Quantum Mechanics: How does it work? William Langhoff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “Many have heard about the strange phenomena of quantum mechanics. Pop-science writers often talk about ‘superposition of states’, ‘wave function collapse’, and ‘uncertainty’. In this talk,... Read More
Street View Imagery Based High-Resolution and High-Accuracy Human-Environment Vegetation Mapping: How Green is our County? Jacob Beihoff & Adam Honts University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Undergraduate Students “Measuring the amount of vegetation in a given area has long been accomplished using satellite... Read More
Fourier Analysis and Groups Alex Martin Heaton University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “In this introductory and elementary-level talk we will see functions on the circle, functions on the real line, functions on Euclidean space, functions on finite sets admitting... Read More
Exploring Fuzzy Set Theory Sam Nehls University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “In classical set theory, sets are mathematically defined and it's oftentimes straightforward to check if an element is or is not a member of a set. For instance,... Read More
Understanding the 17-gon: The Details of the Compass-and-Straightedge Construction Adam Buck University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “The fact that the 17-gon is constructible by compass and straightedge is common trivia among math enthusiasts. The goal of this talk will... Read More
Pick's Theorem and Applications to Restricted Integer Partition Functions Daniel Gulbrandsen University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “A point in R^n is called an integral point if all of its coordinates are integers. In R^2, Pick's Theorem relates the area... Read More
Anomalous Diffusion, Dilation and Erosion in Image Processing Sophia Vorderwuelbecke University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “Even if it might seem like a trip to Hogwarts by taking a train from Platform 9 ¾: There is indeed a way to... Read More
Antiderivatives and Linear Differential Equations Using Matrices Songpon Sriwongsa University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “The concepts of a basis as well as a matrix for a linear transformation relative to a basis are fundamental in linear algebra. In 1997,... Read More
Functional Derivatives Martin Vieten University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “The concept of the derivative of a single-variate function is one of the first concepts students are exposed to in elementary calculus. Typically, it is introduced using the 'classical' limit... Read More
How Does the Leopard Get Their Spots? Bill Langhoff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “In his 1952 paper "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis", Alan Turing described a mathematical model for how spatial patterns could arise out of a homogeneous... Read More