AWM at JMM 2016

Washington State Convention Center and the Sheraton Seattle Hotel Seattle, WA

Wednesday, January 6, 2016, 2:15 pm – 3:40 pm (Room 611, Convention Center)

AWM Panel – “Research Collaboration Conferences for Women: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How?”

  • Organizer/Moderator:
  • Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Panelists:
  • Maria Basterra, University of New Hampshire
  • Susanne Brenner, Louisiana State University
  • Ellen Eischen, University of Oregon
  • Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
  • Kathryn Leonard, Channel Islands
  • Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College

Wednesday, January 6, 2016, 3:45 pm − 4:15 pm (Room 611, Convention Center)

AWM Business Meeting

Wednesday, January 6, 2016, 9:30 pm − 11:00 pm (Room 602-604, Convention Center)

AWM Reception and Awards Presentation

Thursday, January 7, 2016, 10:05 am − 10:55 am (Ballroom 6BC, Convention Center)

AWM-AMS Noether Lecture – The Power of Noether’s Ring Theory in Understanding Singularities of Complex Algebraic Varieties

Karen E. Smith, University of Michigan

Introduction: Irena Swanson, Reed College

In one of the tremendous innovations of twentieth century mathematics, Emmy Noether introduced the rigorous definition of commutative rings and their homomorphisms. One of her main motivating examples was the ring of polynomial functions on a complex algebraic variety. The algebraic study of these rings can have deep geometric consequences for the corresponding variety. In this talk, I hope to explain one example of this phenomenon: namely, how reduction to prime characteristic can give us insight into the singularities of the corresponding algebraic variety. Of course, I will need to convince you that we gain something powerful in reducing modulo p, since we have given up all the tools of analysis in doing so. What we gain is the Frobenius operator on the ring, which raises elements to their p-th powers, and is a ring homomorphism in characteristic p. I hope to explain how the Frobenius operator is helpful in understanding the singularities. As an application, I will describe some work with Angelica Benito, Jenna Rajchgot and Greg Muller on the singularities of varieties that arise in the theory of cluster algebras in combinatorics.

Thursday, January 7, 2016, 10:30 am − 12:00 pm (Room 203, Convention Center)

AMS & AWM Committees on Education Panel Discussion: Work in Mathematics Education in Departments of Mathematical Sciences

  • Organizers:
  • Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University
  • Pao-sheng Hsu, University of Maine
  • Moderators: Elizabeth Burroughs, Montana State University
  • Panelists:
  • Curtis Bennett, Loyola Marymount University
  • Brigitte Lahme, Sonoma State University
  • Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Kristin Umland, University of New Mexico

Friday, January 8, 2016, 8:00 a.m. − 10:50 a.m. (Room 603, Convention Center)

AMS-AWM Special Session on Commutative Algebra, I

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Karen Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Emily Witt, University of Utah
  • Irena Swanson, Reed College iswanson@reed.edu
  • 8:00 a.m. Enumeration of Double Cosets in Symmetric Groups and Beyond,
    Sara C. Billey*, University of Washington
    Matjaz Konvalinka, University of Ljubljana
    Frederick Matsen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
    (1116-05-2035)
  • 8:30 a.m. Constructing ideals with high Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity,
    Brooke S. Ullery*, University of Utah
    (1116-13-704)
  • 9:00 a.m. Conjectures on Symbolic Powers,
    Louiza Fouli*, New Mexico State University
    Paolo Mantero, University of Arkansas
    Yu Xie, Penn State, Altoona
    (1116-13-1581)
  • 9:30 a.m. Dimensions of Formal Fiber Rings,
    Sarah Fleming, Williams College
    Lena Ji, Columbia University
    Susan Loepp*, Williams College
    Peter McDonald, Williams College
    Nina Pande, Williams College
    David Schwein, Brown University
    (1116-13-1023)
  • 10:00 a.m. A ring without a Boij-Soederberg theory,
    Courtney R. Gibbons*, Hamilton College
    Luchezar Avramov, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Roger Wiegand, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1116-13-1967)
  • 10:30 a.m. Polynomials in rigidity theory: special positions of frameworks,
    Ruimin Cai, Seattle, WA
    James Farre, University of Utah
    Jessica Sidman*, Mount Holyoke College
    Audrey St. John, Mount Holyoke College
    Louis Theran, Aalto University
    Xilin Yu, Mount Holyoke College

