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 […]
Women in STEM: let's start from a mentoring system
Today the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera published on his online column about women my interview about possible solutions to encourage women in STEM. I already mentioned some aspects of the problem in this post, but you can find infinite material about the gender gap in science in the net. Locally in Helsinki and […]
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 […]
The book that will improve your presentations
How many times have you been sitting among the audience of some conference, regretting you did not take anything to read? Or blaming yourself for not having charged your laptop the night before? Surely, one too many. Unfortunately good presenting skills do not belong to the standard professional package of a scientist. Many thinks it is not so […]
#16days: each of us can fight violence against women
We are now in the middle of a campaign called 16 days, lasting from Nov 25th to Dec 10th, to fight violence against women. Why on earth I write about it on a math and science blog? Well, various reasons. First of all, this blog is also about education, that is a extensive part of […]
Mathematics and breast cancer prevention
Few days ago I came across this sad and beautiful website: The battle we didn't choose: my wife's battle with breast cancer (*) Angelo Merendino is a photographer based in Cleveland. Angelo and his wife Jennifer's story is moving: love at first sight (at least from Angelo's side :)), soon culminated to a wedding in Central […]
Transmission eigenvalues: promising for applications? (part I)
In the past two years I have been working on my licentiate thesis - now under evaluation by my supervisor - about transmission eigenvalues and non-scattering energies. Let's try to explain in a simple way what the problem is. Imagine you have a medium (i.e. an object of study), of which you know the inner structure. […]
5 upcoming events for Inverse Problems you cannot miss
The following months will be really rich in events regarding Inverse Problems, either if you want to get acquainted with such field or if you are looking for new stimulating collaborations. Here is a small collection of some of the upcoming happenings. Inverse Days 2014 - 20th anniversary Tampere University of Technology is organising this year Inverse […]
Grothendieck: quite someone in Mathematics
I opened my favourite online news website last week, to find out a link to a piece of news titled about a mathematician called Alexander Grothendieck passing away. At first - I feel ashamed - I thought "who is this guy?", then I made a quick search on Google to find out that he was quite a […]
How playing Team Fortress can help your teaching
Finally the time has come to go back to our parents and rub in their faces that all that time spent playing video games was useful for our future. I bet I am not the only one having an amazing portfolio of insults when fighting, am I? Anyway, today we talk about Team Fortress and […]