Master’s Thesis Defense: Alexander Kreienbring

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

Optimal Deductibles—A Theoretical Analysis from an Insured Perspective Alexander Kreienbring University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “A stop-loss policy as a tool for protection against a large loss is one of the most common insurance forms. For fixed premiums and... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: David Nevius

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

The Influence of Vertical Advection Discretization in WRF-ARW Model on Capping Inversion Representation in Warm-Season, Thunderstorm Supporting Environments David Nevius University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student "This study evaluates forecasts of capping inversions and thermodynamic variables for believed areas of... Read More

Topology Seminar: Steven Ferry

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

Nonmanifold Manifolds! Steven Ferry Rutgers University Professor Emeritus of Mathematics “We describe the construction of a  collection of compact "n-manifolds" modeled on spaces other than R^n. These spaces provide counterexamples to a well-known conjecture of Bing-Borsuk. Both results and open... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Julia Valder

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

Fitting a Complex Markov Model for Firm and Market Productivity Julia Valder University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “There is a model in economics that models firm and market productivity as Markov Chains. But estimating the transition matrix for a... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Sebastian Oberhoff

EMS Building, Room E423 E423; 3200 N Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Exact Sampling and Prefix Distributions Sebastian Oberhoff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “In this talk we'll discuss means to draw exact samples without incurring any numerical error. In the context of continuous random variables this leads naturally to so... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Sophia Vorderwuelbecke

EMS Building, Room E416 3200 N Cramer St, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Numerical Solutions of Fractional Nonlinear Advection-Reaction-Diffusion Equations Sophia Vorderwuelbecke University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “In this thesis non-linear differential equations containing advection, reaction and diffusion terms are solved numerically, where the diffusion term is modelled by a fractional derivative.... Read More

Dissertation Defense: Lijuan Bi

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

Harmonic Functions in Flat-Ring Coordinates Lijuan Bi University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “We will derive expansions for afundamental solution of the Laplace's equation in flat-ring coordinates in three-dimensional Euclidean space. These expansions are in terms of harmonic  functions in... Read More

Colloquium: Dandrielle Lewis

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

Maximal Subgroups in Direct Products of Groups Dr. Dandrielle Lewis University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Associate Professor of Mathematics “Given a direct product of groups, G and H, and information on the subgroups of G and H, what can one say... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Oliver Meister

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

Calibration of a Stochastic Price Model for American Electricity Markets Oliver Meister University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “This thesis discusses models for electricity spot prices from the Midwestern American and Manitoba market. The models are based on experiences in... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Christian Grimm

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

Isolating Secular Signals in Observations and Climate Models Using M-SSA Based Wiener Filtering Christian Grimm University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student "In this thesis, Wiener filtering of gridded surface-temperature time series from observations and climate model simulations is performed by... Read More