2022 AWM Research Symposium

June 16 – 19, 2022

The Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
& the University of Minnesota

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Time Event Location
8:00 am — 5:00 pm
Aligning Actions at Crossroads Workshop
  President’s Room
6:00 — 8:00 pm
Informal Opening Reception

Hosted by the University of Minnesota AWM Student Chapter

 Vincent 120

Friday, June 17, 2022

Time Event Location
8:00 — 8:30 am
Registration
 Coffman Memorial Union,
Foyer, Great Hall
8:30 — 8:45 am
Welcoming Remarks

Kathryn Leonard, AWM President
Ruth Haas, AWM Past-President

 Great Hall
8:45 — 9:30 am
Plenary Lecture

Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College
Between Yes and No: looking beyond binary

Moderator: Ruth Haas, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
(View the Live Stream Here)

 Great Hall
9:30 — 10:10 am
Special Tribute

Rosa C. Orellana, Dartmouth College
The Legacy of Georgia Benkart

Moderator: Sarah Brauner, University of Minnesota
(View the Live Stream Here)

 Great Hall
10:15 — 11:50 am
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
 Great Hall

Analysis of Partial Differential Equations in Memory of David R. Adams

Suzanne Lenhart*, University of Tennessee
Jie Xiao, Memorial University
Room: Vincent 215

10:15 – 10:35 am Critical Sets of Solutions of Elliptic Equations in Periodic Homogenization
Zhongwei Shen, University of Kentucky
10:40 – 11:00 am Besov spaces of functions on doubling metric measure spaces, and hyperbolic fillings
Nageswari Shanmugalingam, University of Cincinnati
11:05 – 11:25 am Harmonic measure for Schrodinger operators in uniform domains
Michael Frazier, University of Tennessee
11:30 – 11:50 am Moser type log-mass weighted inequalities and exponential Choquard equations in the plane
C. Tarsi, Università degli Studi di Milano
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Combinatorial and Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra

Ayah Almousa, University of Minnesota
Selvi Kara*, University of Utah
Room: Coffman 307

10:15 – 10:35 am Resolutions of Powers of Square-free Monomial Ideals
Susan Morey, Texas State University
10:40 – 11:00 am Subcomplexes of Certain Free Resolutions
Aleksandra Sobieska, University of Wisconsin – Madison
11:05 – 11:25 am Symbolic Powers and Free Resolutions of Generalized Star Configurations of Hypersurfaces
Kuei-Nuan Lin, Penn State University
11:30 – 11:50 am Virtual criterion for generalized Eagon-Northcott complexes
Caitlyn Booms, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches for Nonlinear PDEs

Hakima Bessaih*, Florida International University
Parisa Fatheddin, Ohio State University, Marion
Room: Coffman 323

10:15 – 10:35 am The viscosity operator on the Riemannian manifolds
Magdalena Czubak, University of Colorado Boulder
10:40 – 11:00 am Almost sure well-posedness for Hall MHD*
Mimi Dai, Institute for Advanced Study / University of Illinois at Chicago
11:05 – 11:25 am Spatial integral of the solution to SPDEs with time-independent noise
Raluca Balan, University of Ottawa
11:30 – 11:50 am Recent developments on non-uniqueness of stochastic PDEs via convex integration
Kazuo Yamazaki, Texas Tech University
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Discrete and Topological Models for Biological Structures

Lina Fajardo Gomez*, University of South Florida
Margherita Maria Ferrari, University of South Florida
Room: Coffman Mississippi Room

10:15 – 10:35 am Maximal helices weighted by experimental probing data to infer RNA topology*
Afaf Saaidi, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:40 – 11:00 am Finding hidden low dimensional structure in data distorted by monotone transformations
Caitlin Lienkaemper, Pennsylvania State University
11:05 – 11:25 am Universality and synchronization in complex quadratic networks*
Anca Radulescu, State University of New York at New Paltz
11:30 – 11:50 am DNA Self-assembly: Complexity and Simulation*
Joanna A Ellis-Monaghan, University of Amsterdam
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Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography

Matluba Khodjaeva*, John Jay College, The City University of New York, and CUNY Graduate Center
Delaram Kahrobaei, Queens College CUNY Graduate Center The City University of New York
Room: Coffman President’s Room

10:15 – 10:35 am Group-based Cryptography in the Quantum Era
Delaram Kahrobaei, CUNY Queens College and University of York (UK)
10:40 – 11:00 am Root extraction problem in braid group-based cryptography
María Cumplido, Universidad de Sevilla
11:05 – 11:25 am Conjugacy Search in Some Cryptographic Platform Groups
Simran Tinani, University of Zurich
11:30 – 11:50 am Cryptography with Stabilizer Codes
Lubjana Beshaj, West Point
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New EDGE (Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education) PhDs Special Session: Pure and Applied talks by Women Math Warriors

Keisha Cook, Clemson University
Room: Coffman 326

10:15 – 10:35 am On the effects of swimming in an active suspension
Laurel Ohm, Princeton University
10:40 – 11:00 am Ordinary Modular Deformation Problems
Tori Day, Mount Holyoke College
11:05 – 11:25 am Operator Algebras from Graphs and Categories of Paths
Juliana Bukoski, Georgetown College
11:30 – 11:50 am The Secret Sauce to Building a Quantum Computer
Sarah Chehade, Oak Ridge National Lab
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Recent Developments in Ecological and Epidemiological Modeling

Lale Asik*, University of the Incarnate Word
Zhuolin Qu, University of Texas at San Antonio
Amanda N. Laubmeier, Texas Tech University
Christina J. Edholm, Scripps College
Room: Coffman 304

