Women in Mathematics Symposium - IPAM

Women in Mathematics Symposium

February 24 - 26, 2011

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Afternoon Session

16:00
Check In
16:30-17:00
Welcome: Amber Puha (IPAM); Henry Warchall (NSF); Co-Chair Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
17:00-18:00
Ice Breaker/Networking Activity
18:00-19:00
Women's Mentoring Dinner
19:00-20:00
Rhonda Hughes (Bryn Mawr College)
Don't Stop Believin': My Journey into Mathematics

Friday, February 25, 2011

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
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)

Afternoon Session

12:30-12:45
Walk to Faculty Center
12:45-13:45
Lunch at the Faculty Center
13:45-14:45
Zvia Agur (Institute for Medical BioMathematics (IMBM))
Virtual patients can guide medicine
14:45-15:00
Group Photos
15:00-15:15
Walk back to IPAM
15:15-15:40
Lightning Poster Presentations: Group 1
15:40-15:50
Break
15:50-16:15
Lightning Poster Presentations: Group 2
16:15-16:30
Break/Poster Set Up
16:15-18:00
Reception and Poster Session (Hosted by IPAM)
16:30-17:15
Presentation of Posters: Group 1
17:15-18:00
Presentation of Posters: Group 2

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Morning Session

08:30-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
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

Afternoon Session

12:00-12:25
Elizabeth Niese (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
A factorization of modified Macdonald polynomials at roots of unity
12:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Got My PhD. Now What? Part III - Grant Writing Panel: Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA), Suncica Canic (Univ. Houston)
14:30-15:30
Open Discussion