She is an Astronomer conference: Celebrating success and seeking solutions

30 March 2010

Date: 22 and 23 April 2010
Venue: Royal Astronomical Society Burlington House, Piccadilly, London

To celebrate the ending of the IYA2009 Cornerstone project She is an Astronomer, a conference is being held in London. The conference will be opened by Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell. There will be talks on pioneering women in astronomy, talks by female scientists on their work and careers, and talks on gender issues, work-life balance, careers, mentoring, psychology/culture, statistics. One outcome of the meeting will be a list of suggestions for supporting and encouraging women in astronomy in support of the IAU Resolution passed at the IAU General Assembly in August 2009. Presentations (talks and posters) will be published on the She is an Astronomer website.

More information on the She is an astronomer website: http://www.sheisanastronomer.org/index.php/Conference?jid=1

Conference programme

Thursday 22 April

Francesca Primas, Chair

10:00	11:00	Jocelyn Bell Burnell	(UK)	Opening address
11:00	11:30	Coffee break
11:30	12:00	Sarah Bridle	(UK)	Work-Life Balance
12:00	12:30	Marieke van den Brink	(NL)	In search for excellence: gender in academic recruitment and selection
12:30	13:00	Danielle Alloin	(FR)	Correcting gender myopia: womenastronomers in Europe
13:00	14:30	Lunch

Anita Richards, Chair

14:30

14:50

Montse Villar Martin

(SPA)

She is an Astronomer in Spain: Past, present and future

14:50

15:10

Katharine Hollinshead

(UK)

Career destinations of STFC funded PhD students

15:10

15:30

Jennifer Woolley

(UK)

The Daphne Jackson Trust: Our Fellows are the real stars

15:30

15:50

Francesca Primas

(GER)

Status of women at ESO

15:50

16:00

Irina Voloshina

(FR)

Correcting gender myopia: women astronomers in Europe

16:00

16:30

Coffee brea

16:30

16:55

Sarah Bridle

(UK)

Research and Career

16:55

17:15

Ruth Wilson

(UK)

Running the Women in Astronomy blog

17:15

17:30

Alice Sheppard

(UK)

Democracy in Astronomy

17:30

18:00

Alan Chapman

(UK)

Mary Somerville

18:00

19:00

Drinks and posters

Friday 23 April
Anita Heward, Chair

10:00	10:30	Patricia Knezek	(USA)	Towards understanding the careers of astronomers-The AAS longitudinal study
10:30	11:00	Rachel Ivie	(USA)	Mentoring and the Imposter Syndrome in Astronomy Graduate Students
11:00	11:30	Coffee break
11:30	12:00	Jan West	(UK)	Mentoring and MentorSET
12:00	12:20	Jane Greaves	(UK)	Research and Career
12:20	12:40	Ginevra Trinchieri	(ITA)	She is an Astronomer in Italy
12:40	13:00	Helen Walker	(UK)	Women in Astronomy statistics
13:00	14:30	Lunch

Jane Greaves, Chair

14:30	14:50	Silvia Bonoli	(GER)	The GalileoMobile: bringing the IYA2009 to the Andes Altiplano
14:50	15:10	Sotira Trifourki	(UK)	Cosmic Diary, 100 Hours of Astronomy, Galilean Nights, What Next?
15:10	15:30	Jennifer Woolley	(UK)	The Daphne Jackson Trust: Our Fellows are the real stars
15:30	15:50	Pedro Russo	(PT)	IYA2009 and IYA2009 Legacy
15:50	16:00	Helen Walker	(UK)	Celebrating success and solutions found
16:30	16:55	Sarah Bridle	(UK)	Research and Career
16:55	17:15	Ruth Wilson	(UK)	Running the Women in Astronomy blog

Posters
Jayanta Acharya (Nepal) - Women in Astronomy in Nepal
Silvia Bonoli (Germany) - The GalileoMobile: bringing the IYA2009 to the Andes's Altiplano
Rosa Diaz-Sandoval (UK) - In the border of space research
Joeline, Ezekiel (Tanzania) - Tanzania and Astronomy
Mimoza Hafizi (Albania) - To be a unique astronomer in a country
Victoria Hamilton-Morris (UK) - LoCuSS: Weak Lensing Analysis of 21 Galaxy Clusters at z=0.15-0.3
Elisa House (UK) - Disk Heating: Comparing the Milky Way with Cosmological Simulations
Gemma Janssen (UK) - LEAP - Large European Array for Pulsars
Eva Juette (Germany) - Mentoring @RUB - equal opportunities for female scientists
Isabel Marquez (Spain) - The Commission 'Women in Astronomy' in the Spanish Astronomical Society
Jenny Caroline Richardson (UK) - The nature and origin of the substructure in the outskirts of M31
Magda Stavinschi (Romania) - Women in Astronomy in Romania
Hanny van Arkel (NL) - Galaxy Zoo
Hanny van Arkel (NL) - Running the SIAA web forum
Irina Voloshina(Russia) - Contribution of Women Astronomers at Sternberg Institute
Helen Walker (UK) - Seeking solutions