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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 2:00 PM, EMS E416
Seemi Javed, M.S. Defense
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Bases of Dilated Functions"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- Friday, November 14, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Georgia Benkart
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Bases, Braids, and Beyond"
- Friday, November 7, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
John H. Conway
Princeton University
"ax^2 + hxy + cy^2 = n"
- 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"
- Friday, October 10, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Ian Musson
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Character Formulas in Mathematics and Physics"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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",
- Friday, May 9, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Vera Serganova, (University of California at Berkeley)
"Interaction between Representations of Quivers and Lie Algebras",
- Friday, May 2, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Bimal Sinha, (Presidential Research Professor, UMBC)
"Generalized P-values with Applications",
- 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",
- 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",
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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",
- 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"
- Friday, April 18, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Michael Taksar, (University of Missouri-Columbia)
"Regular-Impulse Stochastic Control in Financial/Insurance Optimization Models"
- 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"
- 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"
- Friday, March 28, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Rick Scott, (Santa Clara University)
"Right-Angled Mock-Reflection Groups"
- 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"
- Friday, March 21, 2008, 11:00 AM, EMS E495A
Francois Dufour, (Universite Bordeaux, France)
"Stability and Ergodicity of Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes",
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- 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"
- Thursday, February 14, 2008, 12:45 PM, EMS E495A
Kahadawala Cooray, (University of Nevada)
"Modeling Actuarial Data with a Lognormal-Pareto Composite Distribution"
- 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"
- Friday, February 1, 2008, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Chris Hruska, Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"Tree Lattices"
- 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"
