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AWM Activites at the 2000 Joint Mathematics Meetings

• Wednesday January 19, 2000, 12:00 noon-5:30 p.m., Exhibit Hall B, Marriott
  AWM Exhibit
   
• Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 2:45 p.m.-4:05 p.m., Coolridge Room, Marriott
  AWM Panel Discussion
  How to increase the number of tenured women in mathematics departments.
  Organizer:
  Jean E. Taylor, Rutgers University
  Panelists:
  Mille Dresselhaus, Institute Professor, M.I.T.
  Elaine Hansen, Provost, Haverford College
  Maria Klawe, Dean of Science, University of British Columbia
  Jerry Ostriker, Provost, Princeton University
  Karen Uhlenbeck, Professor, University of Texas at Austin
   
• Wednesday January 19, 2000, 4:05 p.m.-4:25 p.m., Coolridge Room, Marriott
  AWM Business Meeting
   
• Wednesday, January 19, 2000, 6:00 p.m.-8:15 p.m., Perle's Restaurant, Marriott
  Noether Dinner
  As in the past, AWM will have a get-together with the Noether Lecturer for a casual dinner. If you would like to join us, a sign-up sheet will be at the AWM Table in the exhibit area.
   
• Wednesday January 19, 2000, 9:30 p.m.-11:00 p.m., Ballroom Foyer, Marriott
  AWM Reception
  Entire math community invited; refreshments and cash bar available. Has been a popular, well attended event in the past.
   
• Thursday January 20, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Exhibit Hall B, Marriott
  AWM Exhibit
   
• Thursday January 20, 2000, 9:00 a.m.-9:50 a.m., Ballroom I/II, Marriott
  AWM Emmy Noether Lecture
  The mathematics of optimization.
  Margaret H. Wright, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
   
• Thursday January 20, 2000, 1:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m., Ballroom III, Marriott
  AMS-MAA-MER Special Session on "How can we help? A look at some ways in which university faculty can contribute towards solving some of the problems that beset mathematics education from Kindergarten on up."
  The following speakers are co-sponsored by AWM.
   
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Learning to make a difference.
    Gail Burrill*, Mathematical Sciences Education Board
     
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Can one person make a difference? Yes!
    Virginia M Warfield*, University of Washington
    
    
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Mentoring: Myths and Realities, Dangers and Responsibilities.
    Bernice R Sandler*, National Association for Women in Education
     
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Rethinking K-12 Mathematics Education.
    Shirley M Malcom*, AAAS
     
• Thursday, January 20, 2000, 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m., Ballroom I/II, Marriott
  Presentation to the winners of the 10th Annual Alice T. Schafer Award for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman and the 10th Annual Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education.
  These award presentations are held in conjunction with the Joint Prize Session.
  A cash bar will immediately follow.
   
• Friday January 21, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Exhibit Hall B, Marriott
  AWM Exhibit
   
• Friday January 21, 2000, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m., Wilson A, Marriott
  AMS-AWM-SIAM Special Session on Linear Algebra and Optimization, I
  Organizers:
  Dianne P. O'Leary, University of Maryland, College Park oleary@cs.umd.edu
  Margaret H. Wright, Bell Laboratories mhw@research.bell-labs.com
   
  • 8:15 a.m.
    Computing and Displaying Confidence Intervals for Images.
    Dianne P O'Leary*, University of Maryland
    James G Nagy, Emory University
     
  • 9:00 a.m.
    On the Local Convergence Properties of Pattern Search Methods for Nonlinear Optimization.
    Elizabeth D Dolan, Argonne National Laboratory
    Robert Michael Lewis, Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
    Virginia Torczon*, College of William & Mary
     
  • 9:40 a.m.
    An Asynchronous Direct Search Method for Optimization on Parallel Computers.
    Tamara G Kolda*, Sandia National Laboratories
    Patricia D Hough, Sandia National Laboratories
    Virginia Torczon, College of William and Mary
     
  • 10:20 a.m.
    Pricing The American Option Using An Interior-Point Method.
    Yuying Li*, Cornell University
     
• Friday January 21, 2000, 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m., Wilson A, Marriott
  AMS-AWM-SIAM Special Session on Linear Algebra and Optimization, II
  Organizers:
  Dianne P. O'Leary, University of Maryland, College Park oleary@cs.umd.edu
  Margaret H. Wright, Bell Laboratories mhw@research.bell-labs.com
   
  • 1:00 p.m.
    Results on Iterative Regularization.
    Misha E Kilmer*, Tufts University
     
  • 1:40 p.m.
    Approximating large systems by small systems: some theorems and some open questions.
    Jane K Cullum*, Los Alamos National Laboratory
     
  • 2:20 p.m.
    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the BiCG Algorithm.
    Anne Greenbaum*, University of Washington
     
  • 3:00 p.m.
    How Non-Normality Can Affect the Solution of Linear Systems.
    Ilse Ipsen*, North Carolina State University
     
  • 3:40 p.m.
    Structure preserving low rank approximation of linearly structured matrices.
    Haesun Park*, Univ. of Minnesota
    Ben Rosen, Univ. of Minnesota
    Lei Zhang, Univ. of Minnesota
     
  • 4:20 p.m.
    Spectral Encounters of the Quaternion Kind.
    Niloufer Mackey*, Western Michigan University
    D. Steven Mackey, Kalamazoo College
     
• Friday January 21, 2000, 6:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Executive Room, Omni Shoreham
  AWM Workshop Dinner For workshop presenters, mentors, organizers, and invited guests.
   
