AWM Activites at the 2004 Joint Mathematics Meetings

AWM would like to invite you to our events to be held in conjunction with the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Phoenix Civic Plaza, Phoenix, Arizona, January 7 - 10, 2004

Schedule of AWM events as of October 30, 2004.

Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 3:20 p.m. - 4:35 p.m.
AWM Panel Discussion
Supporting the Diverse Personal Lives of Mathematicians
Organizers:
- Carolyn Gordon, Dartmouth College
- Marianne Korten, Kansas State University
- Helen Moore, American Institute of Mathematics
- Christine Sormani, Lehman College, CUNY
Moderator:
- Helen Moore, American Institute of Mathematics
Panelists:
- Beth Bradley, University of Louisville
- Robert Bryant, Duke University
- Jerome Dancis, Duke University
- Dawn A. Lott, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Cleopatria Martinez, Phoenix College
- Elizabeth Stanhope, Willamette University
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 7, 2004, 4:35 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
AWM Business Meeting
All AWM members are invited to attend.
Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 6:00 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
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 Exhibit Table in the exhibit area of at the AWM Panel on Wednesday.
Wednesday, January 7, 2004, 9:30 p.m.
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 8, 2004, 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
25th Annual AWM Emmy Noether Lecture
Symbolic dynamics for geodesic fiows
Svetlana Katok, Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, January 8, 2004, 4:25 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Joint Prize Session
The following AWM prizes will be awarded in this session:
- 14th Annual Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Educations
- 14th 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 9, 2004, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
AWM Workshop Dinner
For all workshop presenters, mentors, panelists, and organizers, and invited guests.
Saturday, January 10, 2004, 8:20 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
AWM Workshop featuring Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.s
The entire math community is invited to attend all workshop presentations.
Saturday, January 10, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
AWM Workshop: Research Talks by Recent Women Ph.D.s, I
Organizers:
- Catherine A. Roberts, The College of the Holy Cross
- Jodie D. Novak. University of Northern Colorado
- 8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
  Katherine J. Mawhinney, Appalachian State University
  Finite-to-One Mappings on BetaN - N
- 9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
  Marian K. Hukle, University of Kansas
  Real and Topological Stable Rank
- 9:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
  Natasha Dobrinen, The Pennsylvania State University
  Measurably dominating randomness: some measurable similarities between set theory and recursion theory regarding dominating functions
- 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
  Kathryn Nyman, Texas A&M University
  Inequalities for geometric lattices invariants
Saturday, January 10, 2004, 10:45 a.m.-11:45 p.m.
AWM Workshop: Women Graduate Student Poster Session
Light refreshements will be available.
- Laura Ciobanu, Rutgers University
  On the Complexity of the Endomorphism Problem for Free Groups
- Alissa S. Crans, University of California, Riverside
  Lie 2-algebras
- Eva Curry, Rutgers University
  Characterizing Multivariable Low-Pass Filters
- Rachelle DeCoste, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  Density of Closed Geodesics in Compact Nilmanifolds Defined by Compact Semisimple g—modules
- Elizabeth Deane, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Alternating Quadrisecants of Knots
- Peg Howland, University of Minnesota
  Application of the Generalized Singular Value Decomposition to Face Recognition
- Maria del Mar Gonzalez, Princeton University
  Singularities in Conformal Geometry: from PDE to Topology
- Sarah Hutcheson Jahn, University of Illinois at Chicago
  A Blowing Up Algorithm for Calculating Rings of Integers
- Katarina Jegdic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Convergence of a Spacetime Discontinuous Galerkin Method to a weak solution of Temple Systems
- Gizem Karaali, University of California Berkeley
  r-matrices on Lie superalgebras
- Olga Kurgalina, Tufts University
  Radial parts of invariant differential operators on Grassmann manifolds
- Rebecca Vessenes, California Institute of Technology
  Generalized Foulkes’ Conjecture and Tableaux Construction
Saturday, January 10, 2004, 11:45 p.m.-12:45 p.m.
AWM Workshop: Lunch and Discussion Group
For workshop presenters, mentors, organizers, discussion group leaders, and invited guests.
Saturday, January 10, 2004, 1:00 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
AWM Workshop: Panel Discussion
Shaping a Career in Mathematics
Moderators:
- Jodie D. Novak, University of Northern Colorado
Panelists:
- Tracy Fischer, Motorola
- Joan Hutchinson, Macalester College
- Barbara Keyfitz, University of Houston
- Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia
- Janet McShane, Northern Arizona University
- Anne Shepler, University of North Texas
Saturday, January 10, 2004, 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.
  Lisa Bloomer, Middle Tenneasee State University
  Comparison of Histograms for Use in Cloud Modeling
- 3:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
  Christine E. Heitsch, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Combinatorial Results Motivated by Computational Biology
- 3:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
  Haohao Wang, Southeast Missouri State University
  Implicitization via Syzygies
- 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
  Vicky Williams, Appalachian State University
  A combinatorical approach to finding root multiplicities in some indefinite type Kac-Moody algebras
AWM Workshop closing remarks will follow the last talk in this session.