Mathematical Sciences Colloquia Archive 2009
- Friday, December 11, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Kurt Paquin
Precision Wind, Inc
"Wind Energy Overview: Current Status, Market Direction, and Future Outlook"
- Monday, December 7, 2009, 1:00 PM, EMS E423
Mazen G. Zarrouk, Ph.D. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Dexuan Xie
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009
"Analysis of Truncated Incomplete Hessian Newton Minimization Method and Application in Biomolecular Simulations"
- Friday, December 4, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Professor Peter Kim
University of Utah
"Emergent Dynamics Governed by Regulatory Cells Produce a Robust Primary T Cell Response"
- Friday, December 4, 2009, 1:00 PM, EMS W434
Nicholas T.Schwartz, M.S. Defense
Atmospheric Science Group
Under the Supervision of Professor Sergey Kravtsov
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009
"Zonally Symmetric and Regionally Intensified Regimes of Atmospheric Circulation: Persistence, Transitions and Predictability"
- Friday, November 27, 2009
Colloquium - not scheduled
- Friday, November 20, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Colloquium - not scheduled
- Thursday, November 19, 2009, 12:30 PM, EMS E150
K.G. Thishan Dharshana, M.S. Defense
Atmospheric Science Group, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Under the Supervision of Professors Sergey Kravtsov and Jonathan Kahl
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009
"Relationship between Daily Weather Conditions and Particulate-Matter Air Pollution over the U.S."
- Friday, November 13, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Emiliano Valdez
University of Connecticut
"Statistical Modeling of Life Insurance Policy Termination and Survivorship"
- Thursday, November 12, 2009, 1:00 PM, EMS E423
Harald Dornheim, Ph.D. Defense
Under the Supervision of Prof. Vytaras Brazauskas
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2009
"Robust-Efficient Fitting of Mixed Linear Models: Theory, Simulations, Actuarial Extensions, and Examples"
- Friday, November 6, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Dirk Gillespie
Rush University Medical Center
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology
"Electrodiffusion of Ions through Biological Ion Channels: Theory Predicts Experiments"
- Thursday, November 5, 2009, 12:30 PM, EMS E495A
Chris Mooney
University of Michigan
"Sprawl and Limit Measures in Groups"
- Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 4:00 PM, EMS E423
Andreas Kleefeld, Ph.D. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Tzu-Chu Lin
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Direct and Inverse Acoustic Scattering for Three-Dimensional Surfaces"
- Friday, October 30, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Colloquium - not scheduled
- Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 10:00 AM, EMS E423
Britta Janssen, Ph.D. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Bruce Wade
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"An Efficient Exponential Time Differencing Method for Nonlinear Reaction Diffusion Problems"
- Friday, October 16, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
German Enciso
University of California-Irvine
"A Network of Neuronal Interactions and Direction Selectivity in the Retina"
- Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:30 PM, EMS E495A
Hector Corrada Bravo, Postdoctoral Fellow
Johns Hopkins Biostatistics Department
"Model-Based Base-Calling and Quality Assessment of Second-Generation Sequencing Data"
- Friday, October 9, 2009,2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Sergey Tarima
Medical College of Wisconsin, Division of Biostatistics
"The Use of Additional Information in Statistical Estimation"
- Friday, October 2, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Zhonggang Zeng
Northeastern Illinois University
"Numerical Solutions of Ill-posed Problems: A Geometric Perspective"
- Friday, September 4, 9:30 AM, EMS E423
Kakali Das, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Hans Volkmer
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Approximations of the Factorial and Gamma Functions"
- Tuesday, August 18, 3:00 PM, EMS E495A
Lauren Ancel Meyers, Associate Professor
Section of Integrative Biology
University of Texas, Austin
"Using Mathematical Models to Predict and Control 2009 (H1N1) Pandemic Influenza"
Video (.wmv format - 166 MB - download a video player)
- Friday, August 14, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Professor Gerhard Dikta
Aachen University of Applied Sciences
Medizintechnik und Technomathematics
Julich, Germany
"Probability of Damage of Electronic Systems due to Indirect Lightning Flashes"
- Monday, August 3, 11:30 AM, EMS W434
Michael E. Kurz, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Paul Roebber
Mathematical Sciences, Atmospheric Science Group, UWM
"The Effects of Short-Term Solar Variability on Winter Climate in the Northern Hemisphere"
- Friday, July 31, 10:00 AM, EMS W434
William R. Borghoff, MS Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Paul Roebber
Mathematical Sciences, Atmospheric Science Group, UWM
"Does Convection South of a Baroclinic Zone Reduce Cyclone Snowfall Production?"
- Monday, July 27, 1:00 PM, EMS E495A
Rene S. Kuelheim, Ph.D. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professors Jugal Ghorai and Gerhard Dikta
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Asymptotic Properties of Semiparametric Random Censorship Models with Covariables"
- Tuesday, July 21, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Ju Youn Bae, Ph.D. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Jay Beder
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Estimation of the Additive Genetic Covariance Function"
- Friday, July 17, 2009, 10:00 AM, EMS E495A
George Birthisel, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Emeritus David H. Schultz
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"High-Order Methods for Two-Point Boundary Value Problems"
- Thursday, July 16, 2009, 1:00 PM, EMS E423
Elizabeth Paulus Brown, MS Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Jay H. Beder
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Estimating the Selection Gradient of a Function-Valued Trait"
- Friday, June 12, 2009, 1:00 PM, EMS E495A
Yuhui Sheng, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Runhuan Feng
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"First Hitting-time Distributions of Stochastic Annuities in a Complete Market"
- Friday, May 1, 2009, 3:30 PM, EMS E423
Tavis M. Abrahamsen, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Daniel Gervini
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"The Least Absolute Deviation Estimator for Functional Linear Regression"
- Friday, May 1, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E495A
Shawn Chiappetta, Ph.D. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Bruce Wade
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Non-Overlapping Domain Decomposition Parallel Algorithms for Convection-Diffusion Problems"
- Friday, May 1, 2009, 1:30 PM, EMS W434
Laura E. Carnahan, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Jonathan Kahl
Atmospheric Sciences Group, Mathematical Sciences
"Statistical Significance Testing for Trajectory Grouping Techniques"
- Friday, May 1, 2009, 1:30 PM, EMS E423
Christian M. Rolser, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Chao Zhu
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Optimal Dynamic Reinsurance in a Changing Environment"
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E423
Martin Michael, Ph.D. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Albert Milani
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Local and Global Solutions to Quasilinear Wave Equations via Nash-Moser Algorithm"
- Twentieth Annual Marden Lecture on Mathematics
Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, LAP 162
Professor Denis Hirschfeldt
University of Chicago
Waking Up from Leibniz' Dream: Alan Turing and the Unmechanizability of Truth
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 2:00 PM, PHY 144
Patrick Heinrich, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Richard Stockbridge
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Modeling Lumber Spot Prices with Stochastic Processes"
- Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 12:30 PM, EMS E423
Dominik Brugger, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Christine Cheng, (CEAS, Comp Sci)
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"On the Paranoid Watchman Problem"
- Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 9:30 AM, EMS E423
Michael Sauler, M.S. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professor Vytaras Brazauskas
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Option Pricing: Black-Scholes versus Weibull"
- Monday, April 27, 2009, 2:00 PM, EMS E423
George A. Rus, Ph.D. Defense
Under the Supervision of Professors Richard Stockbridge and Bruce Wade
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Finite Element Methods for Control of Singular Stochastic Processes"
- Thursday, April 9, 2009, 3:00 PM, EMS E423
Katharina Zaglauer, Ph.D. Defense
Under the supervision of Professor Richard H. Stockbridge
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Fair Pricing of Participating Life Insurance Contracts in a Regime-Switching Market Environment"
- Thursday, April 9, 2009, 10:00 AM, EMS E423
Florian M. Sebert, Ph.D. Defense
Under the supervision of Professor Yi Ming Zou
Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Algebraic and Geometric Properties of Generalized Wavelet Matrices"
- Friday, April 3, 2009, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Professor Qun Li
Ohio State University
"Totally Real Manifolds and Complex Monge-Ampere Equations"
- Friday, March 27, 2009, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Professor Gheorghe Craciun
Department of Mathematics and Department of Biomolecular Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Graph-theoretic criteria for multiple equilibria in biochemical reaction networks"
- Friday, February 27, 2009, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
David M. Steinberg
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
Tel Aviv University
"Computer Experiments"
- Friday, February 6, 2009, 4:00 PM, EMS E495A
Prof. Jon Kahl, Atmospheric Sciences Group
Dept. Mathematical Sciences, UWM
"Assessment of a Large-Lecture, Introductory Meteorology Course"