Events

The Physics Department sponsors a number of events throughout the year featuring speakers of diverse backgrounds and experiences, and experts in advancing equity and inclusion in physics and more broadly STEM.

In addition to the seminars and roundtables listed below, we recently instituted regular reading groups and graduate student meetings to discuss specific topics and actions that we can take as a department.

2020 events

6/10: Strike For Black Lives
7/29: E&I reading group Zoom discussion of AIP TEAM-UP report
8/24: E&I reading group discussion of committee

2018-19 events

08/01: Tools for Practical Allyship: Gender-diverse Identity in the 21st Century
07/25: Tools for Practical Allyship: 'I Don't See Color'—A Primer on Colourblind Racism
07/18: Tools for Practical Allyship: The Meaning of Allyship
06/03: Stanford Physics Pride Month Celebration
05/06: Physics Department Equity and Inclusion Seminar: Joel Corbo on Departmental Action Teams
03/04: Physics Department Equity and Inclusion Seminar: Samuel Meehan on AIMS
12/04: Physics community discussion on equity and inclusion topics
11/13: Physics Department Equity and Inclusion Seminar: Ashley Martin, 'Blind to Bias: The Benefits of Gender-Blindness for STEM Stereotyping'
10/29: WISE informal discussion of 'Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine' (Dr Benya [study director] and Dr Hillman [committee member] visiting)
10/22: WISE Inspirations Network at Stanford event feat. Ellen Ochoa, PhD

2017-18 events

08/23: Discussion of the National Academies' report on sexual harassment
07/12: E&I reading group on 'Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine' (Bruce Macintosh moderating)
05/21: Physics Department Equity and Inclusion Seminar: Angie Little on Intentional Design Toward Supportive Communities in Physics Education
02/12: Physics Department Equity and Inclusion Seminar: Nicole Cabrera Salazar on Retaining People of Color in STEM
12/04: Julie Posselt, Inside Graduate Admissions (Grad Diversity Staff Council, WISE Ventures)
10/17: Jo Handelsman on The Fallacy of Fairness (Fall 2017 WINS)
10/2: Physics Department Equity and Inclusion Seminar: Dr Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on Making A Physicist With Jazz (WISE Ventures and Physics Dept Research Roundtable)

2016-17 events

4/10: Physics Department Equity and Inclusion Seminar: Brian Nord, 'Wool over our eyes: the effect of systemic biases in our research environments'
2/27: Fall Quarter meeting of the WISE Inspirations Network at Stanford (WINS), with keynote speaker Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaraoff on From Bench to Boardroom: A Life in Science
2/27: Dr. Lydia Villa-Komaraoff on Thinking Fast Makes Changing S l o w: How Cognitive Processes Interfere with Achieving Diversity
1/23: Physics Department Equity and Inclusion Seminar: Brian Beckford on Changing the Landscape of Graduate Education
11/14: Meg Urry on Black Holes, Astrophysics and How to Get Equity in STEM
11/14: Meg Urry on Success Strategies for Women in Physics
10/26: WISE Ventures Research Roundtable, Why are Some STEM Fields Less Gender Balanced Than Others? Prof Sapna Cheryan, Dept of Psychology, Univ. of Washington, 4:30pm
10/7: ASEE Breakfast Chat -- How to Create a Welcome Mat, Prof Sheri Sheppard, Dept of Mech. Eng, Stanford, 9:30 AM Building 550, Room 126
10/6: Using Social Psychology to Support Underrepresented Students in Physics, Gregg Muragishi, Dept. of Psychology, Stanford 4:30pm in McCullough 218
9/29: Physics Department Equity and Inclusion Seminar: Striving for Excellence by Leveling the Playing Field, Prof Caitlin Casey, Dept. of Astronomy, UT Austin 4pm in PAB 102/103