DIVERSITY LUNCH AT THE PALACIO DE CONGRESOS DE VALENCIA - ROUND-TABLE DISCUSSION ABOUT WOMEN IN THE FIELDS OF STEM AT THE MUSEU VALENCIÀ DE LA IL·LUSTRACIÓ I DE LA MODERNITAT, MUVIM (AFTERNOON)
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Diversity Lunch. The GR22 and Amaldi13 conferences will host a Diversity and Inclusion Lunch. It is intended as a social-peer platform to celebrate diversity, discuss challenges, and collaborate on strategies to bolster diversity and inclusion. Lunch attendees will have the opportunity to share their personal views and life experiences on specific issues. Those include (but are not limited to) race, ethnicity and culture; age and professional experience; gender identity and sexual orientation; (dis)ability and impairments; religious beliefs; work-life-balance and needs of parents. For participation in the Diversity and Inclusion Lunch please contact the Code-of-Conduct Committee.
Round-table discussion about women in the fields of STEM.
The conference will host a one-hour long discussion in round-table format about the topic of gender equality and women empowerment in the fields of STEM, with an emphasis in physics in particular. The event will be held at the Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i de la Modernitat, MuVIM in downtown Valencia.
The panel consists of the following scientists:
- Prof. José Adolfo de Azcárraga (University of Valencia; President of the Spanish Royal Physical Society).
- Prof. Pascuala García Martínez (University of Valencia; President of the Specialized Group on Women in Physics of the Spanish Royal Physical Society).
- Prof. Ruth Lazkoz (University of the Basque Country).
- Prof. Virginia Trimble (University of California Irvine).
- Prof. Francesca Vidotto (University of the Basque Country).
The discussion will be chaired by Prof. Vicent Martínez (University of Valencia).
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