AWM at JMM 2012

Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA

Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 2:15 p.m. − 3:40 p.m., Room 208, Hynes

AWM Panel Discussion: Maintaining an active research career through collaboration

  • Organizers:
  • Christina Sormani, CUNY and Lehman College
  • Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College
  • Ruth Haas, Smith College
  • Moderators: Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College
  • Panelists:
  • Ruth Haas,Smith College
  • Trachette L. Jackson, University of Michigan
  • Jill Pipher, Brown University
  • Ulrica Wilson, Morehouse College

Throughout history great mathematics has been conducted in collaboration at institutions where mathematicians and scientists came together at seminars and workshops to exchange their developing ideas. In our age of international travel and communication on the internet, the opportunities to collaborate have expanded exponentially. In this panel we will discuss issues that arise in mathematical collaborations, including questions such as how to start and maintain a successful collaboration, how collaborative efforts can build a research program and a career, how to engage students in collaborative research, and how to obtain funding for collaboration. Panelists will share their experience at research institutions, undergraduate institutions and in industry.

Online Panel: December 1, 2011 − August 30, 2012

Questions: are listed here with links to responses.

  • Online Moderator: Christina Sormani, CUNY and Lehman College

Wednesday January 4, 2012, 3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m., Room 208, Hynes

AWM Business Meeting

Wednesday January 4, 2012, 9:30 p.m. − 11:00 p.m.

AWM Reception and Prize Session

Thursday January 5, 2012, 10:00 a.m. − 10:55 a.m., Ballrooms A/B, 3rd floor, Hynes

AWM Noether Lecture: Conservation Laws – Not Exactly a la Noether

Barbara Lee Keyfitz, The Ohio State University

Emmy Noether’s famous theorem connects “conservation laws” with symmetries, and so perhaps the first thing that a speaker should do in a talk bearing her name is to explain that the relation between that theorem and the research area of hyperbolic conservation laws is not very close. That done, I will describe the main features of conservation law theory, beginning with the role of weak solutions (which break symmetry), and elements of the theory in a single space variable, which is now in a reasonably satisfactory state, and concluding with an outline of the current state of the theory for multidimensional conservation laws. Here there are a few results, most of them very recent.

Thursday January 5, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m., Room 300, Hynes

AMS-AWM Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations, I

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Ohio State University bkeyfitz@math.ohio-state.edu
  • Charis Tsikkou, Ohio State University
  • 1:00 p.m. On the size of the Navier – Stokes singular set,
    Walter Craig*, McMaster University
    (1077-35-1222)
  • 1:30 p.m. Global well-posedness and decay for the viscous surface wave problem without surface tension,
    Ian T Tice*, Universite Paris-Est Creteil, LAMA
    (1077-35-1589)
  • 2:00 p.m. Nonrelativistic Euler-Maxwell systems,
    Michael Sever*, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
    (1077-35-141)
  • 2:30 p.m. Broad Band Solitons in a Periodic and Nonlinear Maxwell System,
    Dmitry Pelinovsky*, McMaster University
    (1077-35-277)
  • 3:00 p.m. Blow Up of Solutions to the Generalized Proudman Johnson Equation,
    Alejandro Sarria, University of New Orleans
    Ralph Saxton*, University of New Orleans
    (1077-35-2274)
  • 3:30 p.m. Two Phase Flow in Porous Media: the Saffman-Taylor Instability Revisited,
    Michael Shearer*, NC State University
    Kim Spayd, NC State University
    Zhengzheng Hu, NC State University
    (1077-35-1037)

Friday January 6, 2012, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m, Room 300, Hynes

