WiE-UC January Newsletter

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28 January 2023

WIE - UC NEWSLETTER IEEE Student Branch of the UC Women in Engineering Affinity Group

WHAT'S INSIDE: Opinion Article of Kaleidoscope- P. 1

Biography of Jocelyn Bell Burnell - P. 2

Achievement of Maryna S. Viazovska P.3

Curiosity - P.4

WiE Reccomend P.4

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Opinion Article KALEIDOSCOPE Kaleidoscope is about an elaborate heist executed in the middle of a hurricane in downtown Manhattan and meant to steal seven billion dollars’ worth in untraceable bonds. The most appealing feature of this show - and the reason everybody started watching - is that the episodes can be viewed in any order, leaving ‘white’ for last. For some, the show transcends to more than just a TV series, playfully becoming a search for the optimal viewing experience.

I personally find Kaleidoscope to be one of the most binge-worthy shows I’ve ever seen. It’s ingenious, thrilling and easily catches the spectator’s attention. But one thing that isn’t “easy” about this show is figuring out who is the actual villain. I find myself in a place to say that the series demonstrates that the world isn’t black and white. The crew Leo Pap assembles to execute the heist of the century is formed by people who have experience in the area - meaning they are all criminals - except for the “man on the inside” yet the people they are robbing are quite morally questionable as well.

Throughout the episodes we get Leo’s backstory including how he connected each and every member of the bunch leaving us no choice but to empathize with every single one of them, especially with the “mastermind”. We can also see the FBI agent’s close past and, even though I can’t find myself rooting for the FBI instead of the charismatic bunch we see assembling in the yellow episode, I couldn’t help but to feel for her.

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Diving into the heist itself, we can only assume a plan 7 years large is up to be brilliant as so happens. The orchestry of this plan purely conceived based on revenge is truly fascinating! The white episode is to die for… packed with unresolved feelings and plot twists like you have never seen. No matter the viewing order, Kaleidoscope will leave you hanging to the edge of your seats every second. Just don’t be mistaken: this show can still melt your heart. Amid the action and the cliffhangers there are some beautiful and soft moments, especially between Leo and his daughter Hanna and poetic moments worth sitting around for.

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Biography JOCELYN BELL BURNELL Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born on July 15, 1943, in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK, being the eldest of 4 siblings.

Her father was an architect for the Armagh Observatory, where Jocelyn spent much time as a child, and the encouragement of the observatory’s staff together with her fascination with her father’s astronomy books ended up developing her interest in astronomy. However, despite her desire for learning, she struggled in elementary school and even failed a test meant to gauge her aptitude for college.

Always perseverant, her parents sent her to England to study at a Quaker boarding school, where she ended up distinguishing herself in her science classes and in 1965 obtained her Physics degree at Glasgow University, Scotland 1965.

After that, Bell moved to Cambridge to get her Ph.D., where she had the opportunity to study interplanetary scintillation of compact radio sources while working in the construction of the Interplanetary Scintillation Array, studied interplanetary scintillation of compact radio sources. and to start studying quasars, which had recently been discovered.

In 1967, together with Antony Hewish Bell discovered a few odd signals that she dubbed "scruff" while examining literally miles of printouts from the telescope.

These "bits of scruff" appeared to be radio waves that were too rapid and consistent with originating from quasars. During a few months, the team systematically eliminated all possible sources of the radio pulses— which they affectionately labeled Little Green Men, in reference to their potentially artificial origins and, after considering many hypotheses, they ended up concluding that these signals originated

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from super-dense neutron stars, fastspinning collapsed stars too small to form black holes.

These were identified by the media as collapsed stars pulsars, and the story was released. This discovery was responsible for the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physics, awarded to Hewish and Martin Ryle, that lead Several prominent scientists to protest the omission of Bell Burnell, though she maintained that the prize was presented appropriately given her student status at the time of the discovery, though she has also acknowledged that gender discrimination may have also contributed for that.

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Achievement MARYNA S. VIAZOVSKA

Maryna S. Viazovska, born on the 2nd of December 1984, in Kyiv, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian mathematician known for her work in sphere packing. She earned her master’s from the University of Kaiserslautern, her Ph.D. from the Institute of Mathematics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and her doctorate from the University of Bonn.

Since January 2018 she has held the Chair of Number Theory as a full professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland after a short stint as a tenure-track assistant professor.

As of 2016, she has been receiving various SOURCE: PLUS.MATHS.ORG awards, the latest being, in 2022, the Fields Medal, which is regarded as one of the highest honors a mathematician can receive, and has been described as the Nobel Prize of Mathematics and is awarded to four mathematicians under 40 years of age per year. She is the second woman to win this award. Viazovska was honored as one of the BBC 100 Women in December 2022.

Sofia Diogo

Curiosity of the month...

Can you name the feminist figure born on the 25th of this month 156 years ago?

It’s Adelaide Cabete! Adelaide was a Portuguese physician, activist and feminist who founded the Portuguese women's organization, Conselho Nacional das Mulheres Portuguesas, and served as its elected president from 1914 to the date of her passing.

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Cabete was the third Portuguese woman to graduate in Medicine and created the Republican League of Portuguese Women, along with Ana de Castro Osorio, in 1909. Through the two aforementioned institutions and the Alma Feminista (Feminist Soul) magazine, Adelaide supported underprivileged women and promoted awareness of better feminine hygiene and the opening of maternity wards. “(...) all ladies and women's collectives in Portugal can take part in it, whatever social class they belong to, whatever their political faith or religious creed, which is why the purpose of this association is very simply to work for the civil, economic and moral improvement of women in particular and of humanity in general, absolutely removed from the struggle of passions" — Adelaide Cabete on CNMP, interview for the newspaper O Mundo (1914)

SOURCE: THEGIZZLEREVIEW.COM

Mariana Almeida

WiE Recommend Want a break from study and exams with an exciting and lighthearted series? We have the best recommendation for you.

The Recruit, the new Netflix original series has ‘To all the boys I’ve loved before’ star, Noah Centineo playing the lead character of this enticing action series. This tells the story of a new recruit of the CIA that gets entangled in dangerous international power politics and is just trying to survive the madness of it. All 8 episodes of the first season are full of funny moments with a lot of action, women in charge and good plot.

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Go put this series in the “Watch Next” list because it is totally worth it!

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