Mathematical Sciences Colloquia 2005
- Monday, December 12, 2005, Roman Anklewicz, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mathematical Sciences), "Experimental Simple Heuristics for the Symmetric Traveling Salesman Problem",2:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Tuesday, December 6, 2005, Charles Lauters, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mathematical Sciences), "The Utilization of Matlab for the Statistical Analysis of Microarray Data",10:00 AM, EMS E408.
- Thursday, December 1, 2005, Lisa Hugdahl, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Mathematical Sciences), "Development of a Stable Numerical Method for the Two Dimensional Navier-Stokes Equations", 12:30 PM, EMS E495B.
- Tuesday, November 29, 2005, Zhiyuan Liu, Ph.D Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Atmospheric Sciences), "Vortices in Deformation Background Flow", 3:30pm, EMS W434.
- Friday, November 4, 2005, Nicolas P. Smith, (University of Auckland, New Zealand), "Virtual Heart Disease", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, October 14, 2005, Stefanie Donauer, (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), "Two Nonparametric Estimators and their Asymptotics in Deconvolution Models", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Wednesday, October 12, 2005, Hiroyuki Yamane, (Osaka University, Japan), "Defining Relations of the Quantum (Super) Algebras and Z/3Z-Super Quantum Group", 2:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, September 9, 2005, David Yang Gao, (Virginia Tech), "Canonical Duality Theory, Method, and Algorithm for Solving Nonconvex Variational/Optimization Problems with Applications", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Wednesday, August 24, 2005, Gregg J. Zuckerman, (Yale University), "Combinatorics of Graded Root Systems", 3:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Wednesday, August 3, 2005, David Steinberg, (Dept. of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University), "A Comparison of Case-Control and Prospective Studies for Continuous Outcomes", 2:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, July 29, 2005, Aad Dijksma, (Groningen, The Netherlands), "Rank one perturbations at infinite coupling in Pontryagin spaces", 1:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Tuesday, July 5, 2005, Kevin Bower, (Master's Defense, Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "The Gauss-Newton Least-Squares Iterative Method for Data Reduction", 1:00 PM, EMS E408.
- Friday, June 10, 2005, Iordanka Panayotova, (Ph.D. Defense, Atmospheric Sciences Group, Mathematical Sciences Dept, UWM), "Meridional Asymmetries in Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamical Phenomena", 12:00 PM, EMS W434.
- Friday, May 13, 2005, Ric Ancel, (Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Mathematics and Musical Scales - Math, Music & Pizza" Party, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, May 13, 2005, Marek Trawicki, (Master's Defense, Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "The Computational Solution to the Radiosity Equation", 2:00 PM, EMS E408.
- Thursday, May 12, 2005, Florian Sebert, (Master's Defense Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Invariant Functions of Frieze Groups and Pattern Generation", 2:30 PM, EMS E495A.
- Thursday, May 12, 2005, Martin Schneider, (Master's Defense Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "American Options in the Binomial Model", 1:00 PM, EMS E408.
- Thursday, May 12, 2005, Robert Reeb, (Master's Defense Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Finding Moments of Measures by Linear Programming", 11:00 AM, EMS E495A.
- Wednesday, May 11, 2005, Bernhard U. von Boyen, (Master's Defense Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Monotone Regression with Splines using Non-Quadratic Penalties", 3:30 PM, EMS E408.
- Tuesday, May 10, 2005, Cory Behnke, (Atmospheric Sciences Master's Defense, UWM), "Synoptic and Local Controls of the Lake Michigan Pneumonia Front", 12:00 PM, EMS W434.
- Monday, May 9, 2005, Christian Wagner, (Master's Defense Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Calculation of the Hughes-Eckart Shift", 4:30 PM, EMS E495.
- Monday, May 9, 2005, Justin Jacobs, (Master's Defense Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Exponential Distribution: Diagnostics, Goodness-of-Fit, Prediction", 3:30 PM, EMS E495A.
- Monday, May 9, 2005, Katharina Zaglauer, (Master's Defense Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Power of Cramer-von Mises and related statistics for testing goodness of fit", 2:30 PM, EMS E495A.
- Monday, May 9, 2005, Sara Bruening, (Atmospheric Sciences Master's Defense, UWM), "Assessment of Future Convection in the Contiguous United States", 12:30 PM, EMS W434.
- Monday, May 9, 2005, Leonie Zettler, (Master's Defense Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Quadratic ARCH Process", 9:30 AM, EMS E410.
- Friday, May 6, 2005, David A. Richter, (Western Michigan University), "From quasi-exact solvability to realizations of Lie superalgebras", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Thursday, May 5, 2005, Achim Glaser, (Master's Defense, Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "The Regime Switching Black Scholes Model, and the Empirical Test", 1:55 PM, EMS E416.
- Friday, April 29, 2005, Hans-Juergen Petersen, (Lexecon, Chicago, IL), "How expensive is this loan?", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, April 15, 2005, Michael Starbird, (University Distinguished Teaching Professor, Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin), "Algebraic topology without much algebra or topology", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, April 15, 2005, Vladimir Gaitsgory, (Univ. of South Australia), "Limit Occupational Measures Sets and Averaging of Singularly Perturbed Control Systems", 1:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, April 1, 2005, David Schultz, (CIMMS, Nat. Severe Storms Lab, Norman, OK), "Contraction Rate and its Relationship to Frontogenesis, the Lyapunov Exponent, Fluid Trapping, and Airstream Boundaries", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Tuesday, March 15, 2005, Xiaojian Xu, Masters Defense (Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Shrinkage Reduction by Design of Experiment", 9:00 AM, LAP 253.
- Marden Lecture on Mathematics, Thursday, March 10, 2005, Dr. Tony DeRose, (Senior Scientist and head of Research, Pixar Animation Studios), "Math in the Movies", 4:00 PM, BOL 150.
- Thursday, February 24, 2005, Dr. Vince Larson, (Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, Atmospheric Sciences Group, UWM), "Mathematical Aspects of Cloud Modeling", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
