Estimating Distortion Risk Measures under Truncated and Censored Data Mr. Sahadeb Upretee University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “We will discuss examples of distortion risk measures and model uncertainty.”
Erdos–Rényi Model of Random Graphs Mr. Prayagdeep Parija University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “We introduce the Erdos–Rényi model of random graphs and discuss the phase transition that occurs in it.”
Epsilon-local Rigidity and Numerical Algebraic Geometry Mr. Andrew Frohmader University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “We will discuss graph rigidity and numerical algebraic geometry. This is a joint work with Alexander Heaton.”
Cube Complexes and Robotics Mr. Daniel Gulbrandsen Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee “A robotic snake is a two dimensional figure depicting possible movements of a robotic arm subjected to certain simplifying conditions. In this talk we... Read More
The Doomsday Argument and other paradoxes Mr. Prayagdeep Parija Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee “How long will the human race survive? We will present and discuss the (in-?) famous doomsday argument which proposes an answer to the... Read More
Coupling of Diffusions by Reflection Mr. Daniel Noelck Dissertator University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee “Assume two independent random walks with identical transition probabilities but different starting points run until they meet. The instance they meet is called the coupling time,... Read More
Deep neural networks as kernel machines: An approach to explain the mysteriously superb performance of ANNs Ms. Gitte Kremling Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee “Due to their extremely good performance, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have been a... Read More
The Collatz Conjecture Mr. Daniel Gulbrandsen Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee “The Collatz Conjecture (Lothar Collatz, 1937) is simple to state:Begin with any positive integer. If the integer is even, divide by it 2. If the integer... Read More
The McKean-Vlassov SDE Mr. Daniel Noelck Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee “Imagine a school of fish or a flock of birds moving together. Each individual fish or bird is moving on its own, but somehow also following... Read More
A show-and-tell of generating functions Mr. William Erickson Graduate Teaching Assistant University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee “A generating function is often described as "a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers to display." Specifically, a generating function... Read More
