The Workshop for Women in Analysis and PDE is targeted towards women at the early stages of their career in mathematics. It is designed to support them through the crucial passage from the graduate school to postdoc to faculty position to tenure, which is statistically the phase at which a particularly high percent of women leave academia.
It is a focused educational and research program in a chosen area of Analysis and PDE, which will bring
together outstanding senior female mathematicians and junior researchers. The Workshop is centered at two
series of Main Lectures, contains invited and contributed talks, as well as panel discussions regarding career development issues.
General goals of the Workshop: what will YOU get out of it?. Despite
numerous initiatives and undeniable progress over the past few decades, gender imbalance in mathematics
remains significant, with a pronounced drop-off at the turning points of the career: while 42% of undergraduate
degrees and 31% of Ph.D.s in math are awarded to women, one finds only 19% of female postdocs and
12% of women among the tenure-track and tenured faculty at doctoral departments. While today’s market
in research mathematics is extremely challenging in principle, it is particularly difficult for women, for a
variety of professional and personal reasons: some remaining bias, little visibility in the field, and a side but
quite often crucial consideration: the reality of having to handle decisive points of career and personal life
at the same age.
The Workshop for Women in Analysis and PDE is targeted towards women at the early stages of their
career in mathematics, emphatically supporting them through the crucial passage from the graduate school
to postdoc to faculty position to tenure, which is statistically the phase at which a particularly high percent
of women leave academia.
It is a focused educational and research program in a chosen area of Analysis and PDE, which will bring
together outstanding senior female mathematicians and junior researchers. The goal is, on one side, to
introduce participants to a new field of Analysis and PDE and give a broad view of the rich opportunities
the field has to offer, and, on the other, to stimulate new collaborations on the concrete projects. The main
lectures will emphasize current directions of research and are aimed to help interested junior participants to
join the on-going and starting projects. Participants’ presentations of their own results will enhance their
visibility in the field and give them a chance to address senior mathematicians as well as their junior peers.
And finally, there will be a panel and less formal discussions devoted to various professional issues, practical
questions of managing career and family interests, job search, grant applications and such.
At the early career stages it is particularly difficult for a young mathematician to develop new scientific
relationships besides the ones with the advisor and postdoctoral mentor. Statistics indicates that the situation
is even more complicated for women. While being a focused research program, the Workshop will naturally
extend the mentorship network of women mathematicians igniting new projects, collaboration and crossfertilization
of ideas
We aim to make mathematics equally open to everyone, and all interested researchers are invited to apply,
regardless of affliation, age, and gender. Some travel funding is available due to the support of the National
Science Foundation.