Book presentation followed by discussion: "HEP - still an unfeminine profession?" with Mary K Gaillard

<!--HTML--><p>In 1981 <a href="http://physics.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/mary-k-gaillard" target="_blank">Mary K Gaillard</a> became the first woman on the physics faculty at the University of California at Berkeley. Her career as a theoretical physicist spanned the period from the inception &mdash; in the late 1960s and early 1970s &mdash; of what is now known as the Standard Model of particle physics and its experimental confirmation, culminating with the discovery of the Higgs particle in 2012. Her book <em>A Singularly Unfeminine Profession</em> recounts Gaillard&#39;s experiences as a woman in a very male-dominated field, while tracing the development of the Standard Model as she witnessed it and participated in it.</p> <p>Following the book presentation, <a href="http://www.phy.cam.ac.uk/directory/gibsonv" target="_blank">Prof. Valerie Gibson</a> from the University of Cambridge will comment on her own journey and how it is to be a woman in the world of physics today during a discussion round with P.E.Mary K Gaillard and the audience. The discussion round will be moderated by Genevi&egrave;ve Guinot, the CERN Diversity Programme Leader.</p> <p>Coffee will be served at 3:30pm.</p> <p>The book can be <a href="http://cds/record/2034511" target="_blank">borrowed from the CERN library</a>, bought at the CERN library (bldg. 52, 1st floor) or accessed online on&nbsp;the publisher&#39;s website&nbsp;(<a href="http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9443#t=toc" target="_blank">World Scientific</a>) (<span style="font-family:calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">free of charge for anyone with a CERN account)</span></p> <p><em>(There will also be a Theory Seminar by Mary K Gaillard on <a href="http://indico.cern.ch/event/459287/" target="_blank">&quot;Supergravity at one loop, anomalies and applications to string phenomenology&quot;</a> - Wednesday, 18 May at 2pm at the TH Conference Room)</em></p> <p><a href="http://diversity.web.cern.ch/book-presentation-Gaillard#" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>Please register here</strong></span></a></p>