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The Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) plans a workshop from Sunday evening through Tuesday morning of the 1997 Annual Meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). AWM and SIAM welcome your participation.

The sessions focus on the reporting of research results and the mentoring of graduate students and postdoctoral mathematicians. Our first session is a minisymposium which focuses on skills in written communication involving research papers and grant proposals. Our workshop also has three research minisymposium, a panel discussion on research and funding opportunities, and a poster session.

SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1997

4:30 PM-6:00 PM
AWM Discussion Group
Thornton 110

7:00 PM-9:30 PM
AWM Dinner Banquet
Keynote Speaker: Pam Cook, University of Delaware
Title: "Thoughts from a Chair(person)"
Lagunita Dining Room (in middle building in Lagunita Court facing the lake)

Attendees must preregister with AWM prior to the dinner. AWM has cancelled the cash bar for this event.

MONDAY, JULY 14, 1997

10:00 AM-10:30 AM Coffee and Poster Session
Thornton 102

10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Thornton 110
AWM Minisymposium on Presenting Your Work and Yourself to the World: A Focus on Written Communications

One key to success in academia and industry is a person's ability to communicate with those around her. These talks will focus on how to develop written communication skills. The relevance of excellent technical work must be clearly displayed. Writing journal articles and grant proposals will be included.

Organizer: Linda R. Petzold,
University of California, Santa Barbara

10:30 AM How I Write

Lloyd N. Trefethen, Cornell University

11:00 AM Writing: The String that Makes the Necklace

Margaret H. Wright, Bell Laboratories

11:30 AM Preparation of Research Grant Proposals

Deborah Lockhart, National Science Foundation

12:00 AM Overcoming Proposal Phobia

Linda Petzold, University of California, Santa Barbara

12:30 PM-1:15 PM
Lunch [see information below for more details]
Gibbons Grove (between Thornton and Press Buildings on Santa Teresa Street)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Thornton 102
Panel Discussion on Research and Funding Opportunities
Panelists:

Avner Friedman, Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
Deborah F. Lockhart, National Science Foundation
Wen Masters, Office of Naval Research
John Tague, Office of Naval Research

2:30 PM-3:15 PM
Thornton 102
Poster Session for Graduate Students

Donna Calhoun, University of Washington

A Cartesian Grid Method for 2d Stefan problem

Carolyn (Hill) Coleman, Case Western Reserve Univ.

Expanding Generalized Receiver Operator Characteristic (ROC) Analysis

Ivonne Diaz-Rivera, Arizona State University

The Dynamics of Queues of Re-entrant Manufacturing Systems

Anna V. Georgieva, Duke University

Nonlinear Particle Chains with Alternating Masses

Sigal Gottlieb, Brown University

Weighted ENO Schemes for Steady State Calculations

Misha E. Kilmer, University of Maryland, College Park

Cauchy-like Preconditioners and 2-D Ill-posed Problems

Kristen S. Moore, University of Connecticut

On a Singular Semilinear Elliptic Boundary Value Problem with Boundary Blowup

Ruth Pfeiffer, University of Maryland, College Park

A Threshold Estimation Problem for Stochastic Processes with Hysteresis

Svetlana Rudnaya, University of Minnesota

Application of Genetic Algorithms in Diffractive Optics Design

Maria Sosonkina, Virginia Tech

Sparse Approximate Inverses in Preconditioning of Distributed Linear Systems

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Thornton 110
AWM Minisymposium on Mathematical Modeling

Modeling is the key to many application areas. This minisymposium will treat a variety of mathematical models and applications. The underlying systems to be modeled range from continuous to discrete.

Organizer: Suzanne M. Lenhart,
Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

3:30 PM Global Attractors for Damped Abstract Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems

Gabriella A. Pint, North Carolina State University

4:00 PM Non-symmetric Deformations in Incompressible Nonlinear Elasticity

Debra Polignone Warne, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

4:30 PM Stability Properties of Equilibria Within a Continuum Mechanics Model of DNA Minicircles

Kathleen A. Rogers, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

5:00 PM The Effect of Dynamic Surface Tension on the Oscillation of Slender Elliptical Newtonian Jets

Hong Zhou, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Thornton 102
AWM Minisymposium on Optimization

This minisymposium will present a variety of optimization problems with varied applications. The impact of scientific computing on these problems will be illustrated.

Organizer: Margaret H. Wright,
Bell Laboratories

3:30 PM Least Squares Methods for Optimal Shape Problems

Dana Bedivan, University of Texas at Arlington

4:00 PM Information Retrieval via Limited-Memory Matrix Methods

Tamara G. Kolda, University of Maryland, College Park

4:30 PM On Maximum Likelihood Estimators for a Threshold Autoregression

Lianfen Qian, Florida Atlantic University

5:00 PM The Solution of the Elliptic Boundary Value Problems on Irregular Regions

Zhiyun Yang, Pacificorp

TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1997

10:00 AM-10:30 AM Coffee
Thornton 110

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Thornton 110
AWM Minisymposium on PDEs and Applications

Partial differential equations model a variety of physical and biological applications. This minisymposium will showcase different types of PDEs and solution methods and display the applications.

Organizer: Joyce R. McLaughlin,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

10:30 AM Worse Case L-infinity to L-infinity Gain Minimization Via State Feedback

Xin Chen, University of Illinois Laboratory

11:00 AM The Quasilinear Wave Equation Governing Compressional Wave Motions of Nonlinearly Elastic Bodies: A Numerical Approach

Dawn A. Lott-Crumpler, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

11:30 AM Axisymmetric Flow in Transonic Aerodynamics

Elsa Newman, Marymount University

12:00 AM Derivation of the Lifshitz-Slyozov Theory for Coarsening by Homogenization Methods

Barbara Niethammer, CIMS, New York University

REGISTRATION:

There is NO registration fee for the AWM Workshop. The minisymposia, panel session and poster session are open to all. Pre-registration for workshop lunch and dinner banquet tickets are strongly encouraged. Tickets on-site will be very limited. Individuals can inquire about ticket availability from the AWM staff on-site or by contacting the AWM office, 4114 Computer and Space Sciences Bldg., University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-2461; 301-405-7892 or [email protected]. For further information on the workshop, contact the workshop chairperson, Suzanne Lenhart ([email protected]) or Dawn Wheeler at the AWM office ([email protected]).

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