Tommi Brander

Tommi Brander

Associate Professor
Faculty of Humanities, Sports and Educational Science
Department of Mathematics and Science Education
Campus Vestfold
+47 35 02 62 69

Responsibilities

  • Secondary Ph.D. adviser of Yohann Gourret - inverse problems related to underwater sonar
  • Master's thesis adviser  - Minecraft, landscapes of investigation in statistics, AI in classroom
  • Course responsible for MG2MA3 and PPUMA3
  • Teaching at MG2MA2, MAT2E1 and MAT2E2
  • Have taught: Help with nasjonal deleksamen GLU 5-10, MG1MA4, MG1MA1, MG2MA4, MG2MA2 and MG1MA2

Competences

  • Ph.D. and further research in inverse problems and non-linear partial differential equations
  • Roleplaying games
  • Languages: Finnish, English, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish. Passive Kven, French.

CV

  • Bachelor, master and doctor of mathematics: University of Jyväskylä
  • Teacher education (mathematics and philosophy at middle school and higher levels of education): University of Jyväskylä
  • Postdoc: University of Jyväskylä, DTU – Technical university of Denmark, NTNU – Norwegian university of science and technology
  • Associate professor in mathematics/mathematics education: USN

Publications

Pre-prints

  • T. Brander. Old school renaissance as a style of play. 2020. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/b2w36
  • Y.~Gourret, T.~Brander, K.T.~Hjelmervik. Inverting the sound speed profile from multi-beam echo sounder data and historical measurements -- a~simulation study. Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics, 46(1), 2024. DOI: 10.25144/22274
  • T. Brander, T. Ringholm. Boundary determination for hybrid imaging from a single measurement. 2019. http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.00644

Published articles

  • T. Brander, K. Cao, D. Lesnic. Inverse problems for a model of biofilm growth. IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 88(2):258-281, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1093/imamat/hxad008
  • T. Brander, J. Siltakoski. Recovering a variable exponent. Documenta mathematica, 26:713-731, 2021. https://doi.org/10.25537/dm.2021v26.713-731
  • T. Brander, J. Ilmavirta, P. Piiroinen, T. Tyni. Optimal recovery of a radiating source with multiple frequencies along one line. Inverse Problems and Imaging, 14(6):967-983, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3934/ipi.2020044, arXiv:1905.08028
  • T. Brander, D. Winterrose. Variable exponent Calderón’s problem in one dimension. Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ Mathematica, 44:925-943, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5186/aasfm.2019.4459
  • T. Brander. Expected characteristic in Tunnels & Trolls character creation, with generalizations. Mathematics for Applications, 7(2):111-116, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.13164/ma.2018.09
  • T. Brander, B. von Harrach, M. Kar, M. Salo. Monotonicity and enclosure methods for the p-Laplace equation. SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 78(2):742–758, 2018. https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02814
  • T. Brander, J. Ilmavirta, M. Kar. Superconductive and insulating inclusions for linear and non-linear conductivity equations. Inverse Problems and Imaging, 12(1):91–123, 2018. http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.09029
  • T. Brander. Calderón problem for the p-Laplacian: First order derivative of conductivity on the boundary. Proceedings of American mathematical society, 144:177–189, 2016. http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0428
  • T. Brander, M. Kar, M. Salo. Enclosure method for the p-Laplace equation. Inverse problems 31(4):045001, 2015. http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.4048

Theses