AWM at JMM 2019
Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, Hilton Baltimore & Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD
Tuesday, January 15 through Saturday, January 19, 2019
TUESDAY, JANUARY 15
AWM Hill Visit Orientation and Training
- 8:30–11:00 am | Johnson Room, Hilton Baltimore
Meet with Congressional Offices in Washington, DC
- 1:00–5:00 pm | Senate and House of Representatives Office Buildings
All are welcome to participate.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1:00–2:00 pm | Room 316, Baltimore Convention Center
Discussion: Understanding the Landscape and Needs in Teacher Collaborations
An open forum with the AWM Teacher Partnership Committee and the AWM Education Committee.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2:15–3:40 pm | Room 316, Baltimore Convention Center
AWM Panel Discussion Promoting Inclusion in STEM
- Panelists:
- Talia Fernos, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Organizer and Moderator)
- Pamela Barnett, University of Pennsylvania
- Harrison Bray, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Piper Harron, University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Autumn Kent, University of Wisconsin, Madison
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 3:45–4:15 pm | Room 316, Baltimore Convention Center
AWM Business Meeting
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 9:30–11:00 pm | Rooms 327–328, Baltimore Convention Center
AWM Reception and Awards Presentation
- Alice T. Schafer Prize
- Naomi S. Sweeting, University of Chicago, Winner D
- anielle Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Runner-up
- Lisa L. Yang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Honorable Mention
- Nina Zubrilina, Stanford University, Honorable Mention
- Nitya Mani, Stanford University, Honorable Mention
- AWM Dissertation Prize
- Ebru Toprak, University of Illinois, Winner
- Jiuya Wang, University of Wisconsin, Winner
- 2019 Class of AWM Fellows
- Hélène Barcelo, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
- Lida Kittrell Barrett
- Sun-Yung Alice Chang, Princeton University
- Amy Cohen, Rutgers University
- Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University
- Chandler Davis, University of Toronto
- Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University
- Edray Herber Goins, Pomona College
- Judy Green, Marymount University
- Pao-sheng Hsu, Independent
- Ellen E. Kirkman, Wake Forest University
- Maria M. Klawe, Harvey Mudd College
- Anne M. Leggett, Loyola University Chicago
- Magnhild Lien, California State University, Northridge
- Maeve Lewis McCarthy, Murray State University
- Dusa McDuff, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Irina Mitrea, Temple University
- Alice Silverberg, University of California, Irvine
- Audrey Terras, University of California, San Diego
- Marie A. Vitulli, University of Oregon
- Judy Leavitt Walker, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Lesley Ward, University of South Australia
- Ulrica Wilson, Morehouse College
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 10:05–10:55 am | Ballroom I & II, Baltimore Convention Center
AWM-AMS Noether Lecture – Dynamics of systems with low complexity
Bryna Kra, Northwestern University
One way to classify dynamical systems is by their entropy, which roughly speaking gives a measure of the disorder in the system. Deterministic systems have zero entropy, but in spite of this structure, many basic questions about systems with zero entropy remain open. Even when placing strong constraints on the complexity of the system, easily formulated questions remain intractable. I will give an overview of the relations among complexity, algebraic properties, and dynamical characteristics of the system (such as periodicity, minimality, and transitivity), and their relations to combinatorial problems.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 4:25–5:25 pm | Ballroom I & II, Baltimore Convention Center
Joint Prize Session
- Kathryn Mann, Brown University—The AWM Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry
- Jacqueline Dewar, Loyola Marymount University —Louise Hay Award for Contribution to Mathematics Education
- Suzanne Weekes, Worcester Polytechnic Institute—Gweneth Humphreys Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Women in Mathematics
FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 5:00–6:15 pm | Pratt Street Lobby, Baltimore Convention Center
AWM Workshop Poster Presentations by Women Graduate Students and Reception
- Organizers:
- Emilie Wiesner, Ithaca College (Poster Judging Coordinator)
- Matilde Lalin, University of Montreal
- Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
- Sarah Witherspoon, Texas A&M University
♥ before the name of the poster presenter indicates a poster winner
- Presenters:
- Allison Arnold-Roksandich, Oregon State University,
Establishing Several Infinite Families of Quantum Modular and Mock Modular Forms - Rhea Palak Bakshi, The George Washington University,
Multiplying Curves in the Thickened T – Shirt - Megan Chambers, North Carolina State University,
Analyzing the Structural Properties of Pulmonary Arterial Networks - Eva Comino, University of Southern Mississippi,
Efficient Denoising of High Resolution Color Digital Images Utilizing Krylov Subspace Spectral Methods - Keisha Cook, University of Alabama,
Estimating the Extinction Time of infection in a spatial stochastic SIR model - Emelie Curl, Iowa State University,
A Turán-type Problem in Finite Groups - Maria Fox, Boston College,
The GL4 Rapoport-Zink Space - ♥ Francesca Gandini, University of Michigan,
Resolutions of ideals associated to subspace arrangements - Hayriye Guckir Cakir, Michigan State University,
The constrained minimization of the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard Free Energy - Xiao Hou, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Compute Conservation Law Using L1 Minimization - Lara Kassab, Colorado State University,
Multidimensional scaling: Infinite Metric Measure Spaces - Lisa Kaylor, Wesleyan University,
Quaternary Lattices of Discriminant 4p - Jenny Kenkel, University of Utah,
Local Cohomology Modules of Thickenings of Determinantal Rings - ♥ Daewa Kim, University of Houston,
A Kinetic Theory Approach to Pedestrian Motion - Seoyoung Kim, Brown University,
The Sato-Tate conjecture and Nagao’s conjecture - Junyuan Lin, Tufts University,
An AMG Approach in Solving Graph Laplacians of Protein Networks Based on Diffusion State Distance Metrics - Kit Newton, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Diffusive Optical Tomography in Bayesian Framework - Jeungeun Park, University of Iowa,
Stability of traveling wave solutions of nonlinear conservation laws for image processing - Manami Roy, University of Oklahoma,
Some paramodular forms connected with elliptic curves - Amanda Welch, Virginia Tech,
Double Affine Bruhat Order - Yang Xiao, Brown University,
Incompressible Surfaces in 4-Punctured Sphere Bundles
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 8:30 am–5:00 pm | Room 307, Baltimore Convention Center
AWM Workshop: Women in Applied and Computational Topology
- Organizers:
- Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
- Yusu Wang, Ohio State University
- Speakers:
- 8:30–9:10 am | Christine Heitsch, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Spaces of RNA branching configurations - 9:30–9:50 am | Anthea Monod, Columbia University,
Tropical Statistics & Geometry of Phylogenetic Tree Space - 10:00–10:20 am | Sara Kalisnik, Wesleyan University,
Learning Algebraic Varieties from Samples - 10:30–10:50 am | Hee Rhang Yoon, Georgia Institute of Technology,
Cellular cosheaves for distributed computation of persistent homology - 11:00–11:20 am | Ellen Gasparovic, Union College,
The Relationship Between the Intrinsic Cech and Persistence Distortion Distances for Metric Graphs - 11:30–11:50 am | Bei Wang, University of Utah,
An Introduction to Discrete Stratified Morse Theory - 12:00–12:20 pm | Nina Otter, Oxford University,
Invariants for multiparameter persistence and their computation - 2:00–2:40 pm | Carina Curto, Pennsylvania State University,
Graph rules for inhibitory network dynamics - 3:00–3:20 pm | Lori Ziegelmeier, Macalester College,
Using Topology to Measure Dynamics of Time-Varying Systems - 3:30–3:50 pm | Rachel Neville, Arizona State University,
Topological Techniques for Characterization of Pattern Forming Systems - 4:00–4:20 pm | Brittany Fasy, Montana State University,
Local Persistent Homology-Based Distances between Nonplanar Road Networks - 4:30–4:50 pm | Erin Chambers, Saint Louis University,
Burning the Medial Axis