Estimating Distortion Risk Measures under Truncated and Censored Data Mr. Sahadeb Upretee University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Dissertator “We will discuss examples of distortion risk measures and model uncertainty.”
Drawing Category Theory (For Those Who Know Nothing About It) Mr. Ashani Dasgupta University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student - Teaching Assistant “We will draw easy pictures to understand fancy words such as “direct limit”, “inverse limit”, “Hom functor”. We... Read More
A Brief Introduction of the Poisson-Nernst-Planck Model for Biological Ion Channels Mr. Zhen Chao University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Fellow “Ion channels are a class of proteins with holes down their middle that provide pathways for the movement... Read More
The Screensaver Problem Mr. Preston Walker University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “Consider a screensaver where a logo is bouncing off the sides of the screen. We will talk about a problem related to this and discuss... Read More
Probabilistic Methods in Geometry Mr. Praydeep Parija University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “Parallel Straight Lines are drawn on the plane, at a distance d from each other. A needle of length L is dropped at random... Read More
An Exploration into the 4 Color Theorem Mr. John Byrum University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “We will explore the 4 color theorem. We will see how to prove less strong claims.”
Bootstrap: A Glance at the Method That Revolutionized Statistics Mr. Marco Vaassen University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee PhD Graduate Student – Teaching Assistant “Using an impressively simple idea, Bradley Efron, in 1979, gave statisticians a powerful framework for estimating properties of an... 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
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