Mathematical Sciences Colloquia Archive 2008

• Thursday, December 18, 2008, 9:00 AM, EMS E423
  Jill Bolanowski, Masters Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, UWM
  "Exploring Divisibility Rules - Base 10 and Beyond"
  

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• Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 12:30 PM, EMS E495A
  Dr. Hao Wang
  Department of Mathematics & School of Biology
  Georgia Institute of Technology
  "Modeling and Dynamics of Trophic Interactions with Explicit Consideration of Light and Nutrients in Aquatic Ecosystems"
  

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• Monday, December 15, 2008, 3:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Xingdong Feng
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  "Inference on Low-Rank Data Matrices with Applications to Microarray Data"
  

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• Thursday, December 11, 2008, 12:30 PM, EMS E495A
  Dr. Peter Hinow
  Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
  University of Minnesota
  "Analysis of a Model for Transfer Phenomena in Biological Populations"
  

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• Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 2:00 PM, EMS E416
  Seemi Javed, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, UWM
  "Bases of Dilated Functions"
  

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• Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E408
  Kseniya Fuhrman, Ph.D. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, UWM
  "Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Virus-Host Interactions in Aquatic Systems"
  

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• Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 12:30 PM, EMS E495A
  Dr. Ching-Shan Chou
  Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine
  "Spatial Dynamics of Cell Signaling"
  

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• Friday, December 5, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Dr. Mark A. Iwen
  Institute for Mathematics and its Applications
  University of Minnesota
  "Interpolation with Sparsity Assumptions: From Syphilis Testing to Sparse Fourier Transforms"
  

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• Thursday, December 4, 2008, 2:00 PM, EMS E408
  Franco Mendolia, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, UWM
  "A Statistic for Diagnostic in Functional Lienar Regression"
  

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• Friday, November 14, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Georgia Benkart
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  "Bases, Braids, and Beyond"
  

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• Friday, November 7, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  John H. Conway
  Princeton University
  "ax^2 + hxy + cy^2 = n"
  

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• Friday, October 31, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Professor Jesus Martin-Vaquero
  Departamento de Matematica Aplicada
  Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
  "Recent Investigations on the Numerical Integration of Large, Stiff ODEs"
  

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• Friday, October 10, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Ian Musson
  Mathematical Sciences, UWM
  "Character Formulas in Mathematics and Physics"
  

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• Monday, August 4, 2008, 2:30 PM, EMS E495A
  Mark E. Whidden, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "An Improved Radau IIA Method by Inexact Simplified Newton Iterations for Solving Stiff Differential Equations"
  

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• Monday, August 4, 2008, 1:00 PM, EMS W434
  Kathryn R. Smith, M.S. Defense, Atmospheric Sciences Group
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "The Effects of Urbanization on the Local Weather and Climate of Chicago, iL"
  

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• Monday, August 4, 2008, 12:30 PM, EMS E495A
  Ridha Moussa, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Theoretical and Numerical Studies of Finite Difference Methods for Parabolic Equations"
  

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• Monday, June 30, 2008, 1:00 PM, EMS E408
  Hao He, Ph.D. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Utility Maximization of a Portfolio that Includes an Illiquid Asset"

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• Friday, June 20, 2008, 1:00 PM, EMS W434
  Melissa R. Schumann, M.S. Defense, Atmospheric Sciences Group
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "An Observational Analysis of the Influence of Synoptic Forcing on Convective Morphology"
  

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• Wednesday, May 14, 2008, 1:30 PM, EMS E495A
  Dan Greene, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Computing Preimages of Loops and Paths under Quadratic Polynomial Maps of C",

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• Friday, May 9, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Vera Serganova, (University of California at Berkeley)
  "Interaction between Representations of Quivers and Lie Algebras",

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Bimal Sinha, (Presidential Research Professor, UMBC)
  "Generalized P-values with Applications",

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, 2:00 PM, EMS E408
  Simone Rieger, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Controlling a Multitype Birth and Death Process",

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, 1:00 PM, EMS E408
  Katrin Jensen, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "A Linear Programming Approach to Determine the Exercise Rule for American Put Options",

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, 12:15 PM, EMS E423
  Curt Leister, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, Universtiy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "An Affine Invariant Multivariate Rank Test"

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, 11:15 AM, EMS E495A
  john A. Dudek, Ph.D. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "A Mathematical Investigation of Solutions for the Two-Component Order Parameter in the Ginzburg-Landau Equations of Superconductivity"

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, 9:00 AM, EMS E408
  Philipp Frey, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Estimation and Fitting of Skew-Normal Distributions"

