Borsuk-Ulam Type Theorems and Existence of Equilibria in Games with Incomplete Information Stanislaw Spiez Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences “In 1968, R. Aumann, M. Mashler and R. Sterns proved that any undiscounted infinitely repeated two-person zero-sum... Read More
Developing a Probabilistic Heavy-Rainfall Guidance Forecast Model For Great Lakes Cities Cory Rothstein University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “A method for predicting the probability of exceeding specific warm-season (April-October) 0-24 hour precipitation thresholds is developed based upon daily maximums... Read More
Using Neural Networks to Characterize the Recoverability of Overpayments on Health Insurance Claims Kayla McMahon University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “Health insurance companies occasionally overpay healthcare providers due to complex coordination of benefits scenarios, ineligibility, payment errors, and various... Read More
Using Self-Organizing Maps as a Forecasting Tool Andrea Honor University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “Some extreme weather events, such as the early season heavy snow and cold weather outbreak of early November 2014, can be traced back to the... Read More
Compactifications of Manifolds with Boundary Shijie Gu University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “This dissertation is about compactifications of manifolds. The "nicest" of these compactifications is the addition of a boundary to an open manifold (or to a manifold with... Read More
An Investigation of the Conditional Practical Predictability of the 31 May 2013 Heavy-Rain-Producing Mesoscale Convective System Aidan Kuroski University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “On 31 May 2013, strong thunderstorms initiated in west-central Oklahoma with one of the storms eventually... Read More
Action Dimension of Simple Complexes of Groups Kevin Schreve University of Chicago NSF Dickson Instructor of Mathematics “The geometric dimension of a discrete group G is the minimal dimension of a model for the classifying space BG. The action dimension... Read More
Entropy, Maximum Entropy, and the Maximum Entropy Method Jiu Ding University of Southern Mississippi Professor of Mathematics “We introduce the concepts of Shannon entropy and Boltzmann entropy, and we present Jaynes' maximum entropy principle. Then we apply this principle and... Read More
UW-Milwaukee Department of Mathematical Sciences presents, Fall Welcome Picnic Location: Beer Garden at Hubbard Park (Picnic Site Located on South End of the Park) Directions can be found here Time: Friday, September 14, 2018 @ 3:00–6:00PM FREE food (such as sandwiches & pizza)... Read More
Occupancy Patterns in a Small Pond Network Dr. Zoi Rapti University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Associate Professor of Mathematics “In this talk, we will use metapopulation theory, stochastic and spatially explicit simulations, and four years of data to attempt to understand... Read More