• Graduate Student Colloquium: Matt McClinton

    EMS Building, Room E495 E495; 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Harmonize your Fractals Matt McClinton Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Sierpinski Gasket (SG) is a known fractal object. A simple observation shows that SG is path connected. Unfortunately, the infinitely jagged structure of the Gasket prevents these paths from …

  • Colloquium: Prof. Roger Howe

    EMS Building, EMS E495 3200 Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Mathematics around the Heisenberg Group Prof. Roger Howe Professor Emeritus Yale University In the mid 1920s, Werner Heisenberg formulated the CCR – canonical commutation relations – describing the relationship between the operations of measuring position and of measuring momentum of …

  • PhD Dissertation Defense: Mr. William Braubach

    EMS Building, Room E425 E425; 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Coarse Homotopy Extension Property and its Applications Mr. William Braubach University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee A pair (X, A) has the homotopy extension property if any homotopy of A can be extended to a homotopy of X. The main goal of this …

  • Graduate Student Colloquium: Alex Moon

    EMS Building, Room E495 E495; 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Counting Orbits of Defective Parking Functions Alex Moon PhD Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Parking functions are well-studied objects in combinatorics and representation theory which constitute tuples of preferred parking spots for cars under a linear parking scheme. This talk will …

  • MS Thesis Defense: Ms. Helen Kafka

    EMS Building, E408 3200 N Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Markov Chain Model of Three-Dimensional Daphnia Magna Movement Ms. Helen Kafka University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Daphnia magna make turns through an antennae-whipping action. This action occurs every few seconds, hence, during the intervening time, the animal either remains in place or …

  • PhD Dissertation Defense: Mr. Russell Latterman

    EMS Building, Room E424A E424A; 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Bayesian Change Point Detection In Segmented Multi-Group Autoregressive Moving-Average Data For The Study Of COVID-19 In Wisconsin Mr. Russell Latterman University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Changepoint detection involves the discovery of abrupt fluctuations in population dynamics over time. We take a Bayesian …

  • MS Thesis Defense: Mr. Lucas Fellmeth

    EMS Building, E408 3200 N Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Utilizing ARMA Models for Non-Independent Replications of Point Processes Mr. Lucas Fellmeth University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The use of a functional principal component analysis (FPCA) approach for estimating intensity functions from prior work allows us to obtain component scores of replicated …

  • MS Thesis Defense: Mr. Sven Bergmann

    EMS Building, EMS E495 3200 Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Adding a Third Normal to CLUBB Mr. Sven Bergmann University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Cloud Layers Unified By Binormals (CLUBB) model uses the sum of two normal probability density function (pdf) components to represent subgrid variability within a single grid layer …

  • PhD Dissertation Defense: Mr. Dan Noelck

    EMS Building, Room E423 E423; 3200 N Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Contraction Rates For McKean-Vlassov Stochastic Differential Equations Mr. Dan Noelck University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This work focuses on the contraction rates for McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations (SDEs), McKean-Vlasov Stochastic differential delay equations (SDDEs), and path dependent McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations. Under …