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News from Women in Nuclear—IAEA Chapter

January-March 2015, Issue #11

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WiN Global Conference 2015

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Technical tours and social events may be booked at:

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April 2015: Submission of grant applications

April 2015: Notification of acceptance of abstract

31 May 2015: Submission of poster if accepted

1 June 2015: Early Bird registration for side events (10 % )

24 July 2015: Final registration deadline

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News from Women in Nuclear—IAEA Chapter

January-March 2015, Issue #11

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The IRON CURTAIN Foundation Worldwide and WiN IAEA Chapter with the support of the Czech Permanent Mission to

the UN, OSCE and other International Organizations in Vienna presented an

Exhibition at the VIC Rotunda on 7–15 January 2015

SECRET NUCLEAR WEAPON DEPOT

In the summer of 2013, an executive member of Women in Nuclear (WiN) IAEA learned about the

existence of the Atom Museum and attended the opening ceremony in the Czech Republic. In Novem-

ber 2013, about 15 WiNners IAEA visited the military site near Misov in the Czech Republic, where

the formerly secret bunker is located. We walked through the bunker in awe, and the idea was born to

organize an exhibition of the Atom Museum here in the VIC Rotunda.

This historical exhibition in the VIC Rotunda was a great success. It displayed photos showing the

inside of the bunker that gave you an idea of what it must have been like in those Cold War days,

when soldiers were guarding the bunker, with nuclear missiles ready to be deployed.

WiN IAEA has the pleasure of offering a one-day trip to the Atom Mu-

seum in Misov, Czech Republic, to WiN Global Conference participants

on Friday 28 August 2015.

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News from Women in Nuclear—IAEA Chapter

January-March 2015, Issue #11

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WiN Retreat Bad Loipersdorf

29 Jan—1 Feb 2015

The 2015 WiN retreat was held in Bad Loipersdorf and offered the participants the oppor-

tunity to enjoy health and spa treatments as well as reflecting on the plans for 2015. The few

WiNners attending spent a great time together. Our agenda contained the following topics:

Women in Nuclear Meet Atoms for Peace — Conference preparation:

o Budget update (estimated 300 participants)

o Meeting with OPIC: key messages

o Programme:

· Invited speakers (actual status)

· Outline of thematic content of each session (for communication to panel-

lists)

Other upcoming events and AOB.

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News from Women in Nuclear—IAEA Chapter

January-March 2015, Issue #11

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WiN IAEA Chapter Seminar

D. Dudenhöffer on Cyber-Security

12 February 2015

COMPUTER SECURITY IN A NUCLEAR WORLD

Donald Dudenhöffer, an IT Security Officer of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security,

Division of Nuclear Security at the IAEA, started the series of WiN IAEA seminars in 2015 on 12

February with his talk on cybersecurity. During his presentation, Mr. Dudenhöffer shared some

examples from recent years on security breaches of IT systems in major corporations around the

world and demonstrated how severe the consequences of such attacks could be. He gave an

overview of IT security systems and several types of security breaches. Also, Mr. Dudenhoeffer

stressed that the human factor was the weakest link in most IT security systems and gave examples

of recent phishing attempts. The talk concluded with an open invitation for all WiN members to

attend the IAEA Cybersecurity Conference this June.

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News from Women in Nuclear—IAEA Chapter

January-June 2015, Issue #11

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WiN Global Executive and Board Meeting

during the PIME Conference in Bratislava

2 March 2015

WiN IAEA Chapter President and Execu-

tive Eva and also Vice-president and Board

Member Gabi attended the WiN Global

meeting in Bratislava.

The main topic on the agenda was the 2015

conference status, and confirmation of the

next WiN conferences in UAE (2016), Chi-

na (2017) and potentially in Argentina

(2018).

In 2016, the WiN communication work-

shop, traditionally organized by WiN

during PIME, will be held in WNA Lon-

don instead, most likely in spring by

WiN UK. It was decided that in future

WiN workshops during PIME might be

organized by local chapters as wished

and feasible. The next PIME conference

2016 will be held in Romania.

The strategic plan members of WiN Global chaired by Irene Aegerter will

meet on 15 May in Vienna. Eva and Gabi were and will continue to be

members of this important initiative.

The WiN Global meeting was organised and sponsored by WiN Slovakia!

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News from Women in Nuclear—IAEA Chapter

January-March 2015, Issue #11

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Observance of the International Women’s Day in IAEA

3 March 2015

IAEA

Women on Boards

On 3 March 2015 during the Agency’s Board of Governors meeting, the IAEA hosted

a panel discussion to celebrate IWD 2015, moderated by Janice Dunn Lee, DDG-MT,

with prominent women contributing: M. Ziakova (present Chair of the BoG), A.

MacFarlane (Chair of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 2012 — 2014), M.E.

Hoedemakers (Chair of the Nuclear Energy Agency Steering Committee) and S. di

Pippo (Director of the UN Office for Outer Space) shared their experiences as women

in high level committees, and work places and discussed how to deal with work/life

balance. The panel discussion was concluded with questions from the audience and

with more opportunities to speak with the panellists later on.

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News from Women in Nuclear—IAEA Chapter

January-March2015, Issue #11

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INMM Science Fair

14 March 2015

Vienna International School

WiN Special Awards

As every year WiNners participated at the INMM Science Fair as judges of the stu-

dents’ projects and awarded a special price for the most impressive female contribu-

tions. From 125 students representing 11 International Schools in 74 scientific pro-

jects the selection of the best was not easy for the judges.

This year the WiN awards went to Paulina Olszewska and Nooralhuda Kwrbou from

the Riverside School Prague in the junior category for their project ‘The effect of

Detergents on Oil Stains’ and to Melisa Sirotkova in the senior category from the

British International School Brno for her project ‘Wind Tunnel Investigations’. WiN

congratulates all Science Fair students for outstanding achievements.

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News from Women in Nuclear—IAEA Chapter

January-March 2015, Issue #11

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Upcoming Events

Workshop by Ms. Tessie George, India, April 14, 16:30—18:30

Presentation of HE Merav ZAFARY-ODIZ , Ambassador to Israel, April 22

Daughters’ Day April 23

Presentation of Georgina M. Nitzsche, Women without Borders, late May

Presentation of HE Laura KENNEDY, Ambassador to the US, June 16

Please contact the Events Team for information!

Welcome New Members!

ADAMCZYK, Justyna – Intern SGTS

GOMEZ ZAMORA, Rocio – Trans-lator (Spanish) MTCD

JOSSO, Julia Claire - Translator (French) MTCD

KONEGGER-KAPPEL, Stefanie – Mass Spectrometry Specialist SGAS

MILANI, Luisa – Intern MT

NAMBUUSI, Barbra – Team As-sistant MTHR

SCHULER, Regine Rosa – Safe-guards Information Analyst SGIM

Miscellaneous

- Visit http://www.srf.ch/play/tv/reporter/video/mission-im-possible?id=f1a164e1-e604-445b-8d7c-

c6eb9a5aab5c for latest news on the Suisse Nuclear Programme (in German only)

- New Editorial Board of the WiN Newsletter

Due to the leave of Jessica a new team is taking over the newsletter:

Susan Cohen-Unger, Amy Zotter-Amenu, David Voigt and Gabi Voigt

Suggestions, proposals or comments how to improve the newsletter to any of them,