Friday, January 8, 2016, 1:00 p.m. − 5:20 p.m. (Room 603, Convention Center)

AMS-AWM Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, I

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Daniel Hernández, University of Utah dhernan@math.utah.edu
  • Jack Jeffries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Karl Schwede, University of Utah
  • 1:00 p.m., F-thresholds of graded rings,
    Alessandro De Stefani*, University of Virginia
    Luis Núñez-Betancourt, University of Virginia
    (1116-13-1096)
  • 1:30 p.m. Lower Semi-Continuity of the F-Signature,
    Thomas Polstra*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1116-13-538)
  • 2:00 p.m. Closure operations that induce big Cohen-Macaulay modules and algebras, module closures, and classification of singularities,
    Rebecca R.G.*, University of Michigan
    (1116-13-1838)
  • 2:30 p.m. Frobenius actions and a type of singularity in characteristic p > 0,
    Eric Canton*, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
    (1116-13-2005)
  • 3:00 p.m. Lyubeznik numbers, connectivity, and cohomological dimension in mixed characteristic,
    Daniel J. Hernández, University of Michigan
    Luis Núñez-Betancourt, University of Virginia
    J. Felipe Pérez*, Georgia State University
    Emily E. Witt, University of Kansas
    (1116-13-1450)
  • 3:30 p.m. Rational singularities and Uniform Symbolic Topologies,
    Robert M. Walker*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1116-13-1273)
  • 4:00 p.m. Derived S Systems,
    Alberto Chiecchio*, TASIS in Dorado
    Lance E Miller, University of Arkansas
    (1116-14-2619)
  • 4:30 p.m. Generic vanishing and classification of irregular surfaces in positive characteristics,
    Yuan Wang*, University of Utah
    (1116-14-1366)
    5:00 p.m. Subadditivity of log-Kodaira dimension,
    Sándor J Kovács*, University of Washington
    Zsolt Patakfalvi, Princeton University
    (1116-14-1507)

Friday, January 8, 2016, 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm (Skybridge, 4th Floor, Convention Center)

AWM Workshop Poster Presentations and Reception

  • Organizers:
  • Brenda Johnson, Union College
  • Catherine Searle, Wichita State University
  • A Dual Operation on Strongly Stable Ideals, Katie Ansaldi*, University of Notre Dame Kuei-Nuan Lin, Penn State Greater Allegheny
  • Coxeter-biCatalan Combinatorics, Emily Barnard*, North Carolina State University Nathan Reading, North Carolina State University
  • The Dehn-Somerville relations and the Catalan matroid, Anastasia Chavez*, University of California, Berkeley N. Yamzon, San Francisco State University
  • Some graph models in nano-science and solid state, Ngoc Do*, Texas A&M University, Peter Kuchment, Texas A&M University, Frank Sottile, Texas A&M University
  • Tensor product surfaces and linear syzygies, Eliana Duarte*, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Hal Schenck, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Goal-Oriented A Posteriori Error Estimation for Saddle Point Problem in hp Adaptive FEM, Arezou Ghesmati*, Texas A&M University Bruno Turcksin, Texas A&M University Wolfgang Bangerth, Texas A&M University
  • A random version of the r-fork-free theorem, Kirsten Hogenson*, Iowa State University Ryan R. Martin, Iowa State University
  • K-Theoretic Demazure Atoms and Set-Valued Skyline Diagrams, Cara Monical*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Banach-valued multilinear singular integrals, Francesco Di Plinio, Brown University Yumeng Ou*, Brown University
  • Model-based predictions of vesicle pool size in the ribbon synapse of photoreceptor neurons, Wallace B. Thoreson, University of Nebraska Medical Center Matthew J. Van Hook, University of Nebraska Medical Center Caitlyn M. Parmelee*, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Carina Curto, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Dual Filtered Graphs, Rebecca Patrias*, University of Minnesota Pavlo Pylyavskyy, University of Minnesota
  • A Stronger Solution to Smale’s Seventeenth Problem for Strongly Sparse Systems, Kaitlyn Phillipson*, Texas A&M University Paula E. Burkhardt, Pomona College J. Maurice Rojas, Texas A&M University
  • On Decomposition of the product of two key polynomials into Demazure atoms,
    Anna Ying Pun*, University of Pennsylvaia
    Almost Non-Negative Curvature On Some Fake RPns, Priyanka Rajan*, University of California, Riverside
  • Hurwitz Correspondences on M
    0,n    , Rohini Ramadas*, University of Michigan
  • Global Dynamics of a Model of Joint Hormone Treatment with Dendritic Cell Vaccine for Prostate Cancer, Erica M Rutter*, Arizona State University Yang Kuang, Arizona State University
  • Reconstruction of an Evolving Signal from the Incomplete Information of Its Future States, Sui Tang*, Vanderbilt University
  • Zero-one laws for edge weighted graphs, Caroline Terry*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • On finding ghost solutions of the 2D Navier-Stokes equations, JING TIAN*, Texas A&M University Bingsheng zhang, Texas A&M University
  • The prism tableau model for Schubert polynomials, Anna Weigandt*, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alexander Yong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Saturday, January 9, 2016, 1:00 p.m.-5:20 p.m. (Room 603, Convention Center)

