Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics May 15-25, 2001 Institute for Advanced Study. |
Institute for Advanced Study Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) (Expanded) Participant Information Contents:
Karen Uhlenbeck, Organizer of the Mentoring Program for Women in
Mathematics, The Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study and is funded in part by the RGK Foundation, the Merrill Lynch Co., Inc. Foundation and Mr. William Schreyer. This program is designed to bring women students in contact with postdoctoral scholars and professional mathematicians and to encourage women to further their mathematics education. The program consists of lectures, seminars, working problem groups, and mentoring and networking sessions. Students and mentors take part in the life of the Institute for Advanced Study and have the opportunity to meet and converse with mathematicians in residence at the Institute.
The Fuld Hall Common Room is open throughout the day and night. An excellent selection of domestic and foreign newspapers and periodicals is maintained by the staff of the Historical Studies/Social Science Library. Tea is served to the Institute community in this room from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. There is also a small Common Room in Simonyi Hall. You are most welcome in all common areas of the Institute. We do ask that you respect the rights of others; these areas are for the use of everyone in the Institute community. Simonyi Hall has one computer room, #028, on the ground floor, and Fuld Hall has a computer room in Fuld #319. You may Telnet from any of these computers, or from the computer in your office, by utilizing the username and password given to you at registration. For security purposes, computer rooms are locked in the evening and on weekends; if you wish to use a computer room during that time, use your Institute Access Card. If you are using personal software, do not install it on the hard disk of a PC. Only authorized Institute-purchased software should be installed on the hard disks. Programs installed on the equipment in the computer rooms and in the offices are the property of the Institute and must not be copied. The copying of software is illegal. PLEASE – no food, beverages, or smoking in computer rooms. Dress is informal during the Women’s Program. You should pack a pair of sneakers or walking shoes for trips into town or walks in the Institute woods. The Institute’s Fitness Center is located in the same building as the Crossroads Nursery School, at the end of Olden Lane. If you wish to have access to this facility, you must first sign the waiver in your packet and return it to the Reception desk in Fuld Hall. The receptionist will then encode your Institute Access Card. Ground transportation to Princeton A map of the Princeton area and driving directions are available under the Local Information link on the Institute for Advanced Study home page. Transportation expenses will be reimbursed. If you drive to the Institute, you will be reimbursed at 31 cents per mile (up to the cost of a round-trip airline ticket from your destination). Airline reservations should have been made by this time – if not, please call our office immediately. There is regularly scheduled train and bus service from New York and train service from Philadelphia. From Penn Station (New York City or Newark) take New Jersey Transit (1-201-762-5100) or Amtrak (1-800-321-8684) to Princeton Junction. From Philadelphia take Amtrak to Princeton Junction or SEPTA (1-215-580-7800) to Trenton and change trains to Princeton Junction via New Jersey Transit. Call for current schedule. Taxis are available at the station. Buses leave every half hour from Port Authority Bus Terminal (New York City) to Princeton via Suburban Transit (1-800-222-0492). Purchase a ticket at the Suburban Transit window on the main floor before proceeding to the gate. Get off at Palmer Square in Princeton. Taxis are available. For ground transportation from Newark or JFK Airports, please follow the instructions for the AIRPORTER shuttle below. The PCMI office will have made your reservation on the AIRPORTER and will have arranged for payment as well – there is no need to pay the driver. (In the unlikely event that your reservation goes astray, the driver may ask you for payment. The fare is $21.00 plus gratuity -- ask for a receipt, and we will reimburse you when you arrive at our office.) The instructions for accessing the AIRPORTER are below:
Women’s Program participants will be housed in Institute apartments on a shared basis. Sheets and towels will be provided. All are self-housekeeping units with equipped kitchens, full bathrooms, and living rooms. The apartments are air-conditioned, however they do not have alarm clocks, TV’s, or microwaves. The kitchens have coffee-makers. The apartments are within easy walking distance of Fuld Hall, Simonyi Hall and the Dining Hall, and about a 20-25 minute walk from the center of Princeton. Bicycles will be available for rent by contacting Gary Alvin of the mailroom staff. Apartment keys will be distributed at the Registration table in the Fuld Hall Common Room between 12:00 and 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15. Those arriving on Monday, May 14, should come to the PCMI office at 95 Morse Lane in order to receive your key and registration packet. If you arrive after 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15, there will be a security guard on duty at the reception desk in Fuld Hall. He will be able to give you your apartment key during after hours. If the guard is not there, he is making his rounds and will return shortly. If you need to contact him, use the telephone on the desk by the stairs in Fuld Hall, dial 9-258-3134, identify yourself as a guest of the Institute for Advanced Study, and ask the dispatcher to contact the IAS security guard. He will return to the reception area. There will be offices available on the Institute campus for working on mathematics, and these will be assigned at the time of arrival. Each participant in the Women’s Program will receive an Institute Access Card which allows after-hours access to the Fuld Hall and the Mathematics Building. Further details may be found in the sections entitled The Library and Computer Rooms. Access to the computer rooms and the library ends on May 25 and the Access Card must be returned to the PCMI office before you leave the Institute.
