2025 AWM Research Symposium
May 16—18, 2025
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Friday, May 16, 2025
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| 10:00 — 11:30 am |
Registration |
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| 11:00 am — 4:45 pm |
Exhibits |
Van Vleck Hall B224 |
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| 11:45am — 12:00 pm |
Welcoming RemarksRaegan Higgins, AWM President |
Van Vleck Hall B224 |
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| 12:05 – 2:05pm |
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| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | Operatopes, Operanoids, and Noncommutative zonoids Eliza O’Reilly, Johns Hopkins University |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Positive Geometries and Wonderful Compactifications Raluca Vlad, Brown University |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | Likelihood Geometry of the Squared Grassmannian Hannah Friedman, UC Berkeley |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | 2-Parameter Persistent Homology of the Second Configuration Spaces of Star Graphs Wenwen Li, St. Mary’s College of Maryland |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | Topological Data Analysis for Time Series Jessi Cisewski-Kehe, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Analysis, computational methods and data science in multiphysics problems
Wendy Di, Argonne National Laboratory
Qin Li, UW-Madison
Min Wang, University of Houston
Yunan Yang, Cornell University
Lu Zhang, Rice University
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 6102
| 12:05 – 1:15 pm | Networking Lunch Analysis, computational methods and data science in multiphysics problems Session Organizers |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Anderson acceleration for problems with sparse regularization Rebecca Durst, Argonne National Laboratory |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | Weak TransNet: a Petrov-Galerkin based method for partial differential equations Zhihang Xu, University of Houston |
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Applied Geometric Analysis
Goong Chen, Texas A&M University
Ming Mei, Champlain College St-Lambert & McGill University
Jie Xiao, Memorial University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B135
| 12:05 – 12:50 pm | Animal Shapes and Their Modal Analysis Goong Chen, Texas A&M University |
| 12:55 – 1:40 pm | Geometric Optimization Problems Involving p-Poisson Equations Chiu-Yen Kao, Claremont McKenna College |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | Asymptotics of Fubini-Study Currents for Sequences of Line Bundles Melody Wolff, Syracuse University |
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Category theory, algebras, and representation theory
Charlotte Aten, University of Colorado, Boulder
Layla Sorkatti, Southern Illinois University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B119
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | Crystal skeletons and their axioms Anne Schilling, University of California, Davis |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Higher Specht polynomials under the diagonal action Maria Gillespie, Colorado State University |
| 12:55 – 1:40 pm | Beyond BHZ: Exploring New “Heights” Mandi Schaeffer Fry, University of Denver |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | Higher Preprojective Algebras – Categorical Approach Gordana Todorov, Northeastern University |
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Combinatorics and Graph Theory
Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Math. Institute. National University of Mexico (UNAM)
Linda Lesniak, Western Michigan University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B115
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | Fixed-time propagation on graphs Daniela Ferrero, Texas State University |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Dealing with catastrophe: winning strategies on dynamic graphs Amanda Redlich, UMass Lowell |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | Sorting with Pop Stacks Rebecca Smith, SUNY Brockport |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Applications of Cayley Digraphs to Waring’s Problem and Sum-Product Formulas Yesim Demiroglu, California State University, Sacramento |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | Digraph recoloring Mika Olsen, UAM Cuajimalpa |
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Early Career Researchers in Mathematical Biology
Prajakta Bedekar, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Rayanne Luke, George Mason University
Sarah Strikwerda, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 5106
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | A hierarchy of blood vessel models Laurel Ohm, UW-Madison |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Bacterial contaminations in biological fluids Albane Thery, University of Pennsylvania |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | A Reaction-Diffusion Model of Sperm-Egg Interaction for Fertilization Success Prajakta Bedekar, Johns Hopkins University |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Phase Field Modeling of Collective Cell Migration in Drosophila Egg Development Naghmeh Akhavan, University of Maryland Baltimore County |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | A discussion of future directions and challenges facing researchers in mathematical biology today Early Career Researchers in Mathematical Biology Session Organizers |
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Early Career Women in Differential Equations and Applications
