AWM at SIAM 2017
The AWM Workshop held in conjunction with the 2017 SIAM Annual Meeting consists of two research minisymposia focused on Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing, organized by Susanne Brenner, Fengyan Li and Beatrice Riviere, a Poster Session for graduate students and an informational minisymposium directed at starting a career. Selected junior and senior women from the Research Collaboration Conference for Women (RCCW): Numerical Partial Differential Equations and Scientific Computing, will give 20-minutes talks in the two research minisymoposia.
The AWM Workshop runs from Monday morning through Tuesday. AWM and SIAM welcome your participation. There is no additional registration fee for this workshop. The AWM minisymposia and poster session are open to all SIAM meeting attendees.
Monday, July 10, 2017, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm, Room 305
AWM Workshop: Recent Advances in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing–Part I of II
This 2-part special session aims at bringing together women mathematicians at various levels, invited from the Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (WINASC) Research Network, to share and discuss the recent progress of their research. Topics will include mathematical modeling, high order numerical discretizations (such as spectral methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods, WENO methods), regularization strategies, efficient solvers, and sensitivity analysis, for applications as diverse as in plasma physics, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and biology.
Abstracts
- Organizer: Fengyan Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Organizer: Susanne Brenner, Louisiana State University, USA
- Organizer:Beatrice Riviere, Rice University, USA
- 10:30-10:55 A New Convergence Analysis of Finite Element Methods for Elliptic Distributed Optimal Control Problems with Pointwise State Constraints
Susanne Brenner, Louisiana State University, USA - 11:00-11:25 Super-convergence of the Asymptotic Approximation of Linear Kinetic Equation with Spectral Methods
Zheng Chen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - 11:30-11:55 Numerical Methods for the Chemotaxis Models
Yekaterina Epshteyn, University of Utah, USA - 12:00-12:25 The Effect of the Sensitivity Parameter in Weighted Essentially Non-oscillatory Methods
Yulia Hristova, University of Michigan,Dearborn, USA
Monday, July 10, 2017, 2:45 pm – 3:30 pm, Spirit of Pittsburgh A -3rd Floor
AWM-SIAM Kovalevsky Lecture: Mitigating Uncertainty in Inverse Wave Scattering
Liliana Borcea, University of Michigan, USA
Introduction: Ami Radunskaya
Inverse wave scattering is an inverse problem for the wave equation, driven by a broad spectrum of applications. It is an interdisciplinary area that involves mathematical analysis, computational modeling, statistics and signal processing. This lecture will discuss one important challenge due the uncertainty of the model for inversion. Uncertainty is unavoidable in applications, not only because of noise, but because of lack of detailed knowledge of complex media through which the waves propagate.
Monday, July 10, 2017, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Room:305
AWM Workshop: Recent Advances in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing–Part II of II
This 2-part special session aims
at bringing together women mathematicians at various levels, invited from the Women in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing (WINASC) Research Network, to share and discuss the recent progress of their research. Topics will include mathematical modeling, high order numerical discretizations (such as spectral methods, discontinuous Galerkin methods, WENO methods), regularization strategies, efficient solvers, and sensitivity analysis,
for applications as diverse as in plasma physics, fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and biology.
Abstracts
- Organizer: Fengyan Li, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
- Organizer: Susanne Brenner, Louisiana State University, USA
- Organizer: Beatrice Riviere, Rice University, USA
- 4:00-4:25 Pseudo-time Adaptive Regularization for Nonmonotone Problems
Sara Pollock, Wright State University, USA - 4:30-4:55 On the Sensitivity to the Filtering Radius in Leray Models of Incompressible Flow
Annalisa Quaini, University of Houston, USA - 5:00-5:25 A BDDC Preconditioner for C0 Interior Penalty Methods
Kening Wang, University of North Florida, USA - 5:30-5:55 A Moving Mesh WENO Method Based on Exponential Polynomials for One-dimensional Conservation Laws
Yan Jiang, Michigan State University, USA
Tuesday, July 11, 2017, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, 4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Room:305
AWM Workshop Career Panel: Perspectives from Women in Research
Well prepared and educated women continue today to face challenges at work and many of them strive to break through the glass ceiling. The panel will consider the factors that lead to a successful career in academia or industry, and the obstacles that women can face.
- Organizer: Beatrice Riviere, Rice University, USA
- Organizer: Laura Ellwein, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
- Organizer: Megan Owen, Lehman College, CUNY, USA
Panelists To Be Announced
Tuesday, July 11, 2017, 8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Room:West Atrium – 3rd Floor
Minisymposterium: AWM Posters
Abstracts
- Tailoring Tails in Taylor Dispersion: How Boundaries Shape Chemical Deliveries in Microfluidics
Francesca Bernardi, University of North Carolina, USA - A New Goal- Oriented A Posteriori Error Estimation for 2D and 3D Saddle Point Problems in Hp Adaptive Fem
Arezou Ghesmati, Texas A&M University, USA - Sobolev Discontinuous Galerkin (dG) Methods Adeline Kornelus, University of New Mexico, USA
- An AMG Approach in Solving Graph Laplacians of Protein Networks Based on Diffusion State Distance Metrics
Junyuan Lin, Tufts University, USA - Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Parallellized Graph Clustering Methods
Zhaoyi Meng, University of California, Los Angeles, USA - A Reaction-Diffusion Model for Cell Polarization in Yeast
- Marissa Renardy, Ohio State University, USA
- An Invariant-Region- Preserving Limiter for DG Method to Compressible Euler Equations
Yi Jiang and Hailiang Liu, Iowa State University, USA - Band-Edge Solitons in the Nls Equation with Periodic Pt-Symmetric Potentials
Jessica Taylor, University of California, Merced, USA - Polynomial Preconditioned Arnoldi for Eigenvalues
Jennifer A. Loe and Ron Morgan, Baylor University, USA; Mark Embree, Virginia Tech, USA - Almost Sure Convergence of Particle Swarm Optimization Using Pure Adaptive Search Method
Ganesha Weerasinghe, Auburn University, USA - Blending Peridynamics and Classical Elasticity to Model Material Behavior
Kileen Berry, University of Tennessee, USA - Computational Approaches for Linear Goal-Oriented Bayesian Inverse Problems
Karina Koval, Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, New York University, US
Tuesday, July 11, 2017, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Room 406, David Lawrence Convention Center
Hidden Figures Panel
Dr. Darden will share some of the work she and other African American women did at NASA’s mathematics-intensive aerospace program and during the era of segregation. We will also feature “Modern Figures” who will share their mathematical work as well as personal insights of how to support and encourage diversity.
- Moderator:
- Carla Cotwright-Williams, Social Security Administration
- Featured Panelists:
- Christine Darden, retired from NASA
- Erica Graham, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Bryn Mawr College
- Talitha Washington, Associate Professor of Mathematics, Howard University
- Shelby Wilson, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Morehouse College
Sponsored by: Sponsored by: Association for Women in Mathematics, Building Diversity in Science/Infinite Possibilities Conference, Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE), IBM, National Association of Mathematicians, Inc., Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Hidden Figures Poster
AWM is grateful to SIAM and their Conference Department for all their efforts on behalf of the workshop and all AWM activities. AWM also wishes to express its gratitude to the National Science Foundation for the support of the AWM workshop.