AWM Activites at the 2003 Joint Mathematics Meetings

AWM would like to invite you to our events to be held in conjunction with the Joint Mathematics Meetings Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland January 15 - 19, 2003

Schedule of AWM events as of January 9, 2003.

Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 3:20 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Room 336, Convention Center
AWM Panel Discussion
Mathematics Educators and Mathematicians Working Together
Organizers:
- Bettye Anne Case, Florida State University
- Suzanne M. Lenhart (AWM President), Univ. Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Yanik, Emporia State University
Moderators:
- Elizabeth (Betsy) Yanik, Emporia State University
- Bettye Anne Case, Florida State University
Panelists:
- Deborah Lowenberg Ball, University of Michigan
- Hyman Bass, University of Michigan
- Edith Prentice Mendez, Sonoma State University
- Karen Dee Michalowicz, The Langley School, McLean, VA
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 15, 2003, 4:35 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., Room 336, Convention Center
AWM Business Meeting
All AWM members are invited to attend.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 6:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m., The Wharf Rat Restaurant, 206 E. Pratt Street (across the street from Convention Center)
AWM 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 of at the AWM Panel on Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 15, 2003, 9:30 p.m., Harborview Room and Maryland Suites, Hyatt
AWM Reception
The entire math community invited. Refreshments and a cash bar will be available. Has been a popular, well-attended event in the past.
Thursday, January 16, 2003, 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m., Room 307, Convention Center
24th Annual AWM Emmy Noether Lecture
Five Little Crystals and How They Grew
Jean E. Taylor, Rutgers University
Thursday, January 16, 2003, 4:25 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Room 307, Convention Center
Joint Prize Session
The following AWM prizes will be awarded in this session:
- 12th Annual Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Educations
- 12th 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 17, 2003, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., La Tavola Restaurant 248 Albemarle Street in Little Italy
AWM Workshop Dinner & Discussion Group
For all workshop presenters, mentors, panelists, and organizers, and invited guests.
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 8:20 a.m.-4:40 p.m.
AWM Workshop featuring Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.s
The entire math community is invited to attend all workshop presentations.

Organizer:
- Catherine A. Roberts, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Co-Organizer:
- Jodie D. Novak, University of Northern Colorado
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
AWM Workshop: Research Talks by Recent Women Ph.D.s, I
- 8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
  Lih-Ing Wu Roeger, Texas Tech University
  Modeling the Impact of HIV Infection on TB
- 9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
  Keri A. Kornelson, Texas A&M University
- 9:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
  Jennifer A. Bruce, Maryville College
  Uniformly Concentric Bilinski Diagrams
- 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
  Nancy Ann Neudauer, Pacific University
  Bicircular Matroids
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Workshop: Women Graduate Student Poster Session
Light refreshements will be available.
- Andrea Moreira Bell, Oregon State University
  Modularity of Nonarithmetic Curves, A Hilbert Modular Surface on Q(5)^½ and the Soccer ball
- , University of Cincinnati
  A New 2-parameter Variation of the Quantum Yang-Baxter Equation
- Karen S. Briggs, University of California, San Diego
  A P,Q-Analogue of the Classical Hit Numbers
- Elizabeth Burroughs, University of New Mexico
  Convection in a Thermosyphon: Bifurcation and Stability Analysis
- H. A. Dye, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Detection of Virtual Knot Diagrams
- Kirsten Eisenträger, University of California, Berkeley
  Hilbert's Tenth Problem
- Berit Nilsen Givens, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Chromatic Numbers of Hypergraphs and the Bohr Topology
- Megumi Harada, University of California, Berkeley
  The symplectic geometry of the Gel'fand-Cetlin basis for representations of the symplectic group
- Jooyoun Hong, Rutgers University
  The Rees Algebra of a Conormal Module
- Jinko Kanno, Louisiana State University
  Some Splitter theorems
- Elizabeth Klodginski, University of Michigan
  Cross and Join Surfaces in Surface Bundles Over the Circle
- Junalyn Navarra-Madsen, University of Texas at Dallas
  Colorability and 3-string Tangles
- Allison M. Pacelli, Brown University
  Class Groups of Global Function Fields
- Emily Proctor, Dartmouth College
  Multiparameter Isospectral Deformations on SU(n)
- Billie Rinaldi, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  A Cellular Automaton Inverse Problem
- Aubin R. K. Whitley, University of California at San Diego
  The Skorokhod Problem and Heavy Traffic Limit Theorems
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
AWM Workshop: Lunch and Discussion Group
For workshop presenters, mentors, organizers, discussion group leaders, and invited guests.
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
AWM Workshop: Panel Discussion
Shaping a Career in Mathematics
Moderators:
- Jodie D. Novak, University of Northern Colorado
Panelists:
- Alessandra O. P. Chiareli, 3M Company
- Mai Gehrke, New Mexico State University
- Chawne M. Kimber, Lafayette College
- Jennifer McGreevy, U.S. Department of Defense
- Margaret M. Robinson, Mt. Holyoke College
Saturday, January 18, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m
AWM Workshop: Research Talks by Recent Women Ph.D.s, II
- 2:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
  Karen L. Horton, North Dakota State University
  Prime Ideals of Multiparameter Quantized Coordinate Rings
- 3:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
  Katherine L. Hurley, University of South Carolina
  The space of graded traces for holomorphic vertex operator algebras with central charge 24
- 3:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
  Amelia Taylor, Rutgers University
  Complexity of Computations in Commutative Algebra
- 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  Yana Mohanty, University of California, San Diego
  Construction of a ¾-ideal tetrahedron out of ideal tetrahedra
AWM Workshop closing remarks will follow the last talk in this session.