AWM Calendar of Events
Joint Mathematics Meetings

January 5-8, 2007
New Orleans, LA

Friday/Saturday/Sunday/Monday

Friday, January 5

AMS – AWM Special Session 8:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Napolean Ballroom C2, New Orleans Marriott

“Geometric Group Theory, I”
Organizers: This session has been organized by Ruth M. Charney, Brandeis University and Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University, in conjunction with the Noether Lecture of Karen Vogtmann.

AWM Executive Committee Meeting 10:45 a.m.–1:00 p.m. Poydras Room, Sheraton New Orleans [For AWM Executive Committee Members and Guests]

AWM Schafer Prize and Panel Discussion 2:15 p.m.–3:40 p.m. Oakley Room, Sheraton New Orleans Alice T. Schafer Prize Presentation: The winner, runner-up and honorable mention honorees.

Panel: “Women Advancing to Leadership: When and How”

Organizer: Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Fields Institute and University of Houston

Panelists: Lisa Fauci, Tulane University, Cathy B. Kessel, Berkeley, California, Joan R. Leitzel, University of New Hampshire, Carolyn R. Mahoney, Lincoln University, Johanna Levelt Sengers, National Institute of Standards and Technology

AMS – AWM Special Session 2:15 p.m.–6:10 p.m. Napolean Ballroom C2, New Orleans Marriott

“Geometric Group Theory, II”

Organizers: This session has been organized by Ruth M. Charney, Brandeis University and Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University, in conjunction with the Noether Lecture of Karen Vogtmann.

AWM Business Meeting 3:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Oakley Room, Sheraton New Orleans

AWM President Barbara Lee Keyfitz presiding

All AWM members are invited to attend.

AWM Reception 9:30 p.m. Grand Ballroom Foyer, Sheraton New Orleans
The entire math community is invited; music, refreshments and a cash bar are available.

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Saturday, January 6

28th Annual AWM Noether Lecture 9:00 a.m.–9:50 a.m. Grand Ballroom, A/B/C, Sheraton New Orleans

“Automorphisms of Free Groups, Outer Space, and Beyond”
presented by Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University

a Welcome and Introduction: Barbara Lee Keyfitz (AWM President), Fields Institute and University of Houston

AWM Noether Lunch 12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m. Location to be determined
honoring Noether Lecturer Karen Vogtmann

Sign-up sheet available at the AWM table in the Exhibit area or at the AWM Panel on Friday afternoon (seating is limited).

AMS – AWM Special Session 1:00 p.m.–3:55 p.m. Napolean Ballroom B2, New Orleans Marriott

“Geometric Group Theory, III”

Organizers: This session has been organized by Ruth M. Charney, Brandeis University and Karen Vogtmann, Cornell University, in conjunction with the Noether Lecture of Karen Vogtmann.

AWM Hay Award & Schafer Prize Presentations 4:25 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Grand Ballroom A/B/C, Sheraton New Orleans

Seventeenth Annual Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education is presented to Virginia McShane Warfield, University of Washington and the Seventeenth Annual Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman is presented to Ana Caraiani, Princeton University

presented by Barbara Lee Keyfitz, AWM President

The above AWM award presentations are held in conjunction with the Joint Prize Session. A cash bar reception will immediately follow. AWM is grateful to the AMS and the MAA for including the presentation of these awards in the Joint Prize Session.

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Sunday, January 7

AWM Workshop Dinner 6:00 p.m. –9:00 p.m. Balcony M, New Orleans Marriott [for Workshop presenters, mentors, panelists, organizers and invited guests]

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Monday, January 8

AWM WORKSHOP for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs
8:20 a.m.–4:20 p.m. Ballroom D, New Orleans Marriott

The AWM Workshop talks, poster session and panel are open to the entire mathematics community attending the Meetings. We encourage all to attend. Selected women graduate students and recent PhD mathematicians 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, Mardi Gras Ballroom

8:30 a.m.– 8:50 a.m. Categorical Self-Distributivity,  Alissa S. Crans, University of Michigan

9:00 a.m.– 9:20 a.m Optimal Harvesting of a Semilinear Elliptic Fishery Model. Wandi Ding, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

9:30 a.m.– 9:50 a.m. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Topological Group,  Julia Bergner, Kansas State University

10:00 a.m.– 10:20 a.m. Nonpositively Curved Decompositions of Coxeter Groups,  Angela K. Barnhill, Ohio State University

10:30 a.m.– 11:45 a.m. AWM SPONSORED POSTER SESSION FEATURING  GRADUATE STUDENTS, Mardi Gras Ballroom (refreshments will be available)

High Order Fully Coupled Discontinuous Finite Element Methods for Two-Phase Flow, Yekaterina Epshteyn, University of Pittsburgh

Representations of the Braid Group via the Yang Baxter Equation, Jennifer M. Franko, Indiana University

Localized Operators and its Use in Determining Bounded- ness and the Construction of Localized Frames, Fumiko Futamura, Vanderbilt University

Ramanujan’s “very interesting functions:” Mock Theta Functions and Vector-valued Maass-Poincaré Series, Sharon Anne Garthwaite, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Topological Properties of a DNA Computing Model, Daniela Genova, University of South Florida

Large Scale Bayesian Parameter Estimation for the Cardiac Metabolism during Ischemia, Rachael Hageman, Case Western Reserve University

Visibility of Point Clouds and Application to Mapping Of Unknown Environment, Yanina Landa, University of California, Los Angeles

Galois Representations and Descent in K-theory, Grace Lyo, University of California, Berkeley

Transmission Boundary Value Problems in Non-smooth Domains, Katharine A. Ott, University of Virginia

Universal Abelian Covers of Normal Surface Singularities of the form zⁿ = f (x,y), Elizabeth A. Sell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Spectral Averaging in von Neumann Algebras, Anna Skripka, University of Missouri-Columbia

Mathematical Modeling of Wormlike Micellar Solutions, Paula A. Vasquez, University of Delaware

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

1:00 p.m.– 2:15 p.m. PANEL DISCUSSION, Mardi Grass Ballroom .
“Critical Career Decision Stages: Research and And Funding Opportunities”

Moderator: Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame Panelists: Valentina S. Harizanov, The George Washington University, Kathleen O’Hara, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Fields Institute and University of Houston, Michelle D. Wagner, National Security Agency

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

2:30 p.m.– 2:50 p.m. Nonvariational Methods for Semilinear Elliptic Equations  of Critical Growth, Sarah G. Raynor, Wake Forest University

3:00 p.m.– 3:20 p.m. The Jacobson Radical and an Isomorphism Theorem by  Wolfson, Mary K. Flagg, University of Houston

3:30 p.m.– 3:50 p.m. Diffusion Flame Stability, Amy B. Moore, Alma College

4:00 p.m.– 4:20 p.m. Petite K-types and Unitary Representations, Alessandra Pantano, Cornell University

4:20 p.m.– 4:30 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS

VISIT the AWM's INFORMATION TABLE at the Joint Mathematics Meetings. Our table will be located in the Joint Meetings exhibit area in Exhibit Hall, New Orleans Marriott.

Exhibit schedule for the Joint Mathematics Meetings is:

Friday, January 5 12:15 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 6 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 7 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Monday, January 8 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.