2019 AWM Research Symposium
April 5 – 7, 2019
Rice University, Houston, Texas
Friday, April 5, 2019
7:00-10:00 pm Informal Opening Reception (Outside Valhalla Hall, Rice University)
Saturday, April 6, 2019
8:00 – 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast (Duncan Hall)
8:30 – 8:45 am Welcoming Remarks: Ruth Haas, AWM President, and Ami Radunskaya, AWM Past-President (McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall)
8:45 – 9:30 am Plenary Lecture: Chelsea Walton, University of Illinois. Quantum Symmetry (McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall)
Slides from lecture (downloadable pdf)
9:30 – 10:15 am Exhibits and Coffee (Martel Atrium, Duncan Hall)
Saturday, April 6, 2019. Morning Sessions (10:15 – 12:15)
ACxx: Women in Algebraic Combinatorics, I (Keck 105)
Analysis and Numerical Methods for Kinetic Transport and Related Models, I (Duncan Hall 1046)
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, I (Duncan Hall 1075)
Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, I (Hermann Brown 227)
Commutative Algebra, I (Herzstein 212)
Education Partnerships: University Mathematics Faculty and K-12 Mathematics Teachers (Herzstein 210)
New Advances in Symplectic and Contact Topology, I (Hermann Brown 423)
Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds, I (Hermann Brown 427)
WIC: Women in Control, I (Duncan Hall 1042)
WIMM: Women in Mathematics of Materials, I (Herzstein 211)
WINASC: Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, I (Duncan Hall 1064)
WinCompTop: Women in Computational Topology, I (Keck 100)
WINART: Women in Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory, I (Keck 107)
WIN: Women in Numbers, I (Herman Brown 453)
WiSh: Women in Shape Modeling, I (Keck 101)
WISDM: Data Science: Theory and Practice, I (Mech Lab 251)
WIT: Women in Topology, I (Mech Lab 254)
Saturday, April 6, 2019. Morning Sessions (10:15 – 12:15)
WIN: Women in Numbers Organizers: Michelle Manes and Ila Varma, Hermann Brown 453
10:15-10:35 Min-Joo Jang. Quantum Modular Forms And Singular Combinatorial Series
10:45-11:05 Christelle Vincent. Computing Hyperelliptic Modular Invariants From Period Matrices
11:15-11:35 Jiuya Wang. Inductive Method In Counting Number Field
11:45-12:05 Alina Bucur. Statistics For Points On Curves Over Finite Fields
WinCompTop: Women in Computational Topology Organizers: Erin Chambers, Brittany Terese Fasy, Elizabeth Munch, Keck 100
10:15-10:35 Sara Kalisnik Verovsek. Learning Algebraic Varieties From Samples
10:45-11:05 Rachel Neville. Topological Techniques For Characterization Of Pattern Forming Systems
11:15-11:35 Michelle Feng. TBA
11:45-12:05 Violeta Kovacev-Nikolic. Visual And Statistical Comparison Of Simplicial Complexes
ACxx: Women in Algebraic Combinatorics, Organizers: Elizabeth Niese, Elizabeth Drellich, Keck 105
10:15-10:35 Heather Russell. Comparing The Web And Specht Bases For Symmetric Group Representations
10:45-11:05 Anna Weigandt. Bumpless Pipe Dreams And Alternating Sign Matrices
11:15-11:35 Bridget Eileen Tenner. Enumerations In Coxeter Groups
11:45-12:05 Sarah Bockting-Conrad. Tridiagonal Systems Of Racah Type
WINASC: Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Organizers: Bo Dong, Adrianna Gillman, Duncan Hall 1064
10:15-10:35 Annalisa Quaini. A Computational Study Of Lateral Phase Separation In Biological Membranes
10:45-11:05 Beatrice Riviere. Numerical Methods For Solving Linear Poroelasticity Equations
11:15-11:35 Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard. Integral Equation Methods For Acoustics In Smoothly Varying, Anisotropic Media
11:45-12:05 Karin Leiderman. A Density-Dependent FEM-FCT Algorithm With Application To Modeling Platelet Aggregation
WINART: Women in Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory, Organizers: Van C. Nguyen, Julia Plavnik, Sarah Witherspoon, Keck 107
10:15-10:35 Khrystyna Serhiyenko. Mutation Of Type D Friezes
10:45-11:05 Qing Zhang. Classification Of Super-Modular Categories By Rank
11:15-11:35 Elizabeth Wicks. Frobenius-Perron Theory Of Modified ADE Bound Quiver Algebras
11:45-12:05 Gordana Todorov. Cyclic Posets And Triangulation Clusters
