Quantifying the Court: Statistical Insights and Ranking Methods in NCAA Collegiate Men's Volleyball (Summer 2025) Poster
Undergraduate students:
Tony Kochev (Lewis University)
Luke Pekol (Lewis University)
Zach Pekol (Lewis University)
This was a project that Amanda and I lead as faculty advisors during the 10-week Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) program at Lewis University. They were awarded the MAA "Outstanding Poster" Award at MathFest 2025 in Sacramento.
Agent Based Modeling of the Efficacy of Raccoon Removal (Summer 2025) Poster
Undergraduate student:
Tajhaun McClellan (Saint Xavier University)
This project was part of the 8-week Ecology, Conservation, and Biodiversity (ECB) Summer Research Program funded through the Walder Foundation.
Preimages of Shuffle Sorting Algorithms (Spring 2025) Poster
Undergraduate students:
Rachelle (Robin) Pobanz-Pawlak (Lewis University)
Diego Velasco (Lewis University)
Kacper Zalewski (Lewis University)
This was a semester-long research project where the students built off of the code written by the St. Olaf students in 2023 and then used that code to make conjectures (some of which were proven).
Predictive Modeling of Lower-Level English Club Soccer Using Crowd-Sourced Player Valuations (Summer 2024) Preprint
Undergraduate students:
Josh Brown (Ursinus College)
Yutong Bu (Emory University)
Zachary Cheesman (Bowdoin College)
Benjamin Orman (Grinnell College)
This was one of three projects that Amanda and I lead as faculty advisors during the 8 week Summer@ICERM 2024 program at Brown University.
Money Bull: Analyzing the Application of Ranking Methods to Rodeo (Summer 2024) Preprint
Undergraduate students:
Mia Adler (Pomona College)
Ford McDill (Wesleyan University)
Tiffanie Ng (Kenyon College)
Will Paz (Miami University)
This was one of three projects that Amanda and I lead as faculty advisors during the 8 week Summer@ICERM 2024 program at Brown University.
Local and Global Approaches for Predicting Week-to-Week NFL Outcomes (Summer 2024)
Undergraduate students:
Journey Keen (The University of Tennessee)
Anh-Thai Le (Yale University)
This was one of three projects that Amanda and I lead as faculty advisors during the 8 week Summer@ICERM 2024 program at Brown University.
On the Preimages of Shuffle Sorting Algorithms (Spring 2023)
J. Charlton (St. Olaf College)
H. Quang Vu (St. Olaf College)
J. Vest (St. Olaf College)
A Special Case for a Charge Statistic in all Classical Types. (Summer 2022)
Abby Engbrecht (St. Olaf College)
Matin Liu (St. Olaf College)
Avi Rajan (St. Olaf College)
This project was funded by the CURI program and funded the three students for 10 weeks of full time research. Their special case will be proven and generalized in future undergraduate work.
Crystal Operator Invariance Under the Extend Algorithm (Spring 2021)
Steve Gama (St. Olaf College)