AWM Workshop:
Focus on Research & Career Experiences

Held in conjunction with the 2004 SIAM/Life Sciences Joint Mathematics Meeting (July 12 - 16, 2004),
Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon.

The sessions focus on showcasing the research of women graduate students and recent Ph.D. mathematicians and helping individuals to prepare for careers in the mathematical sciences. Our Tuesday morning session is a minisymposium that focuses on career planning and experiences. The workshop also has two research minisymposia (Monday afternoon and Tuesday afternoon) presented by recent Ph.D. mathematicians and poster presentations by graduate students. In addition, on Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 3:00 PM there is the AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture presented by Joyce R. McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

There is no registration fee for this AWM workshop. The minisymposia and poster session are open to all SIAM meeting attendees. Pre-registration for the AWM luncheon is required. Individuals can inquire about availability by contacting the AWM Office, 4114 Computer & Space Sciences Bldg., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2461; phone 301-405-7892 or email awm@math.umd.edu. For further information on the workshop, contact the workshop chair, Suzanne Lenhart (lenhart@math.utk.edu) or Dawn Wheeler at AWM (awm@math.umd.edu).

Monday, July 12, 2004, 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Meeting room: C125/126

AWM Luncheon
- Luncheon Speaker
  Opportunities at the IMA
  Doug Arnold, Director, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota
See AWM staff on-site for ticket availability or email awm@math.umd.edu prior to the meeting.
Monday, July 12, 2004, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Meeting room: A104

AWM Minisymposium on Mathematical Biology (MS9)
This minisymposium will feature talks by female Recent Ph.D.'s working in mathematical models with biological applications. The applications include prion populations and leukemia drug treatment, Two talks are related to genotyping and genome comparison.
- 4:00 p.m.
  Probabilistic Error Bounds with Application to Genotyping Microarray Design
  Vera Cherepinsky, Courant Institute, NYU & Yale University
- 4:30 p.m.
  A Mathematical Analysis of Prion Proliferation
  Meredith L. Greer, Bates College
- 5:00 p.m.
  Optimal Control for Drug Therapy in a Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) model
  Seema Nanda, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- 5:30 p.m.
  Genome comparison allowing complex rearrangements
  Mariel Vazquez, University of California, Berkeley
Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Meeting room: A104

AWM Minisymposium on Career Questions and Potential Options (MS16)
Questions and concerns exist about gender issues in academic and industrial settings. Issues that will be discussed will include personal and professional challenges that arise as our careers progress. The speakers will give brief commentaries followed by a question and answer session.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Women in Academia: Is the Climate Chilly?
  Barbara Lee Keyfitz, University of Houston
- 10:30 a.m.
  Children versus Tenure
  Lisette de Pillis, Harvey Mudd College
- 11:00 a.m.
  Career Challenges for the Female Mathematician in Academia
  Martha L. Abell, Georgia Southern University
- 11:30 a.m.
  The Administrative Career Track: Pros, Cons, and Factors
  Carol S. Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Maeve L. McCarthy, Murray State University.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Meeting room: A104

AWM Minisymposium on Modeling and Numerical Methods (MS22)
This minisymposium will feature talks by female recent Ph.D.'s on modeling applications of mathematics, dynamics and numerical methods. The applications include relaxor ferroelectrics and transmembrane proteinstructure. Post-processing for the discontinuous Galerkin Method will be presented. The dynamics of polygonal dual billards will also be presented.
- 4:00 p.m.
  On Polygonal Dual Billiards In The Hyperbolic Plane
  Filiz Dogru, Grand Valley State University
- 4:30 p.m.
  An Empirical Scoring Function for the Optimal Bundling of Transmembrane Helices
  Genetha Anne Gray, Sandia National Laboratories
- 5:00 p.m.
  A Temperature-Dependent Model for Relaxor Ferroelectrics
  Julie K. Raye, Virginia Commonwealth University
- 5:30 p.m.
  ENO type stencil choosing for one-sided post-processing for the discontinuous Galerkin method
  Jennifer K. Ryan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Meeting room: Exhibit Hall A - Center

Research Poster Reception
AWM Poster Presentations by Women Graduate Students will be part of the SIAM Poster Reception on Tuesday evening, from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. AWM invites all SIAM attendees to join us.
The AWM Women Graduate Student Presenters in this session are:
- Optimal Control of Swinging Elements in a Parabolic Competition Model
  Erika Asano, University of Tennessee
- Computational Eddy Current-Based Methods in Nondestructive Damage Detection
  Brandy A. Benedict, North Carolina State University
- Nonlinear Dynamics of Frontal Polymerization with Gel effect
  Donna M. G. Comissiong, Northwestern University
- Biological Computation and Information Processing in Biofilms
  Sarah C. Cunningham, University of California Santa Cruz
- Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems involving ODEs
  Wandi Ding, University of Tennessee
- Application of the Generalized Singular Value Decomposition to Face Recognition
  Peg Howland, University of Minnesota
- Locally Divergence-Free Discontinuous Galerkin
  Fengyan Li, Brown University
Tuesday July 13, 2004, 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Meeting room: Oregon Ballroom 202

AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture
Title: Interior Elastodynamics Inverse Problems: Creating Shear Wave Speed Images of Tissue
Joyce R. McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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 Professors Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory), K. Renee Fister (Murray State University) and Maeve L. McCarthy (Murray State University) who kindly served as the 2004 Workshop co-organizers. AWM also wishes to express its gratitude to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for their support of the AWM workshop.

AWM Workshop: Focus on Research & Career Experiences

AWM Workshop:
Focus on Research & Career Experiences