EMINENT WOMEN IN SCIENCE A SEMINAR SERIES

Friday, March 2, 2012 Diane Souvaine, PhD Lecture: 12:15 PM Professor of Computer Science Lunch Reception to Follow Camden Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room

Diane Souvaine earned an A.B. at in mathematics and in English, an A.M.S.L. at , and M.S.E., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from .. Assistant Professor and then Associate Professor of Computer Science at from 1986 until 1998 when she moved to Tufts University, Souvaine served from 1992 to 1994 first as Acting Associate Director and then Acting Director of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS). Promoted to Professor of Computer Science in 1999 and then appointed Department Chair in 2002, she returned to these positions at Tufts University during the 2006 -2007 academic year, following the completion of her 2005-2006 year as Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Visiting Scientist at MIT CSAIL. In 2008, Souvaine was appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to a 6-year term on the National Science Board, the governing board of the National Science Foundation and an advisory body to the President and Congress.

Professor Souvaine conducts research in the area of computational geometry, a field concerned with the design and analysis of algorithms for solving geometric problems. Applications can be found in such fields as computer graphics, robotics, computer-aided design, molecular biology, and statistics. She also leads activities to encourage students of diverse backgrounds to pursue technical fields.

Friday, March 30, 2012 Lecture: 12:15 PM Christina Sormani, PhD Lunch Reception to Follow Professor of Mathematics Camden Campus Center Multi-Purpose Room Lehman College, CUNY

Christina Sormani, professor of mathematics at the CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College specializes in Geometric Analysis earned her doctorate at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and conducted postdoctoral work at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. She is currently supported by the National Science Foundation for her research on the Convergence of Manifolds.

Her research concerns the shapes of geometric spaces called Riemannian manifolds and has applications in the field of General Relativity. As a member of the Association of Women in Mathematics she has organized panels addressing diverse topics such as Developing a Successful Career through Collaboration, the Personal Lives of Mathematicians and Increasing the Numbers of Tenured Women in Mathematics.

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