MS Thesis Defense-James Austrow (March 31, 2017)

Friday, March 31, 2017 (2:00 p.m. in Yost 306) Title: Conservation Laws Driven by Lévy Stable and Linnik Diffusions: Shock Dissolution and Hausdorff Dimension Speaker: James Austrow (Case Western Reserve University) Advisor: Wojbor Woyczynski (Professor, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: We study two problems involving stochastic Burgers flows. The first concerns the solutions of fractal conservation laws, as...

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MS Thesis Defense-Yuchen Han (March 31, 2017)

Friday, March 31, 2017 (10:30 a.m. in Yost 306) Title: Bayesian variable selection using Lasso Speaker: Yuchen Han (Case Western Reserve University) Advisor: Anirban Mondal (Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University) Abstract: This thesis proposes to combine the stochastic search variable selection (SSVS) approach and Bayesian Lasso approach by introducing a double exponential distribution on the...

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