Tommi Brander

Current

Blogger at Cogito, ergo ludo.

Past

Research assistant at University of Jyväskylä
Reviewer at Open Game Table
Private mathematics tutor at Self employed

Private primary education tutor at Self employed

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Education

Jyväskylän yliopisto

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Tommi Brander’s Summary

Mathematics student of some skill, aiming for position as a researcher. Minoring in statistics and philosophy.

Tommi Brander’s Specialties:

Pen and paper roleplaying game analysis

Tommi Brander’s Experience

Blogger

Cogito, ergo ludo.

(Internet industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Blog, with such diverse topics as roleplaying theory of the non-academic kind, other roleplaying material, some philosophy and a little bit of simple mathematics.
Research assistant

University of Jyväskylä

(Educational Institution; Research industry)

June 2009 — August 2009 (3 months)

A posteriori error estimation of approximations of partial different equations, particularly the Stokes problem. Implemented a solver with PDE toolbox of Matlab using the Uzawa algorithm.

I also transcribed a research proposal with LaTeX and checked the language of the same.

Professor Sergey Repin is teaching the subject.
Reviewer

Open Game Table

(Online Media industry)

December 2008 — December 2008 (1 month)

I reviewed a number of roleplaying blog entries for inclusion in Open game table, which is an anthology of roleplaying game blog posts. This included judging the quality, originality and suitability of the posts in question for the anthology.
Private mathematics tutor

Self employed

(Higher Education industry)

January 2008 — February 2008 (2 months)

Intensive mathematics tutoring for matriculation examination, which is the final phase of Finnish high school.
Private primary education tutor

Self employed

(Primary/Secondary Education industry)

October 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Private tutoring of 4th to 5th-grader with attention deficit disorder. Subjects included mathematics, English, Finnish, history and religion, in largely that order of importance. Teaching was supplementary to standard school.

Tommi Brander’s Education

Jyväskylän yliopisto

Undergraduate , Mathematics, minoring in philosophy and statistics , 2006 — 2010 (expected)

Activities and Societies:

Roleplaying, Ropeapina

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Tommi Brander’s Websites:

Tommi Brander’s Interests:

Roleplaying games, game theory, modal logic, multivalued logic, metaphysics, chaos theory, artificial intelligence, fantasy literature, various mythologies