Term Paper Workshop
10:00 John Pate (Advisor: Juan Restrepo): Asymptotic & Numerical Analysis of Brillouin Precursors in Lorentz Media
10:30 Darin Comeau (Advisor: Shankar V.): The Mechanics of Euler's Disk
11:00 Kevin LaTourette (Advisor: Juan Restrepo): A comparison of the Levenberg-Marquardt method with standard optimization algorithms, in minimizing the Tikhonov-Total Variational functional
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45 Chris Rainey (Advisor: Shankar V.): A Derivation of the Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
12:15 David Lyttle (Advisor: Hermann Flaschka): Stochastic Resonance in Neurobiology
12:45-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 Bole Yang (Advisor: Hermann Flaschka): LRD of the fractional Brownian motion and the application in data network
2:30 Rebecca Stockbridge (Advisor: Hermann Flaschka): The Discrete Binomial Model for Option Pricing
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15 Stuart Kent (Advisor: Hermann Flaschka): Lagrangian Coherent Structures: Generalizing Stable and Unstable Manifolds to Non-Autonomous Dynamical Systems
3:45 David Love (Advisor: Juan Restrepo): A Brief Introduction to Parameter Estimation in the context of Parabolic PDEs