Shalmali Bandyopadhyay, The University of Tennessee at Martin
Thialita Nascimento, Iowa State University
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 4308
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | A blood vessel model: From 3D-3D to 3D-1D Sarah Strikwerda, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Inverse problem for one-dimensional dynamical system Gracie Crooks, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | Attractors for Non-Dissipative Hyperbolic like Dynamics with Nonlinear Damping Arising in Modeling of Suspension Bridges Under Unstable Flow of Gas Madhumita Roy, North Carolina State University |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Free boundary dynamics of an elastic filament in 3D Stokes flow Laurel Ohm, UW-Madison |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | Global Well Posedness of Benjamin Bona Mahony Type Equations Pamela Guerrero, University of Memphis, University of Tennessee at Martin |
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Group, Geometry and Dynamics
Carolyn Abbott, Brandeis University
Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Yandi Wu, Rice University
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 6116
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | Relative Quasi-Convexity in the Sageev Construction Jagerynn Verano, University of Illinois at Chicago |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Centers of Artin Groups Defined on Cones MurphyKate Montee, Carleton College |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | Stability of quasi-simple cycles and applications Liliana Sofia Garrido da Silva, University of Porto (CMUP & Cef.UP, Portugal) |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Leighton’s Property of Baumslag-Solitar Complex Maya Verma, University of Oklahoma |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | Hyperbolicity of random branched coverings Hyeran Cho, Ohio State University |
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Mathematics, Modeling, and Art
Danyun He, Flatiron Institute
Jiayin Lu, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Christiana Mavroyiakoumou, New York University (NYU)
Yue Sun, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 6112
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | Voronoi tessellation, Delaunay trangulation and their applications in geometry meshing Jiayin Lu, UCLA |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Computational analysis of wing venation patterns in the Grasshopper Arphia conspersa Danyun He, Flatiron Institute |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | Inexact Proximal Point Algorithms for Zeroth-Order Global Optimization Minxin Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Nutrient-Driven Adaptive Foraging Behaviors Angela Peace, Texas Tech University |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | The Art of Drug Design: Heuristic Energy-Based Optimization of Cyclic Peptides Qiyao Zhu, Flatiron Institute |
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Nonlinear Constraints: A Catalyst for Creativity in Analysis and its Applications
Paige Bright, University of British Columbia
Marjorie Drake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vinh Nguyen, Michigan State University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B223
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | Pinned Dot Product Set Estimates Paige Bright, University of British Columbia |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Median Filters for Anisotropic Wetting/Dewetting Problems Jiajia Guo, University of Michigan |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | Characterizing semiclassical measures in higher dimensions Elena Kim, MIT |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Duality results for Wasserstein Robust Optimization Jincheng Yang, Institute for Advanced Study |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | Convexity in Whitney Problems Marjorie Drake, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for PDEs
Duygu Vargun, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Yunhui He, University of Houston
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 6104
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | Axisymmetric Quad-Curl Problems and their Discretizations Minah Oh, James Madison University |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Accelerating eigenvalue solvers for variational problems Sara Pollock, University of Florida |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | Coarse-graining of stochastic systems Xingjie Helen Li, UNC Charlotte |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Moments of Multivariate Polynomials in Correlated Gaussian Parameters Laura Lyman, Mount Holyoke College |
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Rethinking Number Theory
Swati LNU, University of South Carolina
Deewang Bhamidipati, UC Santa Cruz
Shilpi Mandal, Emory University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B135
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | On Iwasawa algebras of p-adic groups Simran Khunger, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Learning Euler Factors of Elliptic Curves and Recent Machine Learning Applications to Number Theory Xiaoyu Huang, Temple University |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | Shapes of Unit Lattices of D4-Quartic Number Fields with Signature (2,1) Kelly O’Connor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Combinatorially Defined MDPC Codes Emily McMillon, Rice University |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | Rethinking Session – Promoting Online Spaces for an International Community Deewang Bhamidipati, UC Santa Cruz |
