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The NSF Gets Serious And #MeToo
It looks like the NSF is finally getting serious about its stance on researching funding and harassment in the sciences. Two years ago in January 2016, in an official statement, the NSF threatened to pull funding from Universities that didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, women in math
Tagged #MeToo, Izabella Laba, nsf, Title IX
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Best and Worst of 2017
As this year comes careening to a screeching halt, it’s time once again for that annual tradition of the best and worst of the year…in math. And what a year it’s been! Where to begin? Let’s start with the good … Continue reading
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Tagged ABC conjecture, bitcoin, blockchain, Capital Currents, Karen Saxe, Maryam Mirzakhani, mochizuki, Navier Stokes Equations, neural networks, nsf, Vladimir Voevodsky, WannaCry
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Why Should We Fund Math Research?
As my co-blogger Brie Finegold mentioned last month, Cathy O’Neil of mathbabe.org has been writing about how MOOCs might change the face of math departments and, ultimately, how math research gets funded. O’Neil is concerned that without calculus classes to … Continue reading