WiSh: Women in Shape Modeling, Organizers: Kathryn Leonard, Terry Knight, Keck 101
10:15-10:35 Athina Panotopoulou. Scaffolding A Skeleton
10:45-11:05 Theodora Vardouli. Shapes Beyond Structures
11:15-11:35 Ilke Demir. On The Importance Of Shape Representations For Deep Learning
11:45-12:05 Geraldine Morin. Representation And Distribution Of 3D Shapes And Environments
WIT: Women in Topology, Organizers: Sarah Yeakel, Martina Rovelli, Mech Lab 254
10:15-10:35 Agnes Beaudry. Picard Groups And Orientability
10:45-11:05 Eva Belmont. Mahowald Invariants And The R-Motivic Adams Spectral Sequence
11:15-11:35 Safia Chettih. Configurations With Sinks And On Graphs
11:45-12:05 Brittany Terese Fasy. Directed Homotopy Collapses
WIC: Women in Control, Organizers: Lorena Bociu, Irena Lasiecka, Duncan Hall 1042
10:15-10:35 Suzanne Lenhart. Optimal Control Applied To Management Of Fishery Models
10:45-11:05 Weiwei Hu. Second Order Optimality Conditions For Boundary Control Of Optimal Mixing Via Fluid Flows
11:15-11:35 Luz De Teresa. Some Hierarchic Control Problems For The Heat Equation
11:45-12:05 Valeria Neves Domingos Cavalcanti. Uniform Stability For The Wave Equation With Localized Memory
WIMM: Women in Math Materials, Organizers: Malena Espanol, Hala Ah Shehadeh, Herzstein 211
10:15-10:35 Lidia Mrad. Chromonic Liquid Crystals And Applications To Modeling DNA In Free Solution
10:45-11:05 Silvia Jimenez Bolanos. Materials Science And Differential Geometry
11:15-11:35 Xingjie Helen Li. Bending Admissible Blended Force-Based Coupling Method For Single-Layered 2D Crystal
11:45-12:05 Ling Xu. On The Viscous Lamb Dipole
WISDM: Women in the Science of Data and Mathematics, Organizers: Linda Ness, Carlotta Domeniconi, Mech Lab 251
10:15-10:35 Carolyn Mayer. Erasure Coding Techniques For Content Download
10:45-11:05 Anna Ma. A Dynamic Sampling Approach To SKM Method
11:15-11:35 Karamatou Yacoubou-Djima. Heuristic Framework For Multi-Scale Testing Of The Multi-Manifold Hypothesis
11:45-12:05 Yang Chen. Calibration Concordance For Astronomical Instruments Via Multiplicative Shrinkage
Analysis and Numerical Methods for Kinetic Transport and Related Models, Organizer: Liu Liu, Duncan Hall 1046
10:15-10:35 Kit Newton. Two-Level Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods For The Inverse Radiative Transfer Equation
10:45-11:05 Liu Liu. Micro-Macro Decomposition Based Asymptotic-Preserving Schemes And Moments Conservation For Collisional Kinetic Equations
11:15-11:35 Anna Szczekutowicz. Velocity Dependent Coulomb Logarithm In The Landau Limit Of The Boltzmann Equation
11:45-12:05 Milana Pavic-Colic. Some Analytical Aspects For The Boltzmann System Of Monatomic Gas Mixtures: The Cauchy Problem, Generation And Propagation Of Polynomial And Exponential Moments
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Organizers: Julia Dobrosotskaya, Xuemei Chen, Duncan Hall 1075
10:15-10:35 Emily J King. Edge, Ridge, And Blob Detection With Symmetric Molecules
10:45-11:05 Jing Qin. High-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy Image Deconvolution
11:15-11:35 Yi Wang. ConceFT: Concentration Of Frequency And Time Via A Multitapered Synchrosqueezed Transform
11:45-12:05 Ronrong Wang. A Simple Nonlinear Dimension Reduction Technique For High Dimension Data Visualization
Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Organizers: Sara Faridi, Susan Morey, Hermann Brown 227
10:15-10:35 Jenna Rajchgot. Regularity Of Schubert Determinantal Ideals And Related Ideals
10:45-11:05 Kuei-Nuan Lin. Blow-Up Algebras Of Three-Dimensional Ferrers Diagrams
11:15-11:35 Louiza Fouli. Initially Regular Sequences
11:45-12:05 Susan Cooper. Monomial Ideals & Symbolic Powers
Commutative Algebra, Organizers: Sandra Spiroff, Adela Vraciu, Herzstein 212
10:15-10:35 Janet Vassilev. Tight Interiors And Related Ideals In Stanley-Reisner Rings
10:45-11:05 Haydee Lindo. Trace modules, rigidity and ring classifications
11:15-11:35 Alexandra Seceleanu. Lefschetz Properties For Connected Sums And Fibered Products
11:45-12:05 Rebecca R.G. Characteristic-Free Test Ideals
Education Partnerships: University Mathematics Faculty and K-12 Mathematics Teachers, Organizer: Evan Rushton, Herzstein 210
