Women In Technology - Friday Links - 10/03/2023
Dear WIT Friends,
this is our selection of Friday links:
Happy International women's day:
"I raise up my voice - not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.. We cannot all succees when half of us are held back" Malala Yousafzai
To all the women out there who everyday try to do their best in different fields and aspects of life, who try to make a change in this world, who try to break stereotypes, who are generally fighters in their own way, happy international women's day!
Be whoever you want, find your own path and don't be afraid to be different. No one knows what you can do better than yourself. You are not alone!
History of Women's Day: https://www.un.org/en/observances/womens-day/background
Five reasons why: Women and girls must have equal rights in our digital world: https://www.unfpa.org/news/five-reasons-why-women-and-girls-must-have-equal-rights-our-digital-world
How many languages are spoken at CMS? Find more women talking about their job in CMS in their own language : https://cylindricalonion.web.cern.ch/blogs/cms-women-science
Articles:
- The #metoo movement caused many universities around the world to react to sexual harassment. Learn more about how Switzerland is tackling this issue: Swiss universities are tackling sexual harassment. Are they getting it right?:
- See No Bias, Hear No Bias, Speak for No Change: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v16/33
- Diversity is all we need to make a difference, yet many people are excluded because they are different from the rest. Have you encountered excluders? : https://ombuds.web.cern.ch/blog/2023/03/have-you-encountered-excluders
Events:
Past Events:
- On the 8th of March we decided to celebrate our 2022 milestones by sharing them with our community at the "WIT Community Annual Review 2022"
- One of the co-founders of "WIT" network at CERN, Hannah Short, gave an interview for the GÉANT 2023 #WomeninSTEM campaign.
Find here this insightful interview where Hannah explains her professional and personal experience as a woman in a technical field and all the challenges it occurs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOD4Y5mtZDs
Upcoming Events:
Applications are still welcome for the 12th Thematic CERN School of Computing (tCSC 2023) which takes place on June 11-17 2023.
The programme will focus on the theme of Scientific Software for Heterogeneous Architectures, covering areas such as
- Computer Architectures
- Parallel and Optimized Scientific Software
- Heterogeneous Programming (CPU, GPU, HPC etc.).
This school is organized by CERN in collaboration with the University of Split. The school will take place in Split, Croatia, and be hosted at the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MEDILS) Conference Centre. The Centre is a historical renovated building situated in a wooded and landscaped park located on the Adriatic Sea coast, a few kilometers from the centre of Split.
For more information, and to apply, please visit https://indico.cern.ch/event/1244566/
Applications are welcome until Monday 13 March.
For all enquiries and correspondence related to the school, please email: [email protected].
You are most welcome to pass this information on to potentially interested colleagues, inside or outside CERN! Thank you!
ALSO:
Django Girls is returning to CERN on 21 and 22 April 2023!
To celebrate the International Girls in ICT Day, CERN will organise another in-person edition of Django Girls. This programming workshop for girls and women aged 15 and over will take place on the evening of Friday, 21 April 2023 and all day on Saturday, 22 April 2023. With coaching by CERN tutors, the participants will learn how to create a blog and launch it online. Django Girls will be held at IdeaSquare, in English and French.
This year again we will be looking for volunteer coaches to lead the workshop. The registration for volunteering is already open!
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1261506/
Book Suggestion:
Free book for "Women in the History of Science"
Job offers:
You don't have any professional experience yet and don't know where to start?
CERN gives this oportunity with the Origin Programme where University Graduates have the opportunity to work in one of the largest laborartories in the world:
Wishing you all a great weekend,
Florentia on behalf of WIT steering committee.
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