University of Chicago
Department of Mathematics
Chicago, IL 60637
Elliot Cartee Í
B ecartee@uchicago.edu
math.uchicago.edu/∼ecartee
Current position
2020–Present L.E. Dickson Instructor, University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics.
Education / Research Experience
2014–2020 Ph.D., Mathematics, Cornell University, Advisor: Alexander Vladimirsky.
Thesis title: Topics in Optimal Control and Game Theory
Fall 2018 Visiting Student Research Collaborator, Princeton University, Operations Re-
search and Financial Engineering.
2014–2017 M.S., Mathematics, Cornell University.
2011–2014 B.A., Mathematics, Cornell University.
Awards
2018-2019 Robert J. Bättig Graduate Prize for Excellent Achievements in Research
2011-2014 Pauline and Irving Tanner Dean’s Scholar
Publications
E. Cartee, A. Farah, A. Nellis, J. van Hook, A. Vladimirsky, Quantifying and
managing uncertainty in piecewise-deterministic Markov processes, submitted to
SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification.
E. Cartee and A. Vladimirsky, Control-theoretic models of environmental crime,
SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 80(3), 1441-1466 (2020).
E. Cartee, L. Lai, Q. Song, and A. Vladimirsky, Time-dependent surveillance-
evasion games, 2019 IEEE CDC, Nice, France, pp. 7128-7133 (2019).
E. Cartee and A. Vladimirsky, Anisotropic challenges in pedestrian flow modeling,
Communications in Mathematical Sciences, 16(4), 1067-1093 (2018).
L. N. Virgin, R. Plaut, and E. Cartee, The effect of gravity on a slender loop
structure, Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1 (pp. 185-190). Springer, Cham (2016).
L. N. Virgin, R. Plaut, and E. Cartee, Adjacent equilibria in highly flexible upright
loop on rigid foundation, Experimental Mechanics, 55(6), 1191-1197 (2015).
S. Khan, J. Johnson, E. Cartee, and Y. Yao, Global regularity of chemotaxis
equations with advection, Involve, a Journal of Mathematics, 9(1), 119-131 (2015).
Presentations
October 2020 Control-Theoretic Models of Environmental Crime, CAMP / Nonlinear PDEs
Seminar, University of Chicago.
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May 2020 Quantifying and managing uncertainty in Piecewise-Deterministic Markov
Processes, Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis seminar, Cornell University.
Dec. 2019 Time-dependent Surveillance-Evasion Games, IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control 2019, Nice, France.
October 2019 Modeling Environmental Crime in the Presence of Ground Patrols (Poster),
NSF Algorithms for Threat Detection Workshop, George Washington University.
October 2019 Control-Theoretic Models of Environmental Crime, Doctoral Consortium on
Computational Sustainability, Carnegie Mellon University.
October 2019 Control-Theoretic Models of Environmental Crime (Poster), 3rd AFOSR
Workshop on Computational Control, Monterey, CA.
Sept. 2019 Control-Theoretic Models of Environmental Crime, Scientific Computing and
Numerical Analysis seminar, Cornell University.
July 2019 Surveillance-Evasion Mean Field Games, International Congress on Industrial
and Applied Mathematics, Valencia, Spain, (Invited mini-symposium talk).
April 2019 Time-dependent Surveillance-Evasion Games, Applied Math Days 2019, Rens-
selaer Polytechnic Institute.
March 2019 Anisotropic Interactions in Pedestrian Flow Modeling, New York State Regional
Graduate Mathematics Conference, Syracuse University.
October 2018 Surveillance-Evasion Mean Field Games, NSF Algorithms for Threat Detection
Workshop, American University.
August 2017 Aniostropic Challenges in Pedestrian Flow Modeling, Mean Field Games Work-
shop, UCLA (IPAM).
April 2015 Models of Pedestrian Flow, Scientific Computing and Numerical Analysis seminar,
Cornell University.
Teaching Experience
University of Chicago
August 2020 Instructor, MATH 16110: Honors Calculus I (IBL).
Cornell University
Fall 2019 Head TA, MATH 2940: Linear Algebra for Engineers.
Spring 2019 Head TA, MATH 2930: Differential Equations for Engineers.
Summer 2018 REU Graduate Student Mentor.
Fall 2017 Head TA, MATH 2930: Differential Equations for Engineers.
Spring 2017 Instructor, MATH 1110: Calculus I.
Fall 2016 Head TA, MATH 2930: Differential Equations for Engineers.
Spring 2016 TA, MATH 2930: Differential Equations for Engineers.
Fall 2015 Grader, MATH 4250: Differential Equations and Numerical Analysis.
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