AWM Workshop:
Focus on Research & Career Experiences

Held in conjunction with the 2005 SIAM Annual Mathematics Meeting (July 11 - 15, 2005),
Hilton New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Workshop in the Mardi Gras City

The AWM workshop at the SIAM Annual Meeting in New Orleans was held on July 11-12, 2005. The workshop opened with a lunch that celebrated the new book, Complexities: Women in Mathematics, by Bettye Anne Case and Anne Leggett and published by Princeton University Press. Bettye Anne gave a presentation about the book including many interesting photographs. Vickie Kearn of Princeton University Press provided large photographs of women mathematicians from the book as table decorations. We all enjoyed the photographs and the camaraderie. Afterwards, we attended the Sonia Kovalevsky Lecfure given by Ingrid Daubechies of Princeton University on "Superfast and (Super)Sparse Algorithms," which can be used to compute transforms from possibly incomplete data.

The presenters in our "Career Transitions" minisymposium spoke to a packed room. Betty Anne Case of the University of Florida gave great advice on getting a job and then getting tenure. An interesting discussion about the "two-body" job seeking problem followed. Thaleia Zariphopoulou from the University of Texas at Austin discussed the difficulties of working in a new interdisciplinary field - financial mathematics. Holly Gaff of the University of Maryland School of Medicine encouraged participants to persevere in spite of some unusual detours along career paths. She also reminded us to find positive aspects in any situation. Renee Fister and Suzanne Lenhart also lead a discussion about getting tenure and managing time.

The two post-doc minisymposia and the poster presentations featured a variety of applications, ranging from epidemic systems to a collared dove model. Discontinuous Galerkin methods and numerical approximations of semigroups were just some of the numerical algorithms presented.

We would like to thank SIAM for including our workshop as an integral part of their meeting and to thank the Office for Naval Research for their funding support. We appreciate the contributions of the mentors volunteers. We were glad to meet Jennifer Lewis, our new AWM staff person.

submitted by the workshop organizers,
Renee Fister and Suzanne Lenhart

Minisymposium: Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems Applications

Mihaela Predescu, Bentley College
Analysis of a Nonlinear System Linking Mosquito Breeding Sites and Community Intervention
Brandy Rapatski, College of William and Mary
Determining the Virulence of HVI-1 Epidemics
Anna Gharzayan, Ohio State University
Nonlinear Convective Instability of Fronts
Irina Tikhonova, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics
Biological Processes as a Key Factor of Complex Eocsystem Dynamics

Minisymposium: Optimization, Control and Numerical Methods

Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar, New York City College of Technology
A Hybrid Method combining Tabu and Fast Simulated Annealing for Global Optimization
Fengyan Li, University of South Carolina
Issues on the Implementation of the Locally Divergence-Free DGMs for Maxwell Equations on Triangular Meshes
Erika Asano, University of Tennessee
An Integrodifferential Model for the Spread of the Eurasian Collared Dove in North America
Sarah McAllister, Louisiana State University
Numerical Approximation of Semigroups

Posters

Erika Asano, University of Tennessee
Swinging Elements in a Parabolic Competition Model
Corina Constantinescu, Oregon State University
Asymptotic Decays in Ruin Theory
Wandi Ding, University of Tennessee
Optimal Control on Hybrid Systems involving ODEs
Mariya Ponomarenko, University of Minnesota
Error Estimates in Function Approximations by Artificial Neural Networks
Nicoleta Tarfulea, University of Minnesota
A Model for Individual and Collective Cell Movement in Early Stages of Tumor Induced Angiogenesis
Kening Wang, University of South Carolina
Domain Decomposition Preconditioners for C^0 Interior Penalty Methods
Yan Zhao, Vanderbilt University
A Model for Strep Throat Infection
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) and K. Renee Fister (Murray State University) who kindly served as the 2005 Workshop co-organizers. AWM also wishes to express its gratitude to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for their support of the AWM workshop.

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AWM Workshop: Focus on Research & Career Experiences

Workshop in the Mardi Gras City

AWM Workshop:
Focus on Research & Career Experiences