AWM at JMM 2021

Joint Mathematics Meetings happened virtually in 2021

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women of Color in Applied Math and Analysis, I

8:00AM – 10:20AM MST

Organizers:

  • Mirjeta Pasha (Arizona State University) mpasha3@asu.edu
  • Nancy Rodriguez (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Caprice Stanley (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)
  • Omayra Ortega (Sonoma State University)

Presenters:

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women of Color in Applied Math and Analysis, II

2:15PM – 6:05PM MST

Organizers:

  • Mirjeta Pasha (Arizona State University) mpasha3@asu.edu
  • Nancy Rodriguez (University of Colorado Boulder)
  • Caprice Stanley (The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)
  • Omayra Ortega (Sonoma State University)

Presenters:

Thursday, January 7, 2021

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women of Color in Topology and Algebra, I

8:00AM – 11:50AM MST

Organizers:

  • Emille Davie Lawrence (University of San Francisco) edlawrence@usfca.edu
  • Candice Price (Smith College)
  • Carmen Wright ( Jackson State University)

Presenters:

Thursday, January 7, 2021

AMS-AWM Special Session on Women of Color in Topology and Algebra, II

1:00PM – 3:20PM MST

Organizers:

  • Emille Davie Lawrence (University of San Francisco)  edlawrence@usfca.edu
  • Candice Price (Smith College)
  • Carmen Wright (Jackson State University)

Presenters:

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Association for Women in Mathematics Panel – Equity, Ethics, and Bias in Mathematics

1:00PM – 2:30PM MST

At the 2021 JMM, in lieu of the Noether Lecture, the AWM will host a panel of experts on issues of equity, ethics, and bias in algorithm development and in research more generally. Historically, mathematics has been presented as a neutral arbiter of “truth,” but the development and application of mathematics can have significant moral and ethical context and implications. With this event, the AWM seeks to highlight and promote the work that a growing number of experts in the mathematical sciences are already doing, as a step toward broadening the conversation and moving the mathematics community toward greater awareness of the unintended ethical consequences of our work. Each panelist will give a short prepared presentation, with time for moderated Q&A afterwards.

Organizers:

  • Alina Bucur (University of California San Diego)
  • Amanda Bower (University of Michigan)
  • Carla Cotwright-Williams (AWM Executive Committee)
  • Courtney Gibbons (Hamilton College)
  • Alana Huszar (University of Michigan)
  • Lily Khadjavi (Loyola Marymount University)
  • Adriana Salerno (Bates College)
  • Michelle Snider (IDA/Center for Computing Sciences)

Moderators:

  • Carla Cotwright-Williams (AWM Executive Committee)

Panelists:

  • Loretta Cheeks (DS Innovation & Strong TIES, CEO)
  • Maria De-Arteaga (The University of Texas at Austin)
  • Kristian Lum (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Suresh Venkatasubramanian (University of Utah)

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Association for Women in Mathematics Panel – AWM Through the Decades

2:30PM – 4:00PM MST

Since its founding in 1971, the Association for Women in Mathematics has been a force for positive change in the culture and demographics of the mathematics world and an effective voice of support for women in the mathematical sciences. AWM Through the Decades is an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the organization’s founding. It will feature five AWM past presidents, one from each decade, discussing the major challenges that they and AWM faced during their presidency, and the challenges they see for expanding the participation of women in mathematics in the decades ahead. The audience will be treated to reflections on the history of women in mathematics in the last five decades and on what the next five decades may hold in store.

AWM Through the Decades is sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Organizers:

  • Georgia Benkart (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
  • Emille Davie Lawrence (University of San Francisco)

Moderators:

  • Ruth Haas (University of Hawaii at Manoa – Current AWM President)

Panelists:

  • Mary Gray (American University – First President and one of the founders)
  • Rhonda Hughes (Bryn Mawr College)
  • Kristin Lauter (Microsoft Research)
  • Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee)
  • Carol Wood (Wesleyan University)

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Joint Prize Session   

This event has been cancelled.  AWM Prize winners will be honored at the AWM Prize Ceremony taking place on Friday from 5:00-7:00 pm.

