Professor Bettye Anne Case

[*] Special Summer/Fall 1998:

(1) Coordinating special section activities related to women in mathematics for the INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MATHEMATICIANS, Berlin, Germany, August 18 - 27, 1998. (See Circular Letter #24.)

[*] All who are interested in the participation of women in the study of mathematics and in the community of mathematicians are invited to the following activities:

[*] FRIDAY, August 21 - at 19:30: PANEL DISCUSSION: After recognition of the involvement of women from many countries as ICM participants, women speakers from several countries will discuss "Events and policies: Effects on women in mathematics". The panel is being organized by women from the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), the European Women in Mathematics (EWM) and the Committee on Women and Mathematics of the European Mathematical Society, represented by a committee consisting of Bhama Srinivasan (chair; Chicago, USA), Bettye Anne Case (Tallahassee, USA), and Christine Bessenrodt (Magdeburg, Germany). The organizers have received planning advice from women in several additional countries. They envision that each speaker will talk about how certain events or policies in her country have affected women in mathematics.

[*] at 21:15: A film entitled "Women and mathematics across cultures" will be shown which briefly introduces EWM, shows some statistics, and allows four woman mathematicians to share their personal experiences about the impact of cultural differences on the status of women in the profession. The film was directed by Marjatta Naatanen (Helsinki, Finland).

[*] SATURDAY, August 22, 11:00: Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Courant Institute, New York University, will present an EMMY NOETHER LECTURE with title "Variations on Conservation Laws for the Wave Equation".

[*] FOLLOWING Professor Morawetz's lecture a LUNCHEON may be planned.

(2) The first class to enter for the new master's degree in Financial Mathematics will be arriving in June and August (see Financial Mathematics Guide). Most will take the course Introduction to Financial Mathematics and a statistics course but programs will be worked out based on individual strengths for other courses. Students should e-mail (case@math.fsu.edu) in advance of or upon campus arrival to arrange an appointment.

(3) Symposium in Honor of Olga Taussky-Todd. Tentatively scheduled for July 31-August 2, 1999, at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics. Funding proposals are currently being framed with Dianne O'Leary, Computer Science, Maryland, and Gail Ratcliff, University of Missouri at St. Louis, and AWM officers. The husband of the late Professor Taussky-Todd, Jack Todd, is contributing to the planning. This will be in a Workshop format with features such as: plenary lectures by senior mathematicians; biographical presentations indicating the different types of mathematical employment which Professor Taussky-Todd had in her long career and the implications for young mathematicians; opportunity for the advanced graduate student and/or postdoc participants to explain their research; career development sessions; and informal mentoring activities.

(4) I teach the specialized Actuarial Science courses, available to undergraduate and graduate students; they are offered in Fall Semester only:

MAP 4170 - MAT 5907: Introduction to Actuarial Science (M 2:30-3:20; TR 2-3:15)

MAP 4175 - MAP 5177: Contingency Theory (M 11:15-12:05; TR 11-12:15)

(5) As Meetings Coordinator of the Association for Women in Mathematics, I am involved with all of the workshops, programs, and lectures of the organization and serve on the Executive Committee. Professor Krystyna Kuperberg, Auburn University, will present the organization's prestigious Noether Lecture in January 1999.