AWM at JMM 2026
Joint Mathematics Meetings, Washington, D.C.
Walter E. Washington Convention Center & the Marriott Marquis Washington DC
January 4 – 7, 2026
For a pdf of AWM events at JMM 2026, with additional details, click here.
Sunday, January 4, 2026
Sunday, January 4, 2026
AWM Executive Committee Meeting
Sunday, January 4, 2026, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Recent Trends of Stochastic Methods in Modern Generative AI, I
Location: Room 204B, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Haoyang Cao, Johns Hopkins University
Co-Organizer(s): Luhao Zhang, Johns Hopkins University; Gökçe Dayanikli, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Probability theory and stochastic analysis have been fundamental building blocks of generative models. This session aims to bring together researchers from different communities to explore and advance the theoretical foundations underpinning modern generative models. The topics include, but are not limited to, diffusion models for sequential data, optimal transport in generative models, and rough path theory for time series generation.
Structured Agentic Workflows for Financial Time-Series Modeling with LLMs and Reflective Feedback
Generative AI for finance: modeling with neural and signature stochastic differential equations
Sunday, January 4, 2026, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Recent Trends of Stochastic Methods in Modern Generative AI, II
Location: Room 204B, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Haoyang Cao, Johns Hopkins University
Co-Organizer(s): Luhao Zhang, Johns Hopkins University; Gökçe Dayanikli, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Probability theory and stochastic analysis have been fundamental building blocks of generative models. This session aims to bring together researchers from different communities to explore and advance the theoretical foundations underpinning modern generative models. The topics include, but are not limited to, diffusion models for sequential data, optimal transport in generative models, and rough path theory for time series generation.
Matching-based Generative Flows: Optimal Transport, Mean-Field Games, and Worst-Cases
An Efficient On-Policy Deep Learning Framework for Stochastic Optimal Control
Understanding Generalization and Memorization in Diffusion Models through Denoising Score Matching
Sunday, January 4, 2026, 3:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
AWM Business Meeting
Location: Room 202A, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Sunday, January 4, 2026, 6:00 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Grand Opening Reception
Location: Exhibit Hall D, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
The JMM officially opens with festivities to celebrate our vibrant mathematical community. After a brief ribbon-cutting, the mathematical art display, vendor, and exhibitor booths will all be available to you, along with hors d’oeuvres, beverages, and entertainment. ALL are Welcome! FREE! Meet up with friends or explore on your own, but be sure to take in all the fun, refreshments, and special offerings. Come find us at the AWM Booth!
Monday, January 5, 2026
Monday, January 5, 2026, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Exploring Mathematics through the Arts and Pedagogy in Creative Settings, I
Location: Room 204B, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Shanna Dobson, University of California, Riverside
Co-Organizer(s): Claudia Maria Schmidt, California State University
This session explores the creative intersections of mathematics with the arts, and pedagogical techniques on teaching math in creative settings. Allowing variations in mathematical thinking and approaching math creatively through art empowers pedagogy to find convergences of ideas often outside the realm of math. Our session will showcase women successfully using math in creative ways and promote the equal opportunity of women to study at the intersection of math research, art, and pedagogy.
Imagining and Constructing Topos as Mathematical Dance
Embodied Mathematics: Exploring Fibonacci Patterns Through Dance Movement and Space
The Fibonacci Blueprint: Unveiling Nature’s Mathematical Harmony
Monday, January 5, 2026, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Exploring Mathematics through the Arts and Pedagogy in Creative Settings, II
Location: Room 204B, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Shanna Dobson, University of California, Riverside
Co-Organizer(s): Claudia Maria Schmidt, California State University
This session explores the creative intersections of mathematics with the arts, and pedagogical techniques on teaching math in creative settings. Allowing variations in mathematical thinking and approaching math creatively through art empowers pedagogy to find convergences of ideas often outside the realm of math. Our session will showcase women successfully using math in creative ways and promote the equal opportunity of women to study at the intersection of math research, art, and pedagogy.
Coloring of the Pascal’s Triangle With Modulo Arithmetic
When does art “count” as math? How art can make better mathematicians
Monday, January 5, 2026, 2:10 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
AWM-AMS Noether Lecture
Location: Ballroom A, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Betsy Stovall, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Presenter(s): Monica Visan, UCLA
Monday, January 5, 2026, 3:00 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
AWM Panel: Shattering the Myths: Hiring Women in Mathematics
Location: Room 202A, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Shalmali Bandyopadhyay, University of Tennessee at Martin
Co-Organizer(s): Keta Henderson, Elon University
This panel addresses harmful myths about hiring women in mathematics—like merit misconceptions and work-life balance assumptions. Featuring diverse voices from PUIs to R1s, it explores how bias shapes hiring and offers research-backed strategies for equity. Attendees will leave with tools to challenge bias and support inclusive practices in their institutions.