10:15-10:35 Anne Papakonstantinou. The Rice University School Mathematics Project: Its Evolution And Current Efforts
10:45-11:05 Adem Ekmekci. Being Research-Based And Research-Minded In Helping K-12 Mathematics Education
11:15-11:35 Cymra Haskell. Mathematicians In K-12 Mathematics Education
11:45-12:05 Evan Rushton. USC Math Initiative’s Teacher Trainer Of Trainers Pilot Study
New Advances in Symplectic and Contact Topology, Organizers: Jo Nelson, Morgan Weiler, Hermann Brown 423
10:15-10:35 Ziva Myer. Product Structures For Legendrian Submanifolds With Generating Families
10:45-11:05 Yu Pan. All The Augmentations Come From Immersed Lagrangian Fillings
11:15-11:35 Bahar Acu. Planarity In Higher-Dimensional Contact Manifolds
11:45-12:05 Emmy Murphy. Weinstein Kirby Calculus
Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds, Organizers: Allison N. Miller, Arunima Ray, Hermann Brown 427
10:15-10:35 Rachel Roberts. CTFs In 3-Manifolds
10:45-11:05 Maggie Miller. Fibering 4-Manifolds Via Movies Of Singular Fibrations
11:15-11:35 Christine Ruey Shan Lee. Quantum Invariants And Ribbon Links
11:45-12:05 Patricia Cahn. Invariants Of Fox-Colorable Knots From Branched Covers Of 4-Manifolds
12:15 – 1:30 pm Lunch Break Box lunches provided (Martel Atrium, Duncan Hall)
12:30 – 1:15 pm Learn about AWM’s Research Networks, Kristen Lauter and Magnhild Lien (Duncan Hall 1070) • Please fill out this form if you plan to attend.
1:30 – 2:30 pm Concurrent Presentations
- Women in Government and Industry Panel (McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall)
Sarah Charlton, Applied Research Mathematician, NSA
Veronica Lino, Full-Stack Immersive Instructor, DigitalCrafts
Jennifer Pearl, Science & Technology Policy Fellows Director, AAAS
Wenting Xiao, Research Engineer, ExxonMobil
Moderated by Karoline Pershell, Executive Director, AWM
- DMS Funding Opportunities (Duncan Hall 1064)
Yuliya Gorb, Program Director, Computational Mathematics, NSF
2:30 – 3:15 pm Posters, Exhibits with coffee available (Martel Atrium, Duncan Hall)
The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) has invited graduate students and recent PhD recipients to give a poster presentation at the 2019 AWM Research Symposium at Rice University in Houston, Texas on April 6-7, 2019.
Posters will be exhibited during the entire symposium in and around the first floor of Duncan Hall. Poster presenters will be at their posters to discuss their work on Saturday from 2:30 – 3:15pm.
Anna Aboud, An Efficient Algorithm for Perturbed Data Sets
Lale Asik, Dynamics of a Producer-Grazer Model Incorporating the Effects of Phosphorus Loading on Grazer’s Growth
Rhea Palek Bakshi, On the KBSA of the Thickened T-Shirt
Catherine Berrouet, A Mathematical Model of Anti-Cancer Drug’s IC50 Values in Monolayer and Spheroid Cultures
Ariel Bowman, Mathematical Modeling of a Network of neurons regarding G1D Transport Deficiency Epilepsy Seizures
Danielle Brager, Mathematically Investigating Cone Photoreceptor Death in Retinitis Pigmentosa
Juliette Bruce, Asymptotic Syzygies for Products of Projective Space
Sutthirut Charoenphon, Vanishing Relaxation Time Dynamics of the Moore-Gibson-Thompson (MGT) Equation Arising in High Frequency Ultrasound
Weiqi Chu, Nonlinear Constitutive Models for Nano-scale Heat Conduction
Ngoc Do, Theoretically exact solution of the inverse source problem for the wave equation with spatially and temporally reduced data
Francesca Gandini, Ideals associated to subspace arrangements
Xiaoqian Gong, Weak Measure-valued Solution to a Nonlinear Hyperbolic Conservation Law Modeling a Highly Re-entrant Manufacturing System
Emily Johnson, Penalty Coupling of Non-Matching Isogeometric Kirchhoff–Love Shell Patches with Application to Complex Structures
Tiffany Jones, On the stability and accuracy of a dual-scale approximation to self-focusing Helmholtz problems
Lara Kassab, On Infinite Multidimensional Scaling
Daewa Kim, A Kinetic Theory Approach to Pedestrian Motion
Mehtap Iafci, Mathematical Modeling of Post-Myocardial Infarction Left Ventricular Remodeling
Jennifer Li, The Kawamata-Morrison-Totaro Cone Conjecture for Log Calabi-Yau Surfaes