10:15 – 10:35 am A mathematical modeling exploration of data assimilation for simple model fitting
Christina Catlett, Scripps College
10:40 – 11:00 am Game-theoretic optimal resource allocation and defense strategies in herbaceous plants
Molly Creagar, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
11:05 – 11:25 am Elements of disease in a changing world: modelling feedbacks between infectious disease and ecosystems
Lale Asik, University of the Incarnate Word
11:30 – 11:50 am Population dynamical modeling of the invasive spotted lanternfly with stage-age-structured PDEs
Stephanie Lewkiewicz, Temple University
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Women in Graph Theory and Applications

Daniela Ferrero*, Texas State University
Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University & American Institute of Mathematics
Room: Coffman 301

10:15 – 10:35 am Breaking Symmetries of Mycielskian Graphs and of Cubes
Sarah Loeb, Hampden-Sydney College
10:40 – 11:00 am On a relation between bipartite biregular cages, block designs and generalized polygons*
Gabriela Araujo-Pardo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
11:05 – 11:25 am Product Throttling for Power Domination
Daniela Ferrero, Texas State University
11:30 – 11:50 am Graph-based codes based on dyadic matrices
Christine Kelley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Women in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics

Michelle Chu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kasia Jankiewicz*, University of California Santa Cruz
Room: Coffman 305

10:15 – 10:35 am Stable commutator length on big mapping class groups
Elizabeth Field, University of Utah
10:40 – 11:00 am Pants complexes for surfaces of infinite type
Beth Claire Branman, University of Virginia
11:05 – 11:25 am Uniqueness of Equilibrium States for Geodesic Flow on Translation Surfaces
Noelle Sawyer, Southwestern University
11:30 – 11:50 am The Shrinking Target Problem in the Context of Moduli Spaces of Translation Surfaces
Grace Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Jingwei Hu, University of Washington
Sara Pollock*, University of Florida
Room: Coffman 319

10:15 – 10:35 am Fully implicit P0-based schemes for PDEs modeling phase change*
Malgorzata Peszynska, Oregon State University
10:40 – 11:00 am equilibrate flux recovery for cut finite element method
Cuiyu He, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
11:05 – 11:25 am Optimized Schwarz waveform relaxation and mixed hybrid finite element methods for transport problems in porous media
T.T. Phuong Hoang, Auburn University
11:30 – 11:50 am On the Stochastic Approximation Method for a Parameter Identification Problem in a PDE
Baasansuren Jadamba, Rochester Institute of Technology
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 Various Spaces
12:00 — 12:30 pm
Emerging Talent Lecture

Ila Varma, University of Toronto
Counting number fields and predicting asymptotics

Moderator: Alina Bucur, University of California San Diego
(View the Live Stream Here)

 Great Hall
12:30 — 2:00 pm
Lunch Break
 On-campus & off-campus options
2:00 —2:45 pm NSF Panel: Women in the Division of Mathematical Sciences

Yuliya Gorb, DMS Program Director – Computational Mathematics
Eun Heui Kim*, DMS Program Director – Applied Mathematics
Stacey Levine, DMS Program Director – Computational Mathematics
Constance Liaw*, DMS Program Director – Analysis

Moderator: Adriana Salerno, DMS Program Director – Algebra & Number Theory

 Great Hall
2:45 — 3:30 pm
Poster Session
 Mississippi Room
Launch Party for La Matematica, hosted by Springer Nature
3:30 — 5:05 pm

Advances in Combinatorics

Karen Collins, Wesleyan University
Pamela Harris, Williams College
Sandra Kingan*, City University of New York
Ann Trenk, Wellesley College
Room: Coffman 301

3:30 – 3:50 pm Matching Complexes of Graphs
Margaret Bayer, University of Kansas
3:55 – 4:15 pm The Distinguishing Chromatic Number of a Poset
Ann Trenk, Wellesley College
4:20 – 4:40 pm The Distinguishing Chromatic Number of a Poset, Part II
Karen L. Collins, Wesleyan University
4:45 – 5:05 pm Splitters and Decomposers for Binary Matroids
Sandra Kingan, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
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Analysis of Partial Differential Equations in Memory of David R. Adams

Suzanne Lenhart*, University of Tennessee
Jie Xiao, Memorial University
Room: Vincent 215

3:30 – 3:50 pm Analysis of Minimizers for the Landau-de Gennes Q-Tensor Energy and Their Defects
Patricia Bauman, Purdue University, Dept. of Mathematics, West Lafayette, IN
3:55 – 4:15 pm Higher order elliptic differential equations with lower order terms
Ariel Barton, University of Arkansas
4:20 – 4:40 pm Energy concentration, vorticity measures, and the inviscid limit problem in 2D*
HELENA JUDITH NUSSENZVEIG LOPES, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
4:45 – 5:05 pm On Choquet integrals and Poincare-type inequalities
Professor Ritva Hurri-Syrjanen, University of Helsinki
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Blackbird, Fly: The Legacy of Vivienne Malone-Mayes and African-American Women within AWM

Omayra Ortega, Sonoma State University
Edray Goins, Pomona College
Dorina Mitrea, Baylor University
Talitha Washington, Data Science Initiative/Atlanta University Center Consortium
Ami Radunskaya*, Pomona College
Room: Coffman 326

3:30 – 3:50 pm The Legacy of Vivienne Malone-Mayes (February 10, 1932 – June 9, 1995)
Edray Herber Goins, Pomona College
3:55 – 4:15 pm African American Women Mathematicians as Women and Mathematicians In An Era of Multiple Scale Politics
Fern Y. Hunt, National Institute of Standards and Technology
4:20 – 4:40 pm Caught in the Middle
Dawn Lott, Delaware State University
4:45 – 5:05 pm Breaking Boundary Conditions: Bringing your whole self to the profession*
Talithia Williams, Harvey Mudd College
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Combinatorial and Homological Methods in Commutative Algebra