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Topics in Algebraic Geometry
Sponsored by the American Mathemtaical Society
Julie Rana, Lawrence University
Ursula Whitcher, Math Reviews
Room: Van Vleck Hall B215
| 12:05 – 12:25 pm | Crystal structures, standard monomials, and filtered RSK Ada Stelzer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Surfaces whose canonical systems have large base loci Feiyang Lin, UC Berkeley |
| 12:55 – 1:15 pm | Ceresa cycles of low genus curves Sheela Devadas |
| 1:20 – 1:40 pm | Rational Chow rings of Hurwitz spaces with marked ramification Zhengning Hu, The University of Arizona |
| 1:45 – 2:05 pm | On an equivalence of divisors on the moduli of n-pointed genus 0 curves Weihong Xu, Caltech |
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Poster Session featuring Undergraduates & Beginning Graduate Students
Ice Cream
B224
Estimathon
Sponsored by Jane Street
Room: Van Vleck Hall 911
Analysis, computational methods and data science in multiphysics problems
Wendy Di, Argonne National Laboratory
Qin Li, UW-Madison
Min Wang, University of Houston
Yunan Yang, Cornell University
Lu Zhang, Rice University
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 6102
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | Inverse problem over probability measure space Li Wang, University of Minnesota |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | A policy iteration method for inverse mean field games Shanyin Tong, Columbia University |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | Differentiating particle method in PDE-constrained optimization Yunan Yang, Cornell University |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Operator-adaptive RKHS regularization for the Fredholm integral equations Miao-Jung Yvonne Ou, University of Delaware |
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Curves and Abelian Varieties in Characteristic p
Deewang Bhamidipati, University of California, Santa Cruz
Steven Groen, Lehigh University
Sandra Nair, Colorado State University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B115
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | A canonical algebraic cycle associated to a curve in its Jacobian Padmavathi Srinivasan, Boston University |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | Heuristics for (Ir)reducibility of Strata of the Moduli Space of Hyperelliptic Curves Zachary Porat, Wesleyan University |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | Ring of automorphic forms of certain Shimura Varieties Yuxin Lin, California Institute of Technology |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Computing endomorphism rings of supersingular elliptic curves via pathfinding in the Bruhat-Tits tree Gabrielle Scullard, University of Georgia |
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Early Career Women in Differential Equations and Applications
Shalmali Bandyopadhyay, The University of Tennessee at Martin
Thialita Nascimento, Iowa State University
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 4308
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | A Sigma -shaped bifurcation curve for a class of reaction diffusion equations and an application to an ecological model. Alketa Henderson, Elon University, Elon, NC |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | Navigating the Landscape of Fear Marissa Gee, Kenyon College |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | A patch-driven additional food model Urvashi Verma, Iowa State University |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Asymptotic Analysis of the Nabla Fractional Gompertz Equation Rebecca Oduro, Marshall University |
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EDGE Special Session
Keisha Cook, Clemson University
Sofia Rose Martinez Alberga, Purdue University
Quiyana Murphy, Virginia Tech
Room: Van Vleck Hall B231
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | Becoming a(n) (Ethical) Data Scientist: Connecting Ethics and Identity in a Computational Math Program Rachel Roca, Michigan State University |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | Parking Functions with a Fixed Set of Lucky Cars Lucy Martinez, Rutgers University |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | The Chromatic Symmetric Function of Unicyclic Graphs Lisa Johnston, University of California, Davis |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Generalized Trotter Estimates for Quantum Simulations Sarah Chehade |
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Geometric and Topological Aspects of Mathematical Physics and Representation Theory
Mee Seong Im, Johns Hopkins University
Xin Jin, Boston College
Xinchun Ma, University of Chicago
Room: Van Vleck Hall B139
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | Cherednik algebras and torus knots Xinchun Ma, UChicago |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | Mautner’s cleanness conjecture Tamanna Chatterjee, University of notre dame |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | Bridgeland stability condition under spherical twist Yun Shi, Brandeis University |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | A new notion of Lie superalgebras in characteristic 2 Serina Hu, MIT |
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Groups, Representation Theory, and their related structures
Jennifer Guerrero, UC Santa Cruz
Nariel Monteiro, UC Santa Cruz
Room: Van Vleck Hall B119