Kate Lorenzen, Constructions of Distance Laplacian Cospectral Graphs
Danielle Middlebrooks, Quantifying Flows in Time-Irreversible Markov Chains: Application to a Gene Regulatory Network
Duong Nguyen, Texas Women in Mathematics Symposium 2018
Elpiniki Nikolopoulou, Tumor-immune dynamics with an immune checkpoint inhibitor
Omomayowa Olawoyin, Effects of Multiple Transmission Pathways on Zika Dynamics
Carolyn Reinhart, The normalized distance Laplacian Matrix
Aleksandra Sobieska Snyder, Minimal Free Resolutions over Rational Normal Scrolls
Sarah Yoseph, An Enumeration Process of n-Quandles
Jiahui Yu, Smoothing Spline Semiparametric Density Models
Fatma Zürnacı, Generalized Taylor Series
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, II (Duncan Hall 1075)
Braid Groups and Quantum Computing (Herzstein 210)
Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, II (Hermann Brown 227)
Commutative Algebra, II (Herzstein 212)
New Advances in Symplectic and Contact Topology, II (Hermann Brown 423)
New Developments in Algebraic Biology, I (Mech Lab 251)
Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds, II (Hermann Brown 427)
Women in Data Science, I (Duncan Hall 1070)
WIC: Women in Control, II (Duncan Hall 1042)
WIG: Women in Geometry, I (Mech Lab 254)
WIMB: Women in Math Biology, I (Keck 105)
WIMM: Women in Mathematics of Materials, II (Herzstein 211)
WIN: Women in Numbers, II (Herman Brown 453)
WINASC: Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, II (Duncan Hall 1064)
WinCompTop: Women in Computational Topology, II (Keck 100)
WiSh: Women in Shape Modeling, II (Keck 101)
Saturday, April 6, 2019. Afternoon Sessions (3:15 – 5:15 pm)
WIN: Women in Numbers, Organizers: Michelle Manes and Ila Varma, Hermann Brown 453
3:15-3:35 Yuan Liu. On The Level Of Modular Curves That Give Rise To Sporadic J-Invariants
3:45-4:05 Catalina Camacho Navarro. Modular Curves Of Low Composite Level And Genus Zero Subgroups
4:15-4:35 McKenzie Rachel West. Brauer-Manin Computations For A Family Of K3 Surfaces
4:45-5:05 Jennifer Berg. Odd Ordered Transcendental Obstructions To The Hasse Principle On K3 Surfaces
WinCompTop: Women in Computational Topology, Organizers: Erin Chambers, Brittany Terese Fasy, Elizabeth Munch, Keck 100
3:15-3:35 Radmila Sazdanovic. Machine Learning Revelations From the Color Jones Polynomial
3:45-4:05 Moira Chas. Computer Driven Questions And Theorems And In Geometry
4:15-4:35 Mao Li. Applications Of Topological Data Analysis In Plant Science
4:45-5:05 Sarah Tymochko. Using Persistent Homology To Quantify A Diurnal Cycle In Hurricane Felix
WIMB: Women in Math Biology, Organizers: Angela Peace, Wenjing Zhang, Keck 105
3:15-3:35 Christina Edholm. Searching For Superspreaders: Identifying Epidemic Patterns Associated With Superspreading Events In Stochastic Models
3:45-4:05 Marissa Renardy. Modeling Tumor Immune Dynamics In Multiple Myeloma
4:15-4:35 Rebecca Everett. Fronts Of Locusts: Modeling Foraging Behavior In The Australian Plague Locust
4:45-5:05 Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem. Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT) And Antimalarial Drug Resistance Spread
WINASC: Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, Organizers: Bo Dong, Adrianna Gillman, Duncan Hall 1064
3:15-3:35 Jingwei Hu. A Second-Order Asymptotic-Preserving And Porosity-Preserving Exponential Runge-Kutta Method For A Class Of Stiff Kinetic Equations
3:45-4:05 Chiu-Yen Kao. Maximal Convex Combinations Of Sequential Steklov Eigenvalues
4:15-4:35 Wei Wang. A High Order Well-Balanced Particle-In-Cell Method For Shallow Water Equations
4:45-5:05 Yingda Cheng. Numerical Methods For Nonlinear Maxwell’s Equations In Optics
WiSh: Women in Shape Modeling, Organizers: Kathryn Leonard, Terry Knight, Keck 101
3:15-3:35 Mine Ozkar. The Matter Of Shape: Purpose And Techniques That Bring About The Visible
3:45-4:05 Cindy Grimm. Metrics For Modeling Robotic Grasping
4:15-4:35 Emily Whiting. Mechanics-Based Design For Computational Fabrication
4:45-5:05 Caitlin Mueller. Shaping For Structural Performance In Architecture: Computational Design And Optimization