Ayah Almousa, University of Minnesota
Selvi Kara*, University of Utah
Room: Coffman 307

3:30 – 3:50 pm On Stable Trace Ideals and Arf Rings
Haydee Lindo, Harvey Mudd College
3:55 – 4:15 pm Symmetric shifted ideals and their Rees algbera
Alessandra Costantini, Oklahoma State University
4:20 – 4:40 pm Neural codes, oriented matroids, and their ideals
Caitlin Lienkaemper, Pennsylvania State University
4:45 – 5:05 pm Toric ideals of weighted oriented graphs
Augustine O’Keefe, Connecticut College
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Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches for Nonlinear PDEs

Hakima Bessaih*, Florida International University
Parisa Fatheddin, Ohio State University, Marion
Room: Coffman 323

3:30 – 3:50 pm Long-time behavior of nonlinearly coupled measure-valued partial differential equations
Kavita Ramanan, Brown University
3:55 – 4:15 pm A Nonautonomous Free Boundary Model for Tumor Growth
Xiaoying (Maggie) Han, Auburn University
4:20 – 4:40 pm Mixing and weak convergence of numerical approximations of SPDEs
Cecilia Mondaini, Drexel University
4:45 – 5:05 pm Various numerical schemes for stochastic 2D Navier-Stokes equations
Hakima Bessaih, Florida International University
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Mathematical Modeling of the Eye: A Window to our Health

Kara Maki, Rochester Institute of Technology
Lucia Carichino*, Rochester Institute of Technology
Room: Vincent 203A

3:30 – 3:50 pm Effect of contact lens driven deformations on ocular health
Kara Maki, Rochester Institute of Technology
3:55 – 4:15 pm From the blackboard to the clinic: combining mechanism-driven models with artificial intelligence for individualized medicine in ophthalmology*
Giovanna Guidoboni, University of Missouri
4:20 – 4:40 pm Spreading Mechanics and Differentiation of Astrocytes During Retinal Development
Tracy L. Stepien, University of Florida
4:45 – 5:05 pm Parameter Identification for Tear Film Thinning and Breakup
Rayanne Luke, Johns Hopkins University, National Institute of Standards and Technology
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New Directions in Number Theory

Yunqing Tang, Princeton University
Ha Tran, Concordia, University of Edmonton
Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh*, Carleton College
Room: Coffman 302

3:30 – 3:50 pm The Langlands Program: A grand unified theory
Melissa Emory, University of Toronto
3:55 – 4:15 pm Bounding Lifts of Markoff Triples mod p*
Elisa Bellah, University of Oregon
4:20 – 4:40 pm Prime components in Apollonian packings
Catherine Hsu, Swarthmore College
4:45 – 5:05 pm Newton polygon stratification of the Torelli locus in PEL-type Shimura varieties
Wanlin Li, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques
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Recent Developments in Ecological and Epidemiological Modeling

Lale Asik*, University of the Incarnate Word
Zhuolin Qu, University of Texas at San Antonio
Amanda N. Laubmeier, Texas Tech University
Christina J. Edholm, Scripps College
Room: Coffman 304

3:30 – 3:50 pm Sensitivity Analysis of COVID-19 Dynamics on Structured College Campuses
Lihong Zhao, University of California, Merced
3:55 – 4:15 pm Evaluation of the United States COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Strategy
Md Rafiul Islam, Iowa State University
4:20 – 4:40 pm Rectification of delays in reporting disease incidence with an application to forecasting COVID-19 cases
Yunus Abdulhameed Abdussalam, Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at San Antonio
4:45 – 5:05 pm Modeling spatial waves of Wolbachia invasion for controlling mosquito-borne diseases
Zhuolin Qu, University of Texas at San Antonio
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Women in Analysis Research Network – Special Session for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Donatella Danielli, Arizona State University
Loredana Lanzani, Syracuse University
Irina Mitrea*, Temple University
Room: Coffman President’s Room

3:30 – 3:50 pm Hessian Estimates for the Lagrangian mean curvature equation
Arunima Bhattacharya, University of Washington
3:55 – 4:15 pm The-time dependent thin obstacle problem for the weighted bi-Laplacian
Alaa Haj Ali, Arizona State University
4:20 – 4:40 pm Regularity of edges in image processing
Silvia Ghinassi, University of Washington
4:45 – 5:05 pm Boundedness of commutators on weighted Hardy and BMO spaces
Marie-Jose Kuffner, Johns Hopkins University
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Women in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics

Michelle Chu, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kasia Jankiewicz*, University of California Santa Cruz
Room: Coffman 305

3:30 – 3:50 pm Random Groups Acting on CAT(0) Cube Complexes
MurphyKate Montee, Carleton College
3:55 – 4:15 pm Topological and dynamical methods in studying orderable 3-manifold groups
Ying Hu, University of Nebraska Omaha
4:20 – 4:40 pm The Lens Space Recognition Problem and Seifert Fiber Spaces
Kate Petersen, University of Minnesota Duluth
4:45 – 5:05 pm Totally geodesic surfaces in knot complements with small crossing number
Rebekah Palmer, Temple University
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Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing

Jingwei Hu, University of Washington
Sara Pollock*, University of Florida
Room: Coffman 319

