The Noetherian Ring

Named in honor of Emmy Noether, the Noetherian Ring is an organization of graduate students, postdocs, and professors in the Mathematics Department at the University of California at Berkeley who happen to be women.

During the academic year, we have weekly teatime get-togethers, which provide a forum for the members to mentor and provide support to each other. We are also planning to run other, coed events. If you are interested in being placed on our mailing list and receiving announcements of upcoming events, please send an e-mail to nring@math.berkeley.edu.

We'll be hosting a qual workshop for all math grad students on Monday, February 12 at 3:00 p.m. in 891 Evans. We'll be talking about all sorts of issues related to taking a qual, like finding an advisor, choosing a committee, study techniques, and, of course, actually taking the qual. If you're thinking of taking your qual soon, this is for you. If you've taken your qual already, you're more than welcome to come and share your wisdom.

Amusing knitting patterns:

• This site has links to knitting patterns for Mobius scarfs, Klein bottle hats, and projective plane hats.
• Here are knitting patterns for Mobius scarfs: one from Lion Brand that just involves half-twisting a regular scarf and sewing the ends together, and another that knits directly into the Mobius band.
• This site has knitting patterns for a Mobius scarf, a Klein bottle, and a Klein bottle hat, and this one has rather complicated-looking instructions for a knitted Klein bottle.
• Project #15 on this page is a crocheted Klein bottle hat.

• Fellowships for graduate students in mathematics - This site lists most of the major fellowships for graduate study in mathematics, along with links, deadlines, stipends, etc. We have also included tips and advice from UC Berkeley mathematics graduate students who have won these awards.
  
  
• Passing the Prelim - We are now developing a website with resources to aid in preparing for Berkeley's Preliminary Exam. Please check back with us in October by which time we hope to have this site up and running.

As a group of predominantly female mathematicians, the Noetherian Ring at Berkeley is far from unique. Following a presentation by members of the Berkeley Noetherian Ring at the 1995 AWM Workshop during the Joint Mathematics Meetings in San Francisco, women at MIT were motivated to form the MIT Noetherian Ring. There is also a Noetherian Ring at the University of Florida, a Noetherian Ring at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), Women in Mathematics at the University of Maryland College Park, and Women in Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Links2Go #1 Women in Mathematics

This website was recently selected as a Links2Go "Key Resource" in the Women_in_Mathematics topic.

Out of 19 pages selected, this page ranked first!

For links to the other pages, click on the award above.

• Association for Women in Mathematics
• Biographies of Women Mathematicians Including Emmy Noether.
• Another biography of Emmy Noether.
• Groups Related to Women in Science and Engineering A list of professional organizations, student organizations, and electronic mailing lists.