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 […]
Category: people
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 […]
Sofia Kovalevskaya: the girl who wanted something else
After several days of no writing, I will make up by publishing some edited notes that I used during one guest lecture this week. This is a short bio of a brilliant female mathematicians who lived about 150 years ago. Her story is an example of personal determination and brilliant mind, but also can make […]
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 […]
Research idealism VS real world
Have you ever had the experience of a kid who asks you a candid and simple question, that has a complicated answer? The kind of question like "Why we have so much and there are kids starving in India?", where you think "I wish the world was so simple and fair, like the spirit with […]
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 […]
Italian women in science who made us proud in 2014
2014 was a good year for women in science, especially in mathematics, since for the very first time the Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani was awarded with the Fields medal. I would like to move the spotlight on two Italian women who achieved great things in 2014. Samantha Cristoforetti Engineer, air force captain, but mostly astronaut! She is […]
Science to masses: why it doesn't work?
Here I am, back from the holidays and ready to go back to my publishing rhythm. This post come quite late with respect to the piece of news that inspired it. Long story short, last November the newly appointed President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker eliminated the role of (independent) Chief Scientific Adviser after […]
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 […]
3 time-saving LaTeX resources you may have not heard of
Since I spent last week at Inverse Days, the last 3 writing a conference paper from scratch and the past month organising in my spare time a Gala for the Italian Association in Finland, I thought of sharing some light contents this week. Hopefully from the next I will be on total holiday and with […]