AWM Activites at the 2005 Joint Mathematics Meetings

AWM would like to invite you to our events to be held in conjunction with the Joint Mathematics Meetings, Hyatt Regency Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia January 5-8, 2005.

Schedule of AWM events as of September 2004.
Room assignments are subject to change.

Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 3:20 p.m. - 4:20 p.m., Consulate Room, Atlanta Marriott Marquis
AWM Panel Discussion
Achieving Diversity in Graduate Programs, Part I: The Challenge to Retain Women, cosponsored by the National Association of Mathematicians; see the description of Part II of this presentation on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. under NAM's listing of events.

Just before the panel discussion, AWM will recognize the Alice T. Schafer Prize winner, runner-up, and honorable mention honorees. Note that formal prize winner announcements are made at the Joint Prize Session on Thursday afternoon.
Organizers:
- Suzanne M. Lenhart, Univ. Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab
- Sylvia T. Bozeman, Spelman College
Panelists:
- Rachel DeCoste, United States Military Academy
- Rebecca Herb, University of Maryland, College Park
- Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Ulrica Wilson, Claremont McKenna College
Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 4:20 p.m. - 4:50 p.m., Consulate Room, Atlanta Marriott Marquis
AWM Business Meeting
All AWM members are invited to attend.
Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 4:50 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Consulate Room, Atlanta Marriott Marquis
Focus: Future
Moderator: Helen Moore, American Institute of Mathematics

At the conclusion of the AWM business meeting at the Joint Math Meetings, members and others interested in the AWM are invited to stay and share ideas at this session organized by the AWM Long-Range Planning Committee. Helen Moore, American Institute of Mathematics, will serve as moderator.

This is a chance for you to give suggestions and comments about all kinds of future (or current) activities of AWM. Topics are open, but we expect they may include: workshops and conferences, grants and prizes, participation of AWM at regional AMS and MAA meetings, joint activities with NAM and other organizations, and membership concerns. For a description of AWM's current programs, see http://www.awm-math.org/. If you are unable to attend in person, your suggestions and comments can be sent in advance to moore@aimath.org.
Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 9:30 p.m. - 11:00 p.m., Regency 7, Hyatt Regency Atlanta
AWM Reception
Following the AMS Gibbs Lecture. The entire math community is invited. Refreshments and a cash bar will be available. This has been a popular, well-attended event in the past.
Thursday, January 6, 2005, 9:00 a.m. - 9:50 a.m., Centennial Ballrooms 1-3, Hyatt Regency Atlanta
26th Annual AWM Emmy Noether Lecture
From Limit Cycles to Strange Attractors
Lai-Sang Young, Courant Institute
Thursday, January 6, 2005, 4:25 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Centennial Ballrooms 1-3, Hyatt Regency Atlanta
Joint Prize Session
The following AWM prizes will be awarded in this session:
- 15th Annual Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Educations
- 15th Annual Alice T. Schafer Prizes for Excellence in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Woman
Thursday, January 6, 2005, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., outside Centennial Ballrooms 1-3, Hyatt Regency
Joint Prize Session reception
All participants are invited to attend.
Saturday, January 8, 2005, 8:20 a.m.-4:40 p.m., Regency 7, Hyatt Regency Atlanta
AWM Workshop featuring Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.s
The entire math community is invited to attend all workshop presentations.

Organizers:
- Dawn A. Lott, Delaware State University
- Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame
- Judy L. Walker, University of Nebraska
Saturday, January 8, 2005, 8:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
AWM Workshop: Research Talks by Recent Women Ph.D.s, I
- 8:30 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
  Allison M. Pacelli, Williams College
  Unit Rank and the Rank of the Class Group of a Global Function Field
- 9:00 a.m. - 9:20 a.m.
  Virginia Naibo, University of Kansas
  Strichartz estimates for solutions of Schrodinger equations with external flelds
- 9:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
  Eliana S Antoniou , William Paterson University
  A Theoretical Simulation Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells During Oxygen Fluctuations: Prediction Of Bone Marrow Responses During Blood Loss
- 10:00 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
  Lisa Perrone, Tufts University
  Linear Algebra and Image Restoration

Saturday, January 8, 2005, 10:30 a.m.-11:45 p.m.
AWM Workshop: Women Graduate Student Poster Session
Light refreshements will be available.

Karen T. Ball, Indiana University, Bloomington
Monotone factors and stochastic domination
Lisa Orloff Clark, Dartmouth College
Classifying the Type of Groupoid C*-algebras
Corina D. Constantinescu,Oregon State University
Decay of the probability of ruin under uncertain investments
Christine K. Cumming, Purdue University
Residual intersections in Cohen-Macau lay rings
Donna Ann Dietz, Mansfield University
Finding Rational Cubic Spirals
Brooke Evans, Morgan State University
Success in University-Required Mathematics Courses: An Investigation of Students with Learning Disabilities
Joan R. Lind, University of Washington
The Geometry of the Loewner Equation
Kelly L. McKinnie, University of Texas at Austin
Extensions of Noncyclic p-Algebras with an application to Indecomposable Division Algebras
Anna Mummert, Pennsylvania State University
Almost-Additive Thermodynamic Formalism
Norma L Ortiz, Louisiana State University
A decoupling technique and necessary conditions for the neutral problem of Boiza
Mihaela Predescu, Bentley College
Stability in Some Nonlinear Difference Equations
A. Deniz Sezer, Cornell University
Filtration Shrinkage and Compensators
Maria T. Sloughter, Cornell University
Realizability of Graphs
Holly M Swisher, University of Wisconson, Madison
Stanley’s partition function and its relation to p(n)
Nicoleta E Tarfulea, University of Minnesota
A mathematical model for signaling in early stages of tumor-induced angiogenesis

Saturday, January 8, 2005, 11:45 p.m.-12:45 p.m.
AWM Workshop: Lunch and Discussion Group
For workshop presenters, mentors, organizers, and panelists.
Saturday, January 8, 2005, 1:00 p.m.-2:25 p.m.
AWM Workshop: Panel Discussion
Shaping a Career in Mathematics
Moderator:
- Dawn A. Lott, Delaware State University
Panelists:
- Pam Cook, University of Kansas
- Helen Moore, American Institute of Mathematics
- Anne Trenk, Wellesley College
Saturday, January 8, 2005, 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.
  Rebecca L Sanders, Marquette University
  Hypercyclic and Supercyclic Operators in the Weak Topology of Banach Spaces
- 3:00 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
  Leah H. Gold, Texas A&M University
  The Cayley-Bacharach Theorem and Coding Theory
- 3:30 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.
  Tara S. HoIm, University of California, Berkeley
  Distinguishing chambers of the rnoment polytope
- 4:00 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.
  Kathrin Bringmann, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  Lifting maps from a vector space of Jacobi cusp forms to a subspace of certain elliptic modular forms
AWM Workshop closing remarks will follow the last talk in this session.