The George Washington University

Washington, DC

Summer Program for Women in Mathematics

SPWM Courses, Faculty and Staff

In 2009 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Julie Bergner (SPWM 1998), University of California- Riverside, CA
• Professor Berit Givens, California State University Pomona, CA
• Professor Lyn Miller, Slippery Rock University, PA
• Professor Allison Pacelli, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

who were assisted by graduate students

• Crystal Zeager, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (SPWM 2005), and
• Rachel Davis, University of Wisconsin-Madison (SPWM 2005).

Professor Julie Bergner offered a two week course entitled Combinatorial methods in algebraic topology.

Professor Berit Givens offered a three week course entitled Ordered Sets.

Professor Lyn Miller offered a three week course entitled Groebner Bases.  

Professor Allison Pacelli offered a two week course entitled Mathematics and Politics:  Social Choice and Fair Division.

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In 2008 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Angela Gallegos (SPWM 1998), Occidental College, CA
• Professor Allison Pacelli, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
• Professor Magdalena Musielak, The George Washington University, DC
• Professor Ayse Sahin, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

who were assisted by graduate students

• Abra Brisbin (SPWM 2003), Cornell University, and
• Emily Landes (SPWM 2004), University of Texas, Austin, TX

Professor Angela Gallegos offered a two week course entitled Modeling Cancer with Immunotherapy.

Professor Allison Pacelli offered a three week course entitled Algebraic Number Theory.

Professor Magdalena Musielak offered a three week course entitled Mathematical Modeling in Biology and Physiology.

Professor Ayse Sahin offered a two week course entitled An Introduction to Dynamical Systems.  

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In 2007 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, NC
• Professor Allison Pacelli, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
• Professor Maria Mercedes Franco, Queensborough Community College – The City University of New York, Bay Side, NY
• Professor Kariane Calta (SPWM 1997), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

who were assisted by graduate students

• Kristine Jones (SPWM 2005), Cornell University, NY, and
• Jill Waldman (SPWM 2005), Tufts University, MA

Professor Jane Hawkins offered a two week course entitled An Introduction to Dynamical Systems.

Professor Allison Pacelli offered a three week course entitled Algebraic Number Theory.

Professor Maria Mercedes Franco offered a three week course entitled Ordinary Differential Equations: A Dynamical Systems Approach.

Professor Kariane Calta offered a two week course entitled An Introduction to Hyperbolic Geometry.  

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In 2006 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Barbara F. Csima, University of Waterloo
• Professor Lyn Miller, Slippery Rock University, PA
• Professor Angela Gallegos (SPWM 1998), Occidental College
• Professor Karma Dajani, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

who were assisted by graduate students

• Sara Miller (SPWM 2002), University of Notre Dame, IN, and
• Tiff Troutman (SPWM 2002), University of California- Riverside

Professor Barbara F. Csima offered a two week course entitled Computability Theory.

Professor Lyn Miller offered a three week course entitled Introduction to Groebner Bases.

Professor Angela Gallegos offered a three week course entitled Mathematical Modeling in Biology.

Professor Karma Dajani offered a two week course entitled An Introduction to Discrete Financial Mathematics: The Binomial Model.  

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In 2005 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Ayse Sahin, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
• Professor Lynne Butler, Haverford College, PA
• Professor Lyn Miller, Slippery Rock University, PA
• Professor Lauren Rose, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

who were assisted by graduate students

• Fanny Jasso-Hernandez, George Washington University, and
• Christy Wallert, Rutgers University, NJ

Professor Ayse Sahin offered a three week course entitled An Introduction to dynamical systems.

Professor Lynne Butler offered a two week course entitled Number Theory and Public Key Cryptography.

Professor Lyn Miller offered a three week course entitled Introduction to Groebner Bases.

Professor Lauren Rose offered a two week course entitled Convex Polytopes.  

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In 2004 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Ivelisse Rubio, University of Puerto Rico- Humacao, PR
• Professor Lorelei Koss, Dickinson College,
• Professor Elaine McDonald, Sonoma State University, CA
• Professor Ayse Sahin, DePaul University, Chicago, IL

who were assisted by graduate students

• Angela Desai, University of Maryland- College Park, and
• Anne Mccarthy (SPWM 2000), Northwestern University, IL

Professor Ivelisse Rubio offered a three week course entitled Introduction to Groebner Bases.

Professor Lorelei Koss offered a two week course entitled Complex Dynamical Systems.

Professor Elaine McDonald offered a three week course entitled A Brief Introduction to the Study of Waiting in Line.

Professor Ayse Sahin offered a two week course entitled Symbolic dynamical systems, information theory and coding.

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In 2003 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Ivelisse Rubio, University of Puerto Rico- Humacao, PR
• Professor Sylvie Hamel, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• Professor Elaine McDonald, Sonoma State University, CA
• Professor Janet Talvacchia, Swarthmore College, PA

who were assisted by graduate students

• Angela Gallegos (SPWM 1998), University of California- Davis, and
• Cynthia Farthing (SPWM 1998), University of Iowa, IA

Professor Ivelisse Rubio offered a three week course entitled Introduction to Groebner Bases.

Professor Sylvie Hamel offered a two week course entitled Introduction to Automata and Language Theory.

Professor Elaine McDonald offered a three week course entitled A Brief Introduction to the Study of Waiting in Line.

Professor Janet Talvacchia offered a two week course entitled Introduction to Symplectic Geometry.

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In 2002 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University, ID
• Professor Tami Lakins, Allegheney College, PA
• Professor Elaine McDonald, Sonoma State University, CA
• Professor Janet Talvacchia, Swarthmore College, PA

who were assisted by graduate students

• Amanda Katharine Serenevy (SPWM 1998), Boston University , MA , and
• Anna Varvak (SPWM 1998), Brandeis University, MA

Professor Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska offered a three week course entitled Introduction to Knot Theory.