WIC: Women in Control, Organizers: Lorena Bociu, Irena Lasiecka, Duncan Hall 1042
3:15-3:35 Bozenna Pasik-Duncan. Advances in Noise Modeling in Stochastic Systems and Control
3:45-4:05 Giusy Mazzone. On The Motion Of Rigid Bodies With A Fluid-Filled Gap
4:15-4:35 Marta Lewicka. Random Tug Of War Games For The p-Laplacian: 1<p<infty
4:45-5:05 Ivonne Rivas. Exact Controllability Of A Linear Korteweg-de Vries Equation By The Flatness Approach
WIMM: Women in Math Materials, Organizers: Malena Espanol, Hala Ah Shehadeh, Herzstein 211
3:15-3:35 Yue Yu. A Neumann-Type Boundary Condition For Nonlocal Problems
3:45-4:05 Amanda Howard. A Mathematical Model For Fluid Flow In A Fractured Media
4:15-4:35 Xiaochuan Tian. Numerical Mathematics For Peridynamics And Nonlocal Models
4:45-5:05 Malena Espanol. Discrete-To-Continuum Modeling Of Weakly Interacting Incommensurate Lattices
WIG: Women in Geometry, Organizers: Liz Stanhope, Chikako Mese, Mech Lab 254
3:15-3:35 Pamela Sargent. Index Bounds For Free Boundary Minimal Surfaces Of Convex Bodies
3:45-4:05 Xuan Nguyen. Finding Shrinking Doughnuts, An Alternate Proof
4:15-4:35 Priyanka Rajan. Exotic Spheres Of Cohomogeneity Two
4:45-5:05 Allie Ray. Eigenvalue And Multiplicity Bounds For The Steklov Spectrum On Orbifolds
Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Organizers: Julia Dobrosotskaya, Xuemei Chen, Duncan Hall 1075
3:15-3:35 Anna Ma. The Kaczmarz Algorithm For Multiple Measurement Vectors
3:45-4:05 Wenjing Liao. Learning Low-Dimensional Manifolds, Functions On Manifolds And PDEs From Data
4:15-4:35 Longxiu Huang. Dynamic Sampling
4:45-5:05 Karamatou Yacoubou-Djima. Diffusion Frames On Graphs
Braid Groups and Quantum Computing, Organizers: Colleen Delaney, Jennifer Vasquez, Helen Wong, Herzstein 210
3:15-3:35 Jennifer Vasquez. Qubit Braid Group Representations
3:45-4:05 Colleen Delaney. Fusion Categories And Quantum Computing
4:15-4:35 Iris Cong. Universal Quantum Computation With Gapped Boundaries
4:45-5:05 Julia Plavnik. Low-Dimensional Representations Of The Three Component Loop Braid Group
Combinatorial Commutative Algebra, Organizers: Sara Faridi, Susan Morey, Hermann Brown 227
3:15-3:35 Selvi Beyarslan. Algebraic Invariants of Weighted Oriented Paths and Cycles
3:45-4:05 Mavada Shahada. Sub-Additivity Property Of Syzygies Of Monomial Ideals Via Lattice Complements
4:15-4:35 Sonja Mapes. Computing Projective Dimension Of Monomial Ideals Via Associated Hypergraphs And Icm-Lattices
4:45-5:05 Aihua Li. Zero Divisor Graphs of Matrices over Commutative Rings
Commutative Algebra, Organizers: Sandra Spiroff, Adela Vraciu, Herzstein 212
3:15-3:35 Oana Veliche. Linkage And Classification Of Grade Three Perfect Ideals
3:45-4:05 Liana Sega. The Structure Of Quasi-Complete Intersection Ideals
4:15-4:35 Hema Srinivasan. Structure Of Some Semigroup Rings And Their Resolutions
4:45-5:05 Susan Cooper. The Generalized Minimum Distance Function
New Advances in Symplectic and Contact Topology, Organizers: Jo Nelson, Morgan Weiler, Hermann Brown 423
3:15-3:35 Susan Tolman. Beyond Semitoric
3:45-4:05 Saraswathi Venkatesh. Symplectic Cohomology Of Subdomains
4:15-4:35 Catherine Cannizzo. Homological Mirror Symmetry For The Genus 2 Curve In An Abelian Variety And Its Generalized Strominger-Yau-Zaslow Mirror
4:45-5:05 Roberta Guadagni. New Advances In Symplectic And Contact Topology
New Developments in Algebraic Biology, Organizers: Anne Shiu, Brandilyn Stigler, Mech Lab 251
3:15-3:35 Elizabeth Gross. Distinguishing And Inferring Phylogenetic Networks
3:45-4:05 Nora Youngs. Neural Ring Homomorphisms And Maps Between Neural Codes
4:15-4:35 Nida Kazi Obatake. The Capacity For Hopf Bifurcations In The Fully Distributive Dual-Site Phosphorylation Network
4:45-5:05 Xiaoxian Tang. Multistationarity In Structured Reaction Networks
Topology of 3- and 4-Manifolds, Organizers: Allison N. Miller, Arunima Ray, Hermann Brown 427
3:15-3:35 Emmy Murphy. Dissolving Large Index Covering Spaces Of 4-Manifolds
3:45-4:05 Melissa Zhang. Localization, Smith-Type Inequalities, And Khovanov Homology
4:15-4:35 Caitlin Leverson. DGA Representations, Ruling Polynomials, And The Colored HOMFLY-PT Polynomial
