3rd Workshop on String Theory and Gender

15 Mar 2017, 12:00 → 17 Mar 2017, 17:00 Europe/London

The purpose of this workshop is to raise awareness of gender issues in our field and to develop actions to address gender inequality.

Two half days of the workshop will be devoted to gender issues, with talks presenting statistics on female participation at different career stages and the effects of actions to improve the situation. The gender sessions will be interactive, with participants encouraged to contribute their own experiences and ideas. After the workshop, we plan to produce a report on possible actions and circulate this to the wider community.

The other sessions of the workshop will be devoted to recent developments in theoretical physics, with review talks on topical subjects. There will also be the possibility for short contributed talks by early career researchers.

This workshop is the third of this kind (the first workshop on string theory and gender took place in Valencia in July 2015 and the second took place in Paris in June 2016). We would like to encourage men and women, junior and senior scientists, to participate in the workshop.

Speakers

Gender issues: 

Mike Childress (Astronomy, University of Southampton) talk slides

Valerie Gibson (Experimental Particle Physics, University of Cambridge) talk slides

Wim van Saarloos (Director FOM/transition NWO and Theoretical Physics, Leiden University) talk slides

Overview talks:

Jan de Boer (University of Amsterdam) talk slides

Claudia de Rham (Imperial College London) Cancelled last minute

James Drummond (University of Southampton) talk slides

Balt van Rees (University of Durham) talk slides

Anastasia Volovich (Brown University) Cancelled last minute (due to snowstorm in Boston)

(Unfortunately Anastasia Volovich and Claudia de Rham had to cancel their attendance at late notice due to snow storms in Boston etc. James kindly agreed to step in for Anastasia with one day's notice.)

Organisers

Oscar Dias, Andy O'Bannon, Kostas Skenderis and Marika Taylor

Web Resources

American Physical Society: Women in Physics

EU Gender Portal

IOP reports on gender issues in uptake of physics in UK

3DSTAG_childress.pdf

3DSTAG_de_boer.pdf

3DSTAG_drummond.pdf

3DSTAG_gibson.pdf

3DSTAG_nunez.pdf

3DSTAG_sanchez.pdf

3DSTAG_tasinato.pdf

3DSTAG_van_rees.pdf

3DSTAG_van_saarloos.pdf

Southampton_Highfield_Campus_Map.pdf

Wednesday, 15 March

Welcome

Review talk: Scattering Amplitudes, James Drummond (Bldg. 54 Room 10B/C)

15:00 Coffee break

Causality constraints in gravitational theories, Jose Edelstein (Bldg. 54 Room 10B/C)

Review of gender data in the UK and EU (Bldg. 54 Room 10B/C)

17:00 Reception

Thursday, 16 March

Review talk: Conformal Bootstrap, Balt van Rees (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

Conformal Bootstrap, Balt van Rees

10:30 Coffee

Non-Abelian T-duality, Carlos Nunez (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

12:00 Lunch

Gender talk: Wim van Saarloos (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

Gender talk: Mike Childress (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

14:30 Coffee

Discussion groups (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

Friday, 17 March

Review talk: Entanglement, Jan de Boer (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

10:30 Coffee

Contributed talk: Gianmassimo Tasinato (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

Contributed talk: Yafet Sanchez (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

12:00 Lunch

Gender talk: "Journey to the end of the rainbow" Val Gibson (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

14:00 Coffee

Discussion groups (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)

Conclusions (Bldg. 54 Floor 4 Ketley Room)