Career Options for Women in Mathematical Sciences, April 2-4, 2009

April 2-4, 2009

April 2: 6:00pm-8:00pm Dinner and Networking, 400 Lind Hall
April 3: 6:30pm-9:00pm Banquet at the Carlson Dining Room map

The workshop is co-organized by the IMA and the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Organizers:
Maria-Carme T. Calderer	Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Janet Pavelich Keel	Lockheed Martin Corporation
Tamara G. Kolda	Sandia National Laboratories
Wen-Ching Winnie Li	Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University
Shari Moskow	Association for Women in Mathematics/Drexel University
Chehrzad Shakiban	IMA/University of St. Thomas
Suzanne L. Weekes	Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Schedule	Participants		Poster: pdf
IMA Live Streaming and Webcasting		Photo Gallery	Maps
Abstracts and Talk Materials			Dining Guide
Minnesota Daily Press Release

Description:

This workshop aims to familiarize women in the mathematical sciences with professional opportunities in industry and government labs and to help them thrive in these fields. There will also be a special session to discuss principles of negotiation, developing "best alternatives to a negotiated agreement," and understanding your negotiating style. Case practices, particularly job interview scenarios will be used to illustrate the principles presented in the workshop.

The audience is graduate students and Ph.D.s in the early stages of their post-graduate careers. Researchers at any stage of their careers will also find it valuable.

Speakers, panelists, and discussion leaders are women in research and management positions in industry and government labs as well as women in academia who have strong ties with industry.

Participants are encouraged to present a poster on their research. Sponsored by the at the University of Minnesota and the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).

For more information, contact the IMA Visitors staff at .

Schedule

Thursday | Friday | Saturday

Thursday, April 2

6:00pm-9:00pm

Dinner Ice breaker – Networking in the Academics, Government and Industry

Chehrzad Shakiban (University of Minnesota), Shari Moskow (Drexel University)

Lind Hall 400

Friday, April 3

Session Chairs:
9:00am-10:30am Shari Moskow (Drexel University)
11:00am-1:30pm Stacey Beggs (Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM))
1:30pm-2:45pm Karen Raquel Rios-Soto (University of Puerto Rico)
3:15pm-4:20pm Tamara G. Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories)

8:15am-8:45am

Registration and coffee

EE/CS 3-176

8:45am-9:00am

Welcome and introduction

Fadil Santosa (University of Minnesota)

EE/CS 3-180

9:00am-9:30am

Careers in quantitative equity investments

Pam Gao (Putman Investments)

EE/CS 3-180

9:30am-10:00am

Planning ahead

Rachelle C. DeCoste (Wheaton College)

EE/CS 3-180

10:00am-10:30am

Math at IBM

Brenda L. Dietrich (IBM)

EE/CS 3-180

10:30am-11:00am

Coffee

EE/CS 3-176

11:00am-12:00pm

(Topic: How to write a grant)

Mary Ann Horn (National Science Foundation), Isabel K. Darcy (University of Iowa)

EE/CS 3-180

12:00pm-1:30pm

Lunch (Discussion topic: Leadership skills and developing a technical research program - starting as a graduate student),

Karen Saxe (Macalester College), Leslie Hogben (Iowa State University)

EE/CS 3-180

1:30pm-2:00pm

Accounting for temperature-dependent sex determination in crocodilians using delay differential equations

Angela C. Gallegos (Occidental College)

EE/CS 3-180

2:00pm-2:45pm

Panel Discussion (Topic: Interviewing skills. Format: panel discussion)

Suzanne L. Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Erica Zimmer Klampfl (Ford), Janet Pavelich Keel (Lockheed Martin)

EE/CS 3-180

2:45pm-3:15pm

Coffee

EE/CS 3-176

3:15pm-4:20pm

Lightening poster presentations
(2 minutes per poster, slides are assembled in advance, presentations are timed by kitchen timer)

Tamara G. Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories)

