In April, Constanze attended the second “Women in Topology” workshop at the Banff International Research Station. The format of this project was slightly different in that two more senior group leaders were assigned a group of between two and four female early career topologists with the goal of producing a high-quality research paper. In Constanze’s case this turned out to be a very international group, with her co-team leader being based in Colorado and the other team members in Kentucky and Montevideo.
The nine groups formed late last summer and met in Banff this April in order to finalise the projects in person before writing up their articles over the coming summer. Constanze reports that the facilities at the BIRS did not just provide an excellent research environment but also beautiful scenic backgrounds. Constanze’s initial scepticism about the format of producing research to a deadline with unknown co-authors turned out to be unfounded when the group met in person and produced a result which was not just fun to obtain but also mathematically interesting.
L-R: Eugenia Ellis (University of the Republic, Uruguay), Constanze Roitzheim, Carolyn Yarnall (University of Kentucky) and Laura Scull (Fort Lewis College, Colorado)