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | Counting Characters in Blocks: Brauer’s Problem 21 and Other “Block-lore” Mandi Schaeffer Fry, University of Denver |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | On tensor powers of modular representations Aparna Upadhyay, University of South Alabama |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | The “extended” tensor product of bisets and bimodules John McHugh, University of Denver |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Describing Units of the A-Fibered Burnside Ring Jennifer Guerrero, UC Santa Cruz |
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Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra
Caitlin Davis, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Boyana Martinova, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Room: Van Vleck Hall B239
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | Minimal Degree Varieties in Weighted Projective Spaces Maya Banks, Fields Institute |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | Toward an Infinite-dimensional Multigraded Grothendieck-Riemann-Roch Theorem Nathaniel Gallup, Northeastern University |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | Boolean Matrix Rank via Monomial Ideals Juliann Geraci, University of Nebraska – Lincoln |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Cohomological support varieties and monomial ideals Eloísa Grifo, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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Non-commutative Algebras, Tensor Categories, and Diagrams
Monique Müller, Federal University of São João del-Rei (Brazil)/Indiana University Bloomington
Emily Peters, Loyola University Chicago
Julia Plavnik, Indiana University Bloomington
Abigail Watkins, Indiana University Bloomington
Room: Van Vleck Hall B223
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | Realizing modular data from centers of near-group categories Qing Zhang, UC Santa Barbara |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | A Strict Pivotal Presentation of Vec G Omega Chumeng Di, the Ohio State University |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | Spin Link Homology Logan Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Extended Frobenius algebras and unoriented 2-TQFTs Agustina Czenky, University of Southern California |
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Number Theory at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions
Kelly O’Connor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Leah Sturman, Southern Connecticut State University
Bella Tobin, Agnes Scott College
Room: Van Vleck Hall B215
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | The space of shape of rank 3 unit lattices in certain number fields Sara Chari, St. Mary’s College of Maryland |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | Sturm Bound for Cuspidal Quaternionic Modular Forms on SO(4,3) Karen Taylor, Bronx Community College, CUNY |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | Finite Regular Graphs and Shimura Curves Boya Wen, University of Richmond |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Points on the degree d p-adic Mandelbrot set Bella Tobin, Agnes Scott College |
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Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for PDEs
Duygu Vargun, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Yunhui He, University of Houston
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 6104
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | Mixed Precision Algorithms in hypre Ulrike Meier Yang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | Solving Graph Laplacians via Multilevel Sparsifier Junyuan Lin, Loyola Marymount University |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | A preconditioner for the grad-div stabilized equal-order finite elements discretizations of the Oseen problem Yunhui He, University of Houston |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Discussion on Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for PDEs Duygu Vargun, Oak Ridge National laboratory |
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WIGA: Graph Labeling and Graph Structures
Katherine Benson, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Christine Kelley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Alison Marr, Southwestern University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B135
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | Radio Graceful Generalized Petersen Graphs Katie Benson, University of Wisconsin-Stout |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | Graph homomorphisms and radio graceful graphs Aleyah Dawkins, Carnegie Mellon University |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | Closed Neighborhood Balanced Graphs Alison Marr, Southwestern University |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Neighbor-locating colorings on Moore cages. Martha Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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Women in Quantum Computing (WIQC)
Sarah Chehade, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Elaine Wong, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 5106
| 3:05 – 3:25 pm | Graph Theory in Quantum Error Correction Kirsten Morris, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
| 3:30 – 3:50 pm | Non-Abelian Quantum Signal Processing for Hybrid CV-DV Quantum Control and Error Correction Shraddha Singh, Yale University |
| 3:55 – 4:15 pm | Enabling Quantum Resource Optimization Using Mid-Circuit Measurement Siyuan Niu, University of Central Florida |
| 4:20 – 4:40 pm | Discrete Superconvergence Analysis for Quantum Magnus Algorithms of Unbounded Hamiltonian Simulation Jiaqi Zhang, Duke university |
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Plenary Lecture
Tai-Danae Bradley, Sandbox AQ
What is a Good Quantum Encoding?
