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SUMMARY:3rd Workshop on String Theory and Gender
DTSTART:20170315T120000Z
DTEND:20170317T170000Z
DTSTAMP:20260418T080900Z
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CONTACT:m.m.taylor@soton.ac.uk\;a.obannon@soton.ac.uk
DESCRIPTION:The purpose of this workshop is to raise awareness of gender i
 ssues in our field and to develop actions to address gender inequality.\n\
 nTwo half days of the workshop will be devoted to gender issues\, with tal
 ks presenting statistics on female participation at different career stage
 s and the effects of actions to improve the situation. The gender session
 s will be interactive\, with participants encouraged to contribute their o
 wn experiences and ideas. After the workshop\, we plan to produce a report
  on possible actions and circulate this to the wider community.\n\nThe oth
 er sessions of the workshop will be devoted to recent developments in theo
 retical physics\, with review talks on topical subjects. There will also b
 e the possibility for short contributed talks by early career researchers
 .\n\nThis workshop is the third of this kind (the first workshop on string
  theory and gender took place in Valencia in July 2015 and the second took
  place in Paris in June 2016). We would like to encourage men and women\, 
 junior and senior scientists\, to participate in the workshop.\n\nSpeakers
 \n\nGender issues: \n\nMike Childress (Astronomy\, University of Southamp
 ton) talk slides\n\nValerie Gibson (Experimental Particle Physics\, Univer
 sity of Cambridge) talk slides\n\nWim van Saarloos (Director FOM/transitio
 n NWO and Theoretical Physics\, Leiden University) talk slides\n\nOvervi
 ew talks:\n\nJan de Boer (University of Amsterdam) talk slides\n\nClaudia 
 de Rham (Imperial College London) Cancelled last minute\n\nJames Drummond 
 (University of Southampton) talk slides\n\nBalt van Rees (University of Du
 rham) talk slides\n\nAnastasia Volovich (Brown University) Cancelled last 
 minute (due to snowstorm in Boston)\n\n(Unfortunately Anastasia Volovich a
 nd Claudia de Rham had to cancel their attendance at late notice due to sn
 ow storms in Boston etc. James kindly agreed to step in for Anastasia with
  one day's notice.)\n\nOrganisers\n\nOscar Dias\, Andy O'Bannon\, Kostas S
 kenderis and Marika Taylor\n\nWeb Resources\n\nAmerican Physical Society:
  Women in Physics\n\nEU Gender Portal\n\nIOP reports on gender issues in u
 ptake of physics in UK\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://indico.global/event/5671/
URL:https://indico.global/event/5671/
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