Mathematics MA Thesis Defense Trevor Gionet, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate (advisor: Bellsky) Title: Improvements to Data Assimilations Strategies in Forestry 100 Neville Hall

Mathematics MA Thesis Defense Danielle David, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate (advisor: Bradley) Title: Nonabsolute Extensions of the Lebesgue Integral on the Real Line Neville 208

Mathematics MA Thesis Defense Prateek Kunwar, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate (advisor: Franzosa) Title: EMBEDDING OF HYPERCUBE GRAPHS ON ORIENTABLE SURFACES Location: 227 Neville Hall

Mathematics MA Thesis Defense Jennifer Fatula, MA Candidate (advisor: Franzosa) An investigation of linking number, twist, and writhe, in knots, links, ribbons, and Möbius ribbons Room: Neville 208 Time: 2:00 - 2:50 pm

Statistics MA Thesis Defense Muhammad Waleed, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate (advisor: Ramesh Gupta) Title: Analysis of Survival Data by a Weibull-Bessel Distribution Neville 421

Mathematics MA Thesis Defense Ayesha Maliwal, UMaine Mathematics MA candidate (advisor: Franzosa) Title: Sperner's Lemma, The Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem, The Kakutani Fixed Point Theorem and their applications in social sciences Location: Hill Auditorium, Barrows (ESRB)