• 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 …

  • Colloquium: Prof. Genevieve Walsh

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

    Hyperbolic groups, their boundaries and drilling Prof. Genevieve Walsh Professor of Mathematics Tufts University We will define and describe groups with a particular geometry, hyperbolic groups. We will define the boundary of a hyperbolic group and give many examples. If …

  • MS Thesis Defense: Mr. Silas Winnemoeller

    EMS Building, Room E416 3200 N Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

    A Finite Element Block Modified Backward Euler Method For Solving A One-Dimensional Poisson-Nernst-Planck Ion Channel Model Mr. Silas Winnemoeller University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In this thesis, a finite element block modified backward Euler method is introduced to solve a one-dimensional Poisson-Nernst-Planck …

  • Graduate Student Colloquium: Melissa Beerbower

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

    On the Lucky Sets of Fubini Rankings Melissa Beerbower Loyola University Chicago Recall that Fubini rankings of length n are rankings of n competitors allowing for ties. We can say that the number of rankings, k, with k less than …

  • Colloquium: Dr. Rafael S. González D’León

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

    On Whitney numbers of the first and second kind, or is it the other way around? Dr. Rafael S. González D'León Assistant Professor  Loyola University Chicago Algebraic combinatorics is centered on the idea that a variety of algebraic objects can …