[GWAMIT] Announcements

Mon Nov 15 11:03:14 EST 2010

Dear GWAMIT Members,

Enjoy the Week!

The GWAMIT Board

Visit us at: http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit

Send your ideas to: gwamit-exec at mit.edu

Send your announcements to: gwamit-sec at mit.edu

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IN BRIEF

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GWAMIT:

1. GWAMIT is Recruiting New Leaders!

2. Join the GWAMIT Spring 2011 Empowerment Conference Planning Committee!

MIT:

3. Submit your resume for the 15th European Career Fair (Deadline: December 3)

4. [11/8-11/19] Ivy Plus Engineering Virtual Job Fair This Week

5. [Mon 11/15] Women in Mathematics Seminar (5:30 PM, 2-135)

6. [Mon 11/15 - Sun 11/21] Global Entrepreneurship Week

7. [Wed 11/17] The Basics of Grant Writing (3:30-5:00 pm, 26-100)

8. [Wed 11/17] Women in Mathematics Seminar (5:30 PM, 2-135)

9. [Th 11/18] GWG lunch (12 pm, 3-310)

Outside MIT:

10. Be a Big Sister! (Contact: Natasha Threatts at nthreatts at bigsister.org)

11. [Mon 11/15] Women in Start-Ups (6:30 pm, E51-325)

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FULL ANNOUNCEMENTS

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********GWAMIT********

1. GWAMIT is Recruiting New Leaders!

GWAMIT Open Positions:

Executive Board:

•       Co-Chair (2 positions - 1 Fall, 1 Spring) - manage daily operations, attend Exec Meetings

•       Publicity Chair - manage public relations, collaborations across MIT, attend Exec Mtgs

•       Treasurer - keep financial records, attend Exec Mtgs

Planning Committees:

•       Spring '11 Women's Empowerment Conference

•       Co-Chair (2 positions) - manage programming and event leads, maintain contacts

•       Funding chair - meet with potential sponsors

•       Logistics chair - reserve space, catering

•       Publicity chair - design and organize ads, posters, emails

•       Mentoring Program Co-Chair (Fall '10) - co-lead Planning Committee (matching mentoring groups, 2 events)

•       Fall '11 Leadership Conference

•       Co-Chair (2 positions) - manage event leads, maintain contacts

•       Event leads - design and coordinate a leadership event or leverage existing templates

•       Funding chair - meet with potential sponsors

•       Logistics chair - reserve space, catering

•       Publicity chair - design and organize ads, posters, emails

•       Monthly Collaborative Events Leads (Feb, Mar/Apr)

•       2 positions - help run a 1-time event in collaboration with existing MIT offices and services

Interested? Contact gwamit-exec at mit.edu

2. Join the GWAMIT Spring Women's Week Planning Committee!

Contact: jeanyang at mit.edu

Do any of the following describe you?

- You were impressed with our Spring 2010 Kick-Off and want to see more of these events.

- You want to get more involved with GWAMIT.

- You want more leadership experience to further your personal/professional development.

- You want to work with strong, motivated, and passionate women.

- You have an idea for a talk/panel/workshop.

If so, you should join our Spring 2011 Empowerment Conference Planning Committee.  Help us bring innovative, provocative, and informative events to campus!

To see what we did last spring, take a look here:

Event page: http://gsc.mit.edu/gwamit/events/spring2010.html

Blog post: http://gwamit.blogspot.com/2010/05/spring-kick-off-2010-in-review.html

Last year we bootstrapped ourselves from having no initial budget/collaborators, so this year can only be even more amazing.  Come be a part of it!

There are varying levels of commitment from helping out with specific tasks to leading an event.  No previous event planning/GWAMIT experience required.  We especially encourage students in their early years of grad school to get involved.

E-mail jeanyang at mit.edu for more details or to sign-up.