Your Institute Access Card will allow 24-hour access to the Library of the Schools of Mathematics and Natural Sciences located in Fuld Hall. The Library contains over 30,000 volumes and has a distinguished collection of journals. Momota Ganguli, Librarian, is in the Library from 8:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., weekdays. All circulating materials must remain on Institute premises; books and bound periodicals may be taken to an office on campus. Reference books and unbound periodicals should be used only in the Library. To borrow a book, sign both cards found in the back of the volume, indicate PCMI next to your name, and leave the cards in the tray at the desk in either the Main Reading room or the East Stack Room. Please see the librarian if you can’t find a book. Please keep the Library doors closed after hours.
Breakfast is available on weekday mornings in the Institute Dining Hall and consists of coffee, tea, juice, cold cereals, fruit, yogurt, breads, and other breakfast items. Breakfast hours are 7:30-10:30 AM, Monday-Friday. Lunch is served cafeteria style in the Institute Dining Hall 12:00 noon-1:30 p.m., Monday-Friday. For both breakfast and lunch, you will be given tickets to present to the Dining Hall cashier. During the week, dinnertime will be an opportunity for informal discussion, and we do ask for volunteers to organize pot-luck, take-out, and restaurant dinners. In addition, there will be two or three dinners planned in advance, as you can see on the preliminary schedule. All of these meals are fully funded by the Women’s Program. Dinner on Saturday and lunch and dinner on Sunday are on your own. There are many restaurants in the center of Princeton and out on Route 1. A WaWa convenience store is located near the Dinky train station on Alexander Road and University Place in Princeton. A natural foods store called Wild Oats is located at the north end of town, on Nassau Street. Pathmark is located out on Route 1.
A portable bulletin board is located in the corner of the Fuld Hall Common Room and messages to participants, shuttle schedules, notices about seminars, activities, sign-up sheets, etc. will be posted there. Please be sure to check the bulletin board a few times each day. Updates can also be found on our web site.
If you are coming in on the AIRPORTER from Newark or JFK, you will be dropped off at Fuld Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study. If you arrive by car, park in lot A or lot B and enter the brick building with the clock tower (Fuld Hall). Please come to the Fuld Hall Common Room for registration between 12:00 noon and 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 15. A final schedule, apartment key, lunch tickets, temporary ID cards, and other important materials will be given to you at registration. If you plan to arrive after 5:30 p.m., please let us know so that we can give you appropriate instructions. A reception and informal supper will be held in the Dining Hall starting at 5:30 p.m on Tuesday, May 15. If you arrive between 5:30 and 7:00 p.m., please come directly to the Dining Hall (the large modern building to the right of Fuld Hall). The Institute’s photocopy machines are controlled by a card system called VendaCard. Each machine has a usage control unit activated by a card. If you need to make copies, contact one of the volunteers in the program who will have copy cards, or come to the PCMI office at 95 Morse Lane to borrow a VendaCard. There is a copier on the main floor of Simonyi Hall and on the second floor of Fuld Hall. Copies can also be made right in the PCMI office. The Institute’s fitness room is available to Women's Program participants, as are the Institute tennis courts. Participants wishing to use the Institute fitness room will need to sign a waiver when they arrive and then have their temporary ID card encoded by the IAS receptionist. All requests for reimbursement must be accompanied by a receipts – no reimbursements can be made without them. Please keep your receipts!!! (If you are requesting airfare reimbursement, submit your e-ticket itinerary along with your boarding passes.) A tentative schedule for the entire Women’s Program is available on the Web, and you will receive a final schedule in your registration packet. Most of our activity will take place in Simonyi Hall (formerly know as the Mathematics Building), the West Building, and the Dining Hall. Lecture locations will be announced on the final schedule. Working groups will be assigned on the first day and will meet in either the Mathematics Building or Fuld Hall. The telephone in your apartment is for local calls. If you wish to make long distance calls, please use your calling card or credit card. Public pay phones are located in Fuld Hall, Simonyi Hall, and the Dining Hall. The Institute’s house phones may be used to call extensions within the Institute campus (the PCMI office is 8025). An informative tour of the Institute campus will begin at 4:30 PM on Tuesday. Please meet for the tour during Afternoon Tea in the Fuld Hall Common Room (just beyond the Reception Desk in Fuld Hall). Tea is served from 3:00 to 4:30 PM each weekday. The Institute provides free shuttle service between the Institute, the town of Princeton, and Princeton University. Scheduled service runs Monday through Friday, with an abbreviated schedule on Saturdays. The van also makes scheduled stops at the Princeton Shopping Center where a grocery store, a drug store, restaurants, a book store and other specialty shops are located. A schedule may be found in the Mail Information Center and the Reception desk in Fuld Hall. This is a twist on the usual ‘virtual’ theme in that your home pages will actually be done as hard copy posters on poster paper or other material, rather than as electronic pages. We ask that each participant prepare a two- to four-page poster for display. The poster should contain a photograph, vita information, research and/or project involvement, hobbies, interests, school, and any other information you would like to share with the group. We appreciate your involvement in this activity and ask that you bring your home page to the first dinner on Tuesday, May 15. Basic supplies will be available at that time should you need to finish your poster after traveling. Generally the posters are left on display for the first few days of the Women’s Program, and you may take them home with you when you leave. For ease of traveling, we recommend that you use smaller size poster paper. We ask everyone to undertake some volunteer tasks during the Women’s Program. A questionnaire is provided so that you can let us know your preferences – if you haven't already done so, you can access it by clicking on the link on this section heading. The questionnaire also contains some sections about topic ideas and seminar participation. Staff:
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