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Although the gender gap in academia has narrowed, females are underrepresented within some fields in the USA. Prior research suggests that the imbalances between science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields may be partly due to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Mike Thelwall , Carol Bailey , Catherine Tobin , Noel-Ann Bradshaw

We present a characterization of the completeness of the field of real numbers in the form of a \emph{collection of several equivalent statements} borrowed from algebra, real analysis, general topology, and non-standard analysis. We also…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-09-15 James F. Hall , Todor D. Todorov

Initiatives to increase the number, persistence, and success of women in physics in the US reach pre-teen girls through senior women. Programs exist at both the local and national levels. In addition, researchers have investigated issues…

This paper is divided into two sections. In the first I give reasons for strongly recommending reading some of Henkin's expository papers. In the second I describe Leon Henkin's work as a social activists in the field of mathematics…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2015-07-17 María Manzano

Since the early twentieth century, it has been understood that mathematical definitions and proofs can be represented in formal systems systems with precise grammars and rules of use. Building on such foundations, computational proof…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Jeremy Avigad

Developing a 21st Century Global Library for Mathematics Research discusses how information about what the mathematical literature contains can be formalized and made easier to express, encode, and explore. Many of the tools necessary to…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Committee on Planning a Global Library of the Mathematical Sciences

The Mat\'ern model has been a cornerstone of spatial statistics for more than half a century. More recently, the Mat\'ern model has been central to disciplines as diverse as numerical analysis, approximation theory, computational…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Emilio Porcu , Moreno Bevilacqua , Robert Schaback , Chris J. Oates

This research focuses on the experiences of seven undergraduate women who were majoring in physics in a medium-size physics department at a small liberal arts college. In the semi-structured, empathetic interviews we conducted, the women…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-07-17 Lisabeth Marie Santana , Chandralekha Singh

Short information about the conference in 1960 in Jerusalem is presented together with an interesting photo where we can find several famous mathematicians participated in this conference. To recognize the people on the photo and collect…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2013-03-05 Lech Maligranda

In recent years, there has been significant debate and discussion about the glaring gender disparity in the physical sciences. To better understand and address this within the Australian Space Research Community, in 2015 we began the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-15 Jonathan Horner , Belinda Nicholson , Ann Cairns , Wayne Short , Alice Gorman

In recent decades, a growing number of discoveries in fields of mathematics have been assisted by computer algorithms, primarily for exploring large parameter spaces that humans would take too long to investigate. As computers and…

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Physics and Computation (PC 2016). The workshop was held on the 14th of July 2016 in Manchester, UK, as a satellite workshop to UCNC 2016, the 15th International…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Alastair A. Abbott , Dominic C. Horsman

This paper presents a set of intersectional feminist principles for conducting equitable, ethical, and sustainable AI research. In Data Feminism (2020), we offered seven principles for examining and challenging unequal power in data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Lauren Klein , Catherine D'Ignazio

In this project, I seek to present a summarization and unpacking of themes of fairness both in the field of computer science and philosophy. This is motivated by an increased dependence on notions of fairness in computer science and the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Henry Cerbone

The growing disconnection of the majority of population from mathematics is becoming a phenomenon that is increasingly difficult to ignore. This paper attempts to point to deeper roots of this cultural and social phenomenon. It concentrates…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Alexandre V. Borovik

This is an expository article discussing some of the work of Uhlenbeck, focusing mainly on work concerning harmonic maps and Yang-Mills fields.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-05-19 Simon Donaldson

This is the Habilitation Thesis manuscript presented at Besan\c{c}on on January 5, focusing on Matrix Analysis, Matrix Inequalities and Matrix Decompositions. There are also some topics in (Hilbert space) Operator Theory. The text should be…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-07 Jean-Christophe Bourin

Gender imbalance persists across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, including computer science, where it appears in researcher demographics, productivity, recognition, hiring, and career progression. Given…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Kazuki Nakajima , Yuya Sasaki , Sohei Tokuno , George Fletcher

Neural network-based machine learning is capable of approximating functions in very high dimension with unprecedented efficiency and accuracy. This has opened up many exciting new possibilities, not just in traditional areas of artificial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Weinan E

Data show that the presence of women in quantum science is affected by a number of detriments and their percentage decreases even further for higher positions. Beyond data, from our shared personal experiences as female tenured quantum…