**********MIT**********

3. Submit your resume for the 15th European Career Fair

Deadline: Friday, December 3, 2010

Website: http://www.euro-career.com

Career Fair Day: January 22, 2011

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Looking for a full-time job or an internship, thinking of studying or pursuing a professional career in Europe?

Then the European Career Fair (ECF) at MIT is a great place to start your search. Discover the many opportunities that international companies, academic institutions and non-profit organizations from Europe have to offer.

Submit your resume online at www.euro-career.com. Registration is free!

The deadline for resume submission is Friday December 3, 2010.

ECF 2011: What to expect?

. January 22, 2011 - Career Fair Day with exhibits and presentations by representatives from industry, academia and research.

. January 23 - 24, 2011 - Interviews for selected candidates. ECF-affiliated seminars on career development, opportunities and other activities.

ECF 2011: Why should you attend?

. It's big! The ECF is the largest career fair of its kind in the US with more than 130 companies and over 4000 participants.

. Variety! ECF aims to represent the full breadth of the European job market, whether you are looking for a job in industry or in the non-profit sector.

. Diversity! ECF welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and all levels of experience.

. Interviews! Our searchable database allows employers to view your resume, and schedule interviews with selected candidates.

. Networking! You will have the opportunity to connect with many employers and other candidates on the day of the Fair.

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Submit your resume today!

For more information visit our website at http://www.euro-career.com

Visit us also on Facebook http://goo.gl/azp2 and LinkedIn http://goo.gl/rFn2

4. Ivy Plus Engineering Virtual Job Fair This Week

When: November 8-19th

Where: Registration Required at http://www.ivyplusjobfair.com

Who: the Ivy Plus Engineering Job Fair is a consortium of the following universities- Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, MIT, NYU, Penn, Princeton, UChicago and UIllinois.

What: A live interactive online job fair where students can be in direct contact with company reps using live video and chat.

Students: Open to Computer Science and Engineering students from participating universities (undergrads, masters and PhDs).

Companies: Twitter, Oracle, OPower, MathWorks, QuinStreet, Brightroll, Metron, Nuance, and many others.

Registration Required: http://www.ivyplusjobfair.com

5. Women in Mathematics Seminar

When: Monday November 15th at 5:30 PM

Where: MIT's Building 2, Room 135

Speaker: Olgica Milenkovic (UIUC)

Title: Sorting Permutations by Cost-Constrained Transpositions

Pizza following the talk.

For an abstract, please visit: http://math.mit.edu/wim/events/seminars.html

This is a series of generally accessible talks (starting from advanced undergraduates) by female research visitors to MIT's Mathematics Department.

6. Global Entrepreneurship Week

When: Monday, November 15 – Sunday, November 21

Where: Various

Entrepreneurship is a part of the DNA that makes MIT the world-changing institution that it is. From November 15 – 21, join a global movement of over 10 million people in more than 100 countries focusing on unleashing new ideas and seeking better ways to solve the world’s problems, both big and small.

 To learn more about the global movement and how you can connect with young entrepreneurs worldwide, please visit the Global Entrepreneurship Week website at http://www.unleashingideas.org/.

You can also take part in a number of events (http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/category/events/upcoming/) happening across campus hosted by MIT departments and student organizations. For more information about GEW at MIT, please email e-week at mit.edu.

7. The Basics of Grant Writing, with Dr. Sonal Jhaveri

When: November 17, 2010; 3:30-5:00 pm

Where: Rm 26-100 (please note room change!)

Dr. Jhaveri will discuss the fundamentals of how to put together the different components of a grant application.

Bio: Dr. Jhaveri's early training was in Physics and Math (BS Physics, M.I.T. '70), after which she moved to graduate work in Psychology (MS, M.I.T., '72) and Neuroscience (PhD Anatomy, Harvard University).  She is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, a Lecturer for the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at M.I.T., and Science Program Director in the Postdoctoral and Graduate Student Affairs Office at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Jhaveri has experience with free lance medical and science writing and editing. She currently teaches science communication to MIT undergraduates and graduate students, and oversees professional development training for postdoctoral fellows at MIT as well as Dana-Farber.