Moderator: Raegan Higgins, AWM President
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Opening Reception
Sponsored by Jane Street
Tripp Commons
Saturday, May 17, 2025
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| 7:30 — 8:00 am |
Registration |
Van Vleck Hall First Floor |
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| 8:15 — 8:30 am |
Welcoming RemarksRaegan Higgins, AWM President |
Van Vleck Hall B102 |
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| 8:30 — 9:25 am |
Plenary LectureKathryn Leonard, Occidental College Moderator: Talitha Washington, AWM Past President |
Van Vleck Hall B102 |
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| 9:15 am — 4:30 pm |
Exhibits |
Van Vleck Hall B224 |
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| 9:25 — 9:45 am |
Coffee Break |
Van Vleck Hall B224 |
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| 9:45 — 10:30 am |
Qin Li, UW-Madison |
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| 9:45 — 11:20 am |
Keisha Cook, Clemson University Goong Chen, Texas A&M University Charlotte Aten, University of Colorado, Boulder Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Math. Institute. National University of Mexico (UNAM) Shuxia Tang, Texas Tech University Prajakta Bedekar, National Institute of Standards and Technology Shalmali Bandyopadhyay, The University of Tennessee at Martin Caitlin Davis, University of Wisconsin – Madison Himali Gammanpila, Eastern Kentucky University Johanna Franklin, Hofstra University Robyn Brooks, University of Utah Monique Müller, Federal University of São João del-Rei (Brazil)/Indiana University Bloomington Duygu Vargun, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Swati LNU, University of South Carolina Sponsored by the American Mathematical Society Jane Long, Stephen F. Austin State University Bahar Acu, Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate University |
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| 11:35am — 12:25 pm |
Panel: Federal Actions and Advocacy Opportunities
Deborah Lockhart, Retired Mathematician Moderator: Michelle Manes, American Institute of Mathematics |
Van Vleck Hall B102 |
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| 12:30 — 2:00 pm |
Lunch Break
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| 2:00 — 2:45 pm |
Michelle Snider, AWM Research Networks Coordinator Robyn Brooks, University of Utah |
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| 2:00 — 3:35 pm |
Sherli Koshy-Chenthittayil, Touro University Nevada Wendy Di, Argonne National Laboratory Shuxia Tang, Texas Tech University Deewang Bhamidipati, University of California, Santa Cruz Keisha Cook, Clemson University Mee Seong Im, Johns Hopkins University Carolyn Abbott, Brandeis University Jennifer Guerrero, UC Santa Cruz Johanna Franklin, Hofstra University Danyun He, Flatiron Institute Paige Bright, University of British Columbia Kelly O’Connor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Lorena Bociu, NC State University Katherine Benson, University of Wisconsin-Stout Bahar Acu, Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate University Sarah Chehade, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Arnaja Mitra, University of Maryland |
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| 3:45 — 4:30 pm |
Poster Session featuring Later Graduate Students & Recent PhDs
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| 4:45 — 5:35 pm |
Plenary Lecture
Candice Price, Smith College Moderator: Emille Davie Lawrence, University of San Francisco |
Van Vleck Hall B102 |
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| 5:45 — 6:50 pm |
ReceptionSponsored by The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
Union South Varsity Hall |
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| 7:00 — 9:00 pm |
BanquetSponsored by The American Mathematical Society |
Union South Varsity Hall |
Sunday, May 18, 2025
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Closing RemarksTalitha Washington, AWM Past President |
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| 8:45 — 9:35 am |
Plenary LectureMoon Duchin, Cornell University Moderator: Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin—Madison |
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| 9:45 — 10:30 am | Roundtable: Mid-life, Mid-career, and beyondMariya Soskova, University of Wisconsin-Madison Roundtable: Reading of Mathopoly, A play on academic dystopiaAnnette Karrer, The Ohio State University |
