AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs
SIAM Annual Meeting
Boston, MA, July 2006
Workshop Program

Monday, July 10

AWM Workshop: Staying on Top of your Game in Research and Teaching
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Stuart - CC

This minisymposium will feature talks in relation to keeping your focus in your research and teaching responsibilities. Talks will address organization of your research time in a teaching job, grant writing, steps to progressing to an NSF rotating position, and transitions to other responsibilities. Such issues should be of interest to mathematicians at various career levels.

Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee
                 K. Renee Fister, Murray State University
                 Kristen Moore, University of Michigan
                 Jennifer K. Ryan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

4:00-4:25 Juggling Eggs
Sigal Gottlieb, Brown University

4:30-4:55 Smooth Transitions and Turbulence: Shifts Between Professor and Administrator
Mary Ann Horn, Vanderbilt University and National Science Foundation

5:00-5:25 Developing a Commonsensical Approach to Academic Career
Smadar Karni, University of Michigan

5:30-5:55 Playing the Game: What I Have Learned
K. Renee Fister, Murray State University

Tuesday, July 11

AWM Workshop: Numerical and Model Development in Mathematical Biology
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Stuart - CC

This minisymposium will feature talks by female post-docs on biological modeling and numerical results of differential equations and dynamical systems. The applications will include parameter sensitivity in HIV models, geometrical aspects of uterine contractions, model development of tricholoroethylene metabolism in humans, and computed tomography in relation to biomedical imaging.

Organizer: K. Renee Fister, Murray State University
Jennifer K. Ryan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University

10:30-10:55 Sensitivity of Dynamical Systems to Banach Space Parameters
Hoan Nguyen, North Carolina State University

11:00-11:25 Mechanical and Geometrical Aspects of Uterine Contractions
Angela Gallegos, Occidental College

11:30-11:55 Model Development and Evaluation for Trichloroethylene Metabolism in Humans
Karen A. Yokley, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

12:00-12:25 Superquadric Modeling in Computed Tomography Simulation
Jiehua Zhu, Georgia Southern University

AWM Workshop: Physical Studies relating to Partial and Integro-Differential Equations
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Stuart - CC

This minisymposium will feature talks by female post-docs on studies of physical and biological systems. The applications include the study of viscosity solutions in relation to hyperbolic conservation laws, hydraulic fracture propagation in elastic materials, image restoration problems, and reaction diffusion equations.

Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee
Kristen Moore, University of Michigan

4:00-4:25 Hyperbolic Systems with Dissipation
Cleopatra Christoforou, Northwestern University

4:30-4:55 An Asymptotic Framework for Finite Hydraulic Fractures Driven by Multiple Physical Processes
Sarah Mitchell, University of British Columbia, Canada

5:00-5:25 Irregular to Regular Sampling, Deconvolution, Denoising and Zoom
Gloria Haro, University of Minnesota

5:30-5:55 Patterns on Growing Square Domains via Mode Interactions
Adela Comanici, Rice University

Poster and Dessert Reception
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Plaza Ballroom and Atrium - ML

AWM Poster: A Mathematical Model Of Network Dynamics Governing Sleep-Wake Patterns In Mice
Cecilia Diniz Behn, Boston University

AWM Poster: A Hörmander-type Pseudo Differential Calculus on the Heisenberg Group
A. Susana Coré Bianchi, State University of New York, Stony Brook

AWM Poster: An Edge-Flame in a Mixing Layer
Joanna Bieri, Northwestern University

AWM Poster: Mathematical Modeling of Cellular Signaling in Macrophages: Understanding Pathways
Hannah Callender, Vanderbilt University

AWM Poster: Wellposedness and Control of Nonlinear Structural Acoustic Interactions
Inger Daniels, University of Virginia

AWM Poster: Vacuum Formation in Multi-Dimensional Compressible Flows
Kristen De Vault, North Carolina State University

AWM Poster: Improving Forecasts for Chaotic Physical Processes by Improving Initial Conditions
Elena Klein Fertig, University of Maryland

AWM Poster: Front Dynamics of a Singular Perturbation Non-smooth Ignition Process
Mohar Guha, Michigan State University

AWM Poster: Patterns of Synchrony in Lattice Dynamical Systems
Yunjiao Wang, University of Houston

AWM Poster: Three Dimensional Computational Model of Water Movement in Plant Root Growth Zone
Brandy S. Wiegers, Angela Cheer, and Wendy Silk, University of California, Davis

AWM Poster: European Option Pricing for a Stochastic-Volatility Jump-Diffusion Model
Guoqing Yan, University of Illinois, Chicago

AWM Poster: Computational Studies of Morphogen Gradients
Rui Zhao, University of California, Irvine

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, K. Renee Fister , Kristen Moore, and Jennifer Ryan who kindly served as the 2006 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 for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs SIAM Annual Meeting Boston, MA, July 2006 Workshop Program

AWM Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent PhDs
SIAM Annual Meeting
Boston, MA, July 2006
Workshop Program