Registration preferred: CareerBridge,  https://www.myinterfase.com/mit/student , go to "Workshops Career Fairs and Events", then "Workshops", then search by date.  Please note: If you are not able to access CareerBridge and pre-register you can sign in at the door.

Sponsored by the Postdoc Advisory Council and Global Education and Career Development (GECD).

For more information please contact Dr. Sonal Jhaveri, sonal at mit.edu , or Nancy Richmond, richmond at mit.edu .

8. Women in Mathematics Seminar

When: Wednesday November 17th at 5:30 PM

Where: MIT's Building 2, Room 135

Speaker: Natalia Rozhkovskaya (Kansas State University)

Title:  Generalizations of Symmetric Polynomials With Origins in Representation Theory

Pizza following the talk.

For an abstract, please visit: http://math.mit.edu/wim/events/seminars.html

This is a series of generally accessible talks (starting from advanced undergraduates) by female research visitors to MIT's Mathematics Department.

9. GWG lunch

When:  Thursday, November 18th at noon

Where: Margaret Cheney Room (3-310)

The theme of this lunch will revolve around self care – you’ll have an opportunity to hear from a few current graduate women students, to ask questions, and to take some information home.

******Outside MIT******

10. Be a Big Sister! 

Contact: Natasha Threatts at 617-236-5303 or email nthreatts at bigsister.org.

Be a confidant and friend who encourages a girl to do more, try harder and become greater than she ever imagined.  

Big Sister is looking for women to become mentors in our School-Based Mentoring program. School-Based mentors are not teachers or tutors; they are caring and consistent friends. Matches meet once a week for 45 minutes to an hour at the Little Sister’s school or after-school site.

To find out more about how to become a Big Sister, please visit www.bigsister.org or contact Natasha Threatts at 617-236-5303 or email nthreatts at bigsister.org. 

Big Sister Association of Greater Boston is the largest mentoring organization in Greater Boston that exclusively serves girls.  We are a proud affiliate of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America.

11. Women in Start-Ups

When: Monday, November 15th 6:30 pm

Where: E51-325

Pre-Register: https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=48861&groupID=182

How do great ideas become successful businesses? AMITA organizes an enlightening discussion panel about one key piece of an entrepreneur's work - raising funding. Come hear how MIT women alumnae have raised money to establish profitable companies as well as what alumnae investors look for in prospective ventures to fund.

Refreshments will be provided by Zigo (founded by MIT alumni!).

Refreshments sponsored by Goodwin Procter

The following speakers, all successful MIT alumnae, will share their insights on venture financing:

-Jean Hammond, SM XV ‘86 is an active angel investor focusing on early stage high tech start-ups. She was a founder of the Boston branch of Golden Seeds and a member of Launchpad and Hub Angels. Ms. Hammond serves on the board of The Technology Capital Network. She plays or played an active board level role with a number of  investments including: Crimson Hexagon, Hire Reach, Home Portfolio, iTeam, and ZipCar. She is currently a part-time Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

-Laura Ring, SM XVM, ’91, SM XV, ’91, Bio Coming Soon!

-Lydia Villa-Komaroff,  Bio coming Soon!

-Dr. Marcie Black, SB VI-1 ’95, ME VI ’95. Ph.D. VID ’03 is the co-founder & chief technology officer of Bandgap Engineering, a MA start-up that pioneered the development of highly tunable methods for nano-structuring silicon and is applying these technologies to high efficiency photovoltaic systems and high capacity Li-ion batteries. Before joining Bandgap, Marcie worked in the applied electromagnetics group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals and three book sections, and has two issued patents and numerous patent applications pending.

$5 Extra for everyone at the door, so pre-register ($5 students, $10 MIT10, $15 AMITA and MIT COB members, $20 guests) 

https://alum.mit.edu/smarTrans/register-login.vm?eventID=48861&groupID=182
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