angela.gibney@gmail.com
I have been involved in a number of activities, including editorial work, conference organization and outreach. Below are descriptions of some of the things I have been involved with recently.
I was associate editor of the AMS Notices, in charge of the Early Career Section. This series is for early career people and their mentors, featuring articles by mathematicians, with advice on all aspects of the profession. To read the articles that have appeared, visit the AMS Notices Early Career Collection, and to see some of the articles organized by topic, visit http://www.angelagibney.org/the-early-career/.
Recent Events:
- I gave a (zoom) lecture on applying for graduate school, at the UP GRADe Workshop on Saturday October 30, 2-3. Slides: ApplyingForGraduateSchool
- Lunch in the Time of Covid. Wednesday, September 1 organized by Andrew Kobin, Vance Blankers, Kristin DeVleming, Kim Klinger-Logan, and Manami Roy
- ICERM Root systems conference
- Rutgers online CV writing panel, September 26, 2020
- WiAG at ICERM, July 27-31 2020
- “Graduate advisor workshop”. OSU, June 1-2 2019 https://u.osu.edu/gaw2019/.
- MAAGC professional development panel (“Uncovering the Secret Menu – tips and resources you wish you had known earlier in your career”).https://sites.google.com/site/maagchome/philadelphia-2019
- STEM panelist at South Brunswick High School in Monmouth Junction, NJ at the Women’s Leadership Conference and Career Pathways event.
Recent local workshop and conference organization:
- AGNES at Rutgers, April 13-15, 2018
- The Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium, UGA, March 3-5 2017
- TAAAG: Topological Aspects of Algebra and Arithmetic Geometry, a workshop for graduate students and early career PhDs, UGA, September 2-4, 2016
- The Georgia Summer Workshop in Algebraic Geometry, UGA, August 26-29, 2016
- Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium, Oct 2014
- Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium, Oct 2013
- UGA VIGRE Summer School In Algebraic Geometry, May 21- June 1, 2012
- Georgia Algebraic Geometry Symposium Deformations, Abelian Varieties, and Mathematical Physics, May 2012
Recent more global conference organization:
- Workshop on Combinatorial Moduli Spaces and Intersection Theory, December 5 – 9, 2016, The Fields Institute
- The graduate student “Bootcamp” for the Algebraic Geometry Institute, University of Utah, July 2015
- Algebraic Geometry Special Session at the AWM Research Symposium, University of Maryland, April 11-12, 2015
- Birational Geometry and the Minimal Model Program MRC Workshop, Snowbird, Utah, June 2010
- Connections for Women Workshop, Jumbo Semester in Algebraic Geometry at MSRI, Jan 2009
MATHCAMP Happened!
(check out the link for more details)
With Danny Krashen, I have helped to run MathCamp, a program at UGA for high school aged kids.
Here is a description of this year’s activities.
Here is a YouTube video we made after last year’s activities:
Resources for early career math people:
I was a Co-PI on the UGA AGANT RTG grant, and before that a Co-PI on the UGA VIGRE grant, and mainly in that capacity have given a number of professional development talks for postdocs and graduate students. For example, here are slides or notes, presented to the students:
- 10 things to do before you go on the market or apply for a grant
- 20 tips for giving a 20 minute talk
- preparing for an interview for an academic job
- getting a job outside of academia
- planning and improving your CV
- writing up your work and submitting it to a journal
- planning a webpage for academia
- link to a talk given by Brian Boe Being Part of the Broader Mathematical Community
- advice for giving a good colloquium talk (passed along to me)
Women in Math:
- Julie Rana‘s list of women in AG
- Grace Hopper Article in the Notices (by Asher)
- More on Grace Hopper
- Karen won Abel
my ams blogpost about Karen’s support in Grad school
- https://www.cnet.com/news/google-doodle-celebrates-mathematician-olga-ladyzhenskaya/
- https://www.quantamagazine.org/carolina-araujo-is-building-a-network-of-women-in-mathematics-20190122/?fbclid=IwAR3-598Ul1pm3ssIuEHCbKqJXCDZhtDMoqO5kagpcT3QUENFSVBCiOr7kRA
- I spoke at Strength In Numbers: a graduate workshop in number theory and related areas, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, May 11-12
- During Rutgers Day last spring, the Rutgers AWM group sponsored a Woman in Math booth, which together with the other math department activities, and Corrine Yap’s one woman show “Uniform Convergence” drew a large audience. Here’s a link to some photos of the day.
- I spoke at Graduate workshop in Algebraic Geometry for Women & Mathematics of Minority Genders, funded by the IAS Women and Mathematics Ambassador Program, organized by Rohini Ramadas and Isabel Vogt; Saturday-Sunday, Feb 17-18
You may feel isolated as a woman in your department, but you can travel and meet other women in their early career:
- Go to conferences and summer schools. Tell your students and postdocs to do this. Apply for an AWM travel grant. Tell your students and postdocs to try to get this funding. Read more here.
- Have more time to do your work: Apply for a dissertation fellowship from the Association of American University Women.
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Back in the day….
In graduate school I was a co-organizer at UTAustin of Saturday Morning Math Group now SMMG is online, but stands for Sunday morning math games (our website back then)