AWM Workshop:
Focus on Research & Career Experiences

Held in conjunction with the 2003 SIAM/CAIMS/SCMAI Joint Mathematics Meeting (June 16 - 20, 2003),
Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montréal.

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 which 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 a poster session presented by graduate students. In addition, on Friday, June 20, 2003, (3:00 p.m.) there is the AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Lecture presented by Linda Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara.

There is no registration fee for this AWM workshop. The invited plenary talk, minisymposia and poster session are open to all SIAM meeting attendees. Pre-registration for the AWM dinner 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, June 16, 2003, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
AWM Minisymposium on Numerical Methods and Applications of PDEs (MS7)
This minisymposium will feature talks by female recent Ph.D.’s working with partial differential equations and numerical methods. The PDE applications include finding conductivity coefficients, stability of rods, and convection models. The numerical methods include tetrahedral finite elements and discontinuous Galerkin.
- 4:00 p.m.
  Variational Computation of Homogenized Coefficients
  Kirsten Boyd, University of Texas at Austin
- 4:30 p.m.
  The Effect of Anisotropic Suiface Energy and Contact Angles on the Rayleigh Instability
  Katharine F. Gurski, National Institute of Standards & Technology
- 5:00 p.m.
  Tetrahedral Elements in Finite Element Models with Continuous Pressure Approximation
  Kehinde 0. Ladipo, University of Houston / Houston Community College
- 5:30 p.m.
  Extension and Applications of Post-Processing for the Discontinuous Galerkin Method
  Jennifer Ryan, Brown University
Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Monday, June 16, 2003, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
AWM Dinner
See AWM staff on-site for ticket availability or email awm@math.umd.edu prior to the meeting.
Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
AWM Minisymposium on Career Opportunities and Perspectives (MS15)
This minisymposium will feature four mathematicians with a variety of careers and experience levels. The speakers will discuss their career perpectives and give some advice and information about opportunities. The Canadian and American perpectives will be given.
- 10:00 a.m.
  Alternative Career Paths
  Sue Ann Campbell, University of Waterloo
- 10:30 a.m.
  Mathematics Institutes and Other Research Opportunities
  Helen Moore, American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center
- 11:00 a.m.
  Is There a Role for Mathematical Modeling in Drug Discovery?
  Carolyn Cho, Physiome
- 11:30 a.m.
  Perspectives on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Decisions of a Latino Mathematician
  Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Cornell University
Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
AWM Minisymposium on Applications in Biology and Fluids (MS22)
This minisymposium will feature talks by female recent Ph.D.’s on modeling applications of mathematics in biology and fluids. The biological applications include menstrual cycles, trophoblast tissues, and neural cells. The fluid model involves interfacial waves with two fluids.
- 4:00 p.m.
  Applications of a Model for the Hormonal Regulation of the Menstrual Cycle
  Leona Harris Clark, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- 4:30 p.m.
  Modeling Development of the Trophoblast Tissue Using the Immersed Boundary Method
  Katarzyna A. Rejniak, Ohio State University
- 5:00 p.m.
  Automated Morphology of Neural Cells
  Christina M. Weaver, State University of New York at Stony Brook
- 5:30 p.m.
  Fully Nonlinear Interfacial 3D Waves in a Channel
  Lyudmyla L. Barannyk, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Tuesday, June 17, 2003, 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
PP1: Poster and Dessert Reception
AWM Poster Presentations by Women Graduate Students will be part of the SIAM Poster and Dessert 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:
- Global Hopf Bifurcations and Their Applications
  Jyoti Champanerkar, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Optimal Design for Groundwater Flow and Remediation Problems
  KR. Kavanagh,North Carolina State University
- Homogenization of a Darcy-Stokes System Modeling Flow in Vuggy Porous Media
  Heather Lehr, University of Texas at Austin
- Approximations and Sensitivities for a Class of Delay Differential Equations
  Hoan K. Nguyen, Virginia Tech
- Nonlinear Long-Wave Stability of Two-Fluid Flow Interface in An Inclined Channel
  Tetyana M. Segin, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Friday, June 20, 2003, 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture
Title: Towards the Multiscale Simulation of Biochemical Networks
Linda Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara

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 Elsa Schaefer (Marymount University) who kindly served as the 2003 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