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To Cheer You Up in Difficult Times 31: Federico Ardila’s Four Axioms for Cultivating Diversity
Todos Cuentan (Everybody counts) In a beautiful NAMS 2016 article Todos Cuentan: Cultivating Diversity in Combinatorics, Federico Ardila put forward four thoughtful axioms which became a useful foundation for Ardila’s own educational and outreach efforts, and were offered as a pressing … Continue reading
Posted in Academics, Combinatorics, What is Mathematics, Women in science
Tagged diversity, Federico Ardila
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At the Movies III: Picture a Scientist
A few days ago I saw the great, emotionally steering, movie Picture a Scientist. I strongly recommend it. Here is the link to the hompage trailer, and IMBd page. SYNOPSIS PICTURE A SCIENTIST chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Women in science
Tagged Jane Willenbring, Nancy Hopkins, picture a scientist, Raychelle Burks, Women in science
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To cheer you up in difficult times 11: Immortal Songs by Sabine Hossenfelder and by Tom Lehrer
Enjoy! To cheer you up in difficult times here are songs by Sabine Hossenfelder and by Tom Lehrer. I like the music and lyrics and the unusual combination of science, humor and satire. Sabine Hossenfelder : Outer space* Tom Lehrer: … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Physics, Poetry, What is Mathematics, Women in science
Tagged Sabine Hossenfelder, Tom Lehrer
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To cheer you up in difficult times 4: Women In Theory present — I will survive
An amazing video (Update, May18 2020). I failed to explain what WIT is and this may have caused some misunderstanding. Here is a description from the Simons Institute site. “The Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop is intended for graduate and … Continue reading
TYI38 Lior Kalai: Monty Hall Meets Survivor
For breaking news, scroll down. Lior Kalai: Survivor Meets the Monty Hall Puzzle We start with the classical question and go on with a new version contributed by my son Lior. Update: A few brief comments on the original problem … Continue reading
Posted in personal, Probability, Riddles, Test your intuition, Women in science
Tagged Karen Uhlenbeck, Lior Kalai, Monty Hall problem, Survivor
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Vera T. Sòs, Doctor Philisophiae Honoris Causa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Videotaped by Ehud Friedgut.
Friendship and Sesame, Maryam and Marina, Israel and Iran
Happy new (Jewish) year everybody. Amazing scientific partnership between Jordan, Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority, and Turkey SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is a “third-generation” synchrotron light source that was officially opened in Allan (Jordan) on 16 May 2017. … Continue reading
Posted in Obituary, Updates, Women in science
Tagged Eliezer Rabinovici, Israel-Iran relationship, Marina Ratner, Maryam Mirzakhani, Sesame
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My Answer to TYI- 28
The fifteen remarkable individuals in the previous post are all the recipients of the SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize since it was established in 1997. The most striking common feature to all of them is, in my view, that they are all … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Science and Optimization, Women in science
Tagged SIGACT, Women in science
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Scott Triumphs* at the Shtetl
Scott Aaronson wrote a new post on the Shtetl Optimized** reflecting on the previous thread (that I referred to in my post on Amy’s triumph), and on reactions to this thread. The highlight is a list of nine of Scott’s … Continue reading
Amy Triumphs* at the Shtetl
It was not until the 144th comment by a participants named Amy on Scott’s Aaronson recent Shtetl-optimized** post devoted to a certain case of sexual harassment at M. I. T. that the discussion turned into something quite special. Amy’s great … Continue reading
Posted in Controversies and debates, Women in science
Tagged Amy, feminism, Shtetl-optimized
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Combinatorics and more 