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• Thursday, May 1, 2008, 2:30 PM, EMS E408
  Anne Klein, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "The Limit Distribution of the Quadratic Arch Process"

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• Thursday, May 1, 2008, 11:00 AM, EMS E408
  Franziska Haeussler, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Modeling Electricity Spot Prices and Risk-Neutral Pricing of Options"

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• Thursday, May 1, 2008, 10:00 AM, EMS E416
  Michael Vietz, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Modeling of Hedge Fund Returns and Calculation of Performance Measures via Simulation"

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• Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 3:00 PM, EMS E423
  Theresa Springer, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Development of a Second Order Exponential Time Differencing Scheme"

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• Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 3:00 PM, EMS E423
  Eva Schumacher, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "A Comparison of Different Methods of Simulating Bivariate Copula Data"

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• Tuesday, April 29, 2008, 1:00 PM, EMS E423
  Asta Shomberg, Ph.D. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Estimation of False Discovery Rate under Parametric Assumptions with Application to DNA Microarrays"

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• Monday, April 28, 2008, 2:00 PM, EMS E423
  Joseph Lee Shomberg, Ph.D. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Explicit Construction of a Robust Family of Compact Inertial Manifolds"

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• Friday, April 25, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Lauren Ancel Meyers, (University of Texas at Austin, Integrative Biology)
  "Using Network Models to Forecast and Control Epidemics"

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• Thursday, April 24, 2008, 10:00 AM, EMS E408
  Jae Kook Lee, Ph.D. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Some Covers and Relative Covers of Modules",

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• Tuesday, April 22, 2008, 1:30 PM, EMS E495A
  Eric Van Den Bosch, M.S. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Modeling and Predicting the Yield Curve's Risk Premium"

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• Friday, April 18, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Michael Taksar, (University of Missouri-Columbia)
  "Regular-Impulse Stochastic Control in Financial/Insurance Optimization Models"

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• Friday, April 11, 2008, 3:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Tim Schroeder, Ph.D. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "l^2-homology of Coxeter groups"

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• Friday, April 4, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Xiu Ye, (University of Arkansas at Little Rock)
  "Discontinuous Galerkin Method and Discontinuous Finite Volume Method"

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• Friday, March 28, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Rick Scott, (Santa Clara University)
  "Right-Angled Mock-Reflection Groups"

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• Friday, March 28, 2008, 12:15 PM, EMS E495A
  Christopher Mooney, Ph.D. Defense
  Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "On Boundaries of CAT(O) Groups"

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• Friday, March 21, 2008, 11:00 AM, EMS E495A
  Francois Dufour, (Universite Bordeaux, France)
  "Stability and Ergodicity of Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes",

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• Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 4:00 PM, Chemistry 180
  Marden Lecture on Mathematics
  John H. Hubbard, (Cornell University & University of Provence in Marseille, France)
  "The Dynamics of the Forced Damped Pendulum"

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• Friday, March 7, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Ching-Hong Yang, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Emergent Properties in Pathogenicity-Bistable expression of virulence genes in a bacterial pathogen Dickeya dadantii"

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• Friday, February 29, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Gil Walter, Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Chromatic Series of Prolate Spheroidal Waves and Wavelets"

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• Friday, February 22, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Lepeng Li, (Trustmark Insurance Company)
  "Integrating Long-term Care Insurance Purchase Decision with Saving and Investment for Retirement"

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• Thursday, February 21, 2008, 1:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Joel Culina, (University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences)
  "Averaging and Stochastic Mode Reduction Methods Applied to a Model of Atmospheric Low-Frequency Variability"

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• Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 12:45 PM, EMS E495A
  Ming Zhou, (University of Waterloo)
  "Optimal Reinsurance for Insurers with the Possibility of Borrowing and Investment"

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• Thursday, February 14, 2008, 12:45 PM, EMS E495A
  Kahadawala Cooray, (University of Nevada)
  "Modeling Actuarial Data with a Lognormal-Pareto Composite Distribution"

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• Tuesday, February 12, 2008,12:45 PM, EMS E495A
  Runhuan Feng, (University of Waterloo)
  "A Unifying Stochastic Approach in Ruin Theory with Applications in Credit Risk Modelling"

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• Friday, February 1, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
  Chris Hruska, Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  "Tree Lattices"
  

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• Thursday, January 17, 2008, 11:00 AM, EMS E495A
  Erica Kelly, (Exhibition Developer, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL)
  "Nature Unleashed at The Field Museum: The Making of an Exhibition"
  

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