AWM at JMM 2023

Joint Mathematics Meetings, Boston, MA
Hynes Convention Center, Boston Marriott Hotel, & Boston Sheraton Hotel
January 4 – 7, 2023

For a pdf of AWM events at JMM 2023, with additional details, click here.

Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Tuesday January 3, 2023, 9:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
AWM Executive Committee Meeting
Riverway, Sheraton Boston Hotel

Organizers:

  • Darla Kremer, Association for Women in Mathematics

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Wednesday January 4, 2023, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Celebrating the Mathematical Contributions of the AWM, I
311, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Michelle Ann Manes, University of Hawaii
  • Kathryn E Leonard, Occidental College
  • Donatella Danielli, Arizona State University
  • Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College

Presenters:

Wednesday January 4, 2023, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AMS-AWM Special Session on Complex and Arithmetic Dynamical Systems I
303, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Laura G. DeMarco, Harvard University
  • Niki Myrto Mavraki, Harvard University
  • Max Weinreich, Brown University

Presenters:

Wednesday January 4, 2023, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Mathematicians + Wikipedia — A Training Edit-a-thon to Reduce the “Wikipedia Gender Gap” in the Mathematical Sciences (in cooperation with AWM)
Gardner, Sheraton Boston Hotel

Organizers:

  • Xavier Ramos Olivé, Smith College
  • Francesca Bernardi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wednesday January 4, 2023, 2:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
AMS-AWM Special Session on Complex and Arithmetic Dynamical Systems II
303, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Laura G. DeMarco, Harvard University
  • Niki Myrto Mavraki, Harvard University
  • Max Weinreich, Brown University

Presenters:

Wednesday January 4, 2023, 3:45 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
AWM Business Meeting
306, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Kathryn Leonard, Occidental College and AWM President

Wednesday January 4, 2023, 4:25 p.m.-5:25 p.m.
Joint Prize Session
Ballroom AB, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University

Thursday, January 5, 2023

Thursday January 5, 2023, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Recent Developments in the Analysis of Local and Nonlocal PDEs, I
102, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Alaa Haj Ali, Arizona State University
  • Donatella Danielli, Arizona State University

Presenters:

Thursday January 5, 2023, 10:05 a.m.-11:05 a.m.
AWM-AMS Noether Lecture
Ballroom AB, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Steven H. Weintraub, Lehigh University

Speakers:

Thursday January 5, 2023, 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
Joint Committee on Women Panel
311, Hynes Convention Center
Moderator & Organizer:

  • Jennifer Schultens, University of California Davis

Panelists:

  • Lakeshia Jones, University of Arkansas-Little Rock
  • Jo Boaler, Stanford University
  • Yvonne Lai, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • John Nardo, Oglethorpe University

Thursday January 5, 2023, 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AMS-AWM Special Session on Complex and Arithmetic Dynamical Systems III
303, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Laura G. DeMarco, Harvard University
  • Niki Myrto Mavraki, Harvard University
  • Max Weinreich, Brown University

Presenters:

Thursday January 5, 2023, 3:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
AWM Panel: Women in Math Leadership
200, Hynes Convention Center

Moderator & Organizer:

  • Donatella Danielli, Arizona State University

Panelists:

  • Kathryn Leonard, Occidental College and AWM President
  • Dorina I. Mitrea, Baylor University
  • Magdalena Daniela Toda, Texas Tech University and NSF

Friday, January 6, 2023

Friday January 6, 2023, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Women in Graph Theory, I
210, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Karen L. Collins, Wesleyan University
  • Sandra R. Kingan, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
  • Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Ann N. Trenk, Wellesley College

Presenters:

Friday January 6, 2023, 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Recent Developments in the Analysis of Local and Nonlocal PDEs, II
200, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Alaa Haj Ali, Arizona State University
  • Donatella Danielli, Arizona State University

Presenters:

Friday January 6, 2023, 2:15 p.m.-3:40 p.m.
AWM Panel: Non-Traditional Academic Careers in Math
103, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Alice Mark, Vanderbilt University
  • sarah-marie belcastro, MathILy and Smith College

Panelists:

  • sarah-marie belcastro, MathILy and Smith College
  • Alyson Deines, Center for Communications Research, La Jolla
  • Kelly MacArthur, University of Utah
  • Lynne Yengulalp, Wake Forest University

Friday January 6, 2023, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
AWM Workshop Poster Presentations
Constitution A, Sheraton Boston Hotel

Moderators:

  • Matthew Krauel, California State University, Sacramento

Organizers:

