Topology Seminar: Steven Ferry

EMS Building, E408 3200 N Cramer St, Milwaukee

Nonmanifold Manifolds! Steven Ferry Rutgers University Professor Emeritus of Mathematics “We describe the construction of a  collection of compact "n-manifolds" modeled on spaces other than R^n. These spaces provide counterexamples to a well-known conjecture of Bing-Borsuk. Both results and open... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Julia Valder

EMS Building, Room E424A E424A; 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee

Fitting a Complex Markov Model for Firm and Market Productivity Julia Valder University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “There is a model in economics that models firm and market productivity as Markov Chains. But estimating the transition matrix for a... Read More