Career Options for Underrepresented Groups in Mathematical Sciences

March 25 - 27, 2010

Content

Overview

Organizers:

Jamylle Carter	Diablo Valley College
Nathaniel Dean	Texas State University-San Marcos
Sara Del Valle	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Juan Restrepo	University of Arizona
Chehrzad Shakiban	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

The main goal of the workshop is to encourage underrepresented minorities at various stages of their careers, including graduate students and postdocs with Ph.D.'s in mathematics or math related fields to become prepared to work in the academics, industry or the government labs. Senior professionals will provide insight on things they wish someone had told them before they left graduate school, some of the surprises they found upon entering the workplace, and how they managed to overcome the difficulties encountered. These talks are intended to provide an operational and constructive framework for direct interaction and discussion among workshop participants on importance of networking, interviewing, negotiation and leadership skills for career success. A number of job opportunities will also be discussed. In addition, poster sessions will showcase the work of selected attendees.

Schedule

Thursday, March 25, 2010
			Video
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm	Dinner Ice breaker – Networking in the Academics, Government and Industry Chehrzad Shakiban (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Friday, March 26, 2010

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 - 10:35 am	Integrals of characteristic polynomials of unitary matrices, and applications to the Riemann zeta function Donald Richards (The Pennsylvania State University)	EE/CS 3-180
10:40 am - 11:20 am	Planning Ahead	EE/CS 3-180
10:40 am - 11:20 am	Planning for work in mathematical sciences at a national laboratory Natalia Alexandrov (NASA Langley Research Center)
10:40 am - 11:20 am	Planning to work in the academia Peh Ng (University of Minnesota, Morris)
11:20 am - 11:50 am	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176
11:50 am - 12:20 pm	On the spatio-temporal disease dynamics in populations with discrete-time epidemics in one and two spatial dimensions Karen Ríos-Soto (University of Puerto Rico)	EE/CS 3-180
12:25 pm - 1:15 pm	A jack of all trades Pamela Williams (LMI Government Consulting)
12:25 pm - 1:15 pm	Panel Discussion (Interviewing Skills)	EE/CS 3-180
12:25 pm - 1:15 pm	A mathematician looks at paint, Hollywood and DNA Fern Hunt (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
1:15 pm - 2:30 pm	Lunch, socializing and networking (Lunch boxes will be provided)
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm	Identification methods for vortical structures in turbulent boundary layers Cecilia Ortiz-Duenas	EE/CS 3-180
2:50 pm - 3:05 pm	Developing geometric integrators for Hamiltonizable nonholonomic systems Oscar Fernandez (University of Michigan)	EE/CS 3-180
3:10 pm - 4:00 pm	Great careers in the mathematical sciences Sara Del Valle (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
3:10 pm - 4:00 pm	Math careers at the National Security Agency Marian Barry (National Security Agency)
3:10 pm - 4:00 pm	Panel discussion (Topic: Many career paths)	EE/CS 3-180
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176
4:30 pm - 5:20 pm	Lightening poster presentations (2 minutes per poster, slides are assembled in advance, presentations are timed by kitchen timer) Cecilia Ortiz-Duenas	EE/CS 3-180
5:30 pm - 5:40 pm	Group picture
5:40 pm - 7:10 pm	Reception and Poster Session	Lind 400
7:45 pm - 10:00 pm	Banquet and keynote speaker - Abrupt climate change and climate variability: When data fail us Juan Restrepo (University of Arizona)

Saturday, March 27, 2010

9:15 am - 9:45 am	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176
9:45 am - 10:15 am	Visually intractable problems Nathaniel Dean (Texas State University-San Marcos)	EE/CS 3-180
10:15 am - 10:45 am	Building diversity Omayra Ortega (Arizona State University)	EE/CS 3-180
10:45 am - 11:15 am	How important are other skills in determining career success? Insights on the importance of networking, interviewing, negotiation and leadership skills Frank Snowden (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)	EE/CS 3-180
11:15 am - 11:25 am	Workshop evaluation	EE/CS 3-180
11:25 am - 11:50 am	Coffee	EE/CS 3-176
11:50 am - 1:00 pm	Tips for prospective junior faculty entering the academy of higher education Kimberly Kendricks (Central State University)
11:50 am - 1:00 pm	A windy road to a happy heart Jamylle Carter (Diablo Valley College)
11:50 am - 1:00 pm	Group Discussion (Topic: Tips for Success)	EE/CS 3-180
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Informal Lunch