Professor Tami Lakins offered a two week course entitled Mathematical Logic.

Professor Elaine McDonald offered a three week course entitled A Brief Introduction to the Study of Waiting in Line.

Professor Janet Talvacchia offered a two week course entitled The Classification Theorem for Closed Surfaces and Higher Dimensional Closed Manifolds.

For more details of these courses, and some photographs, follow this link: Courses2002.

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In 2001 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Tami Hummel, Allegheney College, PA
• Professor Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska, Boise State University, ID
• Professor Ayse Sahin, DePaul University, IL
• Professor Leila Schneps, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

who were assisted by graduate students

• Kariane Calta (SPWM 1997), University of Chicago, IL , and
• Nirit Sandman (SPWM 1999), University of California- Berkeley, CA

Professor Tami Hummel offered a two week course entitled Mathematical Logic.

Professor Joanna Kania-Bartoszynska offered a three week course entitled Introduction to Knot Theory.

Professor Ayse Sahin offered a three week course entitled Symbolic dynamical systems, information theory and coding.

Professor Leila Schneps offered a two week course entitled Fermat's Last Theorem.

For more details of these courses, and some photographs, follow this link: Courses2001.

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In 2000 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Karma Dajani, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Professor Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina
• Professor Darla Kremer, Gettysburg College, PA
• Professor Ayse Sahin, North Dakota State University and DePaul University, IL

who were assisted by graduate students

• Angela Gallegos (SPWM 1998), University of California- Davis, and
• Joyce Macabea (SPWM 1996),  Boston University

Professor Karma Dajani offered a two week course entitled An introduction to discrete financial mathematics.

Professor Jane Hawkins offered a two week course entitled Introduction to Complex Dynamics.

Professor Darla Kremer offered a three week course entitled Symmetric Functions, Polya Theory and Group Representations.

Professor Ayse Sahin offered a three week course entitled Symbolic dynamical systems, information theory and coding.

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In 1999 our teaching faculty consisted of

• Professor Ruth Haas, Smith College, MA
• Professor Jane Hawkins, University of North Carolina
• Professor Lauren Rose, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• Professor Leila Schneps, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris

who were assisted by graduate students

• Joyce Macabea (SPWM 1996), Boston University, and
• Heather Russell, Harvard University

Professor Ruth Haas offered a two week course entitled Graphs and Networks.

Professor Jane Hawkins offered a three week course entitled Introduction to Complex Dynamics.

Professor Lauren Rose offered a two week course entitled Multivariate Splines.

Professor Leila Schneps offered a three week course entitled Strings, Knots and Braids.

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In 1998, our teaching staff consisted of

•  Professor Leila Schneps, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
•  Professor Valentina Harizanov, The George Washington University, DC
•  Professor Lauren Rose, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
•  Professor Jaye Talvacchia, Swarthmore College, PA

who were assisted by graduate students

•  Amy Vanderbilt, University of Florida, and
•  Sylvie Hamel, MIT.

Professor Valentina Harizanov offered a four week course entitled Set Theory as the Foundation of Mathematics.

Professor Lauren Rose offered a three week course entitled Algebraic Combinatorics on Convex Polytopes.

Professor Jaye Talvacchia offered a two week course entitled The Classification Problem for Compact Oriented Manifolds.

Professor Leila Schneps offered a one week minicourse entitled Braid Groups.

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In 1997, our teaching staff consisted of

• Prof. Ami Radunskaya, Pomona College, CA
• Prof. Leila Schneps, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
• Prof. Ruth Haas, Smith College, MA
• Dr. Alyson Reeves, Center for Computing Research, MD

who were assisted by graduate students

• Natalie Priebe, University of North Carolina, and
• Heather Russell, Harvard University.

Prof. Ami Radunskaya offered a three week course entitled Routes to Chaos: Bifurcations and Perturbations.

Prof. Leila Schneps offered a three week course entitled Schemes: A Revolution in Algebraic Geometry.

Prof. Ruth Haas offered a one week minicourse entitled Graphs and Matroids.

Dr. Alyson Reeves offered a one week minicourse entitled An Introduction to Computational Algebraic Geometry.

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In 1996, our teaching staff consisted of

• Prof. Darla Kremer, Murray State University, KY
• Prof. Karma Dajani, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
• Prof. Janet Kammeyer, U.S. Naval Academy, and
• Prof. Jaye Talvacchia, Swarthmore College, PA

who were assisted by graduate students

• Natalie Priebe, University of North Carolina, and
• Elizabeth Wilmer, Harvard University.

Prof. Darla Kremer offered a three week course entitled Polya Theory, Symmetric Functions, and Group Representations.

Prof. Karma Dajani offered a three week course entitled The Dynamics of Expansions.

Professor Janet Kammeyer offered a one week minicourse entitled Classification Problems in Ergodic Theory.

Professor Jaye Talvacchia offered a one week minicourse entitled The Classification Problem for Compact Oriented Manifolds: Classical Results and Open Questions.

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In 1995, our teaching staff comprised of

• Prof. Leila Schneps, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
• Prof. Lauren Rose, Wellesley College, and
• Dr. Desiree Beck, National Security Agency,

who were assisted by graduate students

• Cathy O'Neil, Harvard University, and
• Darla Kremer, University of Iowa.

Prof. Leila Schneps offered a three week course entitled Groups and numbers: an introduction to classical and inverse Galois theory.

Prof. Lauren Rose offered a three week course entitled Algebraic combinatorics on convex polytopes.

Dr Desiree Beck offered a one-week minicourse entitled An exploration of partitions, Young tableaux, and symmetric functions.

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