SIAM Undergraduate Research Online
Volume 18
In This Volume
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Optimal Control Applied to Wolf and Moose Population Dynamics on Isle Royale
Published electronically September 19, 2025DOI: 10.1137/23S159857X
Authors
James Kessinger (Corresponding author – Baylor University), Maya Bocanegra (California State University, Northridge)
Project Advisors
Dr. Norma Ortiz-Robinson (Grand Valley State University)
Abstract
In this work, we formulate a data driven optimal control model involving differential equations to capture the population dynamics of the wolf and moose populations in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan. A numerical solver implemented in the Python language is used to obtain solutions, and these are analyzed to identify optimal strategies for augmentation of the declining wolf population.
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Inexact Generalized Golub-Kahan Methods for Large-Scale Inverse Problems
Published electronically August 26, 2025 -
A Framework for Approximating Perturbed Optimal Control Problems
Published electronically August 18, 2025 -
Applications of Automatic Differentiation in Image Registration
Published electronically July 28, 2025 -
Integrating Local Learning into the Two-Stage Markov Task to Separate Model-Based from Model-Free Learning
Published electronically July 11, 2025 -
Generative Modeling with Diffusion
Published electronically June 27, 2025 -
Bernstein Polynomials: A Bridge Between the Weierstrass Theorem and a Landau Temperature Fluctuation Problem
Published electronically June 10, 2025 -
An Agent-based Approach to the Gravity Model of Linguistic Diffusion
Published electronically May 28, 2025 -
Spatio-Temporal Analysis for Modeling High-Demand Events in European Private Aviation
Published electronically May 7, 2025 -
Analyzing Mortar Baseplate Movement Using Differential Equations
Published electronically April 29, 2025 -
Counting the Eigenvalues of the Laplace Operator on Some Convex Domains
Published electronically April 14, 2025 -
A Probabilistic Approach to the Enumeration of Bounded Motzkin Paths via the Gambler's Ruin
Published electronically March 19, 2025 -
A Comprehensive Study of Covid-19 in Florida
Published electronically March 12, 2025 -
Training Implicit Networks for Image Deblurring using Jacobian-Free Backpropagation
Published electronically February 26, 2025 -
Controlling Ball Progression in Soccer
Published electronically February 20, 2025 -
A Laplace Equation on a Rectangle With Mixed Boundary Conditions
Published electronically February 5, 2025 -
Modeling Traffic Conditions to Determine Shortest Path
Published electronically January 10, 2025
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