AMS-AWM Special Session on Commutative Algebra and Its Interactions with Algebraic Geometry, II

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Daniel Hernández, University of Utah dhernan@math.utah.edu
  • Jack Jeffries, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Karl Schwede, University of Utah
  • 1:00 p.m., F-thresholds of graded rings,
    Alessandro De Stefani*, University of Virginia
    Luis Núñez-Betancourt, University of Virginia
    (1116-13-1096)
  • 1:30 p.m. Lower Semi-Continuity of the F-Signature,
    Thomas Polstra*, University of Missouri-Columbia
    (1116-13-538)
  • 2:00 p.m. Closure operations that induce big Cohen-Macaulay modules and algebras, module closures, and classification of singularities,
    Rebecca R.G.*, University of Michigan
    (1116-13-1838)
  • 2:30 p.m. Frobenius actions and a type of singularity in characteristic p > 0,
    Eric Canton*, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
    (1116-13-2005)
  • 3:00 p.m. Lyubeznik numbers, connectivity, and cohomological dimension in mixed characteristic,
    Daniel J. Hernández, University of Michigan
    Luis Núñez-Betancourt, University of Virginia
    J. Felipe Pérez*, Georgia State University
    Emily E. Witt, University of Kansas
    (1116-13-1450)
  • 3:30 p.m. Rational singularities and Uniform Symbolic Topologies,
    Robert M. Walker*, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    (1116-13-1273)
  • 4:00 p.m. Derived S Systems,
    Alberto Chiecchio*, TASIS in Dorado
    Lance E Miller, University of Arkansas
    (1116-14-2619)
  • 4:30 p.m. Generic vanishing and classification of irregular surfaces in positive characteristics,
    Yuan Wang*, University of Utah
    (1116-14-1366)
    5:00 p.m. Subadditivity of log-Kodaira dimension,
    Sándor J Kovács*, University of Washington
    Zsolt Patakfalvi, Princeton University
    (1116-14-1507)

Saturday, January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m. – 10:55 a.m. (Room 4C-3, Convention Center)

