Celebrating Women in Mathematics
Saturday November 6, 1999
"Holly's Rose"
Celebrating Women in Mathematics
Saturday November 6, 1999
"Holly's Rose"
Welcome to the site for the first Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day (SKHMD) at New College of USF. The event aims to promote and encourage women to pursue careers in mathematics or mathematically related fields. Sonia Kovalevsky was the first woman to earn a Ph.D in Mathematics.
If you are a female high school student or a mathematics teacher (male or female) please consider joining us for this event. (Advanced middle school students are also welcome.) You can register electronically (We are still accepting registrations but we can not guarantee lunch if we don't receive your registration by 5pm on Friday November 5, 1999 ).
Arrangements are being made with the appropriate School district to provide in-service credit for participating teachers. In-service credit has already been approved for participating Sarasota County teachers.
We are planning several fun and educational activities for students and teachers. A detailed tentative program of activities is provided below:
The program provides opportunities for shared interaction by all participants. One set of workshops is designed for students and the other set for the teachers. The student workshops will cover contemporary applications of mathematics, including a high level of active student involvement; the team competition at the end of the day will enable students to draw from the concepts and methods introduced in the day's sessions and apply them to a set of problems. New College math students will assist in designing the problems and will grade the papers after the competition. The teacher workshops will address curricular and pedagogical issues, and conclude with a discussion session at which teachers can exchange ideas. The format of this session will be a panel discussion lead by several university faculty members. All speakers and workshop leaders listed below are confirmed.
The Sonia Kovalevsky High School Mathematics Day (SKHMD) is named after the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics and is sponsored by:
To join us for this event, please fill out an Electronic Registration Form (We are still accepting registrations but we can not guarantee lunch if we don't receive your registration by 5pm on Friday November 5, 1999)
It is not too late to add your school to this list. Register today
If you are traveling north on US 41, take the first right past University Parkway off US 41 onto General Spaatz (there is a Shell station in the corner of US 41 and General Spaatz on the north-east corner). Sudakoff Center is on the right side of General Spaatz. Follow the signs to the registration desk in Sudakoff.
Similarly if you are traveling south on US 41, take a left off US 41 onto General Spaatz. If you drove past University Parkway you went too far. General Spaatz is the last left off US 41 before University Parkway. (there is a Shell station in the corner of US 41 and General Spaatz on the north-east corner). Sudakoff Center is on the right side of General Spaatz. Follow the signs to the registration desk in Sudakoff.
If you are taking I-75 to come to Sarasota, take exit 40 of I75 and onto (west) University Parkway. Stay on University Parkway until it terminates just past the Airport exit. Take a right on US 41 and then take the first right off US 41 onto General Spaatz (there is a Shell station in the corner of US 41 and General Spaatz on the north-east corner). Sudakoff Center is on the right side of General Spaatz. Follow the signs to the registration desk in Sudakoff.
or send e-mail to: poimenid@virtu.sar.usf.edu.
or write to:
Dr. Eirini PoimenidouBiographical information and abstracts for the talks and workshops will be posted here shortly.
Division of Natural Sciences
New College of USF
5700 N. Tamiami Trail
Sarasota, FL 34243.
PROGRAM
All talks and workshops will take place in the Sudakoff Center
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration (with Coffee and Donuts) | |
| 9:30-9:35 | Opening Introduction-Dr. Eirini Poimenidou-Program Director, New College | |
| 9:35-9:45 | Welcome-Dr. Michael Bassis-Campus Dean and Warden of New College | |
| 9:45-10:30 | Keynote Address-
Dr Sylvia Bozeman-Professor of Mathematics Spelman College "Mathematics for a High-Tech Career" |
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| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:45-11:45 | Student Workshop
Dr.Poimenidou Professor of Mathematics-New College "Public Key Cryptography" |
Teacher Workshop:
Dr. Natasha Jonoska-Professor of Mathematics-USF Tampa "Mathematical Biology" |
| 11:45-1:15 | Buffet Lunch with Biographical
Sketch of Sonia Kovalevskypresented by
Deborah Herbstman and Andrea Saunders -New College Students
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| 1:15-2:05 | Student Workshop:
Dr. Pat McDonald-Professor of Mathematics-New College "Playing to win" |
Teacher Workshop:
Dr. Gladis Kersaint-Professor of Math Education USF Tampa "Girls and Math" |
| 2:05-2:20 | Break-Group Photograph in front of Sudakoff Center | |
| 2:20-3:20 | Student Workshop:
Team Mathematics Competition coordinated by Dr. Poimenidou and New College students |
Teacher Workshop:
Panel Discussion with teachers Panelists:
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| 3:20-3:45 | Afternoon tea Break | |
| 3:45-4:30 | Afternoon Plenary Session:
Mr. John Sims-Math Coordinator of Ringling School of Art and Design "Pythagorean Triples and Art" |
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| 4:30-4:40 | Completion of Evaluation Forms by Math Day Participants | |
| 4:40-4:50 | Closing: Awarding of Prizes, Students Certificates and In-Service Credit Certificates for Teachers | |
Sylvia T. Bozeman is a Professor of Mathematics and Associate Provost for Science and Mathematics at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA. She has served in many leadership roles at the College, including ten years as Chairperson of the Mathematics Department and six years on the Spelman College Board of Trustees.
Sylvia Bozeman earned the Ph.D. degree in mathematics at Emory University in 1980 and the bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from Alabama A& M University and Vanderbilt University, respectively. Her mathematical publications and research have been in the areas of Functional Analysis and Image Processing. Dr. Bozeman is keenly interested in issues related to increasing the number of minorities and women in the mathematical sciences. She has taken a leadership role in several special projects designed to address these issues and is currently co-director of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Program, a national transition program for women entering graduate school in mathematics. For four years she served as co-director of the Spelman Bryn-Mawr Summer Mathematics Program, a program to acquaint young women with the joys and other realities of a scientific career. Her related publications include “Black Women Mathematicians: In Short Supply”, SAGE Magazine, Fall, 1989, and she co-authored “Smoothing the Transition to Graduate Education” in the Notices of the AMS, March 1999.
Active in several professional organizations, Professor Bozeman serves on the Executive Board of the National Association of Mathematicians and is completing a second term on the Board of Governors of the Mathematical Association of America where she currently represents the Southeastern Section. Previously, she was a member of the Mathematical Sciences Education Board of the National Research Council and of the Executive Committee of the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Mathematics for a High-Tech Career
Abstract of Professor Bozeman's presentation:
