Students’ Understandings of Introductory Calculus Concepts Ms. Caroline Merighi Tufts University PhD Candidate “Introductory calculus is a struggle for many students. Even those who are successful in calculus courses often hold weak understandings of concepts that underlie the procedures they... Read More
End Sums of Manifolds Jack Calcut Oberlin College Associate Professor of Mathematics “End summing is the analogue for open manifolds of the boundary sum operation. Though it has been used in several applications since the 1980s, it is less well... Read More
Patterns in Nature: A Treasure Trove for the Curious Dr. John A. Adam Old Dominion University Professor of Mathematics As noted by the College of Letters & Science, this talk will address the many fascinating and beautiful patterns in the natural... Read More
Triebel-Lizorkin Space Estimates for Evolution Equations with Structure Dissipation Ms. Jingchun Chen University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “The goal of this dissertation is to get the long time decay estimates of the generalized heat equations and the generalized wave... Read More
Predictive Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiomyocyte Model of Drug-Induced Cardiotoxicity Rosy Joshi-Mukherjee Aurora Research Institute / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Research Scientist of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells & Cardiomyocyte Biology “Progress in cancer therapeutics has improved survival rates for... Read More
The Probability that Two Lines Meet Four in F_q P^3 Adam Buck University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “In projective 3-space over ℝ, there are exactly two lines which meet four “random” lines with probability 1. If we change ℝ... Read More
Some Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Models for Complex Media: An Operator Theoretical Perspective Dr. Rainer Picard TU Dresden Senior Professor of Analysis “The study of Maxwell’s equations in complex media (metamaterials) has come to a considerable attention within the last fifteen... Read More
Chinese Remainder Theorem: Historical Account and Modern Significance Guangwu Xu University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Associate Professor of Computer Science “An early formulation of the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) appeared in Sunzi Suanjing in the third century. It finds its culminating point... Read More
Effects of Atmospheric Pollution on Morbidity in the Metropolitan Areas of Monterrey and Guadalajara Rosa & Julia Céron University of Carmen, Mexico Professors of Chemical Engineering “The objective of this work was to estimate the association between atmospheric pollution and... Read More
Birthday Paradox Prayagdeep Parija University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “We revisit the celebrated birthday paradox(in a group of more than 23 people, there is at least a 50% chance that 2 people share the same birthday) and look at... Read More