Prof. Steve Shreve Carnegie Mellon University Title: “Lessons Learned from the Financial Crisis” Wednesday, March 4, 2015 The lecture is free and open to the public
The 27th Annual Marden Lecture on Mathematics presents: Dr. Eugenia Cheng University of Sheffield & School of the Art Institute of Chicago Thursday, April 7 at 4pm Lubar Hall, Room N140 How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the... Read More
Béla Bollobás The 28th Annual Marden Lecture on Mathematics presents: The Greatest Codebreaker and His Mathematics Dr. Béla Bollobás University of Memphis Trinity College, Cambridge Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Lubar Hall N140 Many of the best cryptographers and cryptanalysts of... Read More
Symmetry and the Alhambra Mosaics Featuring: Fredric Ancel University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor of Mathematics "Every pattern has some symmetry which mathematicians study using the idea of a symmetry group – a group of all the ways a pattern or object... Read More
Black-Scholes Model: An Analysis of the Influence of Volatility Cornelia Krome University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student "In this thesis the influence of volatility in the Black-Scholes model is analyzed. The deduced Black-Scholes formula estimates the price of European options. Contrary... Read More
Computing Cloud Dynamics with an Adaptive Monte Carlo Sampling Method Thomas Roessler University of Wisconsin-Milwuakee Graduate Student "Atmospheric models usually have simple parametrizations of subgrid variability that do not include all processes. The model Cloud Layers Unified By Binormals (CLUBB)... Read More
Robust and Computationally Efficient Methods for Fitting Loss Models and Pricing Insurance Risks Qian Zhao University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student "Continuous parametric distributions are useful tools for modeling and pricing insurance risks, measuring income inequality in economics, investigating reliability of... Read More