3:30 – 3:50 pm Applications of K-Spectral Sets
Natalie Wellen, University of Washington
3:55 – 4:15 pm Computing Committors in Collective Variables Via Mahalanobis Diffusion Maps*
Maria Cameron, University of Maryland, College Park
4:20 – 4:40 pm Quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation with unbounded operators
Di Fang, University of California, Berkeley
4:45 – 5:05 pm Numerical Optimal Transport on the Sphere
Brittany Froese Hamfeldt, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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 Various Spaces
5:15 — 6:00 pm
Plenary Lecture

Christine Berkesch, University of Minnesota
The geometry of toric syzygies

Moderator: Cheri Shakiban, University of Minnesota
(View the Live Stream Here)

 Great Hall
6:00 — 9:00 pm
Reception & Cocktail Party

Sponsored by the David Randolph Adams Fund

 Graduate Hotel, Meridian Ballroom

Saturday, June 18, 2022

Time Event Location
8:00 — 8:30 am
Registration
Coffman Memorial Union, 

Foyer, Great Hall
8:30 — 8:45 am
Welcoming Remarks

Ami Radunskaya, AWM Past-past President
Talitha Washington, AWM President-Elect

 Great Hall
8:45 — 9:30 am
Plenary Lecture

Nitsan Ben-Gal, 3M
From Equation to Innovation: Making an Impact with Math Beyond Academia

Moderator: Kathryn Leonard, AWM President
(View the Live Stream Here)

 Great Hall
9:30 — 10:10 am Panel: Blackbird, Fly: The Legacy of Vivienne Malone-Mayes and African-American Women within AWM

Carla Cotwright-Williams*, Department of Defense
Fern Hunt, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Omayra Ortega, Sonoma State University
Talitha Washington, Clark Atlanta University and Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative

Moderator: Edray Goins, Pomona College

 Great Hall
9:50* — 11:50 am

*Most sessions start at 10:15 am

Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches for Nonlinear PDEs

Hakima Bessaih*, Florida International University
Parisa Fatheddin, Ohio State University, Marion
Room: Coffman 323

10:15 – 10:35 am Most probable transition paths in piecewise-smooth stochastic differential equations
Kaitlin Hill, Wake Forest University
10:40 – 11:00 am Local well-posedness in the bi-harmonic NLS with low power nonlinearities
Iryna Petrenko, Florida International University
11:05 – 11:25 am Asymptotic behavior of stochastic Navier-Stokes and Schrodinger equations
Parisa Fatheddin, Ohio State University, Marion
11:30 – 11:50 am Intermittency in turbulence and the 3D Navier-Stokes regularity problem*
Aseel Farhat, Florida State University
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Geometric and Categorical Aspects of Representation Theory and Related Topics

Mee Seong Im, United States Naval Academy
Room: Coffman 324

10:15 – 11:00 am Applications of geometric representation theory to link homology*
Tina Kanstrup, UMass Amherst
11:05 – 11:50 am Relating the Specht and sl_3 web bases
Heather M. Russell, University of Richmond
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Homological and Combinatorial Aspects of Commutative Algebra

Christine Berkesch* , University of Minnesota
Patricia Klein, University of Minnesota
Room: Coffman 307

10:15 – 10:35 am The Trace Property in Preenveloping Classes
Haydee Lindo, Harvey Mudd College
10:40 – 11:00 am Differential Powers of Ideals
Jennifer Kenkel, University of Michigan
11:05 – 11:25 am Staged Tree Models with Toric Structure
Aida Maraj, University of Michigan
11:30 – 11:50 am Multigraded regularity on products of projective spaces
Juliette Bruce, University of California, Berkeley
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Mathematics of Cryptography

Gretchen Matthews, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
Angela Robinson*, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Room: Coffman 303

10:15 – 10:35 am The Polynomial Learning With Errors Problem and the Smearing Condition
Liljana Babinkostova, Boise State University
10:40 – 11:00 am Practical Quantum-Safe Voting from Lattices, Extended
Ryann Cartor, Clemson University
11:05 – 11:25 am Adding level structure to supersingular elliptic curve isogeny graphs
Sarah Arpin, University of Colorado Boulder
11:30 – 11:50 am Decoding failure analysis of iterative decoding for MDPC codes
Angela Robinson, NIST
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Mathematics of Materials

Eleni Panagiotou, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Room: Coffman 325

10:15 – 10:35 am A tile model of entangled proteins
Erica Flapan, Editor in Chief of the Notices of the AMS
10:40 – 11:00 am Mathematical models for DNA self-assembly
Nataša Jonoska, University of South Florida
11:05 – 11:25 am TDA approach to the space of knots and their invariants
Radmila Sazdanovic, NC State University
11:30 – 11:50 am Topological entanglement effects in biopolymers
Eleni Panagiotou, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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New Directions in Number Theory

Yunqing Tang, Princeton University
Ha Tran, Concordia, University of Edmonton
Caroline Turnage-Butterbaugh*, Carleton College
Room: Coffman 302

10:15 – 10:35 am Orienteering with one endomorphism
Sarah Arpin, University of Colorado Boulder
10:40 – 11:00 am Two-dimensional polynomials with dynamical Mahler measure 0
Alison Beth Miller, AMS Mathematical Reviews
11:05 – 11:25 am Extremal Primes for elliptic curves*
Neha Prabhu, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India
11:30 – 11:50 am Arboreal representations for rational maps with few critical points
Michelle Manes, University of Hawaii at Manoa
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New Trends in Mathematical Models for Traffic Flow

Maria Teresa Chiri, Penn State University
Xiaoqian Gong*, Arizona State University
Room: Coffman 305

