Last week one of my goals of the year was fulfilled and Meeting for Young Mathematicians in Finland, the conference I helped organise as member of the scientific committee, was a success. The meeting was promoted by the Finnish Mathematical Society and sponsored by Aalto University, DOMAST and Finnish Cultural Foundation. The chair of the […]
Category: events
Kumpula's Women Network: spring event
Last week the Kumpula's Women Network (see previous post) had a nice spring event at Helsinki Observatory, in the City Centre. Two lectures in Finnish were held by Eva Isaksson, astronomy librarian who's passionate about women in science, and Päivi Harjunpää, head of the Observatory. After a pleasant lunch, the head guide Paula Kyyrö showed us the […]
Well-being event in Kumpulan Kampus
Last weeks have been simply crazy. As a result, I finally caught the flu I magically avoided for the past 8 months (and, believe me, with a 2 year old attending daycare, it's really called magic). As a positive consequence, I get some free time to blog. Among other news, I would like to tell […]
The Students' Seminar: what, who and why
Last year I became a chair to the longlasting Students' Seminar (*), together with my colleague Anssi Mirka, at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Helsinki. The seminar takes place almost every week of the study periods, usually in room B321 of Exactum, Kumpulan Kampus. Speakers and audience are usually formed by undergrad […]
Should childcare become a custom in conference planning?
A couple of weeks ago I received an email of a female colleague researcher working in France through the EWM mailing list. The open letter - that was published also on her personal website - was addressed to CIRM in Marseille and criticised their ridiculous policy regarding the presence of children at the meeting facilities […]
MYMF2015: networking event for Finland Math junior researchers
Wondering what to do after your PhD, or even during it?! Would you like to meet fellow junior researchers to share pains and tales? Or do you just want an official-looking excuse to procrastinate? You are warmly invited to take part in the Meeting for Young Mathematicians in Finland (MYMF). This networking event, organised by […]
EXTREMA COST action: live from Leiden
This week I am taking part to the workshop at Lorentz Center (Leiden, The Netherlands) "Artefacts in X-ray tomography". The workshop is part of the COST action, a European framework that allocates funds for multidisciplinary innovative projects, stimulating an active and fruitful collaboration among European researchers and professionals. This is my third workshop of the EXTREMA […]
AIP2015: encouraging parents to travel
As I announced in a previous post, next May the University of Helsinki will host AIP2015, the biggest event in Inverse Problems to date. Some weeks ago I happened to read this post on the funny and interesting blog Tenure, She Wrote. Child care services at a conference? Brilliant! - I thought. I brought the idea to […]
Women in Inverse Problems in Finland
An exciting "social outcome" of Inverse Days 2014 was the launch of a network of women in the Finnish Inverse Problems community. The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Inverse Problems committed long ago to the goal of gender equality and the percentage of women researchers in the group is higher than the average in the […]
Women network in Kumpula
Last Monday the first lunch meeting of women researchers in Kumpulan Kampus took place. The meeting was an attempt by Prof. Hanna Vehkamäki and myself to start a network of women researchers in Kumpulan Kampus. There is an existing association of women researchers in Helsinki called Helsingin tutkijanaiset ry (The Helsinki Association of Women Researchers) and […]