AMS-AWM Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations, II

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Ohio State University bkeyfitz@math.ohio-state.edu
  • Charis Tsikkou, Ohio State University
  • 8:00 a.m. Transonic flow in gas dynamics,
    Dehua Wang*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1077-35-296)
  • 8:30 a.m. A system of conservation laws with no classical Riemann solution. Existence of Dafermos profiles for singular shocks,
    Barbara Lee Keyfitz, The Ohio State University
    Charis Tsikkou*, The Ohio State University
    (1077-35-2501)
  • 9:00 a.m. Applications of Generalized Characteristics,
    Constantine M. Dafermos*, Brown University
    (1077-35-1049)
  • 9:30 a.m. Singularity Formation in Nonstrictly Hyperbolic Equations,
    Katarzyna Saxton*, Loyola University, New Orleans
    (1077-35-2206)
  • 10:00 a.m. On the transonic shocks of Euler-Poisson equations,
    Tao Luo*, Georgetown University
    (1077-35-582)
  • 10:30 a.m. Enhanced Lifespan of Smooth Solutions of a Burgers-Hilbert Equation,
    John K Hunter*, University of California at Davis
    Mihaela Ifrim, University of California at Davis
    (1077-35-2769)

Friday January 6, 2012, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m., Room 300, Hynes

AMS-AWM Special Session on Nonlinear Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations, III

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Barbara Lee Keyfitz, Ohio State University bkeyfitz@math.ohio-state.edu
  • Charis Tsikkou, Ohio State University
  • 1:00 p.m. Self-similar solutions for the diffraction of weak shocks,
    Allen M. Tesdall*, College of Staten Island, City University of New York
    John K. Hunter, University of California, Davis
    (1077-35-1177)
  • 1:30 p.m. On 2D viscous Boussinesq system on a bounded domain,
    Ronghua Pan*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1077-35-2375)
  • 2:00 p.m. A semi-hyperbolic region for the pressure gradient system,
    Kyungwoo Song*, Yeshiva University and Kyung Hee University
    Yuxi Zheng, Yeshiva University
    (1077-35-2678)
  • 2:30 p.m. Conservation laws with prescribed eigencurves,
    Helge Kristian Jenssen, Penn State University
    Irina A Kogan*, North Carolina State University
    (1077-35-204)
  • 3:00 p.m. Some exact solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic PDE,
    Robin Young*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1077-35-632)
  • 3:30 p.m. Shock Wave Stability for Conservation Laws with Physical Viscosities,
    Tai-Ping Liu, Academia Sinica and Stanford University
    Yanni Zeng*, University of Alabama at Birmingham
    (1077-35-1040)
  • 4:00 p.m. Global dynamics of a diffuse interface model for solid tumor growth,
    John Lowengrub, University of California-Irvine
    Edriss S. Titi, University of California-Irvine and the Weizmann Institute of Science
    Kun Zhao*, University of Iowa
    (1077-35-228)
  • 4:30 p.m. Vegetative Pattern Formation Model Systems: Comparison of Turing Diffusive and Differential Flow Instabilities,
    Bonni J Kealy*, Washington State University
    David J Wollkind, Washington State University
    (1077-35-244)
  • 5:00 p.m. A new result in blow-up for long-wave unstable thin film equations,
    Marina Chugunova, University of Toronto
    Mary C. Pugh*, University of Toronto
    Roman Taranets, University of Nottingham
    (1077-35-2217)
  • 5:30 p.m. Structure of solutions near sonic line for pressure gradient equation,
    T. Zhang*, Penn State University
    Y. Zheng, Yeshiva University
    (1077-35-2520)

Saturday January 7, 2012, 8:30 a.m.-10:20 a.m., Room 306, Hynes

AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by Recent Ph.D.s, I

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University
  • Rachelle DeCoste, Wheaton College
  • Kirsten Eisentraeger, Pennsylvania State University
  • Susan Williams, University of South Alabama
  • 8:30 a.m. On Legendrian Graphs,
    Danielle O’Donnol, Smith College
    Elena Pavelescu*, Occidental College
    (1077-57-263)
  • 9:00 a.m. Springer’s representation via sl(3) webs,
    Heather M. Russell*, University of Southern California
    Julianna S. Tymoczko, University of Iowa
    Matthew Housley, BYU
    (1077-57-240)
  • 9:30 a.m. Categorification of the polynomial ring,
    Radmila Sazdanovic*, University of Pennsylvania
    Mikhail Khovanov, Columbia University
    (1077-18-212)
  • 10:00 a.m. Promotion and rowmotion,
    Jessica Striker*, University of Minnesota
    Nathan Williams, University of Minnesota
    (1077-05-256)

