Workshops & Meetings in 2004

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March Meeting Sessions

Session N7

• "Agnes Pockels: Life, Letters and Papers"   
  Christiane A. Helm (Institut fur Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt Universitat, Greifswald, Germany)
• "100 Years of Monolayers at the Air/Water Interface: Agnes Pockels Scientific Legacy
  "Charles Knobler (Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles)
• "Katharine B. Blodgett: Aunt, Friend and Physicist"
  Katharine Gebbie (National Institute of Standards and Technology)   
• "70 Years of Built-Up Films: Katharine Blodgett’s Scientific Legacy
  "Daniel Schwartz (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder)

Session S4

• "Feeding – Not Weeding: A Strategy to Grow More Women Scientists
  "Mary Pavone (Dartmouth College)
• "Recruitment and Retention of Female Graduate Students: What Have We Learned from the APS Climate for Women Program?
  "Laurie McNeil (Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  PowerPoint Presentation (UNC web site)
• "Gender Differences in the Careers of Former Postdoctoral Fellows
  "Gerhard Sonnert (Dept. of Physics, Harvard University)
• "What Works for Women in Undergraduate Physics?"   
  Barbara L. Whitten (Colorado College)  
• "Pathways into Science for High-School Girls"
  Elizabeth Simmons (Michigan State University), 
• "Retention of Young Female Post-Doc Physics Researchers in the UK
  "Elizabeth Whitelegg (The Institute of Physics and The Open University)

• CSWP and the Forum on Industrial and Applied Physics (FIAP) co-sponsored a networking breakfast on March 23, 2004 at the APS meeting in Montreal featuring a talk by Joanna Batstone of IBM on "Transitions and Survival Skills"   

• CSWP offered a half day workshop covering such issues as establishing a scientific identity, combining work and family, and negotiation skills.  rogram and Presentations
  

April Meeting Sessions

Session B13

• "Switching Fields in Physics: Finding the Right Job
  "Marla Dowell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
• "Science Journalism: Reporting and Writing for Science Today".
  Charles Day (Physics Today)
• "Science Advising
  "Benn Tannenbaum (Federation of American Scientists)
• "Critical Behavior of Two Liquids
  "Gordon Thomas (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

Session D13

• "Thresholds and Glass Ceilings: Career Pattern of Women Scientists"
  Gerhard Sonnert (Harvard University)
  Part 1   
  Part 2   
• "What Works for Women in Undergraduate Physics?"   
  Barbara L. Whitten (Colorado College)  
• "Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion (LEAP)"   
  Patricia Rankin (University of Colorado, Boulder)