Due to unforeseen consequences, this defense has been cancelled and moved from April 13 to its current date-- Monday, April 23 at 1:00PM. We apologize for any inconveniences. A Climatology of Extreme South American Andean Cold Surges Kevin Prince University... Read More
Optimal Control of Energy Production in a Market with Emission Derivatives Leonhard Kunczik University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “With a growing awareness for preserving the environment, governments started to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions of energy producers by implementing... Read More
Optimal Deductibles—A Theoretical Analysis from an Insured Perspective Alexander Kreienbring University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “A stop-loss policy as a tool for protection against a large loss is one of the most common insurance forms. For fixed premiums and... Read More
The Influence of Vertical Advection Discretization in WRF-ARW Model on Capping Inversion Representation in Warm-Season, Thunderstorm Supporting Environments David Nevius University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student "This study evaluates forecasts of capping inversions and thermodynamic variables for believed areas of... Read More
Nonmanifold Manifolds! Steven Ferry Rutgers University Professor Emeritus of Mathematics “We describe the construction of a collection of compact "n-manifolds" modeled on spaces other than R^n. These spaces provide counterexamples to a well-known conjecture of Bing-Borsuk. Both results and open... Read More
Fitting a Complex Markov Model for Firm and Market Productivity Julia Valder University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “There is a model in economics that models firm and market productivity as Markov Chains. But estimating the transition matrix for a... Read More
Exact Sampling and Prefix Distributions Sebastian Oberhoff University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “In this talk we'll discuss means to draw exact samples without incurring any numerical error. In the context of continuous random variables this leads naturally to so... Read More
Numerical Solutions of Fractional Nonlinear Advection-Reaction-Diffusion Equations Sophia Vorderwuelbecke University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee MS Graduate Student “In this thesis non-linear differential equations containing advection, reaction and diffusion terms are solved numerically, where the diffusion term is modelled by a fractional derivative.... Read More
Harmonic Functions in Flat-Ring Coordinates Lijuan Bi University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student “We will derive expansions for afundamental solution of the Laplace's equation in flat-ring coordinates in three-dimensional Euclidean space. These expansions are in terms of harmonic functions in... Read More
Maximal Subgroups in Direct Products of Groups Dr. Dandrielle Lewis University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Associate Professor of Mathematics “Given a direct product of groups, G and H, and information on the subgroups of G and H, what can one say... Read More