About

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematics at Texas A&M, under the supervision of Dr. Michael Brannan. I am interested primarily in operator algebras, quantum information theory, and functional analysis.

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keifler [at] math [dot] tamu [dot] edu

Curriculum Vitae

CV (last updated June 2019)

Education

PhD (2016 - present) Texas A&M (USA)
Masters of Mathematics (2015-2016) University of Waterloo (Canada)
Bachelor of Science (2011-2015) University of Alberta (Canada)

You can access my Masters Thesis here.

Research

My research focuses on operator algebras, quantum information theory, and functional analysis.

Publications and Preprints

Bigalois extensions and the graph isomorphism game (with M. Brannan, A. Chirvasitu, S. Harris, V. Paulsen, X. Su, and M. Wasilewski), 33 pages, arXiv:1812.11474

Teaching

In Spring 2019 I taught Math 141. You can find the course website here.

Past Teaching and TA duties: here

Misc

Qualifying Exams

I have a number of resources for the real analysis and algebra qualifying exams at Texas A&M here.

Directed Reading Program

Along with Dr. Anne Shiu and Eric Tovar, I am organizing a Directed Reading Program for undergraduate students. This began in Fall 2018, and will continue in Fall 2019.

Upcoming/Recent Conferences and Travel