AWM at JMM 2020

The Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado

Tuesday, January 14 through Saturday, January 19, 2020


TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm

AWM Moving Towards Action Workshop



WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 8:00 am – 11:00 am

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women in Mathematical Biology, I

Room 112, Colorado Convention Center

  • Organizers:
  • Christina Edholm, University of Tennessee cedholm@utk.edu
  • Amanda Laubmeier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Katharine Gurski, Howard University
  • Heather Zinn Brooks, University of California Los Angeles

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 8:00 am – 10:50 am

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women in Symplectic and Contact Geometry, I

Room 105, Colorado Convention Center

  • Organizers:
  • Morgan Weiler, Rice University mocowe@gmail.com
  • Catherine Cannizzo, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
  • Melissa Zhang, University of Georgia

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 8:00 am – 10:50 am

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women in Topology, I

Room 405, Colorado Convention Center

  • Organizers:
  • Jocelyn Bell, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  • Rochy Flint, Columbia University Teachers College crf51@tc.columbia.edu
  • Candice Price, Smith College
  • Arunima Ray, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2:15 pm – 3:40 pm

AWM Panel Discussion: Queer Families and Mathematical Careers

Room 201, Colorado Convention Center

  • Organizers:
  • Alice Mark, Organizer and Moderator, Vanderbilt University
  • Corrin Clarkson, New York University
  • Alexander Hoover, University of Akron
  • Panelists:
  • Amanda Folsom, Amherst College
  • May Mei, Denison University
  • Matt Voigt, San Diego State University
  • Chikako Mese, Johns Hopkins University

Balancing a career in math with having a family is something that gets discussed a lot in women in math spaces, but those discussions often leave out the experiences particular to LGBTQ mathematicians and our families. Our goal with this panel is to broaden the conversation about the interaction between family and career to include and represent queer families.  In this discussion we will have an expansive, inclusive definition of family. Families may have kids or no kids, one adult or several adults, be genetically related or not, etc.   The types of connections that exist in queer families are not always perceived as familial. Even when they are recognized, it can often feel like you’re forging your way through uncharted territory.  What family considerations get taken into account when making academic career decisions?  How does being queer impact these considerations?


WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2:15 pm – 6:00 pm

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women in Mathematical Biology, II

Room 112, Colorado Convention Center

  • Organizers:
  • Christina Edholm, University of Tennessee cedholm@utk.edu
  • Amanda Laubmeier, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Katharine Gurski, Howard University
  • Heather Zinn Brooks, University of California Los Angeles

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 2:15 pm – 6:05 pm

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women in Sympletic and Contact Geometry, II

Room 105, Colorado Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Morgan Weiler, Rice University mocowe@gmail.com
  • Catherine Cannizzo, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics
  • Melissa Zhang, University of Georgia

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 3:45 pm – 4:15 pm

AWM Business Meeting

Room 201, Colorado Convention Center



THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 10:05 am – 10:55 am

Four Seasons Ballroom 2, 3, 4, Colorado Convention Center

AWM-AMS Noether Lecture

Branching laws for representations of a non compact orthogonal group.
Birgit Speh*, Cornell University
(1154-22-347)

Abstract: Finite dimensional representations of classical groups were first treated systematically by Hermann Weyl in his famous book “The Classical Groups: Their Invariants and Representations” 80 years ago. In this book he classified the irreducible representations \( \Pi : SO(n) \rightarrow \text{Aut}(V)\) for a finite dimensional vector space V. H. Weyl also considered the restriction of an irreducible representation to a subgroup and proved that the restriction of a finite dimensional representation is direct sum of finite dimensional representations. In 1938 famous branching rules were proved describing the multiplicity \(\mbox{ dim Hom} {}_{SO(n−1)}( \pi, \Pi)\) for the restriction of an irreducible representation \(\Pi \mbox{ of } SO(n)\) to an irreducible representation \(\pi\) of \(SO(n-1)\) by F. Murnaghan.

A noncompact orthogonal group \(SO(p,q)\) has also infinite dimensional irreducible representations. Unfortunately the restriction of an infinite dimensional representation of \(SO(p,q)\) to a subgroup \(SO(r,s)\) is often not a direct sum of irreducible representations. In this talk I will show that for infinite dimensional representations \(\Pi \mbox{ of } SO(n,1)\) and infinite dimensional representations \(\pi \mbox{ of } SO(n-1,1)\) we obtain very similar branching laws for \(\mbox{dim Hom}_{SO(n−1)}( \Pi, \pi)\) although the restriction of the representations is not a direct sum of irreducible representations.


THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Mile High Ballroom 4a-c, Colorado Convention Center

AWM Reception and Prize Ceremony

There will be food, drink, music, singing, awesome ladies and cool friends of AWM. Connect and reconnect with your community while celebrating recipients of this year’s AWM prizes. We will be acknowledging the new class of AWM Fellows, the Schafer Prize and Dissertation Prize winners, and the AWM Service Award winners!



FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 8:00 am – 11:00 am

Room 402, Colorado Convention Center

AMS-AWM Special Session on Representation Theory Inspired by the Langlands Conjectures, I (Associated with Noether Lecture by Birgit Speh)

Organizers:

  • Birgit Speh, Cornell University bes12@cornell.edu
  • Peter Trapa, University of Utah

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Capitol Ballroom 5, Hyatt Regency Denver

AWM Wikipedia Edit-a-thon

  • Organizers:
  • Denise A. Rangel Tracy
  • Marie A. Vitulli

AWM will be hosting a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to improve and create new articles on Wikipedia about women in mathematics as well as their accomplishments. Come, share your expertise and improve the representation of women mathematicians on Wikipedia. New to editing Wikipedia? It’s easier than you think! We will have experienced Wikipedians who can help you start editing.

Join us anytime from 9am to 1pm, and stay for as long (or short) as you like. We’ll have coffee, internet access, and suggestions for articles to edit. Please bring a laptop or tablet and some curiosity. See our meet-up page for more information.


FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1:00 pm – 5:40 pm

Room 407, Colorado Convention Center

AMS-AWM Special Session on Mathematical and Computational Research in Data Science, I

  • Organizers:
  • Linda Ness, DIMACS, Rutgers University nesslinda@gmail.com
  • F. Patricia Medina, Yeshiva University

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Room 402, Colorado Convention Center

AMS-AWM Special Session on Representation Theory Inspired by the Langlands Conjectures, II (Associated with Noether Lecture by Birgit Speh)

  • Organizers:
  • Birgit Speh, Cornell University bes12@cornell.edu
  • Peter Trapa, University of Utah

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm

Upper Lobby D, Colorado Convention Center

AWM Poster Session

  • Organizers:
  • Loredana Lanzani (Syracuse University)
  • Radmila Sazdanovic (NC State)
  • Liz Vivas (OSU)
  • Yusu Wang (OSU)

♥ before the name of the poster presenter indicates a poster winner



SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 8:00 am – 11:50 am

Room 407, Colorado Convention Center

AMS-AWM Speical Session on Mathematical and Computational Research in Data Science, II

  • Organizers:
    Linda Ness, DIMACS, Rutgers University nesslinda@gmail.com
    F. Patricia Medina, Yeshiva University
    Kathryn Leonard, Occidental College
  • 8:00 a.m.
    Highly Likely Clusterable Data With No Cluster.
    Mireille Boutin*, Purdue University
    (1154-68-398)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Topology and Hypergraphs for Biological Data.
    Sinan Aksoy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Emily Heath, University of Illinois
    Brett Jefferson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Cliff Joslyn, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Jason McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Hugh Mitchell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Brenda Praggastis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    Emilie Purvine*, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
    (1154-05-720)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Non-parametric Mixture Model for Unsupervised Image Segmentation.
    Marilyn Vazquez*, Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI)
    Jeova Farias, Brown Univerity
    Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University
    (1154-00-1182)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Exact Cluster Recovery via Classical Multidimensional Scaling.
    Anna Little*, Michigan State University
    Qiang Sun, University of Toronto
    Yuying Xie, Michigan State University
    (1154-62-1270)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Iterative Hard Thresholding for Low CP-rank Tensors.
    Rachel Grotheer, Goucher College
    Shuang Li, Colorado School of Mines
    Anna Ma*, University of California, Irvine
    Deanna Needell, University of California, Los Angeles
    Jing Qin, University of Kentucky
    (1154-15-1224)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Longevity of User Anonymity.
    Allison Beemer*, New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Sanghamitra Dutta, Carnegie Mellon University
    Haewon Jeong, Carnegie Mellon University
    Esther Lamken, California Institute of Technology
    Emina Soljanin, Rutgers University
    Mansi Sood, Carnegie Mellon University
    (1154-94-848)
  • 11:30 a.m.
    Analysis of Simulated Crowd Flow Exit Data: Visualization, Panic Detection, and Exit Time Convergence, Attribution and Estimation.
    Anna Grim, Brown University
    Alona Kryshchenko*, California State University of Channel Islands
    Linda Ness, DIMAC, Rutgers University
    Patricia Medina, Yeshiva University
    Boris Iskra, WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    Randy Paffenroth, WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    Sui Tang, Johns Hopkins University
    Megan Owen, Lehman College, CUNY
    Melissa Ngamini, MOREHOUSE COLLEGE
    (1154-62-1615)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm

Room 207, Colorado Convention Center

AWM Workshop: Women in Several Complex Variables (WinSCV), I

  • Organizers:
    Loredana Lanzani, Syracuse University
    Liz Vivas, Ohio State University

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1:00 – 5:50 pm

Room 105, Colorado Convention Center

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women in Topology, II

Organizers:

  • Jocelyn Bell, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
  • Rochy Flint, Columbia University Teachers College crf51@tc.columbia.edu
  • Candice Price, Smith College
  • Arunima Ray, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Room 207, Colorado Convention Center

AWM Workshop: Women in Several Complex Variables (WinSCV), II

  • Organizers:
    Loredana Lanzani, Syracuse University
    Liz Vivas, Ohio State University

A special thanks to the AWM committee members who have helped organize this year’s program!

Alina Bucur (Meetings Coordinator), UC San Diego
Loredana Lanzani, Syracuse University
Alice Mark, Rutgers University
Radmila Sazdanovic (Chair), North Carolina State University
Liz Vivas, Ohio State University
Emilie Wiesner, Ithaca University