EE/CS 3-180

4:20pm-4:30pm

Group picture

4:30pm-6:00pm

Reception and Poster Session
Poster submission is closed.
Lind Hall 400

Arithmetic progressions on elliptic curves	Alejandra Alvarado (Arizona State University)
Predicting migration of the enterocyte layer using a two-dimensional mathematical model	Julia C. Arciero (University of Pittsburgh)
Recommender systems: Incorporating time into movie recommendations	Jessica Blascak (Macalester College)
Discrete empirical interpolation for nonlinear model reduction	Saifon Chaturantabut (Rice University)
Zeta functions of hypergraphs associated to GSP(4)	Yang Fang (Pennsylvania State University)
Stochastic chemostat center manifold analysis	Suzanne Galayda (New Mexico State University)
Scattering of H¹ solutions for the focusing quintic NLS in 2D	Cristi Darley Guevara (Arizona State University)
Quasi-periodic decadal cycles in levels of Lakes Michigan and Huron	Janel Hanrahan (University of Wisconsin)
Parametric analysis of RNA folding	Valerie Hower (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Boundary integral method for shallow water and its application to KdV equation	Jeong-sook Im (Ohio State University)
Computational determination of enzyme reaction mechanisms	Srividhya Jeyaraman (University of Minnesota)
Local fields in nonlinear power law materials	Silvia Jimenez (Louisiana State University)
Multiple scaling methods in chemical reaction networks	Hye-Won Kang (University of Minnesota)
Counting and classifying the closed subgroups of a compact Abelian group	Merve Kovan (University of Pittsburgh)
Functional data analysis: prediction through canonical correlation	Ana Kupresanin (Arizona State University)
Tear film dynamics on an eye-shaped domain: Pressure boundary conditions	Kara Lee Maki (University of Delaware)
Gels in biomedical applications: Modeling and finite element methods	Catherine (Katy) A. Micek (University of Minnesota)
An analysis of the relationships between pseudocodewords	Katherine Morrison (University of Nebraska)
Boundary value problems in Lipschitz domains	Katharine Ott (University of Kentucky)
C*-algebras associated with irreversible dynamical systems	Nura Patani (Arizona State University)
Solving tangle equations: An overview of the tangle model associated with site specific recombination and topoisomerase action	Candice Price (University of Iowa)
A theory of fracture based Upon extension of continuum mechanics to the nanoscale	Tsvetanka Sendova (University of Minnesota)
The poset perspective on alternating sign matrices	Jessica Striker (University of Minnesota)
A model-based approach for clustering time series of counts	Sarah Julia Thomas (Rice University)
Benchmarking finite population means using a Bayesian regression model	Maria Criselda Santos Toto (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
The most interesting surface maps	Chia-yen Tsai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
From a Black-Scholes model with stochastic volatility and high frequency data to a general partial integro-diffferental equation (PIDE)	Ana Luz Vivas-Mejia (New Mexico State University)
Analysis of message-passing iterative decoding of finite-length LDPC codes	Chenying Wang (Pennsylvania State University)
African American women in mathematics	Eyerusalem Kesete Woldegebreal (University of St. Thomas)

6:30pm-9:00pm

Banquet and Keynote Speaker: Rachel Kuske (University of British Columbia)

Carlson Private Dining Room (Carlson School of Management map)
321 19th Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Carlson Private Dining Room

Mixing mathematics, activism, and community: (Yes, you can!)	Rachel Kuske (University of British Columbia)
Introduction of the keynote speaker	Chehrzad Shakiban (University of Minnesota)

Saturday, April 4

8:45am-10:15am Session Chair: Laura Lurati (Boeing)

8:15am-8:45am

Coffee

EE/CSci 3-210

8:45am-9:15am

The canonical tensor decompositions and its application to data Analysis

Tamara G. Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories)

EE/CSci 3-210

9:15am-9:45am

Using mathematics to transform communities

Tanya Moore (Building Diversity in Science)

EE/CSci 3-210

9:45am-10:15am

An invitation to tropical geometry

Josephine Yu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

EE/CSci 3-210

10:15am-10:25am

Workshop evaluation

EE/CSci 3-210

10:25am-10:50am

Coffee

EE/CSci 3-210

10:50am-12:00pm

Group discussion (Topic: What we learned and what we still have questions about. Format: Record observations by participants either on the board or on a projected display, but in real time. )

Kathleen O'Hara (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute)

EE/CSci 3-210

12:00pm-1:15pm

Lunch

Lind Hall 400

1:30pm-5:30pm

Optional session: COACh – Negotiation skills for postdoctoral associates and graduate students

Jane W. Tucker (Jane W. Tucker and Associates)