Participants

Name	Department	Affiliation
Jeannine Abiva	Department of Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences	The University of Iowa
Kwasi Abrefa-Kodom		Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Mary Agwang	Department of Mathematics	University of Alabama
Natalia Alexandrov	Langley Research Center	NASA Langley Research Center
James Allen	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Jorge Banuelos	Department of Mathematics	Macalester College
Marian Barry		National Security Agency
Jamye Carter	Department of Mathematics and Science	Alabama State University
Jamylle Carter	Department of Mathematics	Diablo Valley College
Minnie Catral	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Sarah Cotter		University of Notre Dame
Michelle Craddock	Department of Mathematics	United States Military Academy
Melissa Davidson	Department of Mathematics	University of Notre Dame
Nathaniel Dean	Department of Mathematics	Texas State University-San Marcos
Sara Del Valle	Energy and Infrastructure Analysis, D-4	Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rafael Del Valle Vega	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Alan Diaz	School of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Alzaki Fadllallah	Department of Mathematics	University of Alabama
Oscar Fernandez	Department of Mathematics	University of Michigan
Dennis Frank	Department of Mathematics	North Carolina State University
Dashiell Fryer		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jairo Fuquene	Institute of Statistics	University of Puerto Rico
Aditi Ghosh	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Ali Godjali	Department of Mathematics	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Edray Goins	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Gerardo Hernandez Correa		Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Jyy Hong	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Yulia Hristova	Department of Mathematics	Texas A & M University
Lili Hu	School of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Fern Hunt	Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division	National Institute of Standards and Technology
Andrew Hunte	Department of Mathematics	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jeong-sook Im	Department of Mathematics	The Ohio State University
Markus Keel	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Isabelle Kemajou-Brown	Department of Mathematics	Southern Illinois University
Kimberly Kendricks	Department of Mathematics	Central State University
Kevin Keys	Department of Mathematics	University of Arizona
Elizabeth Kleiman	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Namyong Lee	Department of Mathematics	Minnesota State University
Molly Leonard		University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Delia Letang	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	St. Olaf College
Yuan Liu	Department of Mathematics	University of Notre Dame
Kate Longo	Department of Mathematics	University of California
Sibusiso Mabuza	Department of Mathematics	University of Houston
Anna Mazzucato	Department of Mathematics	The Pennsylvania State University
Reginald McGee	Department of Mathematics	Purdue University
Amelia McNamara		Macalester College
Jennifer Miller	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Delaware
Chad-Eric Montgomery	Department of Mathematics	University of California, Berkeley
Pedro Morales	Department of Mathematics	Baylor University
Peh Ng	Division of Science and Mathematics	University of Minnesota
Mechie Nkengla	Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science	University of Illinois, Chicago
Samantha Oestreicher	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Samuel Okoya	Department of Mathematics	Obafemi Awolowo University
Alexandra Ortan	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Omayra Ortega	Division of Mathematical and Natural Sciences	Arizona State University
Mavis Pararai	Department of Mathematics	Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Jose Ponce	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Candice Price	Department of Mathematics	The University of Iowa
Sridevi Pudipeddi	Mathematics Department	Augsburg College
Juan Restrepo	Department of Mathematics	University of Arizona
Donald Richards	Department of Statistics	The Pennsylvania State University
Alicia Richardson		Morgan State University
Karen Ríos-Soto	Department of Mathematical Sciences	University of Puerto Rico
Aaron Rodriguez		University of St. Thomas
Arianne Ross	Department of Mathematics	Iowa State University
Jaime Roura	Department of Mathematics	University of Puerto Rico
Flavia Sancier-Barbosa	Department of Mathematics	Southern Illinois University
Fadil Santosa	Institute for Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Colbert Sesanker	Department of Mathematics	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Chehrzad Shakiban	Institute of Mathematics and its Applications	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Michelle Snider	Department of Mathematics	Cornell University
Frank Snowden	Materials Research Science and Engineering Center	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ashley Sullivan	Department of Mathematics	University of Nebraska
Kubrom Teka	Department of Mathematics	Kansas State University
Hector Torres-Aponte	Department of Mathematics	University of Puerto Rico
David Torres-Núñez	Departmemt of Mathematics	University of Puerto Rico
Maria Criselda Toto	Department of Mathematical Sciences	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Mina Vora	Department of Mathematics	East Georgia College
Li Wang	Department of Mathematics	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Yi Wang	Department of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Ying Wang	Department of Mathematics	The Ohio State University
Yumin Wang	Mathematics Department	Wayne State University
Ning Wei	School of Mathematics	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Jahmario Williams	Department of Mathematics	Mississippi State University
Pamela Williams	Supply Chain Management	LMI Government Consulting
Eyerusalem Woldegebreal	Mathematics Department	University of St. Thomas
Tianjun Ye	School of Mathematics	Georgia Institute of Technology
Mei Yin	Department of Mathematics	University of Arizona
Kamuela Yong	Department of Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences	The University of Iowa
Na Zhang	Department of Mathematics & Statistics	Arizona State University