L. G. de Pillis

The purpose of the follow-up activity is to disseminate workshop information to fellow women faculty on the challenges and options facing women mathematicians moving into leadership positions. De Pillis will host a series of monthly lunchtime meetings, to which all women mathematicians at the all of the Claremont Colleges will be invited. At these meetings, De Pillis will guide discussions, based on lessons learned at the Maryland workshop, on how to overcome challenges facing women transitioning into post-entry level positions. De Pillis will work with the Harvey Mudd College Assessment Officer to develop a questionnaire to be given to lunchtime meeting participants that will provide feedback as to the perceived level of career-related knowledge gained through the lunchtime meeting series.

Karen Devine

With agreement from organizers Tammy Kolda and Dianne O'Leary, I will become webmaster for the WAMRL web site. More specifically, I will update the web pages to include activity reports and relevant links.

Lori Freitag Diachin

The purpose of this activity is to educate myself and become involved with the programs targeting professional, scientific women at my new institution, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. I will pursue this goal by participating in two existing programs:

• the Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference which targets middle and high school age girls with a day long conference filled with math and science activities, and
• the LLNL Lab's Women's Association which is an educational discussion and action group concerned with issues of interest to laboratory employees, with a particular emphasis on women's issues.

I will measure my success by increased visibility in LLNL mentoring and women's issues activities and through making a viable contribution to the EYH conference.

Renee Fister and Maeve McCarthy

Our purpose is to provide information gained from this conference to female mathematicians at the local, regional, and national levels. At the local level, this will be accomplished through coffee meetings with students and lunch meetings with faculty at Murray State. At the regional and national level, we will organize a forum to discuss career and research experiences at the Kentucky MAA meeting (April 2-3, 2004) and a panel of two senior applied women and two early-career women at the SIAM annual meeting in Oregon (July 11-14, 2004). Success will be measured in the number of participants in each event and through surveys distributed at some of the events.

Holly Gaff

I will develop a website for information and collaborative connections for women in mathematical biology. This website will be hosted by mathecology.com, a small women owned consulting company. The website will contain a variety of pages including graduate school information, research interests, employment possibilities and a bulletin board for collaborators wanted/offered. The success of the website will be measured in two ways, a simple counter for hits to the main page and a feedback form posted at the site.

Masha Gordina

I will disseminate information about career choices and funding opportunities for women in mathematics in order to attract more women. My department has an active postdoc program half of whom are female, and I am going to establish a mentoring program for our female postdocs. I will also make our local chapter of the AWM more visible not just to the postdocs and graduate students, but also to our undergraduate math majors. Our success will be measured by whether my department will be a more attractive place for female faculty, and whether we will be able to maintain high percentage of female postdocs, and attract more and better female students.

Laura K. Gross

To expand our popular Women in Mathematics program and to increase the sophistication of our new majors in planning their programs of study and career paths, I propose to enhance recruitment, convey the accessibility of mathematics and applied mathematics degrees, advertise departmental scholarships, and communicate the attractiveness of mathematics coursework. I plan to solicit from teachers and department records the names of each woman calculus student who receives a grade of A or A- in the fall. I will send letters to these potential new majors in the spring, congratulating them on being Calculus High Achievers, offering them free membership in our Pi Mu Epsilon mathematics honor society chapter when they meet the standard criteria, and inviting them to join Women in Mathematics and to attend a three-lecture program called ``Perspectives on Mathematics." I will measure the percent increase in membership from fall to spring and the percent increase in average number of participants per event, as well as compare the number of new members to the number of graduating seniors.

Gwendolen Hines

I plan to initiate a regular lunch gathering of near-tenure (pre or post) women in math and sciences at my home university. Such a gathering will serve several purposes. It will provide a venue for faculty to learn about what's going on in other departments politically and scientifically, which in turn will help women faculty prepare for leadership roles in the university, and perhaps even encourage some collaboration. It will provide a venue where ideas can be exchanged and discussed, where women can put together their collective strength to affect change and where women can and networking and support. One measure of success will be if after 6 months, people can still and time in their busy schedules to attend lunches! Another will be if the number of women getting tenure and gaining administrative positions increases, or even if just the participants feel some personal benefit. These latter successes will be measured by survey and data collection.

Kathleen Hoffman and Sue Minkoff

We propose to help foster support and information networks for women mathematicians on a local level -- for female undergraduate and graduate mathematics students at UMBC and a third for junior women faculty at schools in the Baltimore/Washington area. At the student level, we will organize two separate lunches (one for undergrads and a second for graduate students) designed to allow the students to meet each other (a vital tool in the retention of mathematics majors) as well as to introduce the students to opportunities on campus and in professional organizations which they may not have been aware of previously -- summer internships, undergraduate research programs, Women in Science and Engineering support groups, the American Women in Mathematics, SIAM, AMS, MAA, etc. At the faculty level, we will organize a dinner with the aim of introducing the women math and statistics faculty from area research universities to each other -- a first step towards forming a local support network for women mathematicians. The success of these activities will primarily be based on surveying participating students at the end of the school year to determine whether they received information that allowed them to participate in or apply to activities about which they had not previously known.