Saturday January 7, 2012, 10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m., Room 306, Hynes

AWM Workshop: Poster Session with Presentations from Women Graduate Students

  • 10:30 a.m. An alternative approach to hyperbolic structures on link complements,
    Morwen Thistlethwaite, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Anastasiia Tsvietkova*, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    (1077-57-134)
  • 10:30 a.m. Hilbert Functions and Graded Betti Numbers of Arithmetically Gorenstein Points on General Surfaces in ℙ3,
    Megan Patnott*, University of Notre Dame
    (1077-14-197)
  • 10:30 a.m. On the Unimodality of Pure O-Sequences,
    Bernadette M Boyle*, University of Notre Dame
    (1077-13-205)
  • 10:30 a.m. Reflection groups: Comparing length and codimension,
    Briana Foster-Greenwood*, University of North Texas
    (1077-05-211)
  • 10:30 a.m. The von Kármán theory for incompressible elastic shells,
    Hui Li*, University of Minnesota
    (1077-74-230)
  • 10:30 a.m. Sum-list-coloring and sc-greedy graphs,
    Michelle A. Lastrina*, Iowa State University
    (1077-05-232)
  • 10:30 a.m. Splittings of Non-Finitely Generated Groups,
    Robin M. Lassonde*, University of Michigan
    (1077-20-249)
  • 10:30 a.m. Equivalence and Duality for Rank-Metric and Matrix Codes,
    Katherine Morrison*, University of Nebraska — Lincoln
    (1077-94-257)
  • 10:30 a.m. Extending the analysis of the Blum medial axis to multiple regions,
    Ellen K Gasparovic*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1077-54-261)
  • 10:30 a.m. Tracking Control and Robustness Analysis for PVTOL Aircraft under Bounded Feedbacks,
    Aleksandra Gruszka*, Louisiana State University
    Michael Malisoff, Louisiana State University
    Frederic Mazenc, Team INRIA DISCO, CNRS-Supelec
    (1077-93-306)
  • 10:30 a.m. Uniqueness and multiplicity results for classes of infinite positone problems,
    Eunkyung Ko*, Mississippi State University
    (1077-35-307)
  • 10:30 a.m. The topology of restricted partition posets,
    Richard Ehrenborg, University of Kentucky
    JiYoon Jung*, University of Kentucky
    (1077-05-308)

Saturday January 7, 2012, 1:00 p.m. − 2:15 p.m., Room 306, Hynes

AWM Workshop Panel Discussion – Career options: Industry, government, and academia

  • Moderators:
  • Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University
  • Panelists:
  • Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft Research
  • Melissa Choi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory
  • Navah Langmeyer, National Security Agency
  • Peter March, The Ohio State University

Saturday January 7, 2012, 2:30 p.m. − 4:20 p.m., Room 306, Hynes

AWM Workshop: Research Presentations by Recent Ph.D.s, II

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University
  • Rachelle DeCoste, Wheaton College
  • Kirsten Eisentraeger, Pennsylvania State University
  • Susan Williams, University of South Alabama
  • 2:30 p.m. Algebraic theory for discrete models in systems biology,
    Franziska Hinkelmann*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University
    Reinhard Laubenbacher, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech
    (1077-92-203)
  • 3:00 p.m. Theories without the independence property,
    Lynn C. Scow*, University of Illinois at Chicago
    (1077-03-246)
  • 3:30 p.m. A Functional Central Limit Theorem for Empirical Processes, Cristina Tone*, University of Louisville
    (1077-60-247)
  • 4:00 p.m. A fluid-structure interaction problem for a supercavitating elastic curvilinear foil,
    Anna Zemlyanova*, Texas A&M University
    (1077-76-253)