AWM Calendar of Events
Joint Mathematics Meetings

January 9, 2008
San Diego, CA

Wednesday, January 9

8:20 a.m.–4:40 p.m. AWM WORKSHOP featuring presentations by Women Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.s Room 2, San Diego Convention Center

The AWM Workshop talks, poster session and panel are open to the entire mathematics community attending the JMM. We encourage all to attend. Selected women graduate students and recent Ph.D.s will present and discuss their research and meet with other mathematicians.

8:20 a.m. OPENING REMARKS

8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. AWM-SPONSORED RESEARCH TALKS BY RECENT WOMEN PHDs, I

8:30 a.m.–8:50 a.m. Graceful Labelings Meet Directed Graphs. Allison Marr, Southwestern University

9:00 a.m.–9:20 a.m. On Hypergeometric Functions over Fp and Ramanujan’s T-Function. Jenny Fuselier, United States Military Academy

9:30 a.m.–9:50 a.m. Growth of the Bass Numbers. Janet Striuli, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

10:00 a.m.–10:20 a.m. Random Effects Models for Quantitative Trait Locus (QTL) Mapping with Inbred Strains. Lara Bauman, University of California, Los Angeles

10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. AWM-SPONSORED POSTER SESSION FEATURING GRADUATE STUDENTS

Computing Cryptogrpahic Curves using the Canonical Lift of Supersingular Elliptic Curves. Juliana Belding, University of Maryland, College Park

On the Classification of Orbits of Minimal Parabolic k-Subgroups Acting on Symmetric k-Varieties of SL(n,k). Stacy Beun, North Carolina State University

Minimal Distortion Bending and Morphing of Compact Manifolds. Oksana Bihun, University of Missouri, Columbia

Using Regularized Singularities and Spectral Deferred Corrections Methods to Model Fluid Flow Generated By a Precessing Rod. Elizabeth Bouzarth,, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Prime Ideals in Rings of Power Series over the Integers. Christina Eubanks-Turner, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Solving Boundary Value Problems Using Critical Point Theory. Heidi Feller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Universal Deformation Rings Related to the Symmetric Group S5. Jennifer Froelich, University of Iowa

Representations of Some Hopf Algebras Associated to the Symmetric Group. Andrea Jedwab, University of Southern California

The Relative Strength of the Atomic Homogenous Model Theorems. Karen Lange, University of Chicago

Redefining Gorenstein: Toward a Theory of Non-Noetherian Gorenstein Rings. Livia Miller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Computing Distance in the Space of Phylogenetic Trees. Megan Owen, Cornell University

Nonlinear Dynamics of a Double Bilipid Membrane. Christine Sample, Northwestern University

Cabling Homomorphisms and the Knot Concordance Group. Cornelia Van Cott, Indiana University

Expected Length of Random Minimum Spanning Tree. Xinyi Zhang, University of Delaware

12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. AWM WORKSHOP LUNCH [for Workshop presenters, mentors, organizers and panelists]

1:00 p.m.–2:15 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION “Establishing a Career in Mathematics”

Moderator: Magnhild Lien, California State University, Northridge
Panelists: Megan M. Kerr, Wellesley College; Elizabeth S. Allman, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Fields Institute and University of Houston; and Elana J. Fertig, Metron, Inc.

2:30 p.m.–4:20 p.m. AWM-SPONSORED RESEARCH TALKS BY RECENT WOMEN PHDs, II

2:30 p.m.–2:50 p.m. Imaginary Whittaker Modules for Affine Lie Algebras. Konstantina Christodoulopoulou, University of Wisconsin, Madison

3:00 p.m.–3:20 p.m. Conditioning Super-Brownian Motion on its Exit Measure. Deniz Sezer, York University

3:30 p.m.–3:50 p.m. Continuous Dependence on Modeling for Nonlinear Ill-Posed Problems. Beth Hetrick, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

4:00 p.m.–4:20 p.m. Comparison of Relative Cohomology Theories. Diana White, University of South Carolina

4:20 p.m.–4:30 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS

AWM will have a dinner for workshop participants, mentors, panelists, organizers and invited guests on Tuesday, January 8th at 6:00 p.m. (Solana Room, Level 1, San Diego Marriott).

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