AWM at JMM 2013

San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA

Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 2:15 p.m. − 3:40 p.m., Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center

AWM Panel Discussion: The retention of women in mathematics

  • Organizers:
  • Ami Radunskya, Pomona College
  • Christina Sormani, City University of New York
  • Panelists:
  • Julie Bergner, University of California, Riverside
  • Andrea Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Estela Gavosto, University of Kansas
  • Douglas Haynes, University of California, Irvine
  • Lisette de Pillis, Harvey Mudd College
  • Chuu-Lian Terng, University of California, Irvine
  • Moderators:
  • Cheryl Geisler, Simon Fraser University

The AWM Panel at the 2013 Joint Mathematics Meetings will be on the retention of women professors in mathematics. This panel is being organized in response to an article in Science entitled “Survival Analysis of Faculty Retention in Science and Engineering by Gender”, in which it was reported that the survival rate for mathematicians was worse than any other field and the survival rate for women assistant professors in mathematics is only 4.45 years. Panelists from departments and universities which have successfully attracted and supported women through the tenure process will describe the methods that worked for them. Audience members are welcome to bring in questions and suggestions of their own. We particularly encourage young mathematicians to share their experiences with us.

The goal of the discussion will be to devise ways in which departments may work to retain their women assistant professors both by enticing them to stay and by providing the type of support that is needed for them to obtain tenure. The panel will have an online component located at https://sites.google.com/site/awmpanel2013/ . We encourage everyone to share their experiences and ask questions online.

Online Resources:

http://www.birs.ca/workshops/2006/06w5504/report06w5504.pdf

The article in Science entitled “Survival Analysis of Faculty Retention in Science and Engineering by Gender”

Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 3:45 p.m. − 4:15 p.m., Room 10, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center

AWM Business Meeting

Wednesday, January 9, 2013, 9:30 p.m. − 11:30 p.m.

AWM Reception and Prize Session

Thursday, January 10, 2013, 10:05 a.m. − 10:55 a.m., Room 6AB, Upper Level, San Diego Conference Center

AWM Noether Lecture: A Hasse principle for quadratic forms over function fields

Raman Parimala, Emory University

The term ‘Hasse principle’ stands for the idea of finding integer solutions to equations by piecing together solutions modulo different prime powers. Solutions modulo prime powers lead to solutions in the completions of the field of rational numbers at p-adic valuations. A classical theorem of Hasse-Minkowski states that a quadratic form over rational numbers admits a nontrivial solution if it does over all p-adic completions and is indefinite over real numbers. There are more general theorems on the obstructions to the Hasse principle for the existence of rational points on homogeneous spaces under linear algebraic groups defined over number fields. We shall discuss formulations of the Hasse principle over function fields and some consequences for quadratic forms.

Friday, January 11, 2013, 1:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m., Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center

AMS-AWM Special Session on the Brauer Group in Algebra and Geometry, I

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Asher Auel, Emory University auel@mathcs.emory.edu
  • Kelly McKinnie, University of Montana
  • V. Suresh, Emory University
  • 1:00 p.m. Degree three cohomology of function field of surfaces,
    Suresh Venapally*, GA
    (1086-11-2342)
  • 1:30 p.m. Zero cycles on torsors under groups of low rank,
    Jodi Black*, Bucknell University
    R. Parimala, Emory University
    (1086-11-1456)
  • 2:00 p.m. Vertical Brauer groups and degree 4 del Pezzo surfaces,
    Anthony Várilly-Alvarado, Rice University
    Bianca Viray*, Brown University
    (1086-14-1767)
  • 2:30 p.m. Generalized Mordell curves, generalized Fermat curves, and the Hasse principle,
    Dong Quan Ngoc Nguyen*, University of British Columbia
    (1086-11-1172)
  • 3:00 p.m. Estimating torsion using the twisted gamma-filtration,
    Caroline Junkins*, University of Ottawa
    (1086-14-1335)
  • 3:30 p.m. Essential Dimension and the Brauer Group,
    Anthony Ruozzi*, Emory University
    (1086-16-1830)
  • 4:00 p.m. A Decomposition for Idempotents of the Brauer Monoid,
    Holly E Attenborough*, Indiana University
    (1086-00-1008)
  • 4:30 p.m. The Brauer monoid of quaternion rings,
    John Voight*, University of Vermont
    (1086-16-1235)
  • 5:00 p.m. Noncommutative surfaces and curves of finite representation type,
    Colin J Ingalls*, University of New Brunswick
    Daniel Chan, University of New South Wales
    (1086-16-1802)
  • 5:30 p.m. Generically Trivial Azumaya Algebras on a Rational Surface with a Non-rational Singularity,
    Drake M Harmon*, Florida Atlantic University
    Timothy J Ford, Florida Atlantic University
    Djordje N Bulj, Florida Atlantic University
    (1086-14-606)
  • 6:00 p.m. Patching and local-global principles for Brauer groups,
    David Harbater*, University of Pennsylvania
    Julia Hartmann, RWTH Aachen University
    Daniel Krashen, University of Georgia
    (1086-16-2319)

