Lighting the Holiday Season!!! Wednesday, November 28, 7:00 pm Chateau Nova (Kodiak Room)

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1 Lighting the Holiday Season!!! Wednesday, November 28, 7:00 pm Chateau Nova (Kodiak Room)

2 SALUTE TO EXCELLENCE CONGRATULATIONS TO HAROLD HORNIG founding member of our Society on the City of Edmonton s Award for Community Services, November 26, 2018

3 Program Lighting the Holiday Season!!! Wednesday, November 28, 7:00 pm Chateau Nova (Kodiak Room) Welcome Yellowhead & Introduction Trail, Edmonton Reflections of Society s Sponsorship: Putting Women into the Equation I (BIRS) & II (Fields) The Wired City About the Telephone Historical Centre Tesla on Coins and Paper Money Feature Film Tesla Tales Door Prizes Reception Snacks, Home Baked Sweets and Sparkling Non-alcoholic Drinks Displays: Tesla Coins and Paper Notes, Tesla Coil in Action, Old Telephones from the Museum, etc Tesla Souvenirs Gifts by Ellie Shuster, Sculptors Association of Alberta Happy Holidays Season s Greetings

4 Impact of Women Mathematicians on Research and Education in Mathematics (18w2043) Arriving in Banff, Alberta Friday, March 16 and departing Sunday March 18, 2018 Putting Women into the Equation I

5 March 16-18, 2018 PUTTING WOMEN INTO THE EQUATION Impact of Women Mathematicians on Research and Education in Mathematics

6 Impact of Women Mathematicians on Research and Education in Mathematics Opening remarks by Lillian Beltaos, Nikola Tesla Historical Society of Alberta, and Amenda Chow, York University Katie Burak: Sophie Germain (TCPL 201) Hannah Brown: Betty Allan: A Brilliant and Inspiring Heroine (TCPL 201) Samira Sadeghi: Ancient Women Mathematicians (TCPL 201) Kieka Mynhardt: Snarks (TCPL 201) Maria Torres: Academic Development of Women Through Distance Education (TCPL 201) Dennis Connolly: The Great Mathematician Philippa Fawcett, (TCPL 201) Karen Buro: Then and Now: Women in Statistics (TCPL 201) Amanda Garcia: Giuseppe Sellaroli - Fantastic Physicists and Where to Find Them (TCPL 201) Lauren DeDieu: Pioneering Women in Cryptology (TCPL 201) Dionysia Pitsili-Chatzi: Narratives of Women Mathematicians: A Neglected Aspect of History (TCPL 201) Gustavo Carrero: Women Mathematicians in Canada: Developing and Shaping the Field of Mathematical Biology Allysa Lumley: Contributions of Women in Number Theory (TCPL 201) Anastassia Etropolski: Emmy Noether and her Contributions to Commutative Algebra (TCPL 201) Susan Gerofsky: Say What You Know, Do What You Must, Come What May : Women Mathematicians of Three Centuries Barred from Universities (TCPL 201) Ruth Haas: Giving Women a Second Chance (TCPL 201) Veda Roodal Persad: Sofya Kovalevskaya (TCPL 201) Sarah Mayes-Tang: Using Women s Stories to Share Alternative Mathematical Experiences in a First-Year Seminar Kristine Bauer: Mary Gray, the AWM and the Value of Mentorship (TCPL 201) Gerda de Vries: Hidden Figures: Eminent Women of Applied Mathematics (TCPL 201) Breakout into Working Groups (Specific rooms in TCPL to be announced later.) Panel Discussion with Working Group Leaders (TCPL 201) Closing Remarks

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10 Putting Women into the Equation II Research in Mathematical Sciences TORONTO

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12 The Wired City Edmonton s Telephone Historical Centre

13 FIRST TELEPHONE IN EDMONTON >The people of Edmonton, St. Albert, and Fort Saskatchewan drew up a petition in requesting the connection of the 3 communities by telephone. >They contacted the Bell Telephone agent in Winnipeg, who felt that Edmonton was not yet large enough to warrant an exchange. >Alex Taylor proposed acquiring the instruments necessary to establish a private system connecting the instruments to the telegraph line. >In the spring of 1884, Parliament approved the $675 necessary to build the Edmonton - St. Albert line. Poles were supplied by the people, and the shipping, labour, instruments, porcelain insulators, and wire were paid for with money from the government. >In January, 1885, Alex Taylor made the first call from his new telegraph office to McKenney's store and residence in St. Albert. >A second telephone line was run from Alex Taylor's telegraph office to the Hudson's Bay Company s office in Fort Edmonton.

14 1912 ELECTRICITY 600 B.C. Thales of Miletus writes about amber becoming charged by rubbing - he was describing what we now call static electricity English scientist, William Gilbert first coined the term "electricity" from the Greek word for amber 1880s and 1890s, Calgary, Edmonton and Lethbridge all struck deals with local entrepreneurs to provide electricity to their respective cities. In all three cases, the population boom of the early 1900s put tremendous strains on the existing systems and raised a contentious debate about the relative merits of public versus private ownership of utilities.

15 Tesla demonstrating wireless lighting by "electrostatic induction" during an 1891 lecture at Columbia College via two long Geissler tubes(similar to neon tubes) in his hands.

16 Tesla on Coins and Paper Notes film by Mirko Dumanovich, Director Nikola Tesla Historical Society of Alberta

17 Tesla: I wanted to illuminate the whole earth. There is enough electricity to become a second sun. Light would appear around the equator, as a ring.saturn. Happy Holidays from Alberta s Tesla Wave

18 Main Sources & Acknowledgements > Brochure of The Telephone Historical Centre > Discussions with Curator, Hannah Chipman, The Telephone Historical Centre > Discussions with Fort Edmonton Park Staff > > > Wikipedia/Google Thank you! Lillian D. Beltaos, President Alberta s Tesla Wave