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The WIE SessionThe WIE Sessionat 2008 NSS/MIC/RTSDat 2008 NSS/MIC/RTSD

DresdenDresden, , GermanyGermany

Barbara Obryk, 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC SPN Meeting, Kraków, 30.06.2008Barbara Obryk, 2008 IEEE NSS/MIC SPN Meeting, Kraków, 30.06.2008

Barbara Obryk, PolandMaryam Al Thani, United Arab Emirates

WIE SESSIONWIE SESSIONplanned duration 3-4 hoursplanned duration 3-4 hours

Theme:Theme:

Barbara Obryk, 2008 NSS/MIC SPN Meeting, Kraków, 30.06.2007Barbara Obryk, 2008 NSS/MIC SPN Meeting, Kraków, 30.06.2007

New challenges and new opportunities New challenges and new opportunities for women scientists and engineers for women scientists and engineers

in the world of Internet Erain the world of Internet Era

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The WIE Session’s objective


The WIE Session is meant to give an opportunity for

participants to exchange ideas and information on the

topics that are of importance not only to the society

of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and

Mathematics (STEM)

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Simple remarks on this high-flown theme


This topic can be roughly divided into three issues:

-what to do to prepare high school girls to make an unprejudiced choice regarding their study and careers in STEM and give them good background for that,-how to seal a women academic pipeline to minimize “pipe leakage” phenomena,-how to overcome barriers for advancement of women already working in STEM.

Internet It is already valuable (but could and should be better) instrument in education and information transfer including dissemination of experience on specific issues.According to Freeman Dyson’s predictions about future of science, Internet will create quite new opportunity for science and scientists (e.g. new type of dispersed research programmes).

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•Strategies to attract young women into STEM;

•Strategies to encourage women scientists and engineers tocollaborate in order to share internationally their researchand experiences;

•Dissemination of the experience of women scientists and engineers;

•Internet and globalization and their impacts on womenopportunieties in developed and developing countries;

•Personal development of women scientists and engineersand their participation in decision-making bodies;

•Cultural, social and traditional bariers for women in STEM;

•Importance of women involvement in STEM for themselvesand their fields of activity;

The WIE Session proposed topics


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• Opening

• Keynote speakers’ lecture session (3-5 presentations) when outstanding women guests will share their expertise on the topics of the Session (we have to know what we may offer to our candidates before we invite them)

• Panel disscussion (6-8 panelists have to be invited) on general theme of the Session

• Presentation of WIE activities

• Common coffee and informal disscussion

Proposed plan/program of the WIE Session


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Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Professor of Physics and Department Chair,Open University, England

Some Important Contributions:

•Discovered the first four pulsars. Using a radio telescope that she helped build as part of her Ph.D. dissertation, Bell (later Burnell) detected a rapid set of pulses occurring at regular intervals. She determined that the position of the unusual radio source remained fixed with respect to the stars, which meant that it was located beyond the solar system. During the course of the next few months, she discovered 3 more pulsating radio sources (or pulsars). These pulsars were later found to be rapi dly rotating neutron stars. For pulsars discovery Hewish get a Nobel Prize in 1974.

•Research at several wavelengths (gamma ray, very short radio, infrared, X-ray) and on many astrophysical topics.

•Main interest: the astrophysics of neutron star.

•She describes herself as "a role model, a spokeswoman, a representative, and a promoter of women in science in the U.K.".

•She held many Professional Honours including several Honorary Doctorates.

Candidates for invited speakers


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Nina Byers – Research Professor and Professor of Physics Emeritus at UCLA. She is a former Chair of the American Physical Society Forum on History of Physics and also Forum on Physics and Society. Her academic degrees are from University of California, Berkeley and the University of Chicago. She is known for her sponsorship of the Contributions of 20th century Women to Physics.

She is a prominent theoretical physicist involved in promoting women in science and in physics in particular.

Some recent non-technical publications present physicists' history of 20th century physics:

•OUT OF THE SHADOWS: Contributions of 20th century Women to Physics, ed. Nina Byers and Gary Williams, Cambridge University Press 2006.

•EINSTEIN AND WOMEN. APS News Jun 2005.

•PHYSICISTS AND THE 1945 DECISION TO DROP THE BOMB. CERN Courier Oct 2002.

•FERMI AND SZILARD in "Fermi Remembered", ed. James Cronin, U. of Chicago Press 2004

•E. NOETHER'S DISCOVERY OF THE DEEP CONNECTION BETWEEN SYMMETRIES AND CONSERVATION LAWS. Invited talk in Symposium on the Heritage of Emmy Noether, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 2-4 Dec 1996. ISRAEL MATHEMATICAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Vol. 12, 1999



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Wendy Hall – Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England. She was Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) from 2002 to 2007.

•One of the first computer scientists to undertake serious research in multimedia and hypermedia, she has been at its forefront ever since. The influence of her work has been significant in many areas including digital libraries, the development of the Semantic Web, and the emerging research discipline of Web Science.

•Her current research includes applications of the Semantic Web and exploring the interface between the life sciences and the physical sciences. She is a Founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative.

•In addition to playing a prominent role in the development of her subject, she also helps shape science and engineering policy and education. Through her leadership roles on national and international bodies, she has shattered many glass ceilings, readily deploying her position on numerous national and international bodies to promote the role of women in SET, and acting as an important role model for others.

•She is currently Senior Vice President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, a member of the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology, a founder member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council, and President of the Association for Computing Machinery. She was President of the British Computer Society (2003-4) and an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow from 1996 to 2002. Fellow of IEEE particularly interested in promoting women in computing in particular and science in general.



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Joann P. Di Gennaro – President of the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE)

•She together with the late Admiaral H.G.Rickover (born in Poland, father of the US nuclear Navy) established CEE in 1983 to nurture young scholars to careers of excellence in science and technology, and to promote understanding among future scientific and technological leaders in the global community. CEE sponsors the Research Science Institute (RSI), a six week Summer enrichment program with MIT on their campus. Each Summer approximately 75 high school students selected from the United States and other countries of Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, participate in RSI. CEE helps RSI alumni throughout their academic carriers. Already many of them have achieved high successes (e.g. Terence Tao received Fields Medal in 2006).

•J. P. Di Gennaro has been instrumental in developing international collaboration in CEE and RSI. She has a unique knowledge of gifted young women carriers in science and techgnology and barriers as well as methods to overcome them. Her expertise should be wide disseminated and the WIE Session may serve this aim.



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Women face a special series of gender related barriers to entry and success in scientific careers that persist, despite recent advances.

There is significant evidence of bias: women are paid less, promoted more slowly, receive fewer honors, and hold fewer leadership positions.

„The early departure of women from physics research means the loss of an enormous scientific potential. Both society and the universities must create conditions that will help reduce this bias.” (conclusion of the German Physical Society Report)

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Thank you for your attention!

You are cordially invited to WIE Session

at 2008 NSS/MIC/RTSD in Dresden!

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