From owner-chemistry-!at!-ccl.net Sun Feb 16 03:17:00 2014 From: "Kadir Diri dirikadir%%gmail.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: ICQC shame Message-Id: <-49689-140215234821-17923-g1+awv9xGYHVSQVScouMSA,server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: Kadir Diri Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2014 20:47:52 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: Kadir Diri [dirikadir#%#gmail.com] I am sorry, but we ARE talking about theoretical chemistry. It is this kind of attitude that fosters gender discrimination in sciences. This issue is way more important than discussing a scientific problem that only three people in the world could relate to. CCL is the ideal place for this kind of discussions, and I didn't even think that someone would disagree. Regards, Kadir On 02/15/2014 05:12 PM, zborowsk zborowsk-*-chemia.uj.edu.pl wrote: > > Sent to CCL by: zborowsk [zborowsk]![chemia.uj.edu.pl] > Well, > could we talk about theoretical chemistry, not about sex....?? > Please > > > > W dniu 2014-02-16 01:10, Salter-Duke, Brian James > brian.james.duke|a|gmail.com napisał(a): >> Sent to CCL by: "Salter-Duke, Brian James " >> [brian.james.duke---gmail.com] >> I fully agree that this is not acceptable. I trust that the three poeple >> sponsoring this, particularly Prof. Emily Carter, who is a member of the >> Academy, have made their views known to the Academy directly. Major >> international conferences should make sure there is a reasonable balance >> between men and women as well as from all countries in the world when >> selecting speakers. >> >> Brian Duke >> >> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 02:57:48PM -0800, Kadir Diri >> dirikadir[a]gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> Sent to CCL by: Kadir Diri [dirikadir ~ gmail.com] >>> Dear Colleagues, >>> >>> I am posting this message on behalf of professor Anna Krylov -one of >>> the many outstanding women in theoretical chemistry- regarding the >>> choice of speakers for the upcoming ICQC conference. >>> >>> I would always like to think of us, scientists, as some of the >>> leading figures in the fight for gender equality. I wish the choice >>> of speakers for this conference was just a statistical abnormality. >>> Even that would be unacceptable... >>> >>> Professor Krylov's message follows below. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Kadir >>> --- >>> >>> >>> Dear Colleague: >>> >>> It happened again --- another major theoretical chemistry >>> conference features an all-male program. One of us began boycotting >>> such conferences 14 years ago and can't believe that 14 years later >>> we are still seeing such overt discrimination. This time it is the >>> 15th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry (ICQC, >>> http://www.icqc2015.org) conducted under the auspices of >>> International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science >>> (http://www.iaqms.org), which will be held in Beijing, China. As of >>> 02/15/2014, the program features 24 invited speakers and 5 chairs >>> and honorary chairs and does not include a single woman. >>> >>> Are there no women in theoretical chemistry? Hardly. The Women in >>> Theoretical Chemistry web-directory (http://iopenshell.usc.edu/wtc) >>> lists more than 300 female scientists holding tenured and tenure >>> track academic positions or equivalent positions in industry and >>> other research establishments pursuing research in theoretical and >>> computational chemistry, biochemistry, material science, as well as >>> theoretical molecular/atomic physics and biophysics. Many of these >>> women are far more distinguished than many of the men being invited >>> to speak at these conferences. >>> >>> Feeling as fed up and frustrated as we do? Add your voice to ours by >>> signing this open letter (http://chn.ge/NQGKUc) denouncing this >>> biased practice, which we had hoped would be obsolete long ago (it >>> will take less than a minute). >>> >>> Thank you for your for your support. >>> >>> Prof. Emily Carter, Princeton University >>> Prof. Laura Gagliardi, University of Minnesota >>> Prof. Anna Krylov, University of Southern CaliforniaConferences: >>> http://server.ccl.net/chemistry/announcements/conferences/> >> >> -- >> Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) Brian.Salter-Duke/a\monash.edu >> Adjunct Associate Professor >> Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences >> Monash University Parkville Campus, VIC 3052, Australia>> To recover the email address of the author of the message, please >> change> Conferences: >> http://server.ccl.net/chemistry/announcements/conferences/-- > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKmW1cLzo8Q > > > Krzysztof K. Zborowski > Faculty of Chemistry > Jagiellonian University > 3 Ingardena Street > 30-060 Krakow > Poland > phone: +48(12)632-4888 ext. 2064 or 2067 > fax: +48(12)634-05-15 > email: zborowsk,chemia.uj.edu.pl > gg 3817259 > skype kzys70 > www.chemia.uj.edu.pl/~zborowskhttp://www.ccl.net/chemistry/sub_unsub.shtmlConferences: > http://server.ccl.net/chemistry/announcements/conferences/> >