Friday January 11, 2013, 6:00 p.m.-7:15 p.m., Foyer, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center

AWM Poster Session

  • 6:00 p.m. Bounds on the radius of the p-adic Mandelbrot set,
    Jacqueline Anderson*, Brown University
    (1086-11-84)
  • 6:00 p.m. Constructing Graphs with No Immersion of Large Complete Graphs,
    Megan E. Heenehan*, Wesleyan University
    Karen L. Collins, Wesleyan University
    (1086-05-90)
  • 6:00 p.m. Almost universal ternary sums of squares and (2p+2)-gonal numbers,
    Anna Haensch*, Wesleyan University
    (1086-11-124)
  • 6:00 p.m. Cross-Characteristic Representations of Sp6(2a) and Their Restrictions to Proper Subgroups,
    Amanda A. Schaeffer Fry*, University of Arizona
    (1086-20-147)
  • 6:00 p.m. Explicit Uniform Bounds for Preperiodic Points in Families of Twists,
    Alon Levy, Brown University
    Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    Bianca Thompson*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1086-11-154)
  • 6:00 p.m. Effect of stretch-dependent proliferation on collective cell migration,
    Tracy L. Stepien*, University of Pittsburgh
    David Swigon, University of Pittsburgh
    (1086-92-161)
  • 6:00 p.m. Affine pavings of Hessenberg varieties,
    Martha E Precup*, University of Notre Dame
    (1086-14-164)
  • 6:00 p.m. Continuity Properties of Camassa–Holm Type Equations,
    Katelyn J Grayshan*, University of Notre Dame
    (1086-35-186)
  • 6:00 p.m. A Fast Algorithm to solve the Biharmonic equation with application to slow viscous flow,
    Aditi Ghosh*, Texas A&M University, College Station
    Prabir Daripa, Texas A&M University, College Station
    (1086-35-196)
  • 6:00 p.m. New Combinatorial Methods for Computing the Intersection Cohomology Poincaré Polynomial for Schubert Varieties,
    Jennifer A. Koonz*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1086-05-240)
  • 6:00 p.m. Large gaps between zeros of Dedekind zeta-functions of quadratic number fields,
    Caroline L. Turnage-Butterbaugh*, University of Mississippi
    (1086-11-243)
  • 6:00 p.m. Rigidity in Topological Dynamics,
    Kelly Brooke Yancey*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    (1086-37-244)
  • 6:00 p.m. Betti diagrams of modules over short graded Gorenstein rings,
    Courtney Gibbons*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1086-13-247)
  • 6:00 p.m. A Diagrammatic Multivariate Alexander Invariant of Tangles,
    Kathleen Grace Kennedy*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1086-54-256)
  • 6:00 p.m. Generalizing traces of Frobenius for metabelian Galois representations,
    Rachel M. Davis*, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1086-11-259)
  • 6:00 p.m. Twisted Weyl group multiple Dirichlet series over the rational function field,
    Holley A Friedlander*, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    (1086-11-266)
  • 6:00 p.m. Knots in thick, self avoiding random walks in 3-space,
    Laura Zirbel*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1086-54-297)
  • 6:00 p.m. The cluster value problem in spaces of continuous functions,
    Sofia Ortega Castillo*, Texas A&M University
    (1086-32-298)
  • 6:00 p.m. Unknotting Moves of Virtual Knots,
    Melanie DeVries*, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
    (1086-54-299)
  • 6:00 p.m. Closure Properties of Stackable Groups,
    Ashley Johnson*, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
    (1086-20-300)

Saturday, January 12, 2013, 8:00 a.m. − 10:50 a.m., Room 15B, Mezzanine Level, San Diego Convention Center

AMS-AWM Special Session on the Brauer Group in Algebra and Geometry, II

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Asher Auel, Emory University auel@mathcs.emory.edu
  • Kelly McKinnie, University of Montana
  • V. Suresh, Emory University
  • 8:00 a.m. Generating the Brauer Group of the function field of a p-adic curve with cyclic algebras,
    Eric Brussel, California Polytechnic State University
    Kelly McKinnie*, University of Montana
    Eduardo Tengan, Universidade de São Paulo, Inst. de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação
    (1086-16-2667)
  • 8:30 a.m. The Brauer group of the function field of a curve over a complete discrete valuation ring,
    Eric Brussel*, California Polytechnic State University/Emory University
    (1086-16-1180)
  • 9:00 a.m. Azumaya maximal orders do not always exist,
    Benjamin Antieau*, UCLA
    Ben Williams, USC
    (1086-14-980)
  • 9:30 a.m. Homogeneous Spaces over Function Fields of Dimension Two,
    Yi Zhu*, University of Utah
    (1086-14-1177)
  • 10:00 a.m. Splitting dimension and symbol length in Galois cohomology,
    Daniel R Krashen*, University of Georgia
    (1086-12-2020)
  • 10:30 a.m. Finite u Invariant and Bounds on Cohomology Symbol Lengths,
    David J Saltman*, CCR-Princeton
    (1086-12-761)

