M.S. Thesis Defense- March 25, 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014 (3:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Inverted Binary Edwards Coordinates (Maire Model of an Elliptic Curve) Speaker: Steven Maire (Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: Edwards curves are a fairly new way of expressing a family of elliptic curves that contain extremely desirable cryptographic properties over other forms that have...

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Ph.D. Defense- March 20, 2014

Thursday, March 20, 2014 (4:15 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Sequential Monte Carlo Parameter Estimation for Differential Equations Speaker: Andrea Arnold (Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: A central problem in numerous applications is the estimation of the unknown parameters of a system of differential equations from noisy measurements of some of the states at discrete...

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