Walter Library 101

LIST OF CONFIRMED PARTICIPANTS

Name	Department	Affiliation
Jeannine Therese Abiva	Department of Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences	University of Iowa
Alejandra Alvarado	Mathematics Department	Arizona State University
Arjana Angjeli		Oakland University
Julia C. Arciero	Department of Mathematics	University of Pittsburgh
Elizabeth Barancik	Department of Mathematics	DePaul University
Stacey Beggs		Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM)
Jessica Blascak		Macalester College
Beth Bower	Department of Statistics	Rice University
Hannah Callender	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Eralda Caushaj	Mathematics and Statistics Department	Oakland University
Aycil Cesmelioglu	Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	Rice University
Saifon Chaturantabut	Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	Rice University
Yi-Lin Cheng	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Ji Choi	Mathematics Department	Macalester College
Isabel K. Darcy	Department of Mathematics	University of Iowa
Randell Davenport		Oakland University
Rachelle C. DeCoste	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Wheaton College
Laura Leigh DeLoss	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Brenda L. Dietrich		IBM
Anne Eaton	Department of Biostatistics	University of Minnesota
Yang Fang	Department of Mathematics	Pennsylvania State University
Suzanne Galayda	Department of Mathematics	New Mexico State University
Angela C. Gallegos	Department of Mathematics	Occidental College
Pam Gao	Small Cap Equities	Putman Investments
Paula Grohs		Northwestern College
Cristi Darley Guevara	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Arizona State University
Le Gui	Mathematics Department	University of Iowa
Janel Hanrahan	Mathematics Department	University of Wisconsin
Megan Hawley		Bethel University
Xiaoqing He	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Leslie Hogben	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Mary Ann Horn	Division of Mathematical Sciences	National Science Foundation
Valerie Hower	School of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Jeong-sook Im	Department of Mathematics	Ohio State University
Srividhya Jeyaraman	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Silvia Jimenez	Department of Mathematics	Louisiana State University
Janhavi Joshi	Department of Mathematics	Ohio State University
Sarah Kaiser		Bethel University
Hye-Won Kang	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Janet Pavelich Keel	Department of Advanced Signal Processing	Lockheed Martin
Markus Keel	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Elisabeth Teudjeu Kemajou	Department of Mathematics	Southern Illinois University
Erica Zimmer Klampfl	Ford Research Laboratory	Ford
Tamara G. Kolda	Informatics and Decision Sciences	Sandia National Laboratories
Pamela Kosick	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Merve Kovan	Department of Mathematics	University of Pittsburgh
Melissa Kraus	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Ana Kupresanin	Mathematics and Statistics Department	Arizona State University
Rachel Kuske	Department of Mathematics	University of British Columbia
Michelle Lastrina	Mathematics Department	Iowa State University
Fang Li		Purdue University
Lu Li	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Chun Liu	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Rongsong Liu	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Sijia Liu	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Yun Liu	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Madhuri Udayanjani Lolla		Oakland University
Kelly Lough	Mathematics and Computer Science	Bethel University
Laura Lurati		Boeing
Elonia Lusha		Oakland University
Kara Lee Maki	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Tracy Jean McKay	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Catherine (Katy) A. Micek	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Erin Rita Militzer	Mathematics Department	University of Kentucky
Tanya Moore		Building Diversity in Science
Katherine Morrison	Mathematics Department	University of Nebraska
Shari Moskow	Department of Mathematics	Drexel University
Mechie Nkengla	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	University of Illinois
Samantha M. Oestreicher	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Kathleen O'Hara		Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Alexandra Ortan	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Katharine Ott	Department of Mathematics	University of Kentucky
Katie Ouellette		University of Kentucky
Nura Patani	School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Arizona State University
Kasi Anna Pawelek	Department of Mathematics and Statistics	Oakland University
Kristen Elaine Pedersen	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Irine Peng	Mathematics Department	Indiana University
Candice Price	Department of Mathematics	University of Iowa
Olga Pryporova	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Sri Pudipeddi	Mathematics Department	Augsburg College
Karen Raquel Rios-Soto	Mathematical Sciences Department	University of Puerto Rico
Maria Sabitova	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fadil Santosa	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Karen Saxe	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Macalester College
Alexandra Seceleanu	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tsvetanka Sendova	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota
Yeon-Jung Seo	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Chehrzad Shakiban	Institute of Mathematics and its Application	University of Minnesota
Alla Shved	Mathematics Department	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Billie Siegfried		Augsburg College
Jessica Striker	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Linlin Su	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Kacie Theisen		Ford
Sarah Julia Thomas	Department of Statistics	Rice University
Alice Tibbetts	Institute for Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Maria Criselda Santos Toto	Mathematical Sciences Department	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chia-yen Tsai	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jane W. Tucker		Jane W. Tucker and Associates
Ana Luz Vivas-Mejia	Department of Mathematics	New Mexico State University
Chenying Wang	Mathematics Department	Pennsylvania State University
Qixuan Wang	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Yi Wang	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Ying Wang	Department of Mathematics	Ohio State University
Suzanne L. Weekes	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Galbodayage Sujeeva Wijesiri	Department of Mathematics and Statistics	Oakland University
Eyerusalem Kesete Woldegebreal	Mathematics Department	University of St. Thomas
Karamatou Adjoke Yacoubou Djima	Department of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation	University of Maryland
Josephine Yu	Department of Mathematics	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Likun Zheng	Mathematics Department	University of Minnesota
Eliana Zoque	Department of Mathematics	University of Chicago

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