4:45-5:05 Gordana Matic. Spectral Order Contact Invariant From Heegaard Floer Homology
Women in Data Science, Organizers: Jing Qin, Yifei Lou, Duncan Hall 1070
3:15-3:35 Sung Ha Kang. Identifying Differential Equation Using Numerical Techniques
3:45-4:05 Yifei Lou. Nonconvex Approaches In Data Science
4:15-4:35 Jing Qin. Graph Regularizations In EEG Source Localization
4:45-5:05 Li Wang. Probabilistic Dimensionality Reduction Via Structure Learning
5:30 – 6:15 pm Plenary Lecture: Susanne Brenner, Louisiana State University, Title: Higher Order Elliptic Problems (McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall) Abstract
Slides from lecture (downloadable pdf)
6:30 – 7:15 pm Wine Reception and Networking Student Center Grand Hall
7:15 – 9:15 pm Banquet, Student Center Grand Hall
Slide show from banquet (downloadable pdf)
- Welcome: Provost Marie Lynn Miranda, Rice University
- Keynote: Mariam Manuel, University of Houston
Slides from lecture (downloadable pdf)
Sunday, April 7, 2019
8:00 – 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast (Duncan Hall)
8:30 – 8:45 am Opening Remarks
8:45 – 9:30 am Exhibits and Coffee (Martel Atrium, Duncan Hall)
ACxx: Women in Algebraic Combinatorics, II (Keck 105)
Analysis and Numerical Methods for Kinetic Transport and Related Models, II (Keck 100)
Combinatorial Algebra (Herman Brown 423)
Control Problems in PDE-modeled Systems (Duncan Hall 1070)
Current Challenges in Mathematical Biology (Herzstein 212)
Graph Theory (Duncan Hall 1046)
Math on the EDGE (Herman Brown 227)
Multiphysics and Multiscale Problems (Duncan Hall 1042)
New Developments in Algebraic Biology, II (Mech Lab 251)
On Advances and New Techniques of Fluid Dynamics and Dispersive Equations (Duncan Hall 1064)
Origami, Belyi Maps, and Dessins D’Enfants (Herzstein 211)
Recent Developments in the Analysis of Obstacle Problems Associated to Nonlocal Operators (Duncan Hall 1075)
Women in Data Science, II (Herzstein 210)
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon (Keck 100)
WIMB: Women in Math Biology, II (Keck 107)
WIG: Women in Geometry, II (Herman Brown 427)
WINART: Women in Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory, II (Herman Brown 453)
WISDM: Data Science Theory and Practice, II (Keck 101)
WIT: Women in Topology, II (Mech Lab 254)
Sunday, April 7, 2019. Morning Sessions (9:30 – 11:30 am)
WIMB: Women in Math Biology, Organizers: Angela Peace, Wenjing Zhang, Keck 105
9:30-9:50 Katharine Gurski. A Sexually Transmitted Disease Model With Longterm Partnerships In Homogeneous And Heterogeneous Populations
10:00-10:20 Zhilan Feng. Implications For Infectious Disease Models Of Heterogeneous Mixing On Control Thresholds
10:30-10:50 Heather Brooks. Parasites And The Evolution Of Sociality: How Social Complexity And Grooming Efficiency Affect The Selective Pressures On Group Organization
11:00-11:20 Wenjing Zhang. Global Stability And Re-emergence In A Cholera Model Considering Stochastic Fluctuations In Pathogen-Host Encounter
ACxx: Women in Algebraic Combinatorics, Organizers: Elizabeth Niese, Elizabeth Drellich, Keck 105
9:30-9:50 Maria Monks Gillespie. A Characterization Of Queer Supercrystals
10:00-10:20 Kassie Archer. Pattern avoidance, cycle type, and characters of the symmetric group
10:30-10:50 Martha Yip. A Minimaj-Preserving Crystal On Ordered Multiset Partitions
11:00-11:20 Margaret Readdy. Geometric Proofs Of Some Combinatorial Identities Of Morel
WINART: Women in Noncommutative Algebra and Representation Theory, Organizers: Van C. Nguyen, Julia Plavnik, Sarah Witherspoon, Keck 107
9:30-9:50 Ellen Kirkman. Bounds On The Degrees Of Minimal Generators Of Invariants
10:00-10:20 Lauren Grimley. Deformations Of Quantum Complete Intersections
10:30-10:50 Jieru Zhu. Two Boundary Centralizer Algebras For q(n)
11:00-11:20 Frauke Bleher. Top Exterior Quotients Of Iwasawa Modules
WIT: Women in Topology, Organizers: Sarah Yeakel, Martina Rovelli, Mech Lab 254
9:30-9:50 Kathryn Lesh. Connectivity Of Complexes Related To Homological Stability
10:00-10:20 Angelica Osorno. 2-Segal Spaces And The Waldhausen Construction
10:30-10:50 Kate Ponto. Refining Fixed Point Invariants
11:00-11:20 Carmen Rovi.
