Mathematical Sciences Department Colloquia
Mathematical Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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.
- Friday, May 9, 2008, Vera Serganova, (University of California at
Berkeley),
"Interaction between Representations of Quivers and Lie Algebras",
4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, May 2, 2008, Bimal Sinha, (Presidential Research Professor,
UMBC),
"Generalized P-values with Applications",
4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- 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.
- 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.
- Friday, May 2, 2008, Curt Leister, M.S. Defense, (Universtiy of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee),
"An Affine Invariant Multivariate Rank Test",
12:15 PM, EMS E423.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Friday, April 18, 2008, Michael Taksar, (University of
Missouri-Columbia),
"Regular-Impulse Stochastic Control in Financial/Insurance Optimization
Models",
4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, April 11, 2008, Tim Schroeder, Ph.D. Defense, (University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee),
"l^2-homology of Coxeter groups",
3:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- 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.
- Friday, March 28, 2008, Rick Scott, (Santa Clara University),
"Right-Angled Mock-Reflection Groups",
4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, March 28, 2008, Christopher Mooney, Ph.D. Defense, (University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee),
"On Boundaries of CAT(O) Groups",
12:15 PM, EMS E495A.
- Friday, March 21, 2008, Francois Dufour, (Universite Bordeaux,
France),
"Stability and Ergodicity of Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes",
11:00 AM, EMS E495A.
- 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.
- 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.
- Friday, February 29, 2008, Gil Walter, (Mathematical Sciences, UWM),
"Chromatic Series of Prolate Spheroidal Waves and Wavelets",
4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Thursday, February 14, 2008, Kahadawala Cooray, (University of
Nevada),
"Modeling Actuarial Data with a Lognormal-Pareto Composite Distribution",
12:45 PM, EMS E495A.
- 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.
- Friday, February 1, 2008, Chris Hruska, (Mathematical Sciences,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee),
"Tree Lattices",
4:00 PM, EMS E495A.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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