I am a mathematician. I use techniques from combinatorics and theoretical computer science/logic to solve problems related to physics. Specifically:
Combinatorial representation theory
Thermodynamics and lattice models
Quantum Field Theory and related models
The infinitely iterable representation of the quiver affine E_8, with a certain orientation
I am currently a graduate student/ graduate teaching assistant at Penn State University. My thesis supervisor is Adrian Ocneanu.Â
Contact Me:
Personal Email: jacobcanel@gmail.com
Penn State Email: jmc8684@psu.edu
Documents:
My CV
My Research Statement, including a summary of current research (Under construction)
My Teaching Statement (under construction)
The infinitely iterable imaginary root of the Kac-Moody algebra affine E_8
AMS Fall 2026 Eastern Sectional Meeting at GWU, Washington, DC
JMM 2027, Chicago IL
Symmetry, Discrete Geometry, and Mathematical Physics, Scalea, Italy, June 2025
Canadian Operator Symposium 2025, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, May 2025
Workshop on Operator Algebras and Applications: Non-Commutative Geometry, Fields Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, December 2023
2023 MSRI Summer School in Foundations and Frontiers of Probabilistic Proofs, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Jul 2023
MIT Summer School in Geometric Representation Theory, MIT, Cambridge MA, Jun 2023
Canadian Operator Symposium 2023, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, May 2023
JMM 2023, Boston, MA, Jan 2023
National University of Singapore Summer School in Logic, IMS, National University Singapore, Singapore, July 2022
Association for Symbolic Logic Annual North American Meeting 2022, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 2022