Women in Mathematics Symposium

February 24 - 26, 2011

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Thursday, February 24, 2011
4:00 Check In
4:30 - 5:00 Welcome: Amber Puha (IPAM); Henry Warchall (NSF); Co-Chair Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
5:00 - 6:00 Ice Breaker/Networking Activity
6:00 - 7:00 Women's Mentoring Dinner

Evening Session
7:00 - 8:00
Rhonda Hughes (Bryn Mawr College)

"Don't Stop Believin'": My Journey into Mathematics


Friday, February 25, 2011

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 Career Panel & Discussion: Navah Langmeyer (National Security Agency), Catherine O'Neil (MSCI Riskmetrics), Krista O'Neill (Aerospace Corporation), Sara Y Del Valle (Los Alamos National Labs)
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:40
Lerna Pehlivan (Carleton University)

Top to random shuffles and number of fixed points

10:45 - 11:10
Eva Strawbridge (University of Chicago)

Slender Elastic Bodies and Skin Friction

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Got My PhD. Now What? Part I - Interviewing Skills Panel: Kashi Behrstock (Morgan Stanley), Navah Langmeyer (National Security Agency), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
12:30 - 12:45 Walk to Faculty Center
12:45 - 1:45 Lunch at the Faculty Center

Afternoon Session
1:45 - 2:45
Zvia Agur (Institute for Medical BioMathematics (IMBM))

Virtual patients can guide medicine

2:45 - 3:00 Group Photos
3:00 - 3:15 Walk back to IPAM
3:15 - 3:40 Lightning Poster Presentations: Group 1
3:40 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:15 Lightning Poster Presentations: Group 2
4:15 - 4:30 Break/Poster Set Up
4:15 - 6:00 Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)
4:30 - 5:15 Presentation of Posters: Group 1
5:15 - 6:00 Presentation of Posters: Group 2

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00
Kate Okikiolu (Johns Hopkins University)

Subsets of the real line of questionable length

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 Got My PhD. Now What? Part II - Negotiation and Self Promotion Panel: Rosina Becerra (UCLA), Tammy Kolda (Sandia National Labs), Helen Moore (Pharsight Corporation).
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 11:55
Manwah Wong (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Orthogonal Polynomials and Applications

12:00 - 12:25
Elizabeth Niese (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)

A factorization of modified Macdonald polynomials at roots of unity

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
1:30 - 2:30 Got My PhD. Now What? Part III - Grant Writing Panel: Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA), Suncica Canic (Univ. Houston)
2:30 - 3:30 Open Discussion