Central Indiana Celebration of Women in Computing

P R O G R A M

 

Friday –Feb 20, 2004

(4:00pm)  Registration and get acquainted  (posters, graduate school tables)

 

(5:30pm)  Keynote Speaker  "Engineering, Community, Passion, and Balance" 

Dr. Leah Jamieson,  Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education,

Purdue Schools of Engineering

(6:30pm)  Dinner – Oak Room

 

(8:30pm)  Panel   "Careers in Computing"

·   Archana Chidanandan  -  Professor, Computer Science & Software Eng, Rose-Hulman

·   Jennifer Kurtz  -  Former Director of the eBusiness Division, Indiana Dept of Commerce

·   Lou Russell   -   President and CEO, Russell Martin & Associates

 

(9:30pm)  Hike to Wolf Cave   or   Film, popcorn, relax

 

Saturday –  Feb 21, 2004

(8:00am)  Breakfast

 

(9:00am)  Student Panel

·   Audra Butts, junior CS & Economics (Indianapolis, IN)  - DePauw University  

·   Kate Soloducha, freshman CS (Warsaw, Poland)– Butler University

·   Meaghan Clark, senior CS (Bloomington, IN) – Indiana University

·   Meredith Makowski, senior CS (Speonk, NY) – Purdue University

·   Angela Smiley, freshman CS (Kokomo, IN) – Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

 

(10:15am)  Break

 

(10:30am)  Panel   "Bioinformatics and Health "

·    Zina Ben-Miled  –  Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, IUPUI

·    Katy Borner  –  Library and Information Science, Indiana University

·    Susanne Raggs  –   School of Medicine, Indiana University

·   Jeniffer Steinbachs  –  Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Indiana University

 

(11:15am)  Break

 

(11:30am)  Wrapup Panel   "What works, what does not work"

·   Mark Ardis  –  Professor, Computer Science & Software Engineering, Rose-Hulman

·   Barbara Clark –  Director, Women in Science Programs, Purdue University

·   Peter Henderson  –  Professor, Computer Science & Software Engineering, Butler

·   Gloria Childress Townsend  –  Professor, Computer Science, DePauw University

 

(12:15pm)  Lunch – Oak Room