An event promoted by the Diversity and Gender Balance group at Instituto Superior Técnico in partnership with CMU Portugal Program.
Seminar Agenda:
10:00
Opening: Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education
10:15 – 11:00
Invited Talk: Lenore Blum presentation focused on “CMU: a case study promoting Computer Science in underrepresented groups”
11:00 – 12:30
Round table: Women in STEM: Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Moderator: Catarina Carvalho, Executive Director of “Diário de Notícias”
Members:
– Teresa Fragoso, President of the Portuguese Commission for Gender Equality
– Mariana Araújo, Instituto Superior Técnico Alumni and PhD Student
– Isabel Sá Correia, Full Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico
– Pedro Lima, Full Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico
– Cristina Fonseca, founder of Talkdesk, Instituto Superior Técnico Alumni
12:30 – 14:00 (1h30m)
Lunch Break
14:00
Opening: Helena Geirinhas Ramos (GenderBalance@IST Working Group)
14:10 – 15:30
Round table: Gender equality Policies in Lisbon Universities
Moderator: Lígia Amâncio, Full Professor, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
Members:
– António Cruz Serra, Rector Universidade de Lisboa
– Maria das Dores Guerreiro, Vice-Rector Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
– Arlindo Oliveira, President of Instituto Superior Técnico
15:30
Closing Session: António Cruz Serra, Rector Universidade de Lisboa
Location:
Instituto Superior Técnico
Auditorium, Congress center
*Lenore Blum (Ph.D., MIT) is Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus, at Carnegie Mellon, where she was founding director of Project Olympus, faculty director of the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, and held the inaugural Deans’ Chair in Technology Entrepreneurship. Project Olympus is a good example of her determination to make a real difference in the academic community and the world beyond. Olympus has two main aims: to bridge the gap between cutting-edge university research/innovation and economy-promoting commercialization for the benefit of our communities and creating a climate, culture and community to enable talent and ideas to grow in the region. Lenore is internationally recognized for her work in increasing the participation of girls and women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. She was a founder of the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Expanding Your Horizons Network for middle and high school girls. At Carnegie Mellon she founded the Women@SCS program. In 2004 she received the U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. In 2009 she received the Carnegie Science Catalyst Award recognizing her work with Project Olympus targeting high-tech talent to promote economic growth in the Pittsburgh region and for increasing the participation of women in computer science. Currently, women comprise 50% of the undergraduate computer science majors at Carnegie Mellon, more than twice the national average. Her research, founding a theory of computation and complexity over continuous domains, forms a theoretical basis for scientific computation. On the eve of Alan Turing’s 100th birthday in June 2012, she was plenary speaker at the Turing Centenary Celebration at the University of Cambridge, England. Her current research, on developing a computer architecture for a conscious AI inspired both by Alan Turing and recent developments in cognitive neuroscience, is joint with her husband Manuel Blum and son Avrim Blum.
