Woman Mathematician Forum

July 8

The “Woman Mathematician Forum” will be held on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. It is in the second week of Taida Math Month. In this activity, we consider mathematics in a broad sense, and invite women with mathematical background to share their unique experiences in both academic and non-academic worlds. The purpose is on one hand to discuss difficulties which woman mathematician may face and on the other hand to show young female students the diverse possibilities that mathematics can offer.

The forum consists of two parts. The morning session will focus on non-academic or inter-disciplinary experiences and the afternoon session will focus on the experiences and current status of women in the academic world of mathematics. The session will be initiated by some short talks, and then follows with the main panel discussions.

In addition to the NTU female alumni, we are pleased to invite Professor Ingrid Daubechies from Princeton University to share her invaluable experience with us. This activity is open to everybody.

Morning session

Career perspective of Mathematics:
  Being a female professional

  Short Talk Speakers

C. J.-L. Chuang-Stein ( Video , ppt ),  F.-C. Graham ( Video, ppt ),   L.-F. Wu ( Video, ppt )

  Forum Panelists

C. J.-L. Chuang-Stein  ( SRCC, Pfizer Inc. )
F.-C. Graham  ( UC, San Diego )
M.-L.T. Lee  ( University of Maryland, College Park )
S.-S. Wang  ( Hsinchu Girls' Senior High School )
L.-F. Wu  ( UT Southwestern Medical Center )
S.-W. S. Yu   ( Sun Micro System, Taiwan )

*All the talks and discussion use Chinese.
* Video

Afternoon session

Joys and Struggles:
 Being a woman mathematician

  Short Talk Speaker

I. Daubechies

* Present by Video. ( Edited 、Original )

  Forum Panelists

S.-Y. A. Chang  ( Princeton University )
W.-C. W. Li  ( Pennsylvania State University )
Y.-I. Lee ( National Taiwan University )
C.-C. M. Liu  ( Columbia University )
M.-C. Shaw   ( University of Notre Dame )
C.-L. Terng  ( UC, Irvine )

*Except video of short talk, all the talks and discussion use Chinese.

* Video(1) 、Video(2)

Other related data

Forum Panelists Handbook

Data of S.-S. Wang

Report of Woman Mathematician Forum

Organization committee

Sun-Yung Alice Chang,  Yng-Ing Lee,  Hui-Wen Lin

Related Links

Association for Women in Mathematics
European Women in Mathematics
Biographies of Women Mathematicians