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.

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

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

Finished the test for a Poisson 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 Media:ConceptualModelSummery.pdf
Dr. George Corliss' talk on using LaTeX (Thursday)
Meeting with Dr. Merrill and Casey (Thursday)