10:15 – 10:35 am Mean-field limit of a hybrid system for multi-lane car-truck traffic
Xiaoqian Gong, Arizona State University
10:40 – 11:00 am Macroscopic traffic flow models with non-local velocity*
Paola Goatin, Inria
11:05 – 11:25 am Coupled PDE-ODE systems to model mixed autonomy traffic
Maria Laura Delle Monache, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
11:30 – 11:50 am Nonlocal PDE Models for traffic flow*
Wen Shen, Penn State University
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Recent Advances in Cell- and Tissue-Scale Mathematical Modeling of Cancer

Katarzyna Rejniak, Moffitt Cancer Research Institute
Room: Coffman 326

10:15 – 10:35 am Active deformation and tension in the cell membrane is critical for cell movement: computational studies*
Magda Stolarska, University of St. Thomas
10:40 – 11:00 am Modeling Cancer Immunotherapies through in silico Trials*
Kerri-Ann Norton, Bard College
11:05 – 11:25 am Reconstructing the metabolic landscape from histology images using a hybrid agent-based model
Maureiq Ojwang’, Moffitt Cancer Center
11:30 – 11:50 am Image-guided mathematical model to predict patient-specific response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Chengyue Wu, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, UT Austin
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Research on the First Two Years of College Mathematics

Megan Breit-Goodwin, Anoka-Ramsey Community College
Room: Coffman 319

10:15 – 10:35 am Applied and Active Calculus Built Through Interdisciplinary Collaborations: a SUMMIT-P Project
Dr. Suzanne Dorée, Augsburg University
10:40 – 11:00 am Transitioning Learners to Calculus in Community Colleges
Helen Burn, Ph.D., Highline College
11:05 – 11:25 am Creating an Instrument to Measure Instructors’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching College Algebra at the Community College
Irene M Duranczyk, University of Minnesota
11:30 – 11:50 am Strengths-based and culturally affirming approaches to precalculus: Successes and design
Guadalupe (Guada) Lozano, The University of Arizona
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Systems and Control

Lorena Bociu*, North Carolina State University
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas
Room: Coffman 304

10:15 – 10:35 am Location of zeros of some classes of quasi-polynomials for the stabilituy stiudy of dynamical systems with delay*
Catherine Bonnet, Inria
10:40 – 11:00 am Large-scale data archives and analytic tools for multimodal data
Dominique Duncan, University of Southern California
11:05 – 11:25 am Co-Design of Dynamic Allocation Functions and Anti-Windup*
Sophie Tarbouriech, CNRS
11:30 – 11:50 am Safe Learning and Control with L1 Adaptation*
Naira Hovakimyan, UIUC
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WiAG: Women in Algebraic Geometry

Kristin DeVleming*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sarah Frei, Rice University
Room: Coffman 301

10:15 – 10:35 am Rationality of conic bundle threefolds over non-closed fields
Lena Ji, University of Michigan
10:40 – 11:00 am Cubic Fourfolds with an Involution
Lisa Marquand, Stony Brook University
11:05 – 11:25 am A New Characterization of the Deligne-Du Bois Complex
Kristine Hampton, University of Washington
11:30 – 11:50 am Kodaira dimension of some moduli spaces of hyperkähler manifolds
Laure Flapan, Michigan State University
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Women in Analysis Research Network – Special Session for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Donatella Danielli, Arizona State University
Loredana Lanzani, Syracuse University
Irina Mitrea*, Temple University
Room: Coffman President’s Room

10:15 – 10:35 am Logarithmic Sobolev inequalities on non-isotropic Heisenberg groups
Liangbing Luo, University of Connecticut
10:40 – 11:00 am Boundary Homogenization of Planes with Partially-Absorbing Patches
Claire E. Plunkett, University of Utah
11:05 – 11:25 am Improving and Maximal Inequalitites for Primes in Progressions
Christina Giannitsi, Georgia Institute of Technology
11:30 – 11:50 am Metalenses and Phase Discontinuity Functions
Irem Altiner, Temple University
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Women in Computational Topology

Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
Bei Wang, University of Utah
Lori Ziegelmeier*, Macalester College
Room: Vincent 203A

9:50 – 10:10 am Weisfeiler-Lehman meets Gromov-Wasserstein*
Yusu Wang, University of California, San Diego
10:15 – 10:35 am Nerve Theorems for Threshold-Linear Networks
Nicole Sanderson, Penn State
10:40 – 11:00 am Persistent cup-length
Ling Zhou, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH, US)
11:05 – 11:25 am Topology of graphs and hypergraphs for computer network data
Emilie Purvine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
11:30 – 11:50 am A medial axis-based compactness measure vs. the eye test for detecting gerrymandering*
Ellen Gasparovic, Union College
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 Various Spaces
12:00 — 12:30 pm
Emerging Talent Lecture

Marissa Kawehi Loving, Georgia Tech
Covers and Curves

Moderator: Michelle Manes, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
(View the Live Stream Here)

 Great Hall
12:30 — 2:00 pm
Lunch Break
 On-campus & off-campus options
2:00 — 2:45 pm
Poster Session
Ice Cream Social

Sponsored by Casualty Actuarial Society & Network of Actuarial Women and Allies

 Mississippi Room
2:45 — 3:15 pm
Emerging Talent Lecture

Margaret Lund, Nevada National Security Site
Estimation, Uncertainty Quantification, and Sensitivity Analysis for a New Diagnostic Setup

Moderator: Kathryn Leonard, AWM President
(View the Live Stream Here)

 Great Hall
3:20 — 4:55 pm
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
 Great Hall

Adaptive Mitigation and Intervention Strategies of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Modeling, Outcomes and Learning for the Future

Aditi Ghosh*, Texas A&M Commerce
Asma Azizi, Kennesaw State University
Room: Coffman 319

