Master’s Thesis Defense: Ly Viet Hoang

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

Infinite-Dimensional Traits: Estimation of Mean, Covariance, and Selection Gradient Ly Viet Hoang University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "In evolutionary biology, traits like growth curves, reaction norms or morphological shapes cannot be described by a finite vector of components alone. Instead, ... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Russell Danielson

EMS Building, Room W434 W434; 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Downstream Predictability of the Path and Survival of Severe Wind Producing MCSs using RUC Analysis Data Russell Danielson University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "A method for predicting the track of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) is developed, based upon meteorological parameters... Read More

Dissertation Defense: Joseph Barrera

EMS Building, Room E130 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Asymptotic Expansion of the L^2-Norm of a Solution of the Strongly Damped Wave Equation Joseph Barrera University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student "The Fourier transform, F, on RN (N≥1) transforms the Cauchy problem for the strongly damped wave equation utt(t,x) -... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Alexa Schut

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

A Study of the Effect of Using Simulations on Students’ Learning of Inferential Statistics in the Elementary Statistics Classes in the Mathematics Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alexa Schut University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "We will present the results... Read More

Dissertation Defense: Joseph Tidmore

EMS Building, Room E495 E495; 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI, United States

Cocompact Cubulations of Mixed 3-manifolds Joseph Tidmore University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Student "Geometric group theory studies the connections between the algebraic properties of a group and the topological and geometric properties of spaces on which the group acts. If G... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Rica Wedowski

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

Associated Hypothesis in Linear Models with Unbalanced Data Rica Wedowski MS Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "In a two-way linear model one can test six different hypotheses regarding the effects in this model. Those hypotheses can be ranked from less specific... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Caitlin Crossett

EMS Building, Room W434 W434; 3200 N Cramer St., Milwaukee, WI, United States

An Examination of the Dynamics of a Rear-Inflow Jet Associated with an Idealized Mesoscale Convective System Caitlin Crossett University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "This study evaluates the main controls on the descent of the rear-inflow jet (RIJ), associated with a... Read More

Dissertation Defense: Matthew Hoeppner

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

On Some One-Complex Dimensional Slices of the Boundedness Locus of a Multi-Parameter Rational Family Matthew Hoeppner University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Student "Complex dynamics involves the study of the behavior of complex-valued functions when they are composed with themselves repeatedly. We... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Aubree Freeman

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

Assessing Student Comprehension of Learning to Solve Systems of Linear Equations with Practical Applications Through In-Class Group Project Aubree Freeman MS Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee In this presentation, we will demonstrate the effectiveness of project-based learning by looking at the outcomes... Read More

Dissertation Defense: Matthew Haulmark

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

Boundary Classification in Groups with Isolated Flats Matthew Haulmark University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Student "In 2000 Kapovich and Kleiner proved that if G is a one-ended hyperbolic group that does not split over a two-ended subgroup, then the boundary of... Read More