and Program