Mathematical Sciences Department Colloquia

As a general rule, colloquia are held on Fridays at 4:00 with refreshments at 3:30 in EMS 495B. There are exceptions, so be alert. To suggest speakers, or if you would like to give a talk, contact Chris Hruska, Yi-Ming Zou , Sergey Kravtsov, or Dexuan Xie.

• Wednesday, May 14, 2008, Dan Greene, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Computing Preimages of Loops and Paths under Quadratic Polynomial Maps of C", 1:30 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, May 9, 2008, Vera Serganova, (University of California at Berkeley), "Interaction between Representations of Quivers and Lie Algebras", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, Bimal Sinha, (Presidential Research Professor, UMBC), "Generalized P-values with Applications", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, Simone Rieger, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Controlling a Multitype Birth and Death Process", 2:00 PM, EMS E408.

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, Katrin Jensen, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "A Linear Programming Approach to Determine the Exercise Rule for American Put Options", 1:00 PM, EMS E408.

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, Curt Leister, M.S. Defense, (Universtiy of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "An Affine Invariant Multivariate Rank Test", 12:15 PM, EMS E423.

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, John A. Dudek, Ph.D. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "A Mathematical Investigation of Solutions for the Two-Component Order Parameter in the Ginzburg-Landau Equations of Superconductivity", 11:15 AM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, May 2, 2008, Philipp Frey, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Estimation and Fitting of Skew-Normal Distributions", 9:00 AM, EMS E408.

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• Thursday, May 1, 2008, Anne Klein, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "The Limit Distribution of the Quadratic Arch Process", 2:30 PM, EMS E408.

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• Thursday, May 1, 2008, Franziska Haeussler, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Modeling Electricity Spot Prices and Risk-Neutral Pricing of Options", 11:00 AM, EMS E408.

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• Thursday, May 1, 2008, Michael Vietz, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Modeling of Hedge Fund Returns and Calculation of Performance Measures via Simulation", 10:00 AM, EMS E416.

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• Wednesday, April 30, 2008, Theresa Springer, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Development of a Second Order Exponential Time Differencing Scheme", 3:00 PM, EMS E423.

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• Tuesday, April 29, 2008, Eva Schumacher, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) "A Comparison of Different Methods of Simulating Bivariate Copula Data", 3:00 PM, EMS E423.

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• Tuesday, April 29, 2008, Asta Shomberg, Ph.D. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Estimation of False Discovery Rate under Parametric Assumptions with Application to DNA Microarrays", 1:00 PM, EMS E423.

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• Monday, April 28, 2008, Joseph Lee Shomberg, Ph.D. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Explicit Construction of a Robust Family of Compact Inertial Manifolds", 2:00 PM, EMS E423.

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• Friday, April 25, 2008, Lauren Ancel Meyers, (University of Texas at Austin, Integrative Biology), "Using Network Models to Forecast and Control Epidemics", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Thursday, April 24, 2008, Jae Kook Lee, Ph.D. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Some Covers and Relative Covers of Modules", 10:00 AM, EMS E408.

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• Tuesday, April 22, 2008, Eric Van Den Bosch, M.S. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Modeling and Predicting the Yield Curve's Risk Premium", 1:30 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, April 18, 2008, Michael Taksar, (University of Missouri-Columbia), "Regular-Impulse Stochastic Control in Financial/Insurance Optimization Models", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, April 11, 2008, Tim Schroeder, Ph.D. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "l^2-homology of Coxeter groups", 3:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, April 4, 2008, Xiu Ye, (University of Arkansas at Little Rock), "Discontinuous Galerkin Method and Discontinuous Finite Volume Method", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, March 28, 2008, Rick Scott, (Santa Clara University), "Right-Angled Mock-Reflection Groups", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, March 28, 2008, Christopher Mooney, Ph.D. Defense, (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "On Boundaries of CAT(O) Groups", 12:15 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, March 21, 2008, Francois Dufour, (Universite Bordeaux, France), "Stability and Ergodicity of Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes", 11:00 AM, EMS E495A.

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• Marden Lecture on Mathematics, Wednesday, March 12, 2008, John H. Hubbard, (Cornell University & University of Provence in Marseille, France), "The Dynamics of the Forced Damped Pendulum", 4:00 PM, Chemistry 180.

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• Friday, March 7, 2008, Ching-Hong Yang, (Dept. of Biological Sciences, UWM), "Emergent Properties in Pathogenicity-Bistable expression of virulence genes in a bacterial pathogen Dickeya dadantii", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, February 29, 2008, Gil Walter, (Mathematical Sciences, UWM), "Chromatic Series of Prolate Spheroidal Waves and Wavelets", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, February 22, 2008, Lepeng Li, (Trustmark Insurance Company), "Integrating Long-term Care Insurance Purchase Decision with Saving and Investment for Retirement", 4:00 pm, EMS E495A.

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• Thursday, February 21, 2008, Joel Culina, (University of Victoria, School of Earth and Ocean Sciences), "Averaging and Stochastic Mode Reduction Methods Applied to a Model of Atmospheric Low-Frequency Variability", 1:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Tuesday, February 19, 2008, Ming Zhou, (University of Waterloo), "Optimal Reinsurance for Insurers with the Possibility of Borrowing and Investment", 12:45 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Thursday, February 14, 2008, Kahadawala Cooray, (University of Nevada), "Modeling Actuarial Data with a Lognormal-Pareto Composite Distribution", 12:45 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Tuesday, February 12, 2008, Runhuan Feng, (University of Waterloo), "A Unifying Stochastic Approach in Ruin Theory with Applications in Credit Risk Modelling", 12:45 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, February 1, 2008, Chris Hruska, (Mathematical Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Tree Lattices", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Thursday, January 17, 2008, Erica Kelly, Exhibition Developer (The Field Museum, Chicago, IL), "Nature Unleashed at The Field Museum: The Making of an Exhibition"
  11:00 AM, EMS E495A.

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• Wednesday, November 28, 2007, Adam J. Smith, M.S. Defense (Atmospheric Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Using large-eddy simulations to analyze microphysical behavior in midlevel, mixed phase clouds" 1:00 PM, EMS W434.

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• Friday, November 30, 2007, Chris Spannagle, M.S. Defense (Atmospheric Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Multi-decadal climate variability in observed and modeled surface temperatures," 1:00 PM, EMS W434.

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• Thursday, October 25, 2007, S.G. Lehrke, Ph.D. Defense (Math, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Asymptotic Properties of the MLE of Parameters of the Multivariate O-U Process", 12:00 PM, EMS E416.

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• Friday, October 12, 2007, Eugenio Ley-Koo (Instituto de Fisica, UNAM), "Common Generating Functions for Complete Wave Functions of Hydrogen Atom in 2, 3 and 4 Dimensions", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Friday, October 5, 2007, Mark A. Colarusso (University of Notre Dame), "The Gelfand-Zeitlin Algebra and Polarizations of Regular Adjoint Orbits for Classical Groups", 4:00 PM, EMS E495A.

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• Monday, August 27, 2007, Shinnosuke Oharu (Chuo University, Tokyo), "Time-dependent nonlinear perturbations of a class of analytic semigroups and applications", 3:30 PM, EMS E495A.

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