Saturday, January 12, 2013, 8:00 a.m. − 10:50 a.m., Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center

AWM Workshop on Number Theory, I

  • Abstracts
  • 8:00 a.m. Zeta zeroes of Artin–Schreier curves,
    Chantal David*, Concordia University
    Alina Bucur, UCSD
    Brooke Feigon, CUNY
    Matilde Lalin, University of Montreal
    Kaneenika Sinha, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata
    (1086-11-681)
  • 8:30 a.m. How often is #E(?p) squarefree?,
    Shabnam Akhtari, University of Oregon
    Chantal David, Concordia University
    Heekyoung Hahn, Duke University
    Lola Thompson*, University of Georgia
    (1086-11-284)
  • 9:00 a.m. Parametrizing D4 covers over finite fields,
    Alina Bucur*, UCSD
    Ling Hoeschler, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Renate Scheidler, University of Calgary
    Melanie Matchett Wood, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    (1086-11-775)
  • 9:30 a.m. Enumerating abelian varieties using matrix groups,
    Cassie L Williams*, James Madison University
    (1086-11-252)
  • 10:00 a.m. Mahler measure of some singular K3-surfaces,
    Marie-Jose Bertin, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
    Amy Feaver, University of Colorado at Boulder
    Jenny Fuselier, High Point University
    Matilde Lalin, University of Montreal
    Michelle Manes*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1086-11-1019)
  • 10:30 a.m. Ramanujan-type Supercongruences and complex multiplications on elliptic curves,
    Sarah Chisholm, University of Calgary, Canada
    Alyson Deines, University of Washington
    Ling Long*, Cornell University/Iowa State University
    Gabriele Nebe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
    Holly Swisher, Oregon State University
    (1086-11-380)

Saturday January 12, 2013, 1:00 p.m.-5:55 p.m., Room 6F, Upper Level, San Diego Convention Center

AWM Workshop on Number Theory, II

Abstracts

1:00 p.m. Newton polygons for a variant of the Kloosterman family,
Rebecca Bellovin, Stanford University
Sharon Anne Garthwaite, Bucknell University
Ekin Ozman, University of Texas – Austin
Rachel Pries*, Colorado State University
Cassandra Williams, James Madison University
Hui June Zhu, SUNY – Buffalo
(1086-11-913)

1:30 p.m. Newton and Hodge Polygons for a Variant of the Kloosterman Family,
Rebecca Bellovin, Stanford University
Sharon Anne Garthwaite, Bucknell University
Ekin Ozman*, University of Texas-Austin
Rachel Pries, Colorado State University
Cassandra Williams, Colorado State University
Hui June Zhu, State University of New York
(1086-11-907)

2:00 p.m. The a-numbers of Jacobians of Suzuki Curves,
Holley Friedlander, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Derek Garton, Northwestern University
Beth Malmskog*, Colorado College
Rachel Pries, Colorado State University
Colin Weir, University of Calgary
(1086-11-309)

2:30 p.m. Simultaneous Prime Values of Pairs of Quadratic Forms,
D. R. Heath-Brown, University of Oxford
Lillian B. Pierce*, University of Oxford
(1086-11-248)

3:00 p.m. Arithmetic of thin groups,
Elena Fuchs*, University of California, Berkeley
(1086-11-1014)

3:30 p.m. Weierstrass points on the Drinfeld modular curve X0(?),
Christelle Vincent*, Stanford University
(1086-11-343)

4:00 p.m. Local global compatibility and monodromy,
Ana Caraiani*, University of Chicago
(1086-11-889)

4:30 p.m. Comparing the arithmetic intersection formulas of Bruinier-Yang and Lauter-Viray,
Jacqueline Anderson, Brown University
Jennifer S. Balakrishnan*, Harvard University
Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
Jennifer Park, MIT
Bianca Viray, Brown University
(1086-11-1103)

5:00 p.m. On the Independence of Heegner Points,
Hatice Sahinoglu*, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics
(1086-11-842)

5:30 p.m. The computation of anticyclotomic Λ-adic regulators of elliptic curves,
Mirela Ciperiani*, The University of Texas at Austin
(1086-11-1183)