AWM at SIAM 2010

Monday, July 12, 2010, 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm, Room; Spirit of Pittsburgh

The AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture: Mixing It Up: Discrete and Continuous Optimal Control for Biological Models

Suzanne M. Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA and National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, USA

Introduction: Deborah Lockhart, National Science Foundation, USA

This presentation will illustrate optimal control methods applied to several types of models, including a mixture of discrete and continuous features. The applications range from a discrete model for cardiopulmonary resuscitation to partial differential equation models for rabies in raccoons. Detailed results will be given for harvesting in a PDE fishery model that answer the question: Does a marine reserve occur when maximizing harvest yield?


Monday, July 12, 2010, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Room: 303

AWM Career Development Minisymposium: Success Through Transitions

Abstracts

  • Organizers:
  • Karen D. Devine, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  • Cammey Cole Manning, Meredith College, USA
  • Carol S. Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  • Andrea L. Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  • 4:00-4:25 Taking the Road Not [Usually] Taken
    Elebeoa May, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  • 4:30-4:55 Title Not Available at Time of Publication
    Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • 5:00-5:25 Deciding to Give Up Tenure: Surprising Decisions Along the Path
    Mary Ann Horn, Vanderbilt University, USA and National Science Foundation, USA
  • 5:30-5:55 Panel Discussion: Success through Transitions
    Elebeoa May, Sandia National Laboratories, USA; Gigliola Staffilani, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA; Mary Ann Horn, Vanderbilt University, USA and National Science Foundation, USA

Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:30 am – 12:30 am, Room: 303

AWM Workshop Recent Ph.D. Minisymposium: PDEs and Applications

Abstracts

  • Organizers:
  • Karen D. Devine, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  • Cammey Cole Manning, Meredith College, USA
  • Carol S. Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  • Andrea L. Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  • 10:30-10:55 Numerical Methods for a Problem arising in 3D Breast Image Reconstruction
    Julianne Chung, University of Maryland, USA
  • 11:00-11:25 Non-linear Wave Interactions in Rotating Stratified Fluid Flow
    Dawn Ring, Wentworth Institute of Technology, USA
  • 11:30-11:55 Modeling Combustion Reactions with Step-function Kinetics
    Erin Lennon, Northwestern University, USA
  • 12:00-12:25 The Mechanical Stability of Growing Arteries, Rebecca Vandiver, Bryn Mawr College, U.S.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Room:303

AWM Workshop Recent Ph.D. Minisymposium: Stochastic and Probabilistic Methods and Applications

Abstracts

  • Organizers:
  • Karen D. Devine, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  • Cammey Cole Manning, Meredith College, USA
  • Carol S. Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
  • Andrea L. Bertozzi, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
  • 4:00-4:25 Lower and Upper Bounds on the Probability Distributions of the Wasted Spaces of a Processor-Sharing Storage Allocation Model
    Eunju Sohn, University of Georgia, USA
  • 4:30-4:55 Mechanisms of Simple Perceptual Decision-making Processes
    Xueying Wang, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, USA
  • 5:00-5:25 Using Sequence Coverage Statistics to Determine Protein Binding Sites in a Genome
    Valerie Hower, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  • 5:30-5:55 Oscillations in NFkB Signaling Pathway
    Yunjiao Wang, Ohio State University, USA