AWM Activities at the 2000 SIAM Annual Meeting

July 9-14, 2000, Westin Rio Mar Beach Resort, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

These events are held in conjunction with the 2000 SIAM Annual Meeting. AWM and SIAM welcomes your participation. There is no registration fee for this AWM workshop. Program last updated June 21, 2000. Note program changes in red.

Sunday, July 9, 2000, 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m., Caribbean Ballroom 3
AWM Dinner Banquet
See AWM staff on-site for ticket availability or email awm@math.umd.edu prior to the meeting.
Monday, July 10, 2000, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Parrot Room
AWM Minisymposium on Launching a Career (MS7)
This minisymposium will feature four mathematicians/computer scientists in a variety of careers. The speakers will discuss their career experiences and give some advice on starting a career. A variety of opportunities will be discussed.
- 10:30 a.m.
  DOE Labs: An Energetic Career in Mathematics
  Charles H. Romine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 11:00 a.m.
  The Possibility Of Having Careers In Both Industry & Academia - Q: Sequentially or in Parallel?
  Teresa D. Edwards, Spelman College
- 11:30 a.m.
  From Academe to Government: An Unexpected Opportunity
  Deborah F. Lockhart, National Science Foundation
- 12:00 p.m.
  Working in a Multidisciplinary Environment
  Mary F. Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin
Organized by Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Monday, July 10, 2000, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., Parrot Room
AWM Minisymposium on Biological and Physical Modeling Applications (MS13)
This minisymposium will feature talks by female recent Ph.D.'s on modeling applications of mathematics in various scenarios. Most of the applications involve ordinary or partial differential equations, governing biological models. One talk involves solar magnetohydrodynamics.
- 4:00 p.m.
  Models for Two Problems in Solar Magnetohydrodynamics
  Katharine F. Gurski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
- 4:30 p.m. - Cancelled as of 6/20/2000
  Spatio-temporal studies of the Mitotic Clock in Avascular Tumor Growth and Treatment
  Trachette L. Jackson, Duke University
- 5:00 p.m.
  Simulations of flows driven by pumping without valves using the Immersed Boundary Method
  Eunok Jung, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- 5:30 p.m.
  Diseases with Chronic Stage in a Population with Varying Size
  Maia Martcheva, Polytechnic University
Organized by Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tuesday, July 11, 2000, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Parrot Room
AWM Minisymposium on PDEs and Applications (MS22)
This minisymposium will feature talks by female recent Ph.D.'s on partial differential equations and various models. A variety of types of equations with theoretical and numerical results will be included.
- 10:30 a.m.
  Interactions of Galerkin-Least-Squares stabilization and control design for Burgers' Equation
  Jeanne A. Atwell, Virginia Tech
- 11:00 a.m.
  Recent Developments on Semipositone Systems
  Maya Chhetri, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
- 11:30 a.m.
  Blow-up in a Reactive-Diffusive Medium with Spatially-Localized and Moving Heat Sources
  Colleen M. Kirk, Montclair State University
- 12:00 p.m.
  Cylindrical Flame Dynamics
  Deborah Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory
Organized by Teresa D. Edwards, Spelman College.
Tuesday, July 11, 2000, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Caribbean 1 & 2
AWM Poster Session -- presentations by invited female Graduate Students
AWM will have refreshment items available during the poster session.

Graduate Student Presenters:
- Wavelet Homogenization Methods for Partial Differential Equations
  Kirsten J. Boyd, Stanford University
- A Mathematical Model of Benzene Metabolism in Vivo
  Cammey E. Cole, North Carolina State University
- Potential Minimizing Configurations of Points on a Sphere
  Ann Davis, California State University at Northridge
- Inverse Problems in Underwater Acoustics in the Presence of Internal Waves
  Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar, New Jersey Institute Technology
- Beam Spreading of Higher Order Gaussian Modes Propagating through the Atmosphere
  Yadira Vellon Gilchrest, Naval Undersea Warfare Center and University of Central Florida
- Modeling Effect of Interleukin-2's Role in T Cell Homeostasis
  Kimber Gross, University of Houston
- A Model for Hormonal Regulation of the Menstrual Cycle
  Leona Harris, North Carolina State University
- Improved Parametric Images for Brain Positron Emission Tomography Studies Using Ridge Regression and Multi Grid Methods
  Cristina Negoita, Arizona State University
- Nonexistence of nonnegative solutions for a class of semilinear elliptic systems
  Shobha Oruganti, Mississippi State University
- Characterizing Second Order Properties of Second Order Random Processes via Wavelet Transforms
  Sherry E. Scott, University of Maryland, College Park
- Non-Newtonian effects on the motion of falling viscous drops
  Linda B. Smolka, Pennsylvania State University
- Nonlinear Wave Equations on the Two-Dimensional Sphere
  Theresa A. Strei, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- The Effect of Mixing Distribution Misspecification in Poisson Mixed Models
  Kimberly S. Weems, University of Maryland, College Park
- Development of a Biologically-Based Controlled Growth and Differentiation Model for Developmental Toxicology
  Shree Y. Whitaker, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and North Carolina State University

Abstracts of the AWM minisymposium talks and poster presentations are listed in the final SIAM Annual Meeting Program.

AWM is grateful to SIAM and their Meetings Department for all their efforts on behalf of the workshop and all AWM activities. AWM also wishes to thank all the AWM members who volunteered their time and expertise for these activities. A special thank you is extended to Professor Suzanne M. Lenhart (University of Tennessee, Knoxville; lenhart@math.utk.edu) who kindly served as the 2000 Workshop Chairperson. AWM also wishes to express its gratitude to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) for support of the AWM workshop.