Career Options for Women in Mathematical Sciences

February 04 - 05, 2005

Content

Overview

Advisory:

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

Organizers:

Natalia Alexandrov	NASA Langley Research Center
Kathryn Brenan	The Aerospace Corporation
L. Pamela Cook	University of Delaware
Erica Klampfl	Ford Motor Company
Kristin Lauter	Microsoft Research
Suzanne Lenhart	University of Tennessee
Debra Lewis	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

This workshop aims to familiarize women in the mathematical sciences with professional opportunities in industry and government labs, and to suggest strategies for not merely surviving, but thriving. The workshop is geared primarily towards graduate students and PhDs in the early stages of their post-graduate careers, but should be valuable for researchers at all stages of professional development. Invited speakers, panelists and discussion leaders are women in research and management positions in industry and government labs, and women in academia with strong industrial ties.

Friday morning there is an optional pre-meeting negotiation skills session led by Barbara Butterfield, PhD, HUMANED, and Jane Tucker, PhD, Senior Manager, IT at Duke University. Topics include principles of negotiation, developing "best alternatives to a negotiated agreement", and understanding your negotiating style. Case practices, particularly job interview scenarios, illustrate the principles presented in the workshop.

Schedule

Friday, February 04, 2005

8:30 am - 12:30 pm	Negotiation skills session (participation by invitation only) Barbara Butterfield (HUMANED), Jane Tucker (Duke University)	EE/CS 3-180
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm	Lunch break
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm	Opening remarks	EE/CS 3-180
2:00 pm - 2:45 pm	Building a career at the NSA Michelle Wagner (National Security Agency)	EE/CS 3-180
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm	Becoming an applied mathematician - From mathematical logic to airplanes Miriam Lucian (The Boeing Company)	EE/CS 3-180
3:15 pm - 3:30 pm	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Mathematical Perspectives on NASA Applications Natalia Alexandrov (NASA Langley Research Center)	EE/CS 3-180
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm	Group photo	Lind 400
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm	Reception and poster session	Lind 400
5:45 pm - 8:55 pm	Dinner with working groups

Saturday, February 05, 2005

9:00 am - 9:45 am	Math inside IBM Brenda Dietrich (IBM)	EE/CS 3-180
9:45 am - 10:15 am	Complex fluid systems in nanotechnology, biology, and life Laura Frink (Sandia National Laboratories)	EE/CS 3-180
10:15 am - 10:45 am	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176
10:45 am - 11:15 am	Radar imaging Margaret Cheney (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)	EE/CS 3-180
11:15 am - 11:45 am	Mathematics of risk management Diana Woodward (Gorilla Science)	Lind 409
11:45 am - 12:15 pm	Thermoacoustic tomography - Inversion of a spherical radon transform with partial data Sarah Patch (General Electric Corp., Research and Development Center)	EE/CS 3-180
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm	Women mathematicians: We can do more than teach Erica Klampfl (Ford Motor Company)	EE/CS 3-180
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm	Panel discussion Pam Binns (Honeywell), Kathryn Brenan (The Aerospace Corporation), Yiju Chao (Morton Consulting Corporation), Janet Keel (Lockheed Martin), Suzanne Lenhart (University of Tennessee), Lalitha Venkataramanan (Schlumberger-Doll Research)	EE/CS 3-180
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Coffee break	EE/CS 3-176
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Working groups	EE/CS 3-180
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm	Reports of working groups	EE/CS 3-180
6:15 pm - 7:45 pm	Dinner
8:00 pm - 8:55 pm	Movie To Dream Tomorrow	EE/CS 3-180

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Haseena Ahmed	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Natalia Alexandrov	Langley Research Center	NASA Langley Research Center
Iana Anguelova	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Douglas Arnold	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yelda Aydin	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Allison Baker	Center for Applied Scientific Computing	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Katherine Bartley	Department of Mathematics	University of Nebraska
Pam Binns	Communications and Systems Architectures	Honeywell
Stefanella Boatto	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	McMaster University
Vena Bongolan-Walsh	Department of Applied Mathematics	Illinois Institute of Technology
Kathryn Brenan	National Systems Group	The Aerospace Corporation
LaKeisha Brown	Department of Mathematics	East Tennessee State University
Barbara Butterfield		HUMANED
Carme Calderer	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kristen Campbell	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Northern Illinois University
Yiju Chao		Morton Consulting Corporation
Margaret Cheney	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lan Cheng	Department of Mathematics	University of Pittsburgh
Yu-Wen Chiu	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Agata Comas	Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics	Rice University
L. Pamela Cook	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Brenda Dietrich	Thomas J. Watson Research Center	IBM
Elena Dimitrova	Department of Mathematics	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Maria Emelianenko	Department of Mathematics	The Pennsylvania State University
Andrea Fischbacher		Siemens AG
Jennifer Franko	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University
Laura Frink	Department of Computational Biology	Sandia National Laboratories
Jennifer (Froelich) Schaefer	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Anna Ghazaryan	Department of Mathematics	The Ohio State University
Irina Gheorghiciuc	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Sonja Glavaski	Advanced Technology Laboratory	Honeywell
Leah Gold	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Yuliya Gorb	Department of Mathematics	The Pennsylvania State University
Genetha Gray	Quantitative Modeling & Analysis	Sandia National Laboratories
Giovanna Guidoboni	Department of Mathematics	University of Houston
Heather Hardway	Department of Mathematics	Rice University
Suzanne (Hruska) Boyd	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University
Roberta Humphreys	IT Administration	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Rinat Kedem	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Janet Keel	Department of Advanced Signal Processing	Lockheed Martin
Erica Klampfl	Ford Research Laboratory	Ford Motor Company
Natalie Kleinfelter	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Suzanne Lenhart	Department of Mathematics	University of Tennessee
Debra Lewis	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Hyeona Lim	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Mississippi State University
Miriam Lucian	Advanced Technology Laboratory	The Boeing Company
Maeve McCarthy	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Murray State University
Lisa Miller	Department of Mechanical Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Oana Mocioalca	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Kent State University
Elena Nagaeva		NONE
Seema Nanda	Department of Mathematics	Harvey Mudd College
Myunghyun Oh	Department of Mathematics	The Ohio State University
Miao-Jung Ou	Department of Mathematics	University of Central Florida
Sarah Patch	Applied Sciences Laboratory	General Electric Corp., Research and Development Center
Lyudmila Pekurovsky	CRML	3M
Mariya Ponomarenko		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Silvia Popa	Department of Mathematics	University of Wyoming
Natalya Popova	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	University of Illinois, Chicago
Lea Popovic	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jennifer Proft		The University of Texas at Austin
Kandice Raymond		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Hilke (Reiter) Kurzke	Institut fur Mathematik und Informatik	Universität Leipzig
Natalie Rojkovskaia	Department of Mathematics	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Sashirekha Shanmugavelu	Department of Computer Engineering	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Suzanne Sindi	Department of Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computation	University of Maryland
Marie Spilde	Department of Mathematics	University of Nebraska
Sandra Spiroff	Department of Mathematics	The University of Utah
Nicoleta Tarfulea	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jane Tucker		Duke University
Paula Vasquez	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Martha Vera-Licona	Virginia Bioinformatics Institute	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Maria Viola	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Michelle Wagner	Department of Mathematical Sciences	National Security Agency
Diana Woodward		Gorilla Science