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| 9:45 — 11:20 am | Analysis, computational methods and data science in multiphysics problemsWendy Di, Argonne National Laboratory
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| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Inviscid Limit Problem of radially symmetric stationary solutions for compressible Navier-Stokes equation Itsuko Hashimoto, Kanazawa university |
| 10:35 – 10:55 am | Core Shells, Double Bubbles, and Lens Clusters in Ternary Nonlocal Systems Chong Wang, Washington and Lee University |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am | On Multiple Lp-curvilinear-Brunn-Minkowski inequality Sudan Xing, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
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Category theory, algebras, and representation theory
Charlotte Aten, University of Colorado, Boulder
Layla Sorkatti, Southern Illinois University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B119
| 9:45 – 10:05 am | Nonassociative algebras, applications to coding theory, and how I got there… Susanne Pumpluen, University of Nottingham, UK |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Continuous Principal Series Representations of reductive p-adic groups on p-adic Banach Spaces. Manisha Varahagiri, University of Texas at Arlington |
| 10:35 – 10:55 am | Symplectic Alternating Color Algebras Layla Sorkatti, Southern Illinois University |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am | A generalized theory of FI-modules for two-sided actions Charlotte Aten, University of Colorado Boulder |
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Control Problems in PDE-Modeled Systems
Shuxia Tang, Texas Tech University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B107
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Traffic Control via Fleets of Connected and Automated Vehicles with coupled PDE-ODE models Maria Laura Delle Monache, University of California, Berkeley |
| 10:35 – 11:20 am | Backstepping-based Encirclement Control for Leader-Follower Multi-Agent PDE Systems Shuxia Tang, Texas Tech University |
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Curves and Abelian Varieties in Characteristic p
Deewang Bhamidipati, University of California, Santa Cruz
Steven Groen, Lehigh University
Sandra Nair, Colorado State University
Room: Van Vleck Hall B115
| 9:45 – 10:05 am | Monodromy of Tamely Ramified Covers of Curves Renee Bell, Lehman College, CUNY |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Isogeny Classes of Drinfeld Modules over Finite Fields and Level Structure Amie Bray, St. Mary’s Academy |
| 10:35 – 11:20 am | Panel discussion: fostering new collaborations on curves and abelian varieties in characteristic p. Steven Groen, Lehigh University |
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EDGE Special Session
Keisha Cook, Clemson University
Sofia Rose Martinez Alberga, Purdue University
Quiyana Murphy, Virginia Tech
Room: Van Vleck Hall B231
| 9:45 – 10:30 am | Learn to Live on the EDGE: A Q&A session Quiyana Murphy, Virginia Tech |
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Geometric and Topological Aspects of Mathematical Physics and Representation Theory
Mee Seong Im, Johns Hopkins University
Xin Jin, Boston College
Xinchun Ma, University of Chicago
Room: Van Vleck Hall B139
| 9:45 – 10:05 am | Commutative Properties of Polygonal Schubert Puzzles Portia Anderson, Cornell University |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Birational Coherent Constructible Correspondence Jesse Huang, University of Waterloo |
| 10:35 – 10:55 am | Categorical type A actions and representations of general linear groups in symmetric tensor categories in positive characteristic. Aleksandra Utiralova, UC Berkeley |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am | Functoriality of Coulomb Branches Tom Gannon, University of California – Los Angeles |
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Group, Geometry and Dynamics
Carolyn Abbott, Brandeis University
Tullia Dymarz, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Yandi Wu, Rice University
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 6116
| 9:45 – 10:05 am | Slope gap distributions: from Farey fractions to translation surfaces. Jane Wang, University of Maine |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Isometries of projective filling currents Meenakshy Jyothis, Binghamton University |
| 10:35 – 10:55 am | Automorphisms of the smooth fine curve graph Katherine Williams Booth, Georgia Tech / Vanderbilt |
