Dissertation Defense: Charles Beer

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

A Stochastic Control Model for Electricity Producers Charles Beer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “We study optimal control for a coal plant operating on the open electricity market. The model incorporates discontinuous random processes for both the... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Leo Elsaesser

Outlier-Resistant Models for Doubly Stochastic Point Processes Leo Elsaesser University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student  “This thesis proposes an outlier-resistant multiplicative component model for doubly stochastic point processes. The model is based on a principal component decomposition of the log-intensity... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Tobias Tietze

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

A Statistical Model for the Influence of Temperature on Bike Demand in Bike-Sharing Systems Tobias Tietze University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student  “Efficient fleet management is essential for bike-sharing systems. Thus, it is important to understand the impact of environmental... Read More

Master’s Thesis Defense: Steffen Domke

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

An Analysis of Momentum Flux Budgets and Profiles in a Large-Eddy Model Steffan Domke University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student  “Momentum fluxes and variances play an important role in the characterization and forecast of weather phenomena, but cannot be measured... Read More

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Dissertation Defense: Kathryn Boddie

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

A Minimal Time Solution to the Firing Squad Synchronization Problem with Von Neumann Neighborhood of Extent 2 Kathryn Boddie University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “Cellular automata provide a simple environment in which to study global behaviors. One... Read More

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Dissertation Defense: Thomas Stojsavljevic

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

Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of a Phytoplankton Competition Model Incorporating Preferential Nutrient Uptake Thomas Stojsavljevic University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “Phytoplankton live in a complex environment with two essential resources forming various gradients. Light supplied from above... Read More

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Graduate Colloquium Series: Prayagdeep Parija

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

Solving the Basel Problem using the Poisson Summation Formula Prayagdeep Parija University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “We will introduce expander graphs which are sparse graphs having strong connectivity properties. We discuss some of their properties and... Read More

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Colloquium: Dr. Qingshuo Song

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

Solvability of General Solution and a Related Exit Problem Dr. Qingshuo Song Worcester Polytechnic Institute Associate Professor “We study sufficient conditions for a Feynman-Kac functional up to an exit time to be the generalized viscosity solution of a Dirichlet problem.... Read More

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2019 Annual Awards Ceremony

EMS Building, E190 3200 N Cramer Ave, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The Awards Ceremony will recognize the Undergraduate and Graduate award recipients. All are welcome – join us in honoring our 2019 awards winners! **Fiesta buffet to immediately follow the ceremony in EMS Building, E495

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Spring Graduation Picnic

Beer Garden at Hubbard Park 3565 N Morris Blvd, Milwaukee, WI, United States

UW-Milwaukee Department of Mathematical Sciences presents, Spring Graduation Picnic Location: Beer Garden at Hubbard Park (Picnic Site Located on South End of the Park) Directions can be found here Time: Saturday, May 18, 2019 @ 12:00–2:00PM FREE food (such as sandwiches & pizza)... Read More

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