• Saturday January 22, 2000, 9:30 a.m.-12:00 noon, Exhibit Hall B, Marriott
  AWM Exhibit
   
• Saturday January 22, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Hampton Room, Omni Shoreham
  AWM Workshop
  This session consists of several parts, including research talks by recent women Ph.D.s, posters by women graduate students, and a panel discussion.
  Organizers:
  Gail Ragcliff, University of Missouri
  Sue Geller, Texas A\&M University
  Catherine Roberts, Northern Arizona State University
   
• Saturday January 22, 2000, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m., Hampton Room, Omni Shoreham
  AWM Presentations by Recent Women Ph.D.s, I
   
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Sub-Riemannian Geometry: the Martinet Case.
    Monique Chyba*, Princeton University
     
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Milnor's Conjecture on Fundamentals Groups.
    Christina Sormani*, Lehman College, CUNY
     
  • 9:30 a.m.
    When is a noncompact manifold almost compact, an introduction to $L^2$-cohomology.
    Eugenie Hunsicker*, Lawrence University
     
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Polygonal knot theory and stuck unknots.
    Heather Johnston*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
     
• Saturday January 22, 2000, 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m., Hampton Room, Omni Shoreham
  AWM Graduate Student Poster Session
  Light refreshments will be served.
   
  • Geometric Methods in Classical Invariant Theory.
    Irina A. Berchenko*, University of Minnesota
     
  • High-Order Finite Difference Methods for Wave Equations.
    Michelle L. Ghrist*, University of Colorado
     
  • Definability of coefficients in solutions of linear systems over p-adic power series rings.
    Concetta Maria Gomez*, University of California, Berkeley
     
  • Combinatorics of the Toric Hilbert Schemes.
    Diane Maclagan*, University of California, Berkeley
     
  • Contact Processes on Trees in Random Environment.
    Oana Mocioalc\u{a}*, University of Florida
     
  • Continuous Methods for Solving Nonlinear Ill-Posed Operator Equations with Application to Gravitational Sounding Problem.
    Alexandra Smirnova*, Kansas State University
     
  • An Intersection Multiplicity in Terms of Ext-modules.
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, University of Utah
     
  • Existence of Rainbow Ramsey Numbers.
    Linda Eroh*, Western Michigan University
     
  • Normal Ideals of Graded Rings.
    Sara Faridi*, University of Michigan
     
  • Square Trees.
    Susan Hollingsworth*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
     
  • Formal Patching and Deformation of Wildly Ramified Covers of Curves.
    Rachel J. Pries*, University of Pennsylvania
     
  • On Pointwise Dimension of Non-hyperbolic Measures.
    Victoria Sadovskaya*, The Pennsylvania State University
     
  • Making Gradient Materials: A Model for Interfacial Gel Polymerization.
    Cynthia A. Spade*, Northwestern University
     
  • Nonlinear Wave Equations on the Two Dimensional Sphere.
    Theresa A. Strei*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
     
  • The Inverse Problem in Gr\"{o}bner Basis Theory.
    Amelia Taylor*, University of Kansas
     
  • Mod $p$ Cohomology of Symplectic Groups.
    Jennifer Joy Ziebarth*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  
   
• Saturday January 22, 2000, 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., Hampton Room, Omni Shoreham
  AWM Panel Discussion
  Launching a career in mathematics.
  Moderators:
  Sue Geller, Texas A\&M University
  Panelists:
  L. Pam Cook, University of Delaware
  Helen G. Grundman, Bryn Mawr College
  Jennifer L. McGreevey, U. S. Department of Defense
  Jodie Novak, University of Northern Colorado
   
• Saturday January 22, 2000, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m., Hampton Room, Omni Shoreham
  AWM Presentations by Recent Women Ph.D.s, II
   
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Construction of Orthonormal Wavelets in n Dimensions.
    Jennifer Courter*, The Colorado College
     
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Pattern Recognition in Gene Expression.
    Laurie J. Heyer*, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
     
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Uniqueness of Symmetric Vortex Solutions in the Ginzburg-Landau Model of Superconductivity.
    Tiziana Giorgi*, Towson University
     
  • 3:30 p.m.
    A categorical approach to the study of self-dual codes.
    Judy L. Walker*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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