Using Evolutionary Programming to Generate a Tropical Cyclone Intensity Model Jesse Schaffer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student  “An innovative statistical-dynamical tropical cyclone (TC) intensity model is developed from a large ensemble of algorithms through evolutionary programming (EP). EP mimics... Read More

Pricing of Dependent Risks Mark Benedikt Schultze University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student  “In some types of insurance businesses, such as cyber or homeowners insurance, the assumption that risks are independent is violated. Because of this, the commonly used expected... Read More

A Stochastic Control Model for Electricity Producers Charles Beer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “We study optimal control for a coal plant operating on the open electricity market. The model incorporates discontinuous random processes for both the... Read More

Outlier-Resistant Models for Doubly Stochastic Point Processes Leo Elsaesser University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student  “This thesis proposes an outlier-resistant multiplicative component model for doubly stochastic point processes. The model is based on a principal component decomposition of the log-intensity... Read More

A Statistical Model for the Influence of Temperature on Bike Demand in Bike-Sharing Systems Tobias Tietze University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student  “Efficient fleet management is essential for bike-sharing systems. Thus, it is important to understand the impact of environmental... Read More

Solvability of General Solution and a Related Exit Problem Dr. Qingshuo Song Worcester Polytechnic Institute Associate Professor “We study sufficient conditions for a Feynman-Kac functional up to an exit time to be the generalized viscosity solution of a Dirichlet problem.... Read More

An SOS Counterexample to an Inequality of Symmetric Functions Alex Heaton Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Science Postdoctoral Researcher “It is known that differences of symmetric functions corresponding to various bases are nonnegative on the nonnegative orthant exactly when... Read More

Time-Inconsistent Optimal Control Problems Prof. Jiongmin Yong University of Central Florida Professor of Mathematics “Do you regret your decisions made in the past? If your answer is “yes”, you are a normal person. If your answer is “no”, you are... Read More