Volunteers Needed for WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Day

I'd mentioned this earlier in the semester. Holly is part of the
Steering Committee. This is a really good outreach opportunity.


The Women in Science and Engineering program (WISE) will bring 400
seventh and eighth grade girls to UMass Lowell on Friday, May 23,
2008. The girls will attend workshops presented by professional women
working in science, mathematics, health professions and engineering.

The Steering Committee is seeking female student volunteers to assist
the presenters, direct girls to their workshops, etc. Volunteers are
needed from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. on that day. Lunch and a great t-shirt
are provided.

If you are interested, please check out the website
http://www.uml.edu/wise/ and sign up using the online form
http://www.uml.edu/wise/WISE%20eform.pdf

Lunch with Sowmini Varadhan, Sun Microsystems

WiCS is hosting Sowmini Varadhan of Sun Microsystems this Wednesday (4/30). Sowmini requested to meet with faculty to discuss collaborations in the networking field. WiCS will be hosting lunch at 12noon and dessert at our usual 1:30pm slot.

If you would like to attend lunch and/or dessert, please RSVP with wics at cs.uml.edu stating "lunch only," "lunch and dessert," or "dessert only." Please do not reply directly to this post.

Thanks,
Kate

REMINDER: Upcoming Women in Computer Science Guest Speakers: Sukyoung Ryu and Sowmini Varadhan

Sukyoung Ryu of Sun Microsystems will be visiting the Women in
Computer Science this Wednesday at 1:30pm. All are welcome. To attend,
please RSVP with wics at cs.uml.edu

------

The Women in Computer Science group is very proud to host two members
of Sun Microsystems this month, Sukyoung Ryu and Sowmini Varadhan.
Sukyoung will visit us at our next meeting on Wednesday, April 16th at
1:30pm. Sowminin will visit us at our following meeting on Wednesday,
April 30th at 1:30pm. Please assume the location to be Olsen Hall
Computer Science Library (219A) -- unless we have a lot of people show
interest and I will select another venue in Olsen Hall.

Sukyoung is a member of the Programming Language Research Group at Sun
Labs. She received her Ph.D. in CS from KAIST, Korea and is the proud
mom of two daughters. She attended the Grace Hopper conference last
year and was deeply impressed by all the efforts for encouraging women
in computing. Sukyoung will share her experience with the Grace
Hopper conference with us.

Sowmini is a Staff Engineer at Sun, worked in (Sun and elswhere)
Kernel/Networking for the last 10 years. She received her Phd in CS
from the University of Tennessee in 1995.

Please RSVP with wics at cs.uml.edu for lunch.

Thanks,
Kate Tsui
WiCS Coordinator
http://www.cs.uml.edu/wics