3:20 – 3:40 pm Computational Modeling in Public Health Course Lessons*
Joanna Wares, University of Richmond
3:45 – 4:05 pm Effect of human behavior on the evolution of viral strains during an epidemic
Asma Azizi, KSU
4:10 – 4:30 pm Mathematical models of infectious diseases — Consequences of underlying assumptions.*
Zhilan Feng, Purdue University
4:35 – 4:55 pm Mask, Vaccine, and Misinformation in Covid-19 Pandemic*
Yi Jiang, Georgia State University
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Advances in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Maya Chhetri, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Nsoki Mavinga*, Swarthmore College
Rosa Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Room: Coffman 323

3:20 – 3:40 pm Concentration of solutions to a system of nonlinear Schrödinger equations*
Mónica Clapp, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
3:45 – 4:05 pm Shape evolution of geometric curvature flow and nonlocal interaction interfaces*
Eun Heui Kim, California State University, Long Beach
4:10 – 4:30 pm Regularity of Free Boundaries
Sarah Raynor, Wake Forest University
4:35 – 4:55 pm On oscillatory nonlinearities in different elliptic equations
Prof. Rosa Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Contributed Talks

Moderator: Cheri Shakiban, University of Minnesota
Room: Coffman 307

3:20 – 3:40 pm Nilpotent Symplectic Alternating Algebras
Layla Sorkatti, Southern Illinois University
3:45 – 4:05 pm Tensor Decomposition Based Iterative Hard Thresholding Algorithms
Jing Qin, University of Kentucky
4:10 – 4:30 pm Concept Portfolios: Project-Based Assessment for More Equitable Course Design
Claire Gibbons, Pierce College Puyallup
Emerald Stacy, Washington College
4:35 – 4:55 pm Strengthening engineering mathematics curriculum via interdisciplinary collaborations: the NSU SUMMIT-P project
Maila Hallare, Norfolk State University
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Geometric and Categorical Aspects of Representation Theory and Related Topics

Mee Seong Im, United States Naval Academy
Room: Coffman 324

3:20 – 4:05 pm Homological mirror symmetry for the universal centralizers
Xin Jin, Boston College
4:10 – 4:55 pm Parity sheaves on graded Lie algebras
Tamanna Chatterjee, University of Georgia
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Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography

Matluba Khodjaeva*, John Jay College, The City University of New York, and CUNY Graduate Center
Delaram Kahrobaei, Queens College CUNY Graduate Center The City University of New York
Room: Coffman 303

3:20 – 3:40 pm Cryptographic functions: a selection of some achievements and exploring of new research advances and directions*
Sihem Mesnager, Universities of Paris VIII and Paris XIII-LAGA, and Telecom Paris, Polytechnic Institute
3:45 – 4:05 pm Code-based cryptography: past, present, future
Angela Robinson, NIST
4:10 – 4:30 pm Some Applications of Non-Abelian Groups to Hashing
Bianca Sosnovski, Queensborough Community College
4:35 – 4:55 pm Secure and Efficient Delegation of Pairings with Online Inputs
Matluba Khodjaeva, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
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Recent Advancements in the Mathematics of Materials

Malena Espanol, Arizona State University
Silvia Jiménez Bolanos*, Colgate College
Room: Coffman 325

3:20 – 3:40 pm On the properties of porous piezoelectric materials saturated with conducting fluid*
Yvonne Ou, University of Delaware
3:45 – 4:05 pm Modeling the Mechanics of 2D Materials
Malena I. Espanol, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University
4:10 – 4:30 pm Bloch Waves in High Contrast Electromagnetic Crystals
Silvia Jimenez Bolanos, Colgate University
4:35 – 4:55 pm Homogenization of a suspension of viscous fluid with magnetic particles*
Yuliya Gorb, National Science Foundation
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Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology

Stephanie Dodson, University of California, Davis
Kathryn Link*, University of California, Davis
Room: Coffman 326

3:20 – 3:40 pm Effects of prey capture on the swimming and feeding performance of choanoflagellates
Hoa Nguyen, Trinity University
3:45 – 4:05 pm Exploring Intracellular Dynamics and Underlying Mechanisms of Transport
Keisha Cook, Clemson University
4:10 – 4:30 pm Viscoelastic Effects on Emergent Oscillations of Elastic Filament Models with Motor Activity Regulation.*
Kathryn G. Link, University of California, Davis
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Rethinking Number Theory

Heidi Goodson, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
Allechar Serrano López, Harvard University
Christelle Vincent, University of Vermont
Mckenzie West*, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Room: Coffman 302

3:20 – 3:40 pm Local data for elliptic curves with non-trivial torsion
Bella Tobin, Oklahoma State University
3:45 – 4:05 pm A Dedekind-Rademacher homomorphism for Bianchi groups*
Kim Klinger-Logan, Kansas State University
4:10 – 4:30 pm Computing the endomorphism ring of a supersingular elliptic curve*
Annamaria Iezzi, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
4:35 – 4:55 pm Towards a converse theorem for mod ell gamma factors. (prerecorded)
Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier, IAS
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Systems and Control

Lorena Bociu*, North Carolina State University
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas
Room: Coffman 304

3:20 – 3:40 pm A Systems Engineering Approach to Molecular Organization*
Martha Grover, Georgia Institute of Technology
3:45 – 4:05 pm Periodic behaviors in recombinase-based molecular circuits
Elisa Franco, UCLA
4:10 – 4:30 pm Data-driven Dynamic Ambiguity Sets: Precision Tradeoffs under Noisy Measurements
Sonia Martinez, awm@awm-math.org
4:35 – 4:55 pm A Graph Theory Based Approach to Modeling Dynamic Wind Turbine Yaw
Genevieve M Starke, Johns Hopkins University
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WiAG: Women in Algebraic Geometry