WISDM: Women in the Science of Data and Mathematics, Organizers: Linda Ness, Carlotta Domeniconi, Keck 101
9:30-9:50 Giseon Heo. Analysis Of Facial Morphology Of Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients
10:00-10:20 Patricia Medina. Deep Learning In Crowd Flow Exit Data
10:30-10:50 Jessica Metcalf-Burton. Hubness: What Is It, And What’s It Good For?
11:00-11:20 Anna Little. Path-Based Spectral Clustering: Guarantees, Robustness To Outliers And Fast Algorithms
WIG: Women in Geometry, Organizers: Liz Stanhope, Chikako Mese, Hermann Brown 427
9:30-9:50 Colleen Robles.
10:00-10:20 Sema Salur. Calibrations On Manifolds With Special Holonomy
10:30-10:50 Chikako Mese. Harmonic Maps into CAT(1) Spaces
Analysis and Numerical Methods for Kinetic Transport and Related Models, Organizer: Liu Liu, Keck 100
9:30-9:50 Li Wang. Primal Dual Methods For Wasserstein Gradient Flows
10:00-10:20 Sona Akopian. On Global Weak Lp Solutions To A Class Of Boltzmann Equations With An Angle-Potential Concentrated Collision Kernel
10:30-10:50 Jingwei Hu. A Discontinuous Galerkin Fast Spectral Method For The Multi-Species Boltzmann Equation
11:00-11:20 Yingda Cheng. An Adaptive High-Order Piecewise Polynomial Based Sparse Grid Collocation Method With Applications
Combinatorial Algebra, Organizers: Christine Berkesch, Laura Felicia Matusevich, Hermann Brown 423
9:30-9:50 Laura Escobar. Wall-Crossing Phenomena For Newton-Okounkov Bodies
10:00-10:20 Josephine Yu. Positivity Hyperbolic Varieties And Tropical Geometry
10:30-10:50 Jessica Sidman. Rigidity Theory And Algebraic Matroids
11:00-11:20 Patricia Jacobs Klein. Edge ideals and liaison theory
Current Challenges in Mathematical Biology, Organizer: Renee Dale, Herzstein 212
9:30-9:50 Renee Dale. Identifying Critical Nodes From A Predicted Biological Network Using A Mathematical Model
10:00-10:20 Raffeal Bennett. Modelling The Conformational Behavior Of Protein Drug Templates In Industrial Chromatography
10:30-10:50 Jessica L. Burnett. Advances in Ecological Regime Shift Detection Methods
11:00-11:20 Collaborative Discussion
Graph Theory, Organizers: Carolyn Reinhart, Kate Lorenzo, Duncan Hall 1046
9:30-9:50 Daphne Liu. Colouring Of Generalized Signed Triangle-Free Planar Graphs
10:00-10:20 Daniela Ferrero. Generalizations Of Zero Forcing In Iterated Line Digraphs
10:30-10:50 Mary Flagg. Rigid Linkage Forcing
11:00-11:20 Shanise Walker. The Size Of N-Free Families
Math on the EDGE, Organizers: Sarah Chehade, Hermann Brown 227
9:30-9:50 Keisha Cook. A Parallel Implementation of the Delay SSA
10:00-10:20 Paula Egging. Rational Decay Of A Canonical Structural Acoustic PDE Dynamics
10:30-10:50 Victoria Day. Congruences Between Newforms And Modular Deformation Problems
11:00-11:20 Nida Kazi Obatake. Toric Ideals Of Neural Codes
Multiphysics and Multiscale Problems, Organizers: Yue Yu, Xingjie Li, Duncan Hall 1042
9:30-9:50 Xiaoxiao Zhang. Non-uniform Curvature And Anisotropy Confinement Control Wrinkling Patterns On Torus
10:00-10:20 Emily Johnson. Penalty Coupling Of Non-matching Isogeometric Kirchhoff-Love Shell Patches With Application To Complex Structures
10:30-10:50 Weiqi Chu. Nonlinear Constitutive Models For Nano-scale Heat Conduction
11:00-11:20 Xiaochuan Tian. Stability Of Nonlocal Dirichlet Integrals Using Nonlocal Gradient Operators
New Developments in Algebraic Biology, Organizers: Anne Shiu, Brandilyn Stigler, Mech Lab 251
9:30-9:50 Elena Dimitrova. Network Control Through Multistate Canalization
10:00-10:20 Anyu Zhang. Partitioning Data Using Monomial Bases To Improve Network
10:30-10:50 Kaitlyn Phillipson. Gröbner Bases Of Neural Ideals
11:00-11:20 Ngoc M Tran. Automated Spike Sorting For Large-Scale, Long-Term Recordings
On Advances and New Techniques of Fluid Dynamics and Dispersive Equations, Organizer: Betul Orcan Ekmekci, Duncan Hall 1064
9:30-9:50 Chengcheng Yang. Regularity Behavior Of Geodesics On A Complex Variety
10:00-10:20 Maria Radosz. Blowup For Model Equations Of Fluid Mechanics
10:30-10:50 Betul Orcan-Ekmekci. Geometric Properties Of Euler Equation On The Torus
11:00-11:20 Kayla Bicol. A Deconvolution-Based Large Eddy Simulation Method For Incompressible Flows And Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Problems
