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*Dr. George Corliss' talk on using LaTeX (Thursday) | *Dr. George Corliss' talk on using LaTeX (Thursday) | ||
*Meeting with Dr. Merrill and Casey (Thursday) | *Meeting with Dr. Merrill and Casey (Thursday) | ||
Revision as of 20:27, 16 June 2016
Contents
Predicting Relative 'Cleanability' from Geometry
Mentors: Dr. Stephen Merrill and Casey O'Brien
Personal Info
My name is Anna Sisk and I am going into my senior year at Marquette University. I am majoring in Mathematics and minoring in Biological Sciences.
Goals for the Summer
- Characterize the distribution from from the CT scans of the plastic models
- Determination of simulation time between plastic and mathematical models
- Use optimizing techniques to minimize particle build up
Weekly Accomplishments
Week 1
- Orientation to the REU
- Lunch with Dr. Merrill and Casey to determine project and develop a preliminary outline for the summer (Tuesday)
- Two additional meeting with Casey to discuss the different tools and programs we will use, receive background references and information, and work on using Matlab (Wednesday and Friday)
- Research and reading on background information: what the problem is, why it is important, how attention was brought to it, what is being done, ect.
- Practicing different tools on Matlab
- Setting up this wiki page
Week 2
- Meeting with Casey (Monday)
- received PDF and CT scan data
- Continuing Matlab practice
- Meeting with Casey and Dr. Merrill (Tuesday)
- Graphed and plotted the PDFs for model D
- Calculated average of the 5 runs and graphed it
- Read about One-Dimensional Search Methods in Introduction to Methods of Optimization
- Looked into sequential and dichotomous search methods
- Meeting with Casey and Dr. Merrill (Thursday)
- Discussed what to work on and how to make a poster
- Attended Dr. Brylow's Talk on Good Research Talks and Papers (Thursday)
- I am now terrified of grad school
- Rescale graphs, so they accurately reflect PDFs
- Calculate standard deviation and variance of PDFs
- Started testing for a Poisson distribution
Week 3
- Finished the test for a Poisson distribution
- The data does not appear to fit this distribution
- Working on developing a conceptual model (traffic flow)
- Meeting with Dr. Merrill and Casey (Tuesday)
- Taking the data from Casey's model and matching the mean and variance to the data from the plastic model
- Find out how long Casey's model needs to run so it matches the plastic model data
- Continue working on the conceptual model
- Wrote up a summary for the conceptual model
- Dr. George Corliss' talk on using LaTeX (Thursday)
- Meeting with Dr. Merrill and Casey (Thursday)
