AWM at SIAM 2014
Monday, July 7th 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM, Salon 2 – 3rd Floor
AWM Workshop Career Panel: Women and Challenges in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering I
Increasingly, women are earning advanced degrees in mathematics, science, and engineering and are entering the workforce. Yet these women still face a variety of challenges – from lower salaries to juggling a family with a career. We will share experiences, ideas, and strategies that can help women develop and advance their careers and increase their contribution to science and technology. Topics include:
- Analyzing success factors and barriers
- Enhancing networking and leadership
- Promoting capability and skills
- Learning career paths in universities, national laboratories, and industries
- Advancing to senior levels with increasing visibility
- Mentoring and sponsoring women
- Balancing between family and career
Organizers:
Misun Min, Argonne National Laboratory
Xueying Wang, Washington State University
Abstracts
- 10:30-10:50 Beating the Imposter Syndrome
Margot Gerritsen, Stanford University, USA - 10:55-11:15 My Intertwined Paths: Career and Family
Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - 11:20-11:40 From Law of Large Numbers…
Fengyan Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA - 11:45-12:05 On the Importance of Good Mentoring and having an Engaging Community
Mary Silber, Northwestern University, USA - 12:10-12:30 On the Road Again: My Experience as an Early-career Mathematician
Anne Shiu, University of Chicago, USA
Monday, July 7th 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Salon 2 – 3rd Floor
AWM Meeting Career Panel: Women and Challenges in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering II
- 4:00-4:20 Two Jobs, Two Children, and Two Cars: What can Possibly go Wrong?
Barbara Lee Keyfitz, The Ohio State University, USA - 4:25-4:45 Perspectives of an Assistant Professor
Joan Lind, University of Tennessee, USA - 4:50-5:10 Changing Directions
May Boggess, Arizona State University, USA - 5:15-5:55 Career Panel Discussion with Speakers from Two Parts of the Minisymposium
MiSun Min, Argonne National Laboratory, USA; Xueying Wang, Washington State University, USA
Monday, July 7th 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM, Grand Ballroom – 4th Floor
AWM-SIAM Sonia Kovalevsky Lecture: The Evolution of Complex Interactions in Non-Linear Kinetic Systems
Irene M. Gamba, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Introduction: Ruth Charney, Brandeis University, USA
Recent developments in statistical transport modeling, ranging from rarefied gas dynamics, collisional plasmas and electron transport in nanostructures, to self-organized or social interacting dynamics, share a common description based in a Markovian framework of birth and death processes. Under the regime of molecular chaos propagation, their evolution is given by kinetic equations of non-linear collisional (integral) Boltzmann type.
We will present an overview of analytical issues and novel numerical methods for these equations that preserve the expected conserved properties of the described phenomena, while enabling rigorous stability, convergence and error analysis.
Tuesday, July 8th 8:30 AM – 10:30 AM, Salon 2 – 3rd Floor
AWM Workshop on Numerical and Theoretical Approaches for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Research Talks by Recent Ph.D.s I
This minisymposium will feature research talks by female recent Ph.D.s.
Organizers:
Ching-Shan Chou, Ohio State University
Chiu-Yen Kao, Claremont McKenna College
Abstracts
- 8:30-8:55 Nonlinear Traveling Waves for a Model of the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Shengqian Chen, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA - 9:00-9:25 Fast Sweeping Methods for Steady State Problems for Hyperbolic Conservation Laws
Weitao Chen, University of California, Irvine, USA - 9:30-9:55 Nonlinear Neutral Inclusions: Assemblages of Spheres and Ellipsoids
Silvia Jimenez Bolanos, Colgate University, USA - 10:00-10:25 Energy-Conserving Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for the Vlasov-Ampere System
Xinghui Zhong, Michigan State University, USA
Tuesday, July 8th 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM, Salon 2 – 3rd Floor
AWM Workshop on Numerical and Theoretical Approaches for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations: Research Talks by Recent Ph.D.s II
Organizers:
Ching-Shan Chou, Ohio State University
Chiu-Yen Kao, Claremont McKenna College
Abstracts
- 4:00-4:25 Numerical Optimization Method for Simulation Based Optimal Design Problems
Carmen Caiseda, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico - 4:30-4:55 A Characterization of the Reflected Quasipotential
Kasie Farlow, United States Military Academy, USA - 5:00-5:25 Analysis of Finite Difference Schemes for Diffusion in Spheres with Variable Diffusivity
Ashlee Ford Versypt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
5:30-5:55 Analysis of Si Models with Multiple Interacting Populations Using Subpopulations with Forcing Terms
Evelyn Thomas, Bennett College For Women, USA
Wednesday, July 9th 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, Exhibit Hall
AWM Poster Presentations
- Fast Iterative Methods for The Variable Diffusion Coefficient Equation in a Unit Disk
Aditi Ghosh, Texas A&M University, USA - The Asymptotic Analysis of a Thixotropic Yield Stress Fluid in Squeeze Flow
Holly Grant, Virginia Tech, USA - Traveling Fronts to the Combustion and the Generalized Fisher-Kpp Models
Tingting Huan, University of Connecticut, USA - Sexual Cannibalism As An Optimal Strategy in Fishing Spiders
Sara Reynolds, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA - A Local Grid Mesh Reinement for a Nonlocal Model of Mechanics
Feifei Xu, Florida State University, USA - Three Model Problems for 1-D Particle Motion with the History Force in Viscous Fluids
Shujing Xu, Claremont Graduate University, USA