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AMS Sectional Meeting Special Events/Lectures



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Spring Southeastern Sectional Meeting

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
March 13-15, 2020 (Friday - Sunday)

Associate secretaries:

Brian D Boe, AMS brian@math.uga.edu

Announcements

Einstein Lecture

The Einstein Lecture in 2020 will be held at this meeting on Saturday, March 14, 2020. The lecturer will be Moon Duchin, Tufts University. Please see the poster here. There will be a reception following this lecture, hosted by the University of Virginia, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, in the Lobby of Ern Commons.

AMS BIG Career Development and Job Search Workshop

Join us to hear mathematicians who are employed in BIG jobs discuss their work and career paths. This workshop is geared for graduate students and anyone else who wants to know more about careers in business, entrepreneurship, industry, government, and nonprofits (“BIG”). Friday, March 13 from 6:15–8:45 pm. It will take place in Kerchof Hall, Room 314. Register for this workshop on this meeting's registration form. Registration is free of charge and will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Details on this and other BIG activities are also accessible through https://www.ams.org/big.

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion (lunch buffet included), Saturday, March 14, 2020, 12:15 pm - 1:45 pm, Room - Nau 101. How can we concretely support members of groups underrepresented in mathematics?, organized by Lauren Childs, Virginia Tech; Sara Maloni, University of Virginia; and Rebecca R.G., George Mason University. The panel will introduce organizations which support mathematicians from underrepresented groups and discuss ideas that have been successfully employed on a local scale to support diversity in mathematics. Panelists will be: Moon Duchin, Tufts University; Autumn Kent, University of Wisconsin; Phil Kutzko, University of Iowa; Kavita Ramanan, Brown University; Sean Sather-Wagstaff, Clemson University; Craig Sutton, Dartmouth College; and Sunny Xiao, Brown University

Registration is mandatory to attend. Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePdmgtYbBv9kGnMeZjKbKkHKh6RRNanHyEUSkJ_IR_JOsO_A/viewform. See details at: http://intranet.math.vt.edu/people/lchilds/panel.html.

 

 


Inquiries: meet@ams.org