Undergraduate Women in Math Conference is Friday-Sunday
Released on 02/03/2004, at 12:00 AM
Office of University Communications
University of Nebraska–Lincoln
WHEN: Sunday, Feb. 8, 2004
Lincoln, Neb., Feb. 3, 2004 -- The sixth-annual Nebraska Conference for Undergraduate Women in Mathematics will be Feb. 6-8, at the Nebraska Union, 1400 R. St., (Feb. 6) and the College of Business Administration, 12th and R streets (Feb. 7 and 8), at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
The conference, the only one of its kind in the United States, will give high-achieving undergraduate women the opportunity to discuss their research and to meet other women who share their interest in the mathematical sciences.
Speakers will be Renee Burton of the National Security Agency, Lloyd Douglas of the National Science Foundation, Abbe Herzig of the State University of New York at Albany, Claudia Miller of Syracuse University and Patricia Nelson of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. All talks are open to the UNL community.
"The conference is intended to encourage more women to go to graduate school and give them the tools to do so," said Judy Walker, associate professor of mathematics at UNL. Walker and associate professor Allan Donsig are co-chairs of the event.
About 150 participants, representing 70 different schools, will attend. Fifty-one will give talks on their research, and 11 will present posters.
Funding for the conference comes from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, the UNL offices of Academic Affairs and Graduate Studies.
CONTACTS: Judy Walker, Assoc. Professor, Mathematics, (402) 472-1628; and
Allan Donsig, Assoc. Professor, Mathematics, (402) 472-8128