Working Towards Gender Equity in Science

ICTP's Colloquium Series 2016 continued on Wednesday, October 12 with a talk entitled "Women in Mathematics and Physics." The speaker was Dr. Rohini Godbole of the Indian Institute of Science at the Centre for High Energy Physics in Bangalore.

The Colloquium was livestreamed and recorded; you can watch the talk here.

Dr. Godbole, a particle theorist, told stories of prominent women who were early pioneers in mathematics and physics, and commented on the situation for women in science today. Her talk identified some of the best strategies to attract and retain more women in the fields of mathematics and physics.

Over the past four decades Dr. Godbole has worked extensively on the phenomenology of the Standard Model (SM) and beyond (BSM). In the context of BSM she has mainly worked on supersymmetry, co-authoring a graduate text book on the subject. Her work on SM has concerned the structure function of photon/proton/nuclei as well as the phenomenology of the Higgs and the top quark. She has published extensively, is a member of the Linear Collider Board of the Linear Collider Collaboration, and has been elected a TWAS Fellow. In addition to her research, Dr. Godbole has actively worked on initiatives to attract and retain more women at all levels of science, being the first chair of the Panel for Women in Science of the Indian Academy of Science for almost a decade.