AWM at JMM 2015

Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center and Grand Hyatt San Antonio, San Antonio, TX

Saturday, January 10, 2015, 2:15 – 3:40 pm, 216A Convention Center

AWM Panel: Breaking the Glass Ceiling Permanently

  • Organizers:
  • Bettye Anne Case (Larson Prof, Florida State University, emerita)
  • Deleram Kahrobaei* (Assoc Prof, CUNY GC & City Tech)
  • Kathryn Leonard* (Assoc Prof, California State University at Channel Islands)
  • Christina Sormani (Prof, CUNY GC & Lehman College)
  • Moderator:
  • Christina Sormani (Prof, CUNY GC and Lehman College)
  • Panelists:
  • Lenore Blum* (Dist Prof, Carnegie Mellon)
  • Estela Gavosto (Director, University of Kansas)
  • Susan Hermiller (Prof, U Nebraska)
  • Megan Kerr (Prof, Wellesley College)
  • Joan Leitzel (Past President, Univ of New Hampshire)
  • Maura Mast, (Associate Vice-Provost of Undergraduate Studies, U Mass Boston)
  • Jill Pipher* (Director of ICERM)
  • Marie Vitulli (Prof Emerita, U. Oregon)
  • * regrets that she cannot attend the live panel at the JMM

Over the past century, women mathematicians have achieved unprecedented success. Universities that never hired women before, now have women faculty in their ranks. Departments that rarely promoted women before, now have women who are tenured full professors. Institutes that didn’t exist before, are now being directed by women mathematicians. In every field of mathematics, there are key results, cited daily, that were proven by women. Despite these great strides, young women today encounter many of the same hurdles that the women before them had to face. In this panel we will discuss how successful women mathematicians, at all levels, can work to break through the glass ceiling and bring the next generation of women through with them.

Saturday January 10, 2015, 3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Room 216A, Convention Center

AWM Business Meeting

Saturday January 10, 2015, 9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.

AWM Reception and Prize Presentations

Sunday, January 11, 2015 Lila Cockrell Theatre, Convention Center

AWM-AMS Noether Lecture-Modular Forms for Congruence and Noncongruence Subgroups

Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Pennsylvania State University

The arithmetic of modular forms for congruence subgroups of SL(2, ℤ) has been a central theme in number theory for over one century. It has close connections with many branches of mathematics. Wiles’s proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem has brought the field to a new climax. The arithmetic of modular forms for noncongruence subgroups, on the other hand, has not attracted much attention in the past. However, the research in this area has been reinvigorated in the past decade. This talk is an overview of the progress on modular forms for both congruence and noncongruence subgroups as well as the connections between these two kinds of forms.

Monday, January 12, 2015, 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm (Bridge Hall, Convention Center)

Association for Women in Mathematics Workshop Poster Presentations by Women Graduate
Students and Reception

