AWM Anniversary Conference at Brown University

September 17 – 18, 2011

Organizing Committee:

  • Georgia Benkart, University of Wisconsin
  • Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research
  • Jill Pipher, Brown University – ICERM

Abstract

40 Years and Counting: 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). With this conference, AWM continues to celebrate the progress of women in mathematical professions and to recognize individual achievements. Join us this fall on the Brown University campus in historic Providence, RI.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

  • 8:00 – 8:30 Registration, MacMillan Hall, Room 117
  • 8:30 – 8:40 Welcome – Jill Pipher, AWM President, MacMillan Hall, Room 117
  • 8:40 – 9:25 Plenary Lecture: My Forty Years of Conservation Laws
    • Barbara Keyfitz, Ohio State University MacMillan Hall,
    • MacMillan Hall, Room 117
  • 9:30 – 10:10 Poster Session and Coffee Break, Barus & Holley Lobby, 182 Hope Street, Providence, RI
  • Posters
  • 10:15 – 12:15 Special Sessions, Barus & Holley
  • Abstracts
  • Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra
  • Conservation Laws — Analytical and Numerical Approaches
  • Cryptography
  • Current Trends in Probability
  • Geometric Group Theory
  • Geometry and Combinatorics in Flag Manifolds and Beyond
  • Group Theory and Its Connections to Representation Theory
  • Homotopy Theory and Its Applications
  • Intersection of Mathematics and Mathematics Education: Research and Practice K-20
  • Mathematical Biology — An Overview
  • Recent Advances in Numerical Methods and Scientific Computing
  • Symplectic and Contact Geometry
  • 12:15 – 1:45 Lunch Break
  • 1:45 – 2:30 Plenary Lecture: Polynomial Dynamics and Combinatorial Models
    • Laura DeMarco, University of Illinois Chicago
    • MacMillan Hall, Room 117
  • 2:30 – 3:10 Poster Session and Coffee Break Barus & Holley Lobby
  • Posters
  • 3:15 – 5:15 Special Sessions, Barus & Holley
  • Abstracts
  • Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra
  • Combinatorics and Graph Theory
  • Current Trends in Probability
    Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)
  • Geometric Group Theory
  • Group Theory and its Connections with Representation Theory
  • Intersection of Mathematics and Mathematics Education: Research and Practice K-20
  • Model Theory and Its Applications
  • Nonlinear Wave Phenomena
  • Number Theory
  • Recent Advances in Numerical Methods and Scientific Computing
  • Riemannian Geometry
  • 5:25 – 6:10 Plenary Lecture: Counting and Equidistribution in Apollonian Circle Packings
    • Hee Oh, Brown University
    • MacMillan Hall, Room 117
  • 7:00 – 10:00 Networking Reception with Dinner, Biltmore Hotel, Garden Room (2nd Floor) 11 Dorrance Street, Providence, RI

Sunday, September 18, 2011

  • 8:30 – 10:30 Special Sessions, Barus & Holley
  • Abstracts
  • Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Combinatorics and Graph Theory
  • Conservation Laws — Analytical and Numerical Approaches
  • Cryptography
  • Geometry and Combinatorics in Flag Manifolds and Beyond
  • Homotopy Theory and Its Applications
  • Mathematical Biology — An Overview
  • Model Theory and Its Applications
  • Nonlinear Wave Phenomena
  • Number Theory
  • Riemannian Geometry
  • Symplectic and Contact Geometry
  • 10:30 – 11:15 Poster Session and Coffee Break, Barus & Holley Lobby
  • Posters
  • 11:20 – 12:05 Plenary Lecture: Mathematics of Crime
    • Andrea Bertozzi, UCLA,
    • MacMillan Hall, Room 117

AWM 40th Anniversary Song

Sponsors:

AMS, Brown University, ICERM, MAA, Microsoft Research, Pearson Education, SIAM, US Department of Energy, NSF