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Inventing Tomorrow

2003–04 Distinguished Women Scientists and
Engineers Speakers Program

 

Susan Coppersmith

Professor, Department of Physics; Associate Director, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Oct. 29: "Comparing Classical and Quantum Complex Systems" (colloquium)

Oct. 30: A Conversation with Susan Coppersmith on Her Experiences in Physics

Maria Klawe

Dean, School of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor, Department of Computer Science,
Princeton University

November 24-25: Myths, Opinions, and Facts About Females and Computing

Lecture was cosponsored by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering as part of the Unisys Lecture Series.

Elaine Seymour

Director, Ethnology and Evaluation Research (E&ER),
Center for the Advancement of Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences
University of Colorado at Boulder

April 1: Why Women Reject Majors and Careers in Mainstream Science

Alexandra Navrotsky
Edward Roessler Chair in Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Distinguished Interdisciplinary Professor of Ceramic, Earth, and Environmental Materials Chemistry; Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Director, NEAT ORU, University of California at Davis

April 5: Defect Fluorite and Perovskite Structures and their Relatives: Energetics and Implications from Oxide Fuel Cells to the Earth's Lower Mantle

April 6: Nanoparticles in the Environment and Technology: The Interplay Between Polymorphism and Surface Energy (seminar)

Vasu Varadan

National Science Foundation Division Director, Electrical and Communications Systems; Distinguished Professor; Engineering Science and Electrical Engineering
Co-director, Research Center for the Engineering of Electronic and Acoustic Materials; Pennsylvania State University

April 15: Chirality, Order, Disorder, and Surface Plasmon Resonances in Negative Index Materials (technical seminar)

April 16: Engineering Is a Woman's 'Best Friend'