Social Distancing Equilibria in Games under Conventional SI Dynamics
Olson, C. D., & Reluga, T. C. (2026). Social distancing equilibria in games under conventional SI dynamics. arXiv [Cs.GT]. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12107
CV
Education
- Ph.D. in Mathematics, Pennsylvania State University, 2025
- B.S. in Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
Work experience
- August 2025 - May 2026: Adjunct Teaching Professor
- Pennsylvania State University
- Lectured on Calculus
- August 2019 - August 2025: Graduate Research Assistant
- Pennsylvania State University
- Advisor: Tim Reluga
- Dissertation: On Uniqueness of Nash Equilibria in Epidemic Games
- Summer 2018: UW-Madison Summer School in Analysis
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Supervisor: Theresa C. Anderson
- Studied sparse domination of Calderon-Zygmund operators
- Summer 2017: University of Michigan Big Data Summer Institute
- University of Michigan
- Studied HIV and Hepatitis C infection comorbidities
- Used health record data from the Michigan Genomic Initiative
- November 2016 - August 2017: UW-Madison AIDS Vaccine Research Lab
- Worked in the lab of David O’Connor
- Built a learning algorithm for Haplotyping macaque monkeys
Awards
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- PSU University Graduate Fellowship
- Peter’s Scholarship
- Prof. Linnaeus Wayland Dowling Scholarship
- Harvey Baker Scholarship
- Wisconsin Academic Excellence Scholarship
Publications
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John Cross, epidemic theory, and mathematically modeling the Norwich smallpox epidemic of 1819
Olson CD, Reluga TC (2024) John Cross, epidemic theory, and mathematically modeling the Norwich smallpox epidemic of 1819. PLoS ONE 19(11): e0312744. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0312744
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Community formation in wealth-mediated thermodynamic strategy evolution
Olson, C., Belmonte, A., & Griffin, C. (2022). Community formation in wealth-mediated thermodynamic strategy evolution. Chaos, 32(10), 103103.
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Nonconvex ancient solutions to curve shortening flow
Zhang, Y., Olson, C., Khan, I., & Angenent, S. (2023). Nonconvex ancient solutions to curve shortening flow. Trans. Am. Math. Soc.
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On the translates of general dyadic systems on R
Anderson, T.C., Hu, B., Jiang, L. et al. On the translates of general dyadic systems on R. Math. Ann. 377, 911–933 (2020).
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Nonstandard existence proofs for reaction diffusion equations
Olson, C., Mueller, M., & Angenent, S. B. (2019). Nonstandard existence proofs for reaction diffusion equations. Involve, 12(6), 1015–1034.
Teaching
Talks
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Surprises in Risk Distancing Infection Games
Talk at Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Multiple Rational Behaviors in a Cholera Intervention Game
Talk at SIAM NY-NJ-Penn Section Conference, State College, PA, USA
Computer Programming
- Proficient with Python and Latex
- Experienced with R
Service and leadership
- Madison Math Circles Host
- Jefferson Middle School MathCounts Coach