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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
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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:
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