Béla Bollobás The 28th Annual Marden Lecture on Mathematics presents: The Greatest Codebreaker and His Mathematics Dr. Béla Bollobás University of Memphis Trinity College, Cambridge Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Lubar Hall N140 Many of the best cryptographers and cryptanalysts of... Read More
Symmetry and the Alhambra Mosaics Featuring: Fredric Ancel University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor of Mathematics "Every pattern has some symmetry which mathematicians study using the idea of a symmetry group – a group of all the ways a pattern or object... Read More
Black-Scholes Model: An Analysis of the Influence of Volatility Cornelia Krome University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student "In this thesis the influence of volatility in the Black-Scholes model is analyzed. The deduced Black-Scholes formula estimates the price of European options. Contrary... Read More
Computing Cloud Dynamics with an Adaptive Monte Carlo Sampling Method Thomas Roessler University of Wisconsin-Milwuakee Graduate Student "Atmospheric models usually have simple parametrizations of subgrid variability that do not include all processes. The model Cloud Layers Unified By Binormals (CLUBB)... Read More
Robust and Computationally Efficient Methods for Fitting Loss Models and Pricing Insurance Risks Qian Zhao University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student "Continuous parametric distributions are useful tools for modeling and pricing insurance risks, measuring income inequality in economics, investigating reliability of... Read More
Goodness-of-Fit Testing for Copula-based models with Applications in Atmospheric Science Albert Rapp University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "Every elementary probability course discusses how to construct joint distribution functions of independent random variables but joint distribution functions of dependent random variables... Read More
In continuing celebration of the 50th anniversary of our doctoral program, the UW-Milwaukee Mathematical Sciences department will be hosting the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Wisconsin Section Spring Meeting, April 21-22, 2017. All conference events will be held in the Engineering... Read More
Symmetry and the Alhambra Mosaics Featuring: Fredric Ancel University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor of Mathematics "Every pattern has some symmetry which mathematicians study using the idea of a symmetry group – a group of all the ways a pattern or object... Read More
In continuing celebration of the 50th anniversary of our doctoral program, the UW-Milwaukee Mathematical Sciences department will be hosting the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Wisconsin Section Spring Meeting, April 21-22, 2017. All conference events will be held in the Engineering... Read More
Symmetry and the Alhambra Mosaics Featuring: Fredric Ancel University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Professor of Mathematics "Every pattern has some symmetry which mathematicians study using the idea of a symmetry group – a group of all the ways a pattern or object... Read More
Performance Test of the Pasquill Stability Scheme Hillary Chapman University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "In 1961, Frank Pasquill proposed a method for classifying atmospheric stability based on routinely available surface observations – namely wind speed, cloud cover, and the strength... Read More
Optimal Trading Under the American Perpetual Put Option for Geometric Brownian Motion and Mean-Reverting Processes Ines Siebigteroth University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "This thesis is focused on the perpetual American put option under the geometric Brownian motion and mean-reverting models.... Read More
Infinite-Dimensional Traits: Estimation of Mean, Covariance, and Selection Gradient Ly Viet Hoang University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "In evolutionary biology, traits like growth curves, reaction norms or morphological shapes cannot be described by a finite vector of components alone. Instead, ... Read More
Downstream Predictability of the Path and Survival of Severe Wind Producing MCSs using RUC Analysis Data Russell Danielson University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "A method for predicting the track of mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) is developed, based upon meteorological parameters... Read More
Asymptotic Expansion of the L^2-Norm of a Solution of the Strongly Damped Wave Equation Joseph Barrera University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Graduate Student "The Fourier transform, F, on RN (N≥1) transforms the Cauchy problem for the strongly damped wave equation utt(t,x) -... Read More
A Study of the Effect of Using Simulations on Students’ Learning of Inferential Statistics in the Elementary Statistics Classes in the Mathematics Department of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alexa Schut University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "We will present the results... Read More
Associated Hypothesis in Linear Models with Unbalanced Data Rica Wedowski MS Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "In a two-way linear model one can test six different hypotheses regarding the effects in this model. Those hypotheses can be ranked from less specific... Read More
An Examination of the Dynamics of a Rear-Inflow Jet Associated with an Idealized Mesoscale Convective System Caitlin Crossett University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Student "This study evaluates the main controls on the descent of the rear-inflow jet (RIJ), associated with a... Read More
On Some One-Complex Dimensional Slices of the Boundedness Locus of a Multi-Parameter Rational Family Matthew Hoeppner University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Student "Complex dynamics involves the study of the behavior of complex-valued functions when they are composed with themselves repeatedly. We... Read More
RNA FOLDING PREDICTION REVISITED: 30 Years and Counting Christine Heitsch Georgia Institute of Technology Professor of Mathematics "A 1986 AMS article on "RNA folding prediction" outlined several major questions in this area of molecular biology, and advocated "the continued need for... Read More
Random Variables and How to Generate Them Martin Vieten PhD Student University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee "The concept of a random variable is one of the most fundamental notions in probability theory. Compared to classic deterministic functions, random variables introduce an additional... Read More