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Gizem Karaali, Pomona College
  • Lerna Pehlivan, York University
  • Brooke Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • 6:00 p.m. On Monotonicity for Strain-Limiting Theories of Elasticity,
    Tina Mai*, Texas A&M University
    Jay R. Walton, Texas A&M University
    (1106-74-150)
  • 6:00 p.m. Semidualizing complexes over tensor products,
    Hannah Lee Altmann*, North Dakota State University
    (1106-13-155)
  • 6:00 p.m. Bratteli diagrams for weak solenoids,
    Jessica C. Dyer*, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
    (1106-37-200)
  • 6:00 p.m. Extremal Questions for Matchings,
    Lauren Keough*, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
    (1106-05-201)
  • 6:00 p.m. From graphs to Lie algebras to nilmanifolds,
    Allie Ray*, University of Texas-Arlington
    (1106-53-218)
  • 6:00 p.m. A Residual Based Aposteriori Error Estimation in a Fully Automatic hp–FEM for The 2 and 3-D Stokes Model Problem,
    Arezou Ghesmati*, Texas A&M University
    Wolfgang Bangerth, Texas A&M University
    (1106-35-236)
  • 6:00 p.m. Topology of Configurations on Graphs,
    Safia Chettih*, University of Oregon
    (1106-55-243)
  • 6:00 p.m. Braid groups and euclidean simplices,
    Elizabeth Leyton Chisholm*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Jon McCammond, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1106-20-289)
  • 6:00 p.m. Rational maps with ℚp critical points,
    Bianca A Thompson*, University of Hawaii at Manoa
    (1106-11-320)
  • 6:00 p.m. Tame filling invariants, examples, and closure properties,
    Anisah Nu’Man*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1106-20-334)
  • 6:00 p.m. Classifying n-excisive functors by generic representations,
    Sarah A Yeakel*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    (1106-55-342)
  • 6:00 p.m. Coupled groundwater-surface water flow: effect of small parameters and numerical methods,
    Marina Moraiti*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1106-65-368)
  • 6:00 p.m. A Spatio-Temporal Point Process Model for Ambulance Demand,
    Zhengyi Zhou*, Center for Applied Math, Cornell University
    David S. Matteson, Department of Statistical Science, Cornell University
    Dawn B. Woodard, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University
    Shane G. Henderson, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University
    Athanasios C. Micheas, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
    (1106-62-878)
  • 6:00 p.m. Conjugacy Limits of the Group of Diagonal Matrices,
    Arielle M Leitner*, University of California, Santa Barbara
    (1106-22-1091)
  • 6:00 p.m. Applications of algebraic geometry to polar coding,
    Sarah E Anderson*, Clemson University
    (1106-14-1104)
  • 6:00 p.m. Deer: Forbidden Minimal Digraphs,
    Stacey Renae McAdams*, Louisiana Tech University
    (1106-05-1105)
  • 6:00 p.m. TALK CANCELLED: Homotopy and homology theory of the moduli of elliptic curves,
    X Chang*, University of Pittsburgh
    (1106-00-1181)
  • 6:00 p.m. Graph Determined Symbolic Dynamics and Hybrid Systems,
    Kimberly D. Ayers*, Iowa State University
    (1106-37-1299)
  • 6:00 p.m. An adaptive GMsFEM for high-contrast flow problems,
    Eric T. Chung, Chinese University of Hong Kong
    Yalchin Efendiev, Texas A&M University
    Guanglian Li*, Texas A&M University
    (1106-65-1566)
  • 6:00 p.m. A looping-delooping adjunction for topological spaces,
    Martina Rovelli*, EPF Lausanne
    (1106-18-1699)

Tuesday January 13, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m. Room 007B, Convention Center

AMS-AWM Special Session on Recent Developments in Algebraic Number Theory, I

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
  • Tong Liu, Purdue University
  • Ling Long, Iowa State University and Louisiana State University
  • 8:00 a.m. Visualising the arithmetic of quadratic imaginary fields,
    Katherine E Stange*, University of Colorado, Boulder
    (1106-11-1783)
  • 8:30 a.m. Derivatives of p-adic L-functions of Hilbert modular forms,
    Daniel Barrera, University of Montreal
    Mladen Dimitrov, University of Lille
    Andrei Jorza*, University of Notre Dame
    (1106-11-2418)
  • 9:00 a.m. Moduli Interpretations for Noncongruence Modular Curves,
    William Y Chen*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1106-11-1877)
  • 9:30 a.m. p-adic q-expansions and families of automorphic forms,
    Ellen Eischen*, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    (1106-11-1801)
  • 10:00 a.m. Local points of supersingular elliptic curves on ℤp-extensions,
    Mirela Ciperiani*, University of Texas at Austin
    (1106-11-2572)
  • 10:30 a.m. On the restriction of F-crystalline p-adic Galois representations,
    Bryden Cais*, University of Arizona
    Tong Liu, Purdue University
    (1106-11-1225)

Tuesday January 13, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Room 217A, Convention Center

AWM Workshop on Homotopy Theory, I

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Maria Basterra, University of New Hampshire
  • Brenda Johnson, Union College
  • Moderators:
  • Brooke Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • 8:00 a.m. Spaces of long embeddings and right-angled Artin operads,
    William G. Dwyer, Notre Dame University
    Kathryn Hess*, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
    (1106-55-1557)
  • 9:00 a.m. Geometric homology classes in the space of knots,
    Kristine Pelatt*, St. Catherine University
    (1106-55-156)
  • 9:30 a.m. Constructing equivariant spectra,
    Anna Marie Bohmann*, Northwestern University
    Angelica M. Osorno, Reed College
    (1106-55-189)
  • 10:00 a.m. Models for equivariant (∞, 1)-categories,
    Julia E Bergner*, University of California, Riverside
    (1106-55-603)

