Optimization methods for agriculture insurance

This project is an application of mathematical modelling and optimization to a livestock insurance problem. The goal is to analyze various scenarios from a farmer’s perspective and to minimize the loss. The main idea is to design and implement in Python a numerical simulation, including various scenarios in terms of the farm size and insurance premiums.  

Research Assistant for 'Points of Access' (Book Project)

Co-edited collection of essays for Rowman & Littlefield - inclusive of associated work for the Association for Philosophy and Literature (which runs the book series in question).

Summer Statistical Consulting Projects

I taught STAT 496 (Statistical Consulting Project) in Winter 2023, a capstone course for our applied statistics majors. A couple of projects required follow-up; I would like to recruit a student to complete the necessary follow-up and handle several new consulting projects in the summer. I currently have two potential projects (Lyne Honey from psychology and Ross Shaw from biology) and three new consulting projects.

Hopf algebras

For every locally compact abelian group G, the set of characters is also a locally compact abelian group and the Pontrjagin theorem says that the double dual is isomorphic to the original group G. For a non-abelian group, a generalized dual can no longer be defined in the form of a group. One has to look for a larger category, namely quantum groups in the form of Hopf algebras. The objective is to study Hopf algebras in the setting of C*-algebras and von Neumann algebras such that a generalization of Pontrjagin duality is obtained.