Origami, Belyi Maps, Dessins D’Enfants, Organizers: Rachel Davis, Edray Goins, Herzstein 211
9:30-9:50 Naiomi Cameron. Shabat Polynomials And Monodromy Groups Of Trees Uniquely Determined By Ramification Type
10:00-10:20 Rachel Davis. Square-Tiled Surfaces In Topology And Arithmetic
10:30-10:50 Ozlem Ejder. Arboreal Galois Representations Of Dynamical Belyi Maps
11:00-11:20 Bella Tobin. Dessins D’Enfants For Single-Cycle Belyi Maps
Recent Developments in the Analysis of Obstacle Problems, Organizers: Donatella Danielli, Camelia Pop, Duncan Hall 1075
9:30-9:50 Ryan Hynd. Extremals Functions For Morrey’s Inequality
10:00-10:20 Ru-Yu Lai. Global Uniqueness For The Fractional Semilinear Schrodinger Equation
10:30-10:50 Stefania Patrizi. A Segregation Model With Local Vs Nonlocal Diffusion
11:00-11:20 Luca Spolaor. (Log)-Epiperimetric Inequality For The Thin Obstacle Problem
Women in Data Science, Organizers: Jing Qin, Yifei Lou, Herzstein 210
9:30-9:50 Mingchang Ding. Efficient And Highly Accurate Semi-Lagrangian Discontinuous Galerkin Method For Convection-Diffusion Problems
10:00-10:20 Ghada Nour.
10:30-10:50 Miju Ahn. Difference-Of-Convex Programming For Sparse Learning
11:00-11:20 Andrea Arnold. Time-Varying Parameter Estimation Via Nonlinear Filtering
9:30 – 11:20 am Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, Organizers: Denise Rangel Tracy, Beccah Mackinnon, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Volunteer to work actively to counteract Wikipedia’s gender gap by contributing to biographies of women mathematicians and pages about their accomplishments. The session is led by past AWM Wikipedia Fellows who have experience writing and editing Wikipedia articles. They will help you get started on the process, as well as bring ideas on what to edit. Everyone is welcome, especially new editors; come join us! There is a Meetup page for this edit-a-thon.
11:30 – 11:45 am Exhibits and Coffee Break (Martel Atrium, Duncan Hall)
11:45 – 12:30 pm Plenary Lecture: Kristin Lauter, Microsoft. Title: How to Jeep Your Secrets in a Post-Quantum World (McMurtry Auditorium) Abstract
Slides from lecture (downloadable pdf)
Exhibits at the Research Symposium
Please visit the AWM Exhibitors in Duncan Hall throughout the Symposium to learn more about
these programs and opportunities.
American Mathematical Society
AWM’s ADVANCE Grant and Research Collaboration Networks
The Caucus for Women in Statistics*
Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
The Institute for Advanced Studies
Moira Chas’ Crocheted Topological Surfaces
National Association for Mathematicians
National Security Agency
Project NExT
Rice University School Mathematics Project
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics*
Springer Books
The Tapia Conference
TODOS *
Women in Math Education*
* As partner organizations, they will have materials on hand so that the AWM community can
learn about the important work they do.
Please Visit the Remembering Maryam Mirzakhani Exhibition on the 2nd Floor Balcony.
This exhibit was shown for the first time at the World Meeting for Women in Mathematics in Rio on
31 July 2018 as well as during the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM2018) which
immediately followed. The exhibition was created by the International Mathematical Union ‘s
Committee for Women in Mathematics (CWM) with Curator Thais Jordao and Designer Rafael Meireles Barroso and consists of 18 posters.
AWM Research Symposium Organizing Committee
- Steven Ferrucci, AWM Managing Director
- Ruth Haas, University of Hawaii
- Shelly Harvey, Rice University
- Raegan Higgins, Texas Tech University
- Magnhild Lien, CSU Northridge
- Omayra Ortega, Sonoma State University
- Karoline Pershell, AWM Executive Director
- Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College
- Beatrice Rivière , Rice University
Rice University School Mathematics Project (RUSMP) article, April 9, 2019
Rice University News & Media article, April 10, 2019
Village News/Southwest News Story, April 16, 2019, page 2
Photo Album on 2019 Research Symposium appearing on Facebook
AWM would like to thank our 2019 sponsors!