AWM Awards will be to: 

  • Emily Riehl (Johns Hopkins University) 
    • The AWM Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry
  • Lynda Wiest (University of Nevada, Reno)
    • Louise Hay Award for Contributions to Mathematics Education
  • Raegan Higgins (Texas Tech University)
    • Gweneth Humphreys Award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Women

Friday, January 8, 2021

AWM Workshop Poster Presentations by Women Graduate Students and Reception

3:45PM – 5:00PM MST

AWM seeks volunteers to serve as mentors for workshop participants. If you are interested, please contact the AWM office at awm@awm-math.org. This session is open to all JMM attendees. 

Poster Session Organizers from AWM’s JMM Committee

  • Donatella Danielli (Arizona State University)
  • Irina Mitrea (Temple University)
  • Radmila Sazdanovic (North Carolina State University)

Poster Judging Coordinator

  • Emilie Wiesner (Ithaca College)

JMM Poster Judges Needed: This year’s AWM Graduate Student Poster Presentation and Competition will be held virtually; a team of judges will select the top poster, and the winner receives a prize of funding for a one-week workshop or event at one of the participating mathematical sciences institutes. We particularly seek judges with a background in mathematical biology, differential geometry, or probability. Poster judging will be conducted asynchronously December 17-31, with a short virtual meeting during the week of Jan 4 to finalize the winner. Judges are also invited to attend the poster reception at the JMM (Friday, Jan 8, 3:45-5:00 PM MST). Contact JMM Poster Judging Coordinator Emilie Wiesner to volunteer (ewiesner@ithaca.edu). 

Graduate Student Poster Presenters

Friday, January 8, 2021

Association for Women in Mathematics Business Meeting

5:00PM – 5:30PM MST

We invite all AWM Members to attend, and this meeting is open to the public. We run through a quick “year in review” discussing what AWM has been working on this last year. This is always an open opportunity for the math community to bring up concerns, questions and interests about AWM.

Chairs:

  • Ruth Haas (AWM President)
  • Kathryn Leonard (AWM President-elect)

Friday, January 8, 2021

Association for Women in Mathematics Awards Presentation

5:00PM – 7:00PM MST

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 AWM Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry, the Gweneth Humphreys Award, the Louise Hay Award,  the Schafer Prize and Dissertation Prize winners, and the AWM Service Award winners!

Chairs:

  • Ruth Haas (AWM President)
  • Kathryn Leonard (AWM President-elect)

Saturday, January 9, 2021

AWM Workshop on Women in Analysis (WoAN)

8:00AM – 5:05PM MST 

AWM’s Research Collaboration Network 

The AWM Workshop on Women in Analysis (WoAN) will bring together female mathematicians working at the interface between Real and Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations and Geometric Measure Theory. Topics of emphasis include elliptic boundary value problems, free boundary problems, non-linear dispersive equations, Fourier restriction problems, and oscillatory integrals. This is a follow-up of the 2019 BIRS Workshop for the WoAN Research Network. Updated information about the workshop is available on the AWM website. All JMM attendees are invited to attend the program.

Organizers from AWM’s JMM Committee and the ADVANCE WinCompTop Network:

  • Donatella Danielli (Arizona State University)
  •  Irina Mitrea (Temple University)

Presenters:

Mentoring Lunch

The AWM 2021 JMM Organizing Committee

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

  • Donatella Danielli (Arizona State University) Workshop Organizer
  • Loredana Lanzani (Syracuse University) Workshop Organizer
  • Alice Mark (Rutgers University) Workshop  Organizer
  • Irina Mitrea (Temple University) Workshop Organizer
  • Radmila Sazdanovic (North Carolina State University) Chair
  • Liz Vivas (Ohio State University) Workshop Organizer
  • Emilie Wiesner (Ithaca University) Poster Judging Coordinator

Additional Events of Interest

Invited Addresses

https://jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2021/2247_invited.html