Monday, January 5, 2026, 5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.
Awards Celebration
Location: Ballroom A, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Boris Hasselblatt, Tufts University
Join the JMM 2026 Partners in celebrating the achievements of a selection of their prize and award winners at 5 p.m. EST on Monday, January 5th in Ballroom A of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. All participants are invited and encouraged to attend.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 8:30 a.m.-10:00 a.m.
AWM Panel: Defending and Supporting Our Communities: Next Steps
Location: Room 202A, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Renee Bell, Lehman College
Panelists: Mallory Dolorfino, Kalamazoo College; Claudio Gómez-Gónzalez, Carleton College; Marissa Kawehi Loving, University of Wisconsin Madison; Haynes R. Miller, MIT
In this uncertain landscape, how can we support and advocate for our students and colleagues? How can we defend our work to broaden the mathematical community and make it more welcoming to marginalized people? We will discuss these questions and more with a panel featuring mathematicians with experience building community. The panel will also have ample time for questions, discussion, and opportunities to share ideas and make connections.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Digitally-Enabled Evidence-Based Teaching Practices, I
Location: Room 204B, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Christine Latulippe, Linfield University
This session will include talks featuring eight Digitally-Enabled, Evidence-Based Teaching Practices or “DE-EBTs”. The eight DE-EBTs are: Active Learning; Assessing and Activating Prior Knowledge; Data-Informed Instruction; Formative Practice and Assessment; Fostering a Sense of Belonging Through an Inclusive Learning Environment; Instructional Transparency; Metacognition and Self-Regulated Learning; and Peer Collaboration.
Digitally-Enabled, Evidence-Based Homework: Developing a Custom Platform to Improve Calculus Learning
Leveraging Learning Analysis and Peer Collaboration with Digital Tools
Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Women in Geometry, I
Location: Room 204A, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Catherine Searle, Wichita State University
The special session will focus on the latest developments in geometry while simultaneously serving as a follow-up meeting for participants of the Women in Geometry 3 workshop. This special session seeks to highlight the work of women geometers, enhancing the visibility and impact of those actively contributing to the field. The session aims to promote collaboration and mentorship among both speakers and participants.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Redistricting: A New Algorithm For Repairing Noisy Polygonal Tilings
The fundamental gap in Euclidean, spherical, and hyperbolic spaces
Optimal decay constant for complete manifolds of positive scalar curvature with quadratic decay
Spinal open books and classification of symplectic fillings
Explicit Weinstein handlebody diagrams of various Weinstein 6-manifolds.
The Geography of Immersed Lagrangian Fillings of Legendrian Knots
Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AWM Workshop Poster Presentations
Location: Marquis Salon 5, Marriott Marquis Washington DC
Organizer(s): Matthew Krauel, California State University, Sacramento
Co-Organizer(s): Katrina Barron, University of Notre Dame; Raquel Perales, CONACyT-UNAM; Catherine Searle, Wichita State University; Denise Rangel Tracy, Francis Marion University; Gaywalee Yamskulna, Illinois State University, Normal
Tuesday, 4:00—5:30 pm. AWM will conduct its workshop poster presentations by graduate students. This session is open to all JMM attendees. AWM seeks volunteers to serve as evaluators and mentors for workshop participants. If you are interested, please contact the AWM office at awm@awm-math.org.
