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== Personal Info ==

Dakota Sullivan is a Computational Mathematics major at Marquette University.

== Research Topic ==

Using statistical surrogates to estimate the behavior of storm surge during a hurricane or tropical storm. [[Using_Gaussian_Stochastic_Processes_(GaSP)_for_Hazard_Mapping|See here for more details]].

== Milestones ==

=== Week 1 (6/1 - 6/5) ===

* Read about statistical surrogates
* Plot test function
* Find optimization routine in Python
* Become comfortable with LaTeX

=== Week 2 (6/5 - 6/12) ===
* Complete eading on storm surges
** Technical paper from Dr. Spiller
** Non-technical, independent research
* Use optimization routine to find parameters to fit

=== Week 3 (6/15 - 6/19) ===

* Play around with reading data files from computer experiment
** Hopefully storm surge data – maybe move to Week 4
* Implement optimization of model posterior (&there4;)

=== Week 4 (6/22 – 6/26) ===
* Continue on (&there4;)
* Play around with reading data files and plotting outputs
* Reading about Monte Carlo calculations
* Regroup and discuss plan for July

=== Week 5 (6/29 – 7/3) ===
* '''Mini-presentation on July 2nd'''
* Work on applying surrogate to storm surge model (&diams;)
* Identify challenges in doing so

=== Week 6 (7/6 – 7/10) ===
* Continue to work on (&diams;)
* Use surrogate in probability calculation (&lowast;)
* Discuss possible scenario model

=== Week 7 (7/13 – 7/17) ===
* Work on (&diams;) and (&lowast;)

=== Week 8 (7/20 – 7/24) ===
* Work on (&diams;) and (&lowast;)

=== Week 9 (7/27 – 7/30) ===
* '''Posters due July 29th'''

=== Week 10 (8/3 – 8/7) ===
* '''Finish presentations and papers'''