  • Radmila Sazdanovic, NC State University
  • Catherine Beneteau, University of South Florida
  • Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  • Julie Rana, Lawrence University
  • Janet Striuli, Fairfield University
  • Isabel Vogt, Brown University

Presenters:

Friday January 6, 2023, 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
AWM Reception and Awards Presentation
Constitution A, Sheraton

Organizers:

  • Darla Kremer, Association for Women in Mathematics

Saturday, January 7, 2023

Saturday January 7, 2023, 8:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
AWM Special Session on Women, Art, and Mathematics: Mathematics in the Literary Arts and Pedagogy in Creative Settings, I
210, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Shanna Dobson, University of California, Riverside
  • Stephanie Lewkiewicz, Temple University
  • Elizabeth Donovan, Murray State University

Presenters:

Saturday January 7, 2023, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Women in Graph Theory, II
302, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Karen L. Collins, Wesleyan University
  • Sandra R. Kingan, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
  • Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Ann N. Trenk, Wellesley College

Presenters:

Saturday January 7, 2023, 9:00 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
Association for Women in Mathematics Special Session on AWM Workshop: Women in Commutative Algebra (WiCA), I
Constitution B, Sheraton Boston Hotel

Organizers:

  • Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  • Janet Striuli, Fairfield University

Presenters:

  • 9:00 a.m.
    Lower Bounds on the F-pure Threshold
    Zhibek Kadyrsizova, Nazarbayev University
    Jennifer Kenkel*, University of Michigan
    Janet Page, North Dakota State University
    Jyoti Singh, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
    Karen E. Smith, University of Michigan
    Adela N. Vraciu, University of South Carolina
    Emily E. Witt, University of Kansas
    (1183-13-22024)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Classification of Frobenius forms
    Zhibek Kadyrsizova, Nazarbayev University
    Jenny Kenkel, University of Michigan
    Janet Page*, North Dakota State University
    Jyoti Singh, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology
    Karen E. Smith, University of Michigan
    Adela N. Vraciu, University of South Carolina
    Emily E. Witt, University of Kansas
    (1183-13-21365)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Possible values of the F-pure threshold for homogeneous polynomials
    Karen E. Smith, University of Michigan
    Adela N. Vraciu*, University of South Carolina
    (1183-13-21513)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Resolutions of differential operators of low order
    Rachel N Diethorn*, Yale University
    Jack Jeffries, University of Nebraska
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    Nicholas Packauskas, SUNY Cortland
    Josh Pollitz, University of Utah
    Hamidreza Rahmati, Syracuse University
    Sophia Vassiliadou, Georgetown University
    (1183-13-19056)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Toric and tropical Bertini theorems in positive characteristic
    Francesca Gandini, University of Primorska
    Milena Hering, The University of Edinburgh
    Diane Maclagan, University of Warwick
    Fatemeh Mohammadi, Ghent University
    Jenna Rajchgot, McMaster University
    Ashley Wheeler*, Georgia Tech
    Josephine Yu, Georgia Tech
    (1183-13-17977)

Saturday January 7, 2023, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Women in Graph Theory, III
302, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Karen L. Collins, Wesleyan University
  • Sandra R. Kingan, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
  • Brigitte Servatius, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Ann N. Trenk, Wellesley College

Presenters:

  • 1:00 p.m.
    New Graph Symmetry Parameters
    Debra L Boutin*, Hamilton College
    (1183-05-17214)
  • 1:30 p.m.
    Edge Determining Sets and Determining Index
    Sally Cockburn*, Hamilton College
    Sean McAvoy, Hamilton College
    (1183-05-16232)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Breaking Symmetries of Mycielskian Graphs
    Debra L Boutin, Hamilton College
    Sally Cockburn, Hamilton College
    Lauren Keough, Grand Valley State University
    Sarah Loeb*, Hampton Sydney College
    Katherine Perry, University of Soka
    Puck Rombach, University of Vermont
    (1183-05-18968)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Advances in the Game of Hyperopic Cops and Robber
    Nancy E Clarke*, Acadia University
    (1183-05-20256)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    The Hereditary Closure of the Unigraphs
    Michael D. Barrus, University of Rhode Island
    Ann N. Trenk, Wellesley College
    Rebecca Whitman*, University of California, Berkeley
    (1183-05-18645)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Immersion Numbers of Graph Products
    Karen L. Collins, Wesleyan University
    Megan E. Heenehan*, Eastern Connecticut State University
    Jessica McDonald, Auburn University
    (1183-05-16115)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    The Threshold Strong Dimension of a Graph
    Nadia Benakli, New York City College of Technology, CUNY
    Novi Herawati Bong, University of Delaware
    Shonda Dueck, The University of Winnipeg
    Linda Eroh*, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
    Beth Novick, Clemson University
    Ortrud R Oellermann, The University of Winnipeg
    (1183-05-17950)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Peg Solitaire in Multiple Colors on Graphs
    Tara Colleen Davis*, Hawaii Pacific University
    Alexxis De Lamere, Hawaii Pacific University
    Gustavo Sopena, California State University, Fullerton
    Roberto Carlos Soto, California State University, Fullerton
    (1183-05-19357)

