AWM Workshop:
Focus on Research & Career Experiences

Held in conjunction with the 2001 SIAM Annual Meeting (July 9 - 13, 2001),
Town & Country Resort Hotel, San Diego, California.

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 dinner is required (see below). Last updated June 25, 2001.

Monday, July 9, 2001, 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m., Sunset Room
MS12: AWM Minisymposium on Numerical Methods and Analysis of PDE and Linear Algebra Systems
Session is open to all SIAM attendees. This minisymposium will feature talks by female recent Ph.D.'s on numerical methods for PDE and linear algebra systems. The PDE applications include acoustic waves, subsurface flow, and traveling waves (with Ginzburg-Landau equations). Variable preconditioning in Krylov subspace methods for linear algebra systems will be featured.
- 3:15 p.m.
  Tunable front interaction and localization of periodically forced waves
  Catherine Crawford, Elmhurst College
- 3:45 p.m.
  Use of Mixed Finite Elements for Acoustic Waves
  Eleanor W. Jenkins, University of Texas at Austine
- 4:15 p.m.
  Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Subsurface Flow
  Béatrice Rivière, University of Texas at Austin
- 4:45 p.m.
  Flexible Quasi-Minimal Residual and Other Variable Preconditioned Krylov Subspace Methods
  Judith A. Vogel, Virginia Commonwealth University
Organized by Elsa Schaefer, Marymount University.
Monday, July 9, 2001, 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., Terrace Pavilion
AWM Dinner Banquet
See AWM staff on-site for ticket availability or email awm@math.umd.edu prior to the meeting.
Tuesday, July 10, 2001, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Terrace Pavilion
MS26: AWM Minisymposium on Planning for Your Professional Future
Session is open to all SIAM attendees. This minisymposium will feature four mathematicians with a variety of careers and experience levels. The speakers will discuss their career experiences and give some advice on starting a career. Academic and industrial careers will be included.
- 10:30 a.m.
  A Perspective on Careers in Scientific Computing and Biological Modeling
  Lisa Fauci, Tulane University
- 11:00 a.m.
  Hints for Finding Non-Academic Research Positions (Postdoctoral and Permanent)
  Katharine Gurski, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- 11:30 a.m.
  Planning for Your Professional Future
  Gary Green, The Aerospace Corporation
- 12:00 p.m.
  Mathematics: More or Less Applied in Academia and Government
  Fern Hunt, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Organized by Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Elsa Schaefer, Marymount University.
Tuesday, July 10, 2001, 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Terrace Pavilion
AWM Poster Session -- poster presentations by female Graduate Students
Session is open to all SIAM attendees. AWM will have refreshment items available during the poster session.
- Optimal Controls of Discrete-time Dynamic Systems Driven by Singularly Perturbed Markov Chains
  Grazyna Badowski, Wayne State University
- Toward a Recursive QR Algorithm
  Karen S. Braman, University of Kansas
  (withdrew 6/21/01)
- The Generalized Variational Principle, Contact Transformations, and Conservation Laws
  Bogdana Georgieva, Oregon State University
- A Population Model of Prion Dynamics
  Meredith L. Greer, Vanderbilt University
- Simulation and Comparison of Spatial Models for Discrete Data on a Lattice
  Monica C. Jackson, University of Maryland, College Park
- A New Global Optimization Strategy for the 6n-dimensional Molecular Replacement Problem from X-ray Crystallography
  Diane C. Jamrog, Rice University
- Smoothing Methods in Biomedical and Health Research
  Erin E. Kammann, Harvard University
- A Posteriori Error Estimation for Discontinuous Galerkin Solutions of Hypbolic Problems
  Lilia Krivodonova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Transition Layer Dynamics of a Viscoelastic System using the Time Discretization Method
  Hyeona Lim, Michigan State University
- Cluster Analysis is Electronics Manufacturing
  Shona D. Morgan, North Carolina State University
- Coupling of Continuous and Discontinuous Finite Element Methods Transport Problems
  Jennifer Proft, University of Texas at Austin
- Generalized Matrix-Weighted Function Spaces
  Svetlana Roudenko, Michigan State University
- System Reliability Under Precise and Imprecise Classification
  Kimberly F. Sellers, George Washington University
Tuesday, July 10, 2001, 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m., Terrace Pavilion
MS36: AWM Minisymposium on Analysis and Applications of Models
Session is open to all SIAM attendees. This minisymposium will feature talks by female recent Ph.D.'s on modeling applications of mathematics in various scenarios. Two of the talks involve partial differential equations, in particular, wave equations, plate equations and reaction diffusion equations. Spectral analysis of signals with fractal noise is featured, and statistical estimates for Poisson mixed models will be discussed.
- 3:15 p.m.
  Boundary Stabilizibility of a Nonlinear Structural Acoustic Model including Thermoelastic Effects
  Catherine Lebiedzik, University of Virginia
- 3:45 p.m.
  Spectral Analysis of Fractal Noise
  Sherry Scott, George Washington University
- 4:15 p.m.
  Speeds of Invasion in a Model with Strong or Weak Allee Effects
  Mei-Hui Wang, University of Tennessee
- 4:45 p.m.
  A Sensitivity Analysis of Estimates for Poisson Mixed Models
  Kimberly S. Weems, National Security Agency
Organized by Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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 Elsa Schaefer (Marymount University) who kindly served as the 2001 Workshop co-organizers. AWM also wishes to express its gratitude to the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) for support of the AWM workshop.

AWM Workshop: Focus on Research & Career Experiences

AWM Workshop:
Focus on Research & Career Experiences