A SIAM Workshop: Graduate Student Focus on Diversity

Events

Networking Lunch - Conversations with Scientists
As in previous workshops, the lunch plays an important part in the workshop. The idea of the lunch is to give the workshop participants an opportunity to network with distinguished mathematicians and invited SIAM members. At lunch, participants will be seated in small groups (tables of 8-10), to encourage conversation. The topics discussed in previous lunches covered a wide range of topics, for example, “What courses should I take?”, “Why should I get a Ph.D.?”, and “What's it like to be an applied mathematician in industry?”

Evening Session - Food for Thought
An informal evening session will be held, to provide an opportunity for students to discuss frankly their professional and personal experiences. In previous meetings, this session brought together distinguished mathematicians from academia and industry who gave a perspective on what it is like to be a minority mathematician and what types of rewards and problems the students could expect as they progress through their professional careers. This year's program will feature breakout groups to discuss various topics of interest to students.

Field Trip to SDSC
Join us on an exciting tour of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. Transportation will be provided for all students to an from the conference hotel. A bus will leave from the hotel at 5:30 sharp. This event will begin with a reception at the San Diego Computer Center starting at 6:00, and followed by a short talk from Bob Leary, Senior Staff Scientist on Global Optimization of Atomic Clusters via Basin-hopping. Short tours of the computer center will be given after the talks for all those interested.

This event is being graciously supported by the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure