Colloquium: Christine Heitsch

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

RNA FOLDING PREDICTION REVISITED: 30 Years and Counting Christine Heitsch Georgia Institute of Technology Professor of Mathematics "A 1986 AMS article on "RNA folding prediction"  outlined several major questions in this area of molecular biology, and advocated "the continued need for... Read More

Dissertation Defense: Matthew Hoeppner

EMS Building, Room E408 E408; 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee

On Some One-Complex Dimensional Slices of the Boundedness Locus of a Multi-Parameter Rational Family Matthew Hoeppner University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Student "Complex dynamics involves the study of the behavior of complex-valued functions when they are composed with themselves repeatedly. We... Read More

Math Club: Martin Vieten

EMS Building, Room E423 E423; 3200 N Cramer St, Milwaukee

Random Variables and How to Generate Them Martin Vieten PhD Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "The concept of a random variable is one of the most fundamental notions in probability theory. Compared to classic deterministic functions, random variables introduce an  additional... Read More

Science Bag: Fredric Ancel

Physics Building, Room 137 1900 E. Kenwood Blvd, Milwaukee

Symmetry and the Alhambra Mosaics Featuring: Fredric Ancel University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor of Mathematics "Every pattern has some symmetry which mathematicians study using  the idea of a symmetry group – a group of all the ways a pattern or object... Read More