PhD Dissertation Defense: Mr. William Erickson

Please note that this event will be held in-person at the Physics Building, Room 120. The earth mover's distance through the lens of algebraic combinatorics Mr. Wiliam Erickson University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dissertator The earth mover's distance (EMD) is a metric... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Mr. Jan Gruenenwald

EMS Building, E423

Parallel simulation of Phase field equations through Spectral Deferred Corrections Mr. Jan Gruenenwald University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student Numerical solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) are to this day a topic of great interest with applications in a plethora of... Read More

PhD Dissertation Defense: Ms. Liting Li

Please note that this event will be held online via. Zoom. Functional Multidimensional Scaling Ms. Liting Li University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dissertator Multidimensional scaling is an important component in analyzing distances (similarities or dissimilarities) between objects and plays a key role in... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Mr. Timon Kramer

Robust Estimation of Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Parameters Mr. Timon Kramer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student The standard estimators of the parameter of the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process are vulnerable to contamination in the data sets. In this thesis more robust estimators for the parameter... Read More

PhD Dissertation Defense: Mr. Arka Banerjee

This event will be held online via. Zoom. To view Mr. Banerjee's talk virtually, enter the Online chatroom via. Zoom— it will open at 11:30am on Friday, April 29th, 2022.  Coarse cohomology of the complement Mr. Arka Banerjee University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Mr. Rishi Pawar

EMS Building, E424A

A Study of Machine Learning Techniques for Dynamical System Prediction Mr. Rishi Pawar University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student Dynamical Systems are ubiquitous in mathematics and science and have been used to model many important application problems such as population dynamics,... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Ms. Azia Barner

EMS Building, E424A

Investigation of Intervention Efforts to Combat High Drop-Out Rates in Milwaukee Public Schools Ms. Azia Barner University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student Several studies and on-going research have reported COVID-19 having negative mental and physical health outcomes for students. It is... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Ms. Ashley Scherf

EMS Building, E424A

An Optimal Decay Estimation of the Solution to the Airy Equation Ms. Ashley Scherf University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student In this thesis we investigate the initial value problem to the Airy equation ∂tu + ∂3xu = 0, (1) u(0, x)... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Mr. Randolph Cole

CNH Markov Chain Based Forecasting Model Mr. Randolph Cole University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student The purpose of this thesis is to develop a Markov Chain-based forecasting model that can accurately predict the future demand quantities of service parts for CNH... Read More

PhD Dissertation Defense: Mr. Brian Hospital

EMS Building, E408 3200 N Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The earth mover's distance through the lens of algebraic combinatorics Mr. Brian Hospital University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Dissertator Under consideration are convergence results between optimality criteria for two canonical stochastic control problems: the long-term average problem and the α-discounted problem, where... Read More