Poster #1: Boolean Matrix Rank via Monomial Ideals
Poster #3: Scattering Equations on Graphic Arrangements
Poster #5: Flexibility of measurable and topological nilfactors in dynamical systems
Poster #6: Fluctuating hydrodynamics of rigid spheres induced by sparkle stress
Poster #7: Super singlet representation category and its correspondence to a super quantum group representation category
Poster #8: Investigating the Role of Estradiol in Oxidative Stress: A Mechanistic Model
Poster #9: Modeling Cancer Evolution: A Data-Driven Agent-Based Modeling Approach to Intratumor Heterogeneity and Drug Resistance in Melanoma
Poster #10: Discrete Superconvergence Analysis for Quantum Magnus Algorithms of Unbounded Hamiltonian Simulation
Poster #12: The Zeros of Moments of Characteristic Polynomials of Random Matrices
Poster #13: Indices of Nilpotency in certain spaces of modular forms
Poster #16: Data-Integrated Earth System Modeling: Temperature Reconstruction
Poster #18: Toward a math model of stress-mediated ovulation dysfunction
Poster #20: Application of Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport to Graph Classification Problems
Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
AWM Reception and Award Presentation
Location: Marquis Salon 5, Marriott Marquis Washington DC
The AWM Reception which is open to all JMM participants will begin at 5:00 pm, during the AWM poster session. At 5:30, the AWM President will recognize all of the recipients of the AWM the AWM Service Awards, the AWM Fellows, the Poster Session Award Winners, and all of the other AWM prize winners honored during the Joint Awards Ceremony.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026
Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Recent Research Developments by Women in Mathematical Physics, I
Location: Room 204B, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Gaywalee Yamskulna, Illinois State University, Normal
Co-Organizer(s): Katrina Barron, University of Notre Dame
This session highlights advanced research in mathematical physics, where rigorous mathematical frameworks shape our understanding of string theory, quantum field theory, integrable systems, and general relativity. This session will bring together female researchers in algebra, geometry, and probability to present current developments in mathematical physics, exchange ideas, discuss recent progress, and foster interdisciplinary collaborations to address open problems in mathematical physics.
Reconstruction of Tensor Categories of Type 𝐺2.
Differential equations in automorphic forms and graviton scattering
Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Women in Geometry, II
Location: Room 204A, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Catherine Searle, Wichita State University
The special session will focus on the latest developments in geometry while simultaneously serving as a follow-up meeting for participants of the Women in Geometry 3 workshop. This special session seeks to highlight the work of women geometers, enhancing the visibility and impact of those actively contributing to the field. The session aims to promote collaboration and mentorship among both speakers and participants.
Computing renormalized curvature integral on Poincaré-Einstein manifolds
Einstein Metrics on Compact Homogeneous Manifolds, Part I
Einstein Metrics on Compact Homogeneous Manifolds, Part II
The restriction of the Laplacian operator on manifolds
Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 1:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Recent Research Developments by Women in Mathematical Physics, II
Location: Room 204B, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Gaywalee Yamskulna, Illinois State University, Normal
Co-Organizer(s): Katrina Barron, University of Notre Dame
This session highlights advanced research in mathematical physics, where rigorous mathematical frameworks shape our understanding of string theory, quantum field theory, integrable systems, and general relativity. This session will bring together female researchers in algebra, geometry, and probability to present current developments in mathematical physics, exchange ideas, discuss recent progress, and foster interdisciplinary collaborations to address open problems in mathematical physics.
Density results for Hyperkähler manifolds
Numerical inverse scattering transform for the defocusing nonlinear Scrödinger equation with box-type initial conditions and nonzero background
Power operations preserve Thom classes in twisted equivariant Real K-theory
Chaos Persists: When Unique Ergodicity Survives Slit Branching
Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
AWM Special Session on Women in Geometry, III
Location: Room 204A, Walter E. Washington Convention Center
Organizer(s): Catherine Searle, Wichita State University
The special session will focus on the latest developments in geometry while simultaneously serving as a follow-up meeting for participants of the Women in Geometry 3 workshop. This special session seeks to highlight the work of women geometers, enhancing the visibility and impact of those actively contributing to the field. The session aims to promote collaboration and mentorship among both speakers and participants.
Recent Advances in the Equality Case of the Positive Mass Theorem
Hearing isolated singularities in 4-dimensional orbifolds
The Steklov spectrum of triangles
The AWM 2026 JMM Organizing Committee
A special thanks to the AWM committee members who have helped organize this year’s program!
- Caroline Abbott (Brandeis University)
- Bahar Acu (Pitzer College)
- Katrina Barron (University of Notre Dame)
- Renee Bell (Lehman College)
- Eva Belmont (Case Western Reserve University)
- Lakeshia Legette Jones (Clark Atlanta University)
- Matthew Krauel (California State University, Sacramento), Chair
- Rachel Perales (Gobierno de Mexico)
- Denise Rangel Tracy (Francis Marion University)
- Sarah Reznikoff (Virginia Tech)
- Catherine Searle(Wichita State University)
- Rachel Skipper (University of Utah)
- Gaywalee Yamskulna (Illinois State University)
Thanks to Our Sponsors
In addition to the many committee volunteers that make AWM events great, the AWM Workshop is organized by the Research Networks WIG and WoMaP. 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.
