Optimal Trading Under the American Perpetual Put Option for Geometric Brownian Motion and Mean-Reverting Processes Ines Siebigteroth University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "This thesis is focused on the perpetual American put option under the geometric Brownian motion and mean-reverting models.... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
RNA FOLDING PREDICTION REVISITED: 30 Years and Counting Christine Heitsch Georgia Institute of Technology Professor of Mathematics "A 1986 AMS article on "RNA folding prediction" outlined several major questions in this area of molecular biology, and advocated "the continued need for... Read More
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