• Math Comics With Dr. Asmita Sodhi

    EMS Building, Room W110

    The wonderful mathematical artist Dr. Asmita Sodhi will Zoom in to talk about her work with math comics and run a workshop, where we will try our hand at making some of these comics ourselves! There will be free donuts, and we …

  • MS Thesis Defense: Mr. Carlos Sanchez Diaz

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

    MS Thesis Defense Carlos Sanchez Diaz Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This thesis investigates the pedagogical approaches to mathematical functions in the United States and Mexico with the goal of improving instruction in mathematics for Spanish-speaking English Language Learners. By …

  • Colloquium: Dr. Dave Spade

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

    Statistical Modeling of Control of Animal Motion in Three Dimensions This manuscript gets ahold of the control aspect of how Daphnia magna move through their surroundings in a control-type environment with still water and with no external stimuli. We present …

  • PhD Dissertation Defense: Mr. Andrew Frohmader

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

    Graded multiplicities in the Kostant-Rallis setting Mr. Andrew Frohmader Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee This dissertation contains two main results. First, we provide combinatorial branching rules for GL(n, C) to O(n, C) and GL(2n, C) to Sp(2n, C) extending the …

  • MS Thesis Defense: Ms. Jerianne Bonaguidi

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

    Proving a Softball Pitch Can Rise Under 60mph Through Mathematical Modeling Jerianne Bonaguidi Graduate Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Many softball coaches claim that a pitcher cannot actually throw a rise ball under 60mph; they claim it is just a “high …