AWM-SIAM Workshop and Kovalevsky Lecture, 2014

该项目将在伊利诺斯州芝加哥举行的工业与应用数学学会（SIAM） 2014年年会上为早期职业女性提供命名讲座和研讨会。索尼娅·科瓦列夫斯基讲座以女性对数学科学应用领域的重大贡献为特色。这些讲座吸引了广泛的听众，突出了女性的重要贡献，并为那些进入该行业的人提供了灵感。这次研讨会由数学女性协会（AWM）组织，是一系列相互关联的会议和研讨会的一部分，这些会议和研讨会旨在建立可持续的网络，鼓励指导关系，促进研究合作。2014 AWM-SIAM研讨会将重点关注非线性偏微分方程（PDEs）的数值算法。非线性偏微分方程出现在许多不同的领域，几十年来一直是理论和数值分析的核心研究领域。由于非线性，这些偏微分方程的解可能存在奇异性，因而不能满足经典意义上的方程。近年来，数值模拟极大地提高了我们对这类溶液的性质和行为的理解。讲习班将集中讨论一些最广泛研究的偏微分方程的数值方法。该项目旨在解决经常导致数学科学领域女性离开职业或无法发展的问题。研究表明，提高女科学家的知名度、提供指导和建立网络的机会以消除孤立、以及为开展职业提供资源是解决这一问题的关键。AWM工作坊包括研究讲座和职业发展小组讨论，为建立师徒关系和研究合作提供了一个自然的环境。在这些会议上形成的联系使与会者更好地融入更广泛的研究界。科瓦列夫斯基讲座是一个展示有成就的女数学家杰出工作的机会，既为年轻女性提供了榜样，也向更广泛的社区提供了女性数学家所做出的重大贡献的视觉提醒。

This project will fund a named lectureship and a workshop for early-career women at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in Chicago, Illinois. The Sonia Kovalevsky Lectureship features significant contributions by women to applied areas of the mathematical sciences. These lectures reach a broad audience, highlight important contributions by women, and serve as inspiration for those entering the profession. The workshop, organized by the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), is part of a series of interconnected conferences and workshops designed to create sustainable networks, encourage mentoring relationships, and promote research collaborations. The 2014 AWM-SIAM workshop will focus on numerical algorithms for nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs). Nonlinear PDEs arise in many different fields and have been a core research area of theoretical and numerical analysis for many decades. Due to the nonlinearity, solutions to these PDEs may have singularities and thus cannot satisfy the equations in the classical sense. In recent years, numerical simulations have dramatically enhanced our understanding of the properties and behaviors of such solutions. The workshop will focus on numerical methods for some of the most widely studied PDEs.This project is designed to address issues that frequently cause women in the mathematical sciences to leave the profession or fail to thrive. Studies show that increasing the visibility of women scientists, providing mentoring and networking opportunities to combat isolation, and offering resources for launching careers are key to combating this problem. The AWM workshops, which include both research talks and panel discussions on career development, provide a natural environment for establishing mentoring relations and research collaborations. Contacts formed at these meetings lead to greater integration of the participants into the broader research community. The Kovalevsky Lecture is an opportunity to display outstanding work by accomplished female mathematicians, providing both role models for younger women and visual reminders to the broader community of the significant contributions being made by female mathematicians.