Graduate Colloquium Series: Mr. Mark Carthon III

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

Golden Cantor Set Mr. Mark Carthon III University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “What is it that makes the Golden Ratio so interesting? For mathematics, the Golden Ratio gets its interest from its amazing collection of self-reproducing properties. We will... Read More

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Dissertation Defense: Mr. Nyles Breecher

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

Dynamic Pricing with Variable Order Sizes Nyles Breecher University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student - Dissertator  “Dynamic Pricing is the practice of adjusting prices based on market conditions in order to maximize profit. One example is airline pricing, where prices... Read More

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Master’s Thesis Defense: Mr. Alex Oser

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

Multidecadal Variability in Climate Models and Observations Mr. Alex Oser University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “Climate change attribution and prediction using state-of-the-art models continue to garner an ever-growing focus amongst both the scientific community and public alike. Recent analyses... Read More

Dissertation Defense: Mr. Jan Höft

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

The Strong Law of Large Numbers for U-Statistics Under Semi-parametric Random Censorship Mr. Jan Höft University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “We introduce a semi-parametric U-Statistics estimator for randomly right censored data. We will study the strong law of large... Read More

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Graduate Colloquium Series: Mrs. Jingchun Chen

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

Is ax+b a Unimodular Group? Mrs. Jinchun Chen University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student - Dissertator “In this talk, we will answer this question by talking about Haar measure on a locally compact group. In the process, we will give... Read More

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Colloquium: Georg Essl

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

Mathematics of Musical Sound Synthesis Georg Essl University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Visiting Research Professor “The synthesis of musical sound involves a wide range of methods ranging from the simulation of the physics of musical instruments to the use of abstract mathematics... Read More

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Graduate Colloquium Series: Daniel Gulbrandsen

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

Cayley Graphs of the Integers with Infinite Generating Sets Daniel Gulbrandsen University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student - Teaching Assistant “A question of Richard Schwartz asks: Are the metric spaces (Z,d_2) and (Z,d_3), where d_g denotes the word metric associated... Read More

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Graduate Colloquium Series: Alex Heaton

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

Braid Groups Alex Heaton University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “We will discuss the simplest examples of braid groups and try to figure out how they work.”

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Colloquium: Daniel Dawson

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

Interactions between Microphysical and Dynamical Processes in Supercell Thunderstorms as Revealed through Observations and High-resolution Numerical Simulations Daniel Dawson Purdue University Assistant Professor “During the past few decades, two major developments in meteorology have revolutionized our understanding of supercell thunderstorms:... Read More

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Graduate Colloquium Series: Zhen Chao

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

A Unified Proof For The Convergence Of Jacobi And Gauss-Seidel Methods Zhen Chao University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Fellow “We introduce a unified proof for the convergence of both the Jacobi and the Gauss–Seidel methods for solving systems... Read More

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