Kristin DeVleming*, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Sarah Frei, Rice University
Room: Coffman 301

3:20 – 3:40 pm Monodromy of Tamely Ramified Covers of Curves*
Renee Bell, University of Pennsylvania
3:45 – 4:05 pm K-rings of wonderful varieties and matroids
Shiyue Li, Brown University
4:10 – 4:30 pm Symplectic involutions of hyperkahler fourfolds of Kummer type
Sarah Frei, Rice University
4:35 – 4:55 pm Higher Fano manifold
Kelly Jabbusch, University of Michigan – Dearborn
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Women from the Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics

Rachel Kirsch*, George Mason University
Kate Lorenzen, Linfield University
Elizabeth Sprangel, Iowa State University
Shanise Walker, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Room: Coffman 305

3:20 – 3:40 pm Sums of Riordan Arrays
Caroline Bang, Iowa State University
3:45 – 4:05 pm Long cycles in Balanced Tripartite Graphs
ZHANAR BERIKKYZY, Fairfield University
4:10 – 4:30 pm Informal networking session for combinatorics/graph theory
Rachel Kirsch, George Mason University
4:35 – 4:55 pm Lower Bounds on the Erdős-Gyárfás Problem
Emily Heath, Iowa State University
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Women in Analysis Research Network – Special Session for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Donatella Danielli, Arizona State University
Loredana Lanzani, Syracuse University
Irina Mitrea*, Temple University
Room: Coffman President’s Room

3:20 – 3:40 pm The Korányi Spherical Maximal Function on Heisenberg groups
Rajula Srivastava, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:45 – 4:05 pm Maximal and minimal weak solutions for elliptic problems with nonlinearity on the boundary
Shalmali Bandyopadhyay, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
4:10 – 4:30 pm Overlaps of a spherical spin glass model with an external field
Elizabeth W. Collins-Woodfin, University of Michigan
4:35 – 4:55 pm Reconstruction of the Shape and Boundary Condition in Inverse Scattering for an Obstacle with Partial Generalized Impedance Boundary
Heejin Lee, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
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Women in Computational Topology

Radmila Sazdanovic, North Carolina State University
Bei Wang, University of Utah
Lori Ziegelmeier*, Macalester College
Room: Vincent 203A

3:20 – 3:40 pm An Efficient Algorithm for the Computation of Reeb Spaces from Roadmaps
Sarah Percival, Michigan State University
3:45 – 4:05 pm Applications of persistent homology to spatial dynamics in cell biology
Maria-Veronica Ciocanel, Duke University
4:10 – 4:30 pm Topological Data Analysis of Pollination Resource Complexes
Melinda Kleczynski, University of Delaware
4:35 – 4:55 pm Using Topological Data Analysis to distinguish cosmological models of our Universe*
Jessi Cisewski-Kehe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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 Various Spaces
5:30 — 6:30 pm
Cocktails and Hors d’Oeuvres

Sponsored by SIAM

 McNamara Alumni Center
6:30 — 9:00 pm
Banquet

Sponsored by Jane Street Capital & Microsoft

 McNamara Alumni Center

Sunday, June 19, 2022

Time Event Location
8:00 — 8:45 am
Breakfast
 Graduate Hotel, Meridian Ballroom
8:50 — 10:50 am
Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
 Vincent 105

Advances in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

Maya Chhetri, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Nsoki Mavinga*, Swarthmore College
Rosa Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Room: Vincent 20

8:50 – 9:10 am Two solutions on a Nehari set in an invariant cone*
Francesca Colasuonno, Università di Bologna
9:15 – 9:35 am Mutiplicity of solutions for almost critical elliptic problems via Orlicz spaces approach*
 Mabel Cuesta, Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (ULCO), Calais (France)
9:40 – 10:00 am Strongly singular problems in exterior domains*
Francesca Faraci, University of Catania, Italy
10:05 – 10:25 am A Sharp Divergence Theorem with Non-Tangential Traces
IRINA MITREA, Temple University
10:30 – 10:50 am Discussion
Nsoki Mavinga, Swarthmore College
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Contributed Talks

Moderator: Cheri Shakiban, University of Minnesota
Room: Vincent 203A

9:15 – 9:35 am A Study of Illumination Filtering and Movement Detection in Video Streaming Processing
Phuong Mai Nguyen, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
10:05 – 10:25 am Application of Support Vector Machines to Diagnosis of Late-onset Glutaric Acidemia Type 2
Beyza Aslan, University of North Florida
10:30 – 10:50 am Epidemic Model-based Routing Protocol in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
Hyunsun Lee, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Geometric and Categorical Aspects of Representation Theory and Related Topics

Mee Seong Im, United States Naval Academy
Room: Vincent 6

8:50 – 9:10 am Informal Networking
Mee Seong Im United States Naval Academy
9:15 – 10:00 am The geometry and combinatorics of 3-row Springer fibers*
Julianna Tymoczko, Smith College
10:05 – 10:50 am B_2 Foams and Web Homology
Mrudul Thatte, Columbia University
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Homological and Combinatorial Aspects of Commutative Algebra

Christine Berkesch*, University of Minnesota
Patricia Klein, University of Minnesota
Room: Vincent 215

