Career Options for Women in Mathematical Sciences

April 02 - 04, 2009

Content

Overview

Advisory:

April 2: 6-8 p.m. Dinner and Networking, 400 Lind Hall
April 3: 6:30-9 p.m. Banquet at the Carlson Dining Room

The workshop is co-organized by the IMA and the Association for Women in Mathematics, and sponsored by the University of Minnesota and the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).

Poster:

SW4.2-4.09_poster.pdf

Organizers:

Janet Keel	Lockheed Martin
Tamara Kolda	Sandia National Laboratories
Wen-Ching (Winnie) Li	The Pennsylvania State University
Shari Moskow	Drexel University
Chehrzad Shakiban	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Suzanne Weekes	Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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.

Schedule

Thursday, April 02, 2009
			Video
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Dinner Ice breaker – Networking in the Academics, Government and Industry Shari Moskow (Drexel University), Chehrzad Shakiban (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	Lind 400

Friday, April 03, 2009

7:00 am - 9:00 pm	Session Chairs
9:15 am - 9:45 am	Registration and coffee	EE/CS 3-176
9:45 am - 10:00 am	Welcome and introduction Fadil Santosa (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	EE/CS 3-180
10:00 am - 10:30 am	Careers in quantitative equity investments Pam Gao (Putman Investments)	EE/CS 3-180
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Planning ahead Rachelle DeCoste (Wheaton College)	EE/CS 3-180
11:00 am - 11:30 am	Math at IBM Brenda Dietrich (IBM)	EE/CS 3-180
11:30 am - 12:00 pm	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	(Topic: How to write a grant) Isabel Darcy (The University of Iowa), Mary Ann Horn (National Science Foundation)	EE/CS 3-180
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm	Lunch (Discussion topic: Leadership skills and developing a technical research program - starting as a graduate student), Leslie Hogben (Iowa State University), Karen Saxe (Macalester College)	EE/CS 3-180
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm	Accounting for temperature-dependent sex determination in crocodilians using delay differential equations Angela Gallegos (Occidental College)	EE/CS 3-180
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm	Panel Discussion (Topic: Interviewing skills. Format: panel discussion) Janet Keel (Lockheed Martin), Erica Klampfl (Ford Motor Company), Suzanne Weekes (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)	EE/CS 3-180
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176
4:15 pm - 5:20 pm	Lightening poster presentations (2 minutes per poster, slides are assembled in advance, presentations are timed by kitchen timer) Tamara Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories)	EE/CS 3-180
5:20 pm - 5:30 pm	Group picture
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm	Reception and Poster Session	Lind 400
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm	Banquet and Keynote Speaker: Rachel Kuske (University of British Columbia) Carlson Private Dining Room 321 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455

Saturday, April 04, 2009

1:01 am	8:45am-10:15am Session Chair: Laura Lurati (Boeing)
9:15 am - 9:45 am	Coffee	EE/CSci 3-210
9:45 am - 10:15 am	The canonical tensor decompositions and its application to data Analysis Tamara Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories)	EE/CSci 3-210
10:15 am - 10:45 am	Using mathematics to transform communities Tanya Moore (Building Diversity in Science)	EE/CSci 3-210
10:45 am - 11:15 am	An invitation to tropical geometry Josephine Yu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)	EE/CSci 3-210
11:15 am - 11:25 am	Workshop evaluation	EE/CSci 3-210
11:25 am - 11:50 am	Coffee	EE/CSci 3-210
11:50 am - 1:00 pm	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
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm	Lunch	Lind 400
2:30 pm - 6:30 pm	Optional session: COACh – Negotiation skills for postdoctoral associates and graduate students Jane Tucker (Jane W. Tucker and Associates)

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Jeannine Abiva	Department of Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences	The University of Iowa
Alejandra Alvarado	Mathematics Department	Arizona State University
Arjana Angjeli		Oakland University
Julia Arciero (Sparks)	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, Twin Cities
Eralda Caushaj	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	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 Darcy	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Randell Davenport		Oakland University
Rachelle DeCoste	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Wheaton College
Laura DeLoss-Hogrefe	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Brenda Dietrich	Thomas J. Watson Research Center	IBM
Anne Eaton	Department of Biostatistics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yang Fang	Department of Mathematics	The Pennsylvania State University
Suzanne Galayda	Department of Mathematics	New Mexico State University
Angela Gallegos	Department of Mathematics	Occidental College
Pam Gao	Small Cap Equities	Putman Investments
Paula Grohs		Northwestern College
Cristi Guevara	Department of Mathematics	Arizona State University
Le Gui	Mathematics Department	The University of Iowa
Janel Hanrahan	Mathematics Department	University of Wisconsin
Megan Hawley		Bethel University
Xiaoqing He	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Leslie Hogben		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	The Ohio State University
Srividhya Jeyaraman	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Silvia Jimenez	Department of Mathematics	Louisiana State University
Janhavi Joshi	Department of Mathematics	The Ohio State University
Sarah Kaiser		Bethel University
Hye-Won Kang	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Janet Keel	Department of Advanced Signal Processing	Lockheed Martin
Markus Keel	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Isabelle Kemajou-Brown	Department of Mathematics	Southern Illinois University
Erica Klampfl	Ford Research Laboratory	Ford Motor Company
Tamara Kolda	Informatics and Systems Assessments	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	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	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, Twin Cities
Chun Liu	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Rongsong Liu	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Sijia Liu	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Yun Liu	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Madhuri Lolla		Oakland University
Kelly Lough	Mathematics and Computer Science Department	Bethel University
Laura Lurati	Department of Applied Mathematics	The Boeing Company
Elonia Lusha		Oakland University
Kara Maki	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Tracy McKay	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Catherine (Katy) Micek	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Erin 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, Chicago
Samantha Oestreicher	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kathleen O'Hara		Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Alexandra Ortan	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Katharine Ott	Department of Mathematics	University of Kentucky
Katie Ouellette		University of Kentucky
Nura Patani	Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences	Arizona State University
Kasi Pawelek	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Oakland University
Kristen Pedersen	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Irine Peng	Mathematics Department	Indiana University
Candice Price	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Olga (Pryporova) Kurth	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Sridevi Pudipeddi	Mathematics Department	Augsburg College
Karen Ríos-Soto	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Puerto Rico
Maria Sabitova	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fadil Santosa	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Karen Saxe	Department of Mathematics and Computer Science	Macalester College
Alexandra Seceleanu		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tsvetanka Sendova	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yeon-Jung Seo	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Chehrzad Shakiban	Institute of Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Alla Shved	Mathematics Department	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Billie Siegfried		Augsburg College
Jessica Striker	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Linlin Su	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Kacie Theisen		Ford Motor Company
Sarah Thomas	Department of Statistics	Rice University
Alice Tibbetts	Institute for Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Maria Criselda Toto	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chia-yen Tsai	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jane Tucker		Jane W. Tucker and Associates
Ana Vivas-Mejia	Department of Mathematics	New Mexico State University
Chenying Wang	Mathematics Department	The Pennsylvania State University
Qixuan Wang	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yi Wang	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ying Wang	Department of Mathematics	The Ohio State University
Suzanne Weekes	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Galbodayage Wijesiri	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Oakland University
Eyerusalem Woldegebreal	Mathematics Department	University of St. Thomas
Karamatou 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, Twin Cities
Eliana Zoque	Department of Mathematics	University of Chicago