AWM Workshop: Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, I

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Gizem Karaali, Pomona College
  • Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College
  • 8:00 a.m. On Demazure Crystals for the Quantum Affine Algebra Uq(sln)), Margaret L. Rahmoeller*, Roanoke College (1116-08-234)
  • 8:30 a.m. Demazure Flags, Chebyshev Polynomials, Mock and Partial Theta Functions, Rekha Biswal, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India Vyjayanthi Chari, University of California, Riverside Lisa Schneider*, Susquehanna University Sankaran Viswanath, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India (1116-05-221)
  • 9:00 a.m. From the weak Bruhat order to crystal graphs as posets, Patricia Hersh*, North Carolina State University, Cristian Lenart, SUNY Albany (1116-05-1386)
  • 9:30 a.m. Parking Functions, Sandpiles, and Gessel’s Fundamental Basis, Angela S Hicks*, Stanford University (1116-05-900)
  • 10:00 a.m. Walking on Representation Graphs and Generalized Hyperbolic Functions, Georgia Benkart*, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1116-05-1120)
  • 10:30 a.m. A Random Walk on Sn generated by Random Involutions, Megan M Bernstein*, Georgia Institute of Technology (1116-05-730)

Saturday, January 9, 2016, 8:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m. (Room 603, Convention Center)

AMS-AWM Special Session on Commutative Algebra, II

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Karen Smith, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Emily Witt, University of Utah
  • Irena Swanson, Reed College iswanson@reed.edu
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Rees rings and singularities of curves    ,
    Claudia Polini*, University of Notre Dame
    (1116-13-834)
  • 8:30 a.m., Stabilization of Boij-Söderberg decompositions of systems of ideals,
    Sarah Mayes-Tang*, Quest University Canada
    (1116-13-994)
  • 9:00 a.m., Interior operations on the set of ideals of a ring,
    Janet Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
    (1116-13-1147)
  • 9:30 a.m. Nilpotent matrices having a given Jordan type as maximum commuting nilpotent orbit,
    Anthony Iarrobino, Northeastern
    Leila Khatami*, Union College
    Bart Van Steirteghem, Medgar Evers College, City University of New York
    Rui Zhao, University of Missouri, Columbia
    (1116-15-972)
  • 10:00 a.m. Uniform Bounds of Artin-Rees type for free resolutions,
    Ian Aberbach, Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia
    Aline Hosry, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences II, Lebanese University, Fanar, Lebanon
    Janet Striuli*, Department of Mathematics, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut
    (1116-13-1138)
  • 10:30 a.m. Matrix Schubert varieties and Gaussian conditional independence models,
    Alex Fink, Queen Mary University of London
    Jenna Rajchgot*, University of Michigan
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1116-13-1853)
  • 11:00 a.m. The parametric variation of A-hypergeometric functions,
    Christine Berkesch Zamaere*, University of Minnesota
    Jens Forsgård, Texas A&M University
    Laura Felicia Matusevich, Texas A&M University
    (1116-13-1299)
  • 11:30 a.m. Algebraic Methods in Computer Vision,
    Rekha Thomas*, University of Washington
    (1116-14-540)

Saturday, January 9, 2016, 2:00 pm – 4:55 pm (Room 4C-3, Convention Center)

AWM Workshop: Special Session on Algebraic Combinatorics, II

  • Abstracts
  • Organizers:
  • Gizem Karaali, Pomona College
  • Rosa Orellana, Dartmouth College
  • 2:00 p.m. Littlewood-Richardson rules for symmetric skew quasisymmetric Schur functions, Stephanie van Willigenburg*, University of British Columbia (1116-05-827)
  • 2:30 p.m. The combinatorics of quasisymmetric (k,l)-hook Schur functions, Elizabeth Niese*, Marshall University Sarah K Mason, Wake Forest University (1116-05-150)
  • 3:00 p.m. Discrete Homotopy and Homology Groups, Hélène Barcelo*, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (1116-05-2166)
  • 3:30 p.m. Peak Sets of Classical Coxeter Groups, Alexander Diaz-Lopez, University of Notre Dame Pamela Estephania Harris*, United States Military Academy Erik Insko, Florida Gulf Coast University Darleen Perez-Lavin, Florida Gulf Coast University (1116-05-111)
  • 4:00 p.m. The geometry behind permutations and their subwords, Julianna Tymoczko*, Smith College (1116-05-2775)
  • 4:30 p.m. Toric matrix Schubert varieties, Laura Escobar*, U Illinois Urbana-Champaign Karola Meszaros, Cornell University (1116-05-755)