Women of Applied Mathematics: Research and Leadership

A workshop on Women of Applied Mathematics: Research and Leadership will be held October 8-10, 2003 at the University of Maryland at College Park. The workshop, consisting of research symposia and career development panel discussions, will provide a technical and professional forum for ten senior women and twenty-five early-career women in applied mathematics.

This workshop is supported by a grant from the Department of Energy with local support provided by the Computer Science Department and the Center for Scientific Computing and Mathematical Modeling at the University of Maryland.

We invite the mathematical community to attend the following talks.

Schedule

Questions? tgkolda@sandia.gov or oleary@cs.umd.edu

Day 1	Wednesday, October 8, 2003
8:30am CSI 2117	Opening Remarks
8:45am CSI 2117	*Women of Applied Mathematics:Research and Leadership* Tammy Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories Dianne O'Leary, University of Maryland, College Park
2:00 pm CSI 4122	Parallel Research Symposium 1 Chaired by Shari Moskow and Carol Woodward 2:00 pm Systems of Conservation Laws in Continuum Physics Konstantina Trivisa, University of Maryland 2:30 pm Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws on Cartesian Meshes with Embedded Geometry Marsha Berger, Courant Institute 3:00 pm A Projection-Based Approach to General Form Tikhonov Regularization Misha E. Kilmer, Tufts University 3:30pm Break 4:00 pm Determining the Earth's Microstructure by Statistical Seismic Imaging Susan E. Minkoff, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 4:30 pm Change in schedule: Creating a Medical Diagnostic Tool using Tissue Stiffness Properties Joyce R. McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5:00 pm The Identification of a Time Dependent Parameter in a Soil Column Study Maeve L. McCarthy, Murray State University
2:00 pm CSI 2118	Parallel Research Symposium 2 Chaired by Renee Fister and Holly Gaff 2:00 pm Global Analysis of the Forced van der Pol Equation: The Slow Flow and Canard Solutions Kathleen Hoffman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2:30 pm Integrative Models of Swimming Organisms Lisa J. Fauci, Tulane University 3:00 pm Measuring Noise-Sensitivity in Dynamical Systems Rachel Kuske, University of British Columbia 3:30pm Break 4:00 pm Modeling Immunotherapy and Chemotherapy Cancer Treatments Lisette de Pillis, Harvey Mudd College 4:30 pm Towards the Multiscale Numerical Simulation of Biochemical Networks Linda Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara 5:00 pm Bosonic Fock Space on Infinite-Dimensional Lie Groups Masha Gordina, University of Connecticut
5:30 pm	Adjourn for the day
Day 2	Thursday, October 9, 2003
10:00 am CSI 4122	Parallel Research Symposium 3 Chaired by Kathleen Hoffman 10:00 am Multiphase Fluid Mechanics in Self-Deforming Tissues Sharon R. Lubkin, North Carolina State University 10:30 am Pattern and Paradox: Shock Interactions in the Nonlinear Wave System Barbara Lee Keyfitz, University of Houston 11:00 am Pattern Prediction in Frontal Polymerization Laura K. Gross, The University of Akron 11:30 am Numerical Solution of the Shallow Water Equations in Lagrangian Coordinates Jodi L. Mead, Boise State University
10:00 am CSI 2118	Parallel Research Symposium 4 Chaired by Karen Devine 10:00 am Massively-Parallel Integer Programming Cynthia A. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories 10:30 am Ferment in Direct Search Methods Margaret H. Wright, Courant Institute 11:00 am Optimal Control Applied to Cell-Kill Strategies K. Renee Fister , Murray State University 11:30 am Systems Hard to Control: an Adaptive Approach Naira Hovakimyan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2:30 pm CSI 4122	Parallel Research Symposium 5 Chaired by Masha Gordina and Maeve McCarthy 2:30 pm Issues in High-Performance Numerical Libraries Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory 3:00 pm Blending Systems and Optimal Alphabetic Trees Maria Klawe, Princeton University 3:30 pm Load Balancing for Emerging Applications Karen Devine, Sandia National Laboratories 4:00 pm Break 4:30 pm Solution Methods for Large-Scale Nonlinear Diffusion Problems Carol S. Woodward, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 5:00 pm Convergence to Equilibrium in Nonlocal Dispersal Gwendolen Hines, University of Nebraska 5:30 pm Impacts of Spatial Heterogeneity on Plague Holly Gaff, Dynamics Technology, Inc.
2:30 pm CSI 2118	Parallel Research Symposium 6 Chaired by Sue Minkoff and Misha Kilmer 2:30 pm Mesh Quality Improvement Lori Freitag Diachin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 3:00 pm Change in schedule: What Does Mathematics Know About Water Mary Wheeler, University of Texas 3:30 pm Optimal Finite Difference Grids for Targeted Approximations Shari Moskow, University of Florida 4:00 pm Break 4:30 pm An Algebraic Multigrid Solver for Meshfree Discretizations Suely Oliveira, The University of Iowa 5:00 pm Hierarchical Matrices and Iterative Solvers Sabine Le Borne, Tennessee Technological University 5:30 pm Representability of Rank 3 Combinatorial Geometries Sandra Kingan, Penn State Harrisburg
6:00 pm	Adjourn

Last updated 9-23-2003.

Questions? tgkolda@sandia.gov or oleary@cs.umd.edu