Tuesday January 13, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-5:50 p.m. Room 007B, Convention Center

AMS-AWM Special Session on Recent Developments in Algebraic Number Theory, II

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Wen-Ching Winnie Li, Pennsylvania State University wli@math.psu.edu
  • Tong Liu, Purdue University
  • Ling Long, Iowa State University and Louisiana State University
  • 1:00 p.m. An HN-theory for Kisin modules,
    Brandon Levin*, University of Chicago
    (1106-11-1061)
  • 1:30 p.m. Bad reduction of genus 3 curves with complex multiplication,
    Irene Bouw, Universitaet Ulm
    Jenny Cooley, University of Warwick
    Kristin E. Lauter*, Microsoft Research
    Elisa Lorenzo Garcia, UPC Barcelona
    Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii
    Rachel Newton, University of Leiden
    Ekin Ozman, University of Texas Austin
    (1106-11-1017)
  • 2:00 p.m. Étale π obstructions to rational points on Fermat curves,
    Kirsten Graham Wickelgren*, Georgia Institute of Technology
    (1106-11-840)
  • 2:30 p.m. An algebro-geometric theory of vector-valued modular forms of half-integral weight attached to Weil representations,
    Luca Candelori*, Louisiana State University
    (1106-11-839)
  • 3:00 p.m. Counting Square Discriminants,
    Thomas Hulse, Queen’s University
    Mehmet Kiral, Texas A&M
    Chan Ieong Kuan, University of Maine
    Li-Mei Lim*, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
    (1106-11-727)
  • 3:30 p.m. Eulerian multizeta values over function fields,
    Chieh-Yu Chang, National Tsing Hua University
    Matthew A. Papanikolas*, Texas A&M University
    Jing Yu, National Taiwan University
    (1106-11-561)
  • 4:00 p.m. Weierstrass mock modular forms and elliptic curves,
    Michael J. Griffin*, Emory University
    Claudia Alfes, Technische Universität Darmstadt
    Ken Ono, Emory University
    Larry Rolen, University of Cologne
    (1106-11-487)
  • 4:30 p.m. Arithmetic Progressions on Curves,
    Edray Herber Goins*, Purdue University
    Alejandra Alvarado, Eastern Illinois University
    (1106-11-445)
  • 5:00 p.m. The reductions of finite subgroups of CM abelian varieties,
    Taisong Jing*, Pennsylvania State University
    (1106-11-403)
  • 5:30 p.m. Almost generic p-divisibility bound,
    Hui June Zhu*, State University of New York at Buffalo
    (1106-11-252)

    Tuesday January 13, 2015, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Room 217A, Convention Center

    AWM Workshop on Homotopy Theory, II

    • Abstracts
    • Organizers:
    • Maria Basterra, University of New Hampshire
    • Brenda Johnson, Union College
    • Moderators:
    • Brooke Shipley, University of Illinois at Chicago
    • 1:00 p.m. Commutative K-Theory,
      Ulrike Tillmann*, Oxford University
      (1106-55-1059)
    • 2:00 p.m. New developments in equivariant algebraic K-theory,
      Mona Merling*, Johns Hopkins University
      (1106-55-347)
    • 2:30 p.m. An investigation of small model categories,
      Inna I Zakharevich*, University of Chicago
      (1106-18-1297)
    • 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
    • 3:30 p.m. Computations in the K(2)-local category at the prime 2,
      Irina Bobkova*, University of Rochester
      (1106-55-351)
    • 4:00 p.m. Cohomology : A Mirror of Homotopy,
      Agnes Beaudry*, University of Chicago
      (1106-55-1269)
    • 4:30 p.m. Computations in Algebraic K-Theory,
      Vigleik Angeltveit, Australian National University
      Teena Gerhardt*, Michigan State University
      (1106-55-2045)