Joint Invited Addresses

  • Linda J. S. Allen, Texas Tech University, Modeling of Viral Zoonotic Infectious Diseases from Wildlife to Humans. (AMS-MAA)
  • Trachette Jackson, University of Michigan, Turning cancer discoveries into effective treatments with the aid of mathematical modeling. (MAA-AMS-SIAM Gerald and Judith Porter Public Lecture)
  • Amie Wilkinson, University of Chicago, Symmetry and asymmetry in dynamics (AMS-MAA)

AMS Invited Addresses

  • Douglas N. Arnold, University of Minnesota, Structure preservation in the discretization of partial differential equations. 
  • Ryan Hynd, University of Pennsylvania, The Hamilton-Jacobi equation, past and present.
  • Ciprian Manolescu, Stanford University, Khovanov homology and surfaces in four-manifolds. (AMS Maryam Mirzakhani Lecture)
  • Andrea Nahmod, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Propagation of randomness under the flow of nonlinear dispersive equations.
  • Lenka Zdeborová, Institut de Physique Theorique, Title to be announced. (AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture)
  • Xinwen Zhu, California Institute of Technology, Arithmetic and geometric Langlands program.

MAA Invited Addresses

  • Nathan Kaplan, University of California, Irvine, Codes from polynomials over finite fields.
  • Angela Sheffield, National Nuclear Security Administration, Next-generation AI: We’re pushing AI beyond ML – and we need your help.
  • Stephanie Singer, Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University and Verified Voting, Detecting anomalies in the 2020 election.
  • Chelsea Walton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Navigating collaboration.

Invited Addresses of Other Organizations

  • Dana Bartosova, University of Florida, Non-metrizable universal minimal flows. (ASL)
  • Anton Bernshteyn, Georgia Institute of Technology, Descriptive combinatorics and distributed algorithms. (ASL)
  • Gabriel Conant, University of Cambridge, Model theoretic tameness in multiplicative combinatorics. (ASL)
  • Barbara F Csima, University of Waterloo, Understanding Frameworks for Priority Arguments in Computability Theory. (ASL)
  • Russell Miller, Queens College & CUNY Graduate Center, Computable structure theory with noncomputable structures. (ASL)
  • Christian Rosendal, University of Illinois at Chicago, Groups with bounded geometry. (ASL)
  • Charles Steinhorn, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Vassar College, Asymptotic and multidimensional asymptotic classes of finite structures. (ASL)
  • Chelsea Walton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, An Invitation to Noncommutative Algebra. (NAM)
  • Talitha Washington, Clark Atlanta University and the Atlanta University Center, Leveraging Data Science at HBCUs to Advance Innovation (NAM)
  • Thaleia Zariphopoulou, University of Texas at Austin, Human-machine interaction models and stochastic optimization. (SIAM)

MAA Contributed Paper Sessions

MAA Contributed Paper Session on The EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) program: Pure and Applied talks by Women Math Warriors, I and II

Organizers:

  • Ziva Myer, Duke University
  • Laurel Ohm, University of Minnesota
  • Shanise Walker, University of Wisconsin

MAA Contributed Paper Session on The EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) program: Pure and Applied talks by Women Math Warriors, I

Friday January 8, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-11:55 a.m.

MAA Contributed Paper Session on The EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) program: Pure and Applied talks by Women Math Warriors, II
Friday January 8, 2021, 1:00 p.m.-2:55 p.m.

MAA Contributed Paper Session on Promoting Women in Mathematics, I, II and III

Sponsored by the AWM 50th Anniversary Committee, the Joint Committee on Women (JCW), the MAA Committee on the Participation of Women, PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, and Spectra.

Organizers:

  • Francesca Bernardi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Sarah Greenwald, Appalachian State University
  • Judy Holdener, Kenyon College
  • Semra Kilic-Bahi, Colby-Sawyer College
  • Anila Yadavalli, University of Minnesota

MAA Contributed Paper Session on Promoting Women in Mathematics, I
Wednesday January 6, 2021, 8:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.

MAA Contributed Paper Session on Promoting Women in Mathematics, II
Wednesday January 6, 2021, 2:15 p.m.-4:50 p.m.

MAA Contributed Paper Session on Promoting Women in Mathematics, III
Saturday January 9, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-10:55 a.m.