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Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra
Caitlin Davis, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Boyana Martinova, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Room: Van Vleck Hall B239
| 9:45 – 10:05 am | Homomorphisms of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over the cone of an elliptic curve Bhargavi Parthasarathy, Syracuse University |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Fixed quotients of polynomial rings and Stanley–Reisner rings Alexandra Pevzner, Northeastern University |
| 10:35 – 10:55 am | Amitsur subgroup of Fano threefolds Shreya Sharma, University of South Carolina |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am | Resolutions Over Numerical Semigroup Rings via Apery Specialization Aleksandra Sobieska, Marshall University |
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Mathematics, Modeling, and Art
Danyun He, Flatiron Institute
Jiayin Lu, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Christiana Mavroyiakoumou, New York University (NYU)
Yue Sun, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 6112
| 9:45 – 10:05 am | Advanced Visual Computing for 2D, 3D, and 4D Content Creation Ying Jiang, UCLA |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Sharing Math’s Beauty Nicole Sharp, Sharp Science Communication Consulting, LLC |
| 10:35 – 10:55 am | Visualizing Nonlinearity Kaitlyn Hood, Purdue University |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am | The mathematics and art of paper marbling Yue Sun, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
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Non-commutative Algebras, Tensor Categories, and Diagrams
Monique Müller, Federal University of São João del-Rei (Brazil)/Indiana University Bloomington
Emily Peters, Loyola University Chicago
Julia Plavnik, Indiana University Bloomington
Abigail Watkins, Indiana University Bloomington
Room: Van Vleck Hall B223
| 9:45 – 10:05 am | Examples of invariants of AS regular algebras under non-semisimple Hopf actions Ellen Kirkman, Wake Forest University |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Superselection sectors for posets of von Neumann algebras Anu Bhardwaj, The Ohio State University |
| 10:35 – 10:55 am | Taft actions on preprojective algebras Amrei Oswald, University of Washington |
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Recent Developments in Control Theory of Infinite Dimensional Systems
Lorena Bociu, NC State University
Irena Lasiecka, The University of Memphis
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 4308
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Multiscale Interface Couplings of Partial and Ordinary Differential Equations for Tissue Perfusion Lorena Bociu, NC State University |
| 10:35 – 10:55 am | Global attractors for a wave equation subject to nonlinear boundary dissipation and nonlinear interior/boundary sources with critical exponents Madhumita Roy, North Carolina State University |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am | Controlling Discrete Semilinear Wave Equations Toward Flocks Sarah Strikwerda, University of Wisconsin |
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Women and Gender Minorities in Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology (WiSCons) in Madison
Bahar Acu, Pitzer College and Claremont Graduate University
Catherine Cannizzo, University of California, Berkeley
Sierra Knavel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Morgan Weiler, University of California, Riverside
Room: Sewell Social Sciences 6203
| 9:45 – 10:05 am | Genus 2 Lefschetz Fibrations Sierra Knavel, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Combinatorial Diagrams for Lagrangians in CP^2 Sarah Blackwell, University of Virginia |
| 10:35 – 10:55 am | Weinstein handlebody diagrams for the complement of surfaces in S^2 \times S^2. Daniela Cortes Rodriguez, UC Davis |
| 11:00 – 11:20 am | On Lagrangian Tori in S^2 \times S^2 Han Lou, University of Georgia |
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Panel: Women in the Division of Mathematical Sciences at NSF
Stacey Levine, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences
Wing Suet Li, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences
Jodi Mead, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences
Moderator: Adriana Salerno, NSF Division of Mathematical Sciences
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