Women in Mathematics (WIM) Electronic Newsletter

Fall '97, Issue 2

October 5, 1997

http://www.math.umd/~wim/Fall97/issue2.html


WIM Graduate Student Seminar

WHEN : Wednesday, October 8, at 4pm
WHERE : Room 2300
TOPIC : "Extracting Meteorological Data from a Projectile Trajectory"
SPEAKER : KT Gurskie ABSTRACT : This talk is based on a project that was part of the Industrial Mathematical Modeling Workshop at NCSU. The goal was to determine why adding noise to projectile trajectory data makes the inverse problem of finding wind velocity and air temperature unstable.

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AAUW Lunch on Thursday

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is hosting a brown-bag lunch information session on Thursday, October 9, 1997, from 12:30 - 1:30 pm in the Maryland Room of Marie Mount Hall. Terry Sayler, Librarian and campus AAUW representative will be there, in addition to current and former AAUW fellows, to answer questions and talk about the Educational Foundation's fellowship and grant opportunities. The AAUW American Fellowships application deadline is November 17, 1997. Information about this fellowship may be found on the UM Grad School Fellowship Office Webpage at http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/GradInfo/Fellowship through the "New Fellowship Announcements" link.


Fall 1997 WIM Seminar Schedule

The Fall 1997 schedule for the nationally reknowned (check out Spring '97, Issue 9) WIM Graduate Student Seminar is as follows: Wednesday, October 8 : "Extracting Meteorological Data from a Projectile Trajectory" (Speaker: KT Gurski)
Monday, October 20 : Speaker: Nicole Young
Wednesday, November 5 : Speaker: Mee Kim
Wednesday, November 19 : Speaker: Beth Arnold
Wednesday, December 3 : Speaker: Susan Garille Unless notified otherwise, all talks last about 20 minutes and will begin at 4pm in room 2300. (Note: Cookies are provided at all talks.) The fall semester talk schedule has been filled. However, it is not too early to be thinking about giving a talk next semester. If you are interested in giving a talk, please contact KT Gurskie at kfg@math.umd.edu. Spring seminar topics that are in the works include: "How to study for qualifiers" and a talk with graduates who were successful in their job search. If you have any ideas for talk topics, please e-mail WIM at wim@math.umd.edu.


Fall 1997 Women in Computer Science Lunch Schedule

The women in the computer science department have invited WIM members to join them at their bi-weekly lunches. If you would like to join them, bring your lunch to AV Williams 1152 at noon on the following dates: October 10
October 24
November 7
November 21
December 5


Editor: Susan G. Garille (sgg@math.umd.edu)
Organization: WIM (wim@math.umd.edu or http://www.math.umd.edu/~wim)
Last modified: Sun Oct 5 17:05:21 1997