AWM Activites at the 2001 Joint Mathematics Meetings

AWM would like to invite you to our events to be held in conjunction with the Joint Mathematics Meetings, New Orleans Marriott Hotel and the ITT Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, Januray 10-13, 2001.

Preliminary schedule as of October 20, 2000.

Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 2:45 p.m. - 4:05 p.m., La Galerie 5, 2nd Floor, Marriot
AWM Panel Discussion
AWM and K-8 Education: What Should We Do?
Organizers:
- Suzanne M. Lenhart (AWM President-Elect), Univ. Tennessee
- Jean Taylor (AWM President), Rutgers Univ.
Panelists:
- Shirley Malcom, Head, AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs
- Judith Roitman, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas
- Erica Voolich, 7th grade teacher, Solomon Schechter Day School, Newton, Massachuetts
- Virginia M. Warfield, Senior Lecturer, University of Washington
At the conclusion of the panel discussion, AWM will recognize the Alice T. Schafer Prize winner, runner-up, and honorable mention honorees. Note that formal prizewinner announcements are made at the Joint Prize Session on Thursday afternoon.
Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 4:05 p.m. - 4:25 p.m., La Galerie 5, 2nd Floor, Marriot
AWM Business Meeting
All AWM members are invited to attend.
Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 6:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m., Location TBA
AWM Noether Dinner
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 of at the AWM Panel on Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 10, 2001, 9:30 p.m., Outside of Grand Ballrooms ABC, 5th Floor, Sheraton
AWM Reception
The entire math community invited. Refreshments and a cash bar will be available.
Thursday, January 11, 2001, 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m., Grand Ballrooms ABC, 5th Floor, Sheraton
22nd Annual AWM Emmy Noether Lecture
Non-linear equations in conformal geometry
Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Princeton University and the University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, January 11, 2001, 4:25 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Grand Ballrooms ABC, 5th Floor, Sheraton
Joint Prize Session
The following AWM prizes will be awarded in this session:
- 11th Annual Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Educations
- 11th Annual Alice T. Schafer Prices for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman
A cash bar reception will immediately follow the prize session.
Friday, January 12, 2001, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., Location TBA
AWM Workshop Dinner & Discussion Group
For all workshop presenters, mentors, panelists, and organizers.
Saturday January 13, 2001, 8:20 a.m.-4:10 p.m., Pontchartrain A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
AWM Workshop
This session consists of several parts listed separately throughout this program. All meeting participants are invited to attend all presentations.

Organizers:
- Gail D. L. Ratcliff, University of Missouri, St. Louis
- Sue Geller, Texas A&M University
- Jodie D. Novak, University of Northern Colorado
Saturday January 13, 2001, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m., Pontchartrain A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
AWM Workshop: Research Talks by Recent Women Ph.D.s, I
- 8:30 a.m.
  Counting Permutations by their Rigid Patterns.
  Amy N. Myers*, University of Pennsylvania
- 9:00 a.m.
  Computational Complexity of Generalized Pattern Matching.
  Christine E. Heitsch*, University of British Columbia
- 9:30 a.m.
  The Baues problem and the toric Hilbert scheme.
  Diane Maclagan*, Institute for Advanced Study
- 10:00 a.m.
  Gap sets and error-correcting codes.
  Gretchen L. Matthews*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Saturday January 13, 2001, 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m., Pontchartrain A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
AWM Workshop: Women Graduate Student Poster Session
Light refreshements will be served.
- Weak P_K⁺ in u(K).
  Joni E. Baker*, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Goodwillie Calculus Towers of Functors of Hopf Algebra Type.
  Kristine Baxter*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Moving Frames and Cartesian Lie Group Actions.
  Mireille Boutin*, University of Minnesota
- The Geometry of DNA and DNA-Protein Interactions.
  Dorothy Buck*, University of Texas at Austin
- Wavelet Homogenization Methods for Partial Differential Equations.
  Kirsten J. Boyd*, Stanford University
- Harmonic Tori: An Algebro-Geometric Perspective
  Emma Carberry*, Princeton University
- A Bound on the Multiplicity for Codimension 2 Lattice Ideals
  Leah H. Gold*, Cornell University
- Dynamics of Non-Abelian Toda-like Flows.
  Melinda Evrithiki Koelling*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- L^p Estimates for Maxwell's Equations in Stratified Media.
  Aurelia Minut*, Michigan State University
- Incidence Numbers for Line and Pseudo-line Arrangements.
  Kathryn Nyman*, Cornell University
- Bott periodic phenomona in holomorphic K-theory
  Dana P. Rowland*, Stanford University
- Questions On and Uses of Local Cohomology.
  Victoria A. Sapko*, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Hyperbolic sets for holomorphic endomorphisms of . P^k.
  Malgorzata Stawiska*, Northwestern University
- Analytic Rigidity of K-trivial Contractions in Dimension Three.
  Csilla Tamás*, Purdue University
- Dependent Edges in Acyclic Orientations of Graphs.
  Kimberly Tysdal*, Wesleyan University
- A note about Ext functors of group Von Neumann algebras
  Lia Vas*, University of Maryland, College Park
Saturday January 13, 2001, 12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m., Pontchartrain A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
AWM Workshop: Panel Discussion
Launching a Career in Mathematics.
Moderators:
- Jodie D. Novak, University of Northern Colorado
Panelists:
- Carolyn S. Gordon, Dartmouth College
- Tasha R. Inniss, Trinity College, D.C.
- Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Labs
- Lisa Mantini, Oklahoma State University
Saturday January 13, 2001, 2:00 p.m.-4:10 p.m., Pontchartrain A, 3rd Floor, Sheraton
AWM Workshop: Research Talks by Recent Women Ph.D.s, II
- 2:00 p.m.
  Spectral properties of elliptic layer potentials on non-smooth domains.
  Irina Mitrea*, Institute for Advanced Study
- 2:30 p.m.
  Factorization of formal exponentials and uniformization.
  Katrina Barron*, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 3:00 p.m.
  Hidden Symmetries for a Renormalized Integral of Eisenstein Series.
  Jennifer E. Beineke*, Trinity College, Hartford
- 3:30 p.m.
  The Witten Genus and Equivariant Elliptic Cohomology.
  Maria Basterra*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
AWM Workshop closing remarks will follow the last talk in this session.