8:50 – 9:10 am Auslander-Reiten and Huneke-Wiegand conjectures over quasi-fiber product rings
Sylvia Wiegand, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
9:15 – 9:35 am Geometry of Extremal Surfaces
Janet Page, University of Michigan
9:40 – 10:00 am Toric and tropical Bertini theorems in prime characteristic*
Ashley K. Wheeler, Georgia Tech
10:05 – 10:25 am Equivariant Hilbert Series of Subspace Arrangements
Francesca Gandini, Kalamazoo College
10:30 – 10:50 am Combinatorial multigraded book-keeping and the Ishida complex
Laura Felicia Matusevich, Texas A&M University
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Mathematical Aspects of Cryptography

Matluba Khodjaeva*, John Jay College, The City University of New York, and CUNY Graduate Center
Delaram Kahrobaei, Queens College CUNY Graduate Center The City University of New York
Room: Vincent 2

8:50 – 9:10 am When the whole is more than the sum of parts: interplay of diverse mathematical structures in cryptography*
Shweta Agrawal, IIT Madras
9:15 – 9:35 am Cryptographic multilinear maps using pro-p groups*
Mima Stanojkovski, RWTH Aachen University / MPI MiS Leipzig
9:40 – 10:00 am Nilpotent groups applied to multilinear cryptography*
Maria Tota, Università di Salerno, Dipartimento di Matematica, (ITALY)
10:05 – 10:25 am Group Key Establishment in a Quantum-Future Scenario*
Maribel G. Vasco, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
10:30 – 10:50 am Engel group-based cryptography*
Marialaura Noce, University of Salerno
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Recent Advancements in Inverse Problems and Imaging

Malena Espanol, Arizona State University
Mirjeta Pasha*, Arizona State University
Room: Vincent 570

8:50 – 9:10 am Techniques to improve resolution in the D-bar method for pulmonary imaging with electrical impedance tomography*
Jennifer Mueller, Colorado State University
9:15 – 9:35 am Fast Imaging of Local Perturbations in Periodic Layers: Some Remarks on Non-scattering Waves*
Fioralba Cakoni, Rutgers Universith, New Brunswick
9:40 – 10:00 am Total Variation regularization parameter selection*
Jodi Mead, Boise State University
10:05 – 10:25 am Optimal Design of Large-scale Bayesian Inverse Problems Under Uncertainty*
Noemi Petra, University of California, Merced
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Recent Advances in Mathematical Biology

Stephanie Dodson, University of California, Davis
Kathryn Link*, University of California, Davis
Room: Vincent 203B

8:50 – 9:10 am A mathematical model of platelet aggregation and fibrin polymerization
Anna C. Nelson, Duke University
9:15 – 9:35 am Traveling waves and cardiac arrhythmias: Investigating the onset of abnormal heart rhythms with mathematical models
Stephanie Dodson, University of California Davis
9:40 – 10:00 am The Role of Infection on Shifts in Population Cycles in a Discrete-Time Epidemic Model
Laura F. Strube, Virginia Tech
10:05 – 10:25 am Modelling feedback between ecological foodwebs and social decisions
Amanda Laubmeier, Texas Tech University
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Systems and Control

Lorena Bociu*, North Carolina State University
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas
Room: Vincent 113

8:50 – 9:10 am Safe Adaptive Learning for Linear Quadratic Regulators with Constraints*
Yingying Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
9:15 – 9:35 am Poroelastic Systems: Analysis, Sensitivity, and Control
Lorena Bociu, NC State University
9:40 – 10:00 am Optimal Control of Fluid Flows through Deformable Porous Media
Sarah Strikwerda, North Carolina State University
10:05 – 10:25 am Interdisciplinary Research Addressing New Challenges: The Central Role of Stochastic Systems and Control
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas
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Women from the Graduate Research Workshop in Combinatorics

Rachel Kirsch*, George Mason University
Kate Lorenzen, Linfield University
Elizabeth Sprangel, Iowa State University
Shanise Walker, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Room: Vincent 1

8:50 – 9:10 am Narayana numbers from the geometry of Shi arrangements*
Galen Dorpalen-Barry, Ruhr-University Bochum
9:15 – 9:35 am Graph irregularities of maximal k-degenerate graphs
Zhongyuan Che, Penn State University, Beaver Campus
9:40 – 10:00 am Maximizing Edges in the Lights Out Game*
Lauren Keough, Grand Valley State University
10:05 – 10:25 am Cospectral constructions using cousin vertices
Kate J Lorenzen, Linfield University
10:30 – 10:50 am Cycle-Free Saturation Games*
Erin Meger, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Women, Art, and Mathematics (WAAM)

Shanna Dobson, University of California, Riverside
Room: Vincent 206

8:50 – 9:10 am Modeling the artistic experience: how applied mathematics can help us harness the power of art therapy to heal our bodies and minds
Stephanie Lewkiewicz, Temple University
9:15 – 9:35 am Tess-celestial: immersive science approach to mathematics
Radmila Sazdanovic, NC State University
9:40 – 10:00 am A Toplogical Jounal of the Plague Year*
Claudia Maria Schmidt, California State University at Los Angeles
10:05 – 10:25 am Literary Incarnations of Perfectoid Diamonds*
Shanna Dobson, University of California, Riverside
10:30 – 10:50 am Mathematics and Emotions*
Maiko Serizawa
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 Various Spaces
11:00 — 11:30 am
Closing Event

AWM Trivia Contest featuring past AWM Presidents

 Vincent Hall

AWM Research Symposium Organizing Committee

Ben Brubaker, University of Minnesota
Alina Bucur, University of California San Diego
Katherine Dowd, University of Minnesota
Ruth Haas, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Leslie Hogben, Iowa State University
Darla Kremer, Association for Women in Mathematics
Kathryn Leonard (Chair), Occidental College
Cheri Shakiban, University of Minnesota
Daniel Spirn, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

Sincere thanks to 2023 AWM Symposium Sponsors!