Naira Hovakimyan

Systematic integration of knowledge from wide areas of pure and applied mathematics into modern engineering science is going to be the main thrust of planned activities. This will be promoted through organization of seminars and workshops to encourage applied math students to work in groups with engineering students on problems related to particular applications of national interest and homeland defense. Major effort will be devoted to identification of exact problem formulations on the level of basic mathematical science that will lead to new capabilities for future technologies, in particular, for future aircraft. Anticipated success will be measured through joint publications/projects of math students with engineers.

Misha Kilmer

I propose to organize a series of 2-3 lunch meetings a semester for women faculty and graduate students in math, computer science and engineering for the purpose of 1) facilitating research opportunities 2) increasing awareness of career obstacles and solutions that affect early-career women, such as maternity leave and the tenure clock, grant writing, etc. 3) providing career guidance to graduate students and postdocs. The structure of the lunches will include a moderated discussion on a particular topic scheduled and advertised in advance as well as time for open discussion. The success of the lunch group will be measured in terms of the number of active participants at the end of March, 2004, and responses to a survey regarding the effectiveness of the group and whether to continue the series into the following year.

Sandra Kingan

The goal of my activity is to increase participation of women in the mathematical sciences. I plan to implement this goal by holding a summer math camp for middle or high school girls. I will evaluate the success of the camp using student and parent feedback forms.

Rachael Kuske

The purpose of the follow-up activity is to augment the AWM Mentor Network with opportunities for mentoring contacts/matches on the level of the mentoring experience of the conference; that is, connecting junior and senior faculty/researchers. This will be accomplished through targeted advertising and invitations, using existing and new email contacts of the AWM Mentor Network. Matching will be accomplished by requests through the AWM Mentor Network Website. Success will be measured by the number and retention of these mentor matches, as well as feedback on their experiences.

Sabine Le Borne

I plan to encourage talented (under-) graduate women to pursue a professional career in mathematics by making them aware of domestic and international education and research opportunities. I will make myself known to be available as a facilitator through a seminar at TTU as well as through a webpage. The success can be measured by the results of a survey at the end of the seminar and through the webpage.

Sharon Lubkin and Mette Olufsen

The NCSU Mathematics department has about 30% female students, but we currently have no structure for them to gather as a group and find common interests and concerns, hence we propose to develop a forum encouraging the female graduate students to interact. Drs. Sharon Lubkin and Mette Olufsen will organize periodic lunch meetings (2 times per semester) with the female graduate students. Since the objective purpose is to create a forum, success will be measured by attendance and activity level (conversation) at the meetings.

Lois Curfman McInnes

I will share the ideas discussed during this workshop with colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory through two venues, with a goal of encouraging mentoring activities and professional advancement. I will organize a series of informal lunches among the technical women (including researchers, visitors, and students) in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division to discuss mentoring issues for various career stages. In addition, to bring these ideas to a broader group of women in various scientific disciplines throughout the laboratory, I plan to present an overview of the workshop at Argonne's First Friday Forum, a monthly gathering of female employees. I will evaluate the progress of these activities through ongoing dialogue with these laboratory colleagues.

Jodi Mead

The purpose of the activity is to discuss math anxiety and some of the practical applications of mathematics with a broad audience of women at Boise State University. The discussions will take place in a series (2-3) of brown bag luncheons at the Women's Center. These discussions will include opportunities for people to discuss their own anxieties, practical coping skills, and mathematical applications such as: interest, scheduling, oceanography and contaminant transport. The success of the activity will be measured by the number of women who attend the luncheons.

Shari Moskow

The purpose of the activity is to foster communication among women applied in mathematics in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. I will organize a series of lunches with applied math faculty and graduate student women at local inexpensive restaurants. Invitations will be by email. We will measure the impact by asking the participants to fill out an evaluation form at the end of the series.

Suely Oliveira

I would like to see more women involved in Numerical Analysis or Applied Math at the University of Iowa and I am interested in accomplishing this across different ethnicities and in the various departments involved in Applied Math. To attract more women to these areas I plan to to invite two female researchers from outside to give talks at our Computer Science or Applied Mathematics Colloquia. After these talks I will send a broad invitation for lunch with women graduate students in Mathematics, Computer Science and perhaps other departments interested in cross disciplinary research. My short range goal is to attract women who are already students; in the long range I would like to increase the percentage of female students who apply to the University of Iowa Applied Math Program.

Konstantina Trivisa

I propose the organization of monthly meetings/luncheons for women faculty and female students at the CMPS (College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences) at University of Maryland aiming at the interaction of women faculty across various applied disciplines and at encouraging female students to choose math and sciences as a career.

Carol Woodward

A brown bag lunch series will be organized to present and discuss items learned at the Women in Applied Mathematics: Research and Leadership Workshop. Goals of the series are to discuss challenges in taking on leadership roles within a research organization and strategies for meeting them. We will also identify specific challenges and solutions within the LLNL environment. Participation is open to all women in applied mathematics and computer science who are interested in attending. Meetings will be on a monthly basis, but a different frequency may evolve once a core group has formed.