Saturday January 7, 2023, 1:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Women, Art, and Mathematics: Mathematics in the Literary Arts and Pedagogy in Creative Settings, II
210, Hynes Convention Center

Organizers:

  • Shanna Dobson, California State University, Los Angeles
  • Stephanie Lewkiewicz, Temple University
  • Elizabeth Donovan, Murray State University

Presenters:

Saturday January 7, 2023, 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Association for Women in Mathematics Special Session on AWM Workshop: Women in Commutative Algebra (WiCA), II
Constitution B, Sheraton Boston Hotel

Organizers:

  • Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
  • Janet Striuli, Fairfield University

Presenters:

  • 1:30 p.m.
    Illustrated views of differential operators on the quotient of an affine semigroup ring
    Christine Berkesch, University of Minnesota
    C-Y. Jean Chan*, Central Michigan University
    Patricia Klein, University of Minnesota
    Laura Felicia Matusevich, Texas A&M University
    Janet Page, North Dakota State University
    Janet Vassilev, University of New Mexico
    (1183-13-20212)
  • 2:00 p.m.
    Differential operators of quotient rings
    Christine Berkesch, University of Minnesota
    Chin-Yi Jean Chan, Central Michigan University
    Patricia Klein, University of Minnesota
    Laura Felicia Matusevich, Texas A&M University
    Janet Page, North Dakota State University
    Janet Cowden Vassilev*, University of New Mexico
    (1183-13-20335)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Differential operators and algebra retracts
    Christine Berkesch, University of Minnesota
    C-Y. Jean Chan, Central Michigan University
    Patricia Klein, University of Minnesota
    Laura Felicia Matusevich*, Texas A&M University
    Janet Page, North Dakota State University
    Janet Cowden Vassilev, University of New Mexico
    (1183-13-21420)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Simplicial resolutions of powers of square-free monomial ideals
    Susan Marie Cooper, University of Manitoba
    Sabine El Khoury, American University of Beirut
    Sara Faridi, Dalhousie University
    Sarah Mayes-Tang, University of Toronto
    Susan Elaine Morey, Texas State University
    Liana M. Sega*, University of Missouri Kansas City
    Sandra Spiroff, University of Mississippi
    (1183-13-20239)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Canonical resolutions over Koszul algebras
    Eleonore Faber, University of Leeds
    Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke, Universität Osnabrück
    Haydee M Lindo, Harvey Mudd College
    Claudia Miller, Syracuse University
    Rebecca R.G.*, George Mason University
    Alexandra Seceleanu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    (1183-13-20413)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Rees algebras of sparse determinantal ideals
    Ela Celikbas, West Virginia University
    Emilie Dufresne, University of York, UK
    Louiza Fouli, New Mexico State University
    Elisa Gorla, Universite De Neuchatel
    Kuei-Nuan Lin*, Penn State University
    Claudia Polini, University of Notre Dame
    Irena Swanson, Purdue University
    (1183-13-16409)

The AWM 2023 JMM Organizing Committee

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

  • Catherine Beneteau (University of Southern Florida)
  • Matthew Krauel (California State University, Sacramento)
  • Alice Mark (Rutgers University)
  • Kelly McKinnie (University of Montana)
  • Claudia Miller (Syracuse University)
  • Radmila Sazdanovic (North Carolina State University), Chair
  • Julie Rana (Lawrence University)
  • Janet Striuli (Fairfield University)
  • Isabel Vogt (University of Washington)

Thanks to Our Sponsors

In addition to the many committed volunteers that make AWM events great, the AWM Workshop organized by the Research Network WiCA and are supported by the NSF-DMS Grant #2113506.  Poster presenter are sponsored to attend a workshop at one of the Mathematical Sciences Institutes. This prize is made possible by the Mathematical Sciences Institutes Diversity Committee. The reception was jointly sponsored by the Center for Communications and Computing and Metron