The George Washington University

Washington, DC

 

Summer Program for Women in Mathematics

SPWM Courses, Faculty and Staff

In 2013 our teaching faculty consisted of

·        Professor Emily Burkhead, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC

·        Professor Nessy Tania, Smith College, Northampton, MA

·        Professor Angela Gallegos (SPWM 1998), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA   

·        Professor Elaine Newman, Sonoma State University, CA 

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

Professor Emily Burkhead offered a two week course entitled Symbolic Dynamical Systems.

 

Professor Nessy Tania offered a three week course entitled Introduction to Wavelet and Fourier Analysis.

Professor Angela Gallegos offered a three week course entitled Discrete models in biology.  

Professor Elaine Newman offered a two week course entitled A Modern Approach to Mathematical Statistics: Resampling and Simulation.

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In 2012 our teaching faculty consisted of

·        Professor Sara Quinn (SPWM 2002), Dominican University,  Chicago, IL

·        Professor Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA   

·        Professor Berit Givens, California State University- Pomona, CA

·        Professor Sarah Raynor, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

Professor Sara Quinn offered a three week course entitled Theory of Computation.

 

Professor Alissa Crans offered a two week course entitled And Then There Were Four:  Normed Division Algebras.

Professor Berit Givens offered a three week course entitled Semigroups.  

Professor Sarah Raynor offered a two week course entitled Solitons.

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In 2011 our teaching faculty consisted of

·        Professor Angela Gallegos (SPWM 1998), Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA   

·        Professor Alissa Crans, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

·        Professor Veronika Furst, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO

·        Professor Lyn Miller, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA 

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

Professor Angela Gallegos offered a three week course entitled Good Things Come to Those who Wait:  An Introduction to Delay Differential Equations.

 

Professor Alissa Crans offered a two week course entitled And Then There Were Four:  Normed Division Algebras.

Professor Veronika Furst offered a three week course entitled Bases, Frames, and Operators.  

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

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In 2010 our teaching faculty consisted of

·        Professor Julie Bergner (SPWM 1998), University of California- Riverside, CA 

·        Professor Kami Larippa (SPWM 2000), Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

·        Professor Veronika Furst, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO

·        Professor Sara B. Quinn (SPWM 2002), Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

Professor Julie Bergner offered a three week course entitled Interactions between Combinatorics and Topology.

 

Professor Kami Larippa offered a two week course entitled Math Biology/Modeling.

Professor Veronika Furst offered a two week course entitled Operator Theory via Finite Frames.  

Professor Sara B. Quinn offered a three week course entitled Mathematical Logic & Model Theory.

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In 2009 our teaching faculty consisted of

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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.
 


In 2001 our teaching faculty consisted of

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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.



In 2000 our teaching faculty consisted of

 

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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.


In 1999 our teaching faculty consisted of

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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.


In 1998, our teaching staff consisted of

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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.


In 1997, our teaching staff consisted of

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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.


In 1996, our teaching staff consisted of

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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.


In 1995, our teaching staff comprised of

 

who were assisted by graduate students

 

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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