Amelia Vargas

Hi! I’m Amelia, a data scientist based in the Pacific Northwest.

I work for an insurance company based in Oregon, solving hard problems with creativity and curiosity. Previously, I worked in public service with the State of Oregon as a Senior Research Analyst.

Organizations

I’m a member of the State of Oregon Research Academy (SORA) Executive Committee.

Education

M.Sc. in Mathematics from Dalhousie University, Canada

M.Sc. thesis: A Geometric Study of Superintegrable Systems [arXiv]

B.Sc. in Physics and B.A. in Mathematics from California State University, Fullerton, USA

Studies

A remark on the Tremblay-Turbiner-Winternitz potential
R. Smirnov, A. Vargas
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 2912, The XXVIII International Conference on Integrable Systems and Quantum Symmetries (2024)
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2022 Oregon Workers’ Compensation Premium Rate Ranking Study
D. Gallogly, A. Vargas
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Statistical analysis of reporting of student genders in Oregon’s public schools
A. Vargas, A. Vargas
2018 Oregon Statewide Annual Report Card.
ODE

Newspaper Archives + Text Mining = Rich Sources of Historical Geospatial Data: A Flood Database Case Study
A. Yzaguirre, R. Warren, M. Smit
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Volume 34, conference 1 (2016).
IOP Science

Detecting environmental disasters in digital news archives
A. Yzaguirre, R. Warren, M. Smit
2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), pp. 2027-2035 (2015).
IEEE Xplore Digital Library

Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions of Seyfert Galaxies: Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of the 12 micron Sample of Active Galaxies
J. F. Gallimore, A. L. Yzaguirre, J. Jakoboski, M. J. Stevenosky, D. J. Axon, S. A. Baum, C. L. Buchanan, M. Elitzur, M. Elvis, C. P. O’Dea, A. Robinson
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 187, Issue 1, pp. 172-211 (2010).
arXiv

Cosmic topology: Studying the shape and size of our universe
A. Yzaguirre, A. Hajian
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, vol. 42, p. 549 (2010).
SAO/NASA ADS Astronomy Abstract Service

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