Although women have made tremendous strides in the workplace in recent decades, they still face a variety of challenges that hinder their development as leaders.

In her presentation, Dr. Timmons will discuss how women’s leadership is an issue for everyone, and outline strategies to encourage, develop and promote women leaders both inside and outside academia.

Roderick Melnik of the MS2Discovery Institute was on the Program Committee of the International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering. This event provided a discussion forum for scientists, engineers, educators and students about the latest ideas and realizations in the a discussion forum for foundations, theory, models and applications for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine. Topics covered included: New computational techniques and methods in machine learning; data mining; text analysis; pattern recognition; data integration; genomics and evolution; next generation sequencing data; protein and RNA structure; protein function and proteomics; medical informatics and translational bioinformatics; computational systems biology; modelling and simulation and their application in life science domain, biomedicine and biomedical engineering.

Roderick Melnik of the MS2Discovery Institute was on the Editorial Board of the Ninth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technologies, held in Naples, Italy (September 2-5, 2014). The conference was concerned with both theoretical, mathematical and scientific developments as well as applications of established technology to new domains. The ECT2014 Conference was opened jointly with the CST-2014 Conference with a lecture presented by Professor K.J. Bathe of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA.

Shohini Ghose and Hasan Shodiev of the MS2Discovery Institute were on the Organizing Committee of the 5th IUPAP ICWIP-2014, held in Wateloo, Canada (August 5-8, 2014).The International Scientific Union and its member unions, including the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has recognised a particular need to foster the participation of women in physics. The IUPAP Conference series on Women in Physics, organised by IUPAP Working Group 5, has a history not only of success and growth but of making a difference in the physics community. This conference was hosted by the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP) Committee to Encourage Women in Physics and locally by the WinS. Plenary talks at this event were given by distinguished speakers from around the world:

• Melissa Franklin, Mallinckrodt Professor and Chair of Physics, Harvard University
• Silvia Torres-Peimbert, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Astronomy, Mexico City University and President Elect of the Executive Committee, International Astronomical Union.
• Claudia Felser, Professor, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Director, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden
• Sabine Stanley, Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Planetary Physics, University of Toronto
• Patience MthunziSenior Scientist Researcher, National Laser Centre - Biophotonics, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa
• Tsai-Chien ChiangScience columnist, lecturer at Taiwan University and author of "Madam Wu Chien-Shiung: The First Lady of Physics Research"

Roderick Melnik of the MS2Discovery Institute was one of the organizers of the Workshop on Computational Modeling of Multiphysics/Multiscale Coupled Processes in Biological and Nanotechnological Systems (with Giovanna Guidoboni, USA and Riccardo Sacco, Italy). The workshop was embedded into the 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM2014), held in Barcelona, Spain (July 20-25, 2014). The Congress was organized by IACM and ECCOMAS jointly with two other conferences: the 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) and the 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI). Among invited speakers at this workshop were

• Clemens Heitzinger, Arizona State University and Technical University of Vienna
• Marcela Szopos, University of Stasbourg

Shohini Ghose, Marek Wartak, and Hasan Shodiev were on the Organizing Committee of the Theory Canada 9 Conference (June 12-15, 2014) This event was a satellite conference to the annual Congress of the Canadian Association of Physicists (CAP). Invited speakers at this conference were:

• Pawel Hawrylak,National Research Council
• Philip Schuster,Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Tapash Chakraborty,University of Manitoba
• Tim Koslowski,University of New Brunswick
• Rob Myers,Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Anne Broadbent,University of Ottawa
• Christoph Simon,University of Calgary
• Natalia Toro,Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Michel Gingras,University of Waterloo
• Astrid Eichhorn,Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
• Luc Vinet,Université de Montréal
• Latham Boyle,Perimeter Institute
• Lisa Jeffrey ,University of Toronto
• Rafael Sorkin,Perimiter Institute / Syracuse University