Teaching

Fall 24 Courses:

• MA 511, Introduction to Analysis I. The details are still TBD, but to get a sense of what it will be like you can check out the course page from the previous time I taught it: MA 511 from Fall 2023. We will definitely use the book Understandin Analysis by Abbott; you should be able to get a free pdf of the book via the BU library.

For information about courses I have taught in the past, including MA 776 (graduate PDEs), MA 775 (graduate ODEs), MA 771 (graduate Discrete Dynamical Systems), MA 717 (Functional Analysis), MA 713 (graduate Complex Analysis), MA 711 (graduate Real Analysis), MA 573 (advanced undergraduate ODEs), MA 561 (undergraduate PDEs), MA 512 (undergraduate Introduction to  Analysis II), MA 412 (undergraduate Complex Variables), KHC 401 (Process of Discovery), MA 301 (Writing in Mathematics), MA 242 (Linear Algebra), MA 230 (Honors Vector Calculus), MA 225 (Multivariate Calculus), and MA 124 (Calculus II), please email me. 

Letters of Recommendation:

I will do my best to support my students with letters of recommendation to the extent possible. To help facilitate that, if you would like me to write you a letter of recommendation, you must:

• Ask me via email at least four weeks in advance of the earliest deadline.

• Complete this Letter of Recommendation Request Form at least four weeks in advance of the earliest deadline.

Thanks very much to Chad Topaz for suggestions on how best to handle requests for letters of recommendation.

Teaching-related presentations I have given:

• Slides from a presentation on "Social factors and underrepresentation, with a focus on women in STEM" that I gave at the WISE@Warren seminar at BU in 2021. I've given similar presentations at a BU Kilachand Honors College co-curricular and the 2016 Summer@ICERM REU Program. 

•  A three hour minicourse on "Stability of nonlinear waves: pointwise estimates" that I gave at the 3rd Bremen Winter School and Symposium in March 2015.

• A four lecture minicourse on "Linear stability theory" that I gave at the workshop "The stability of coherent structures and patterns" in June 2012.

Teaching-related resources I have found helpful:

• Ungrading: Ungrading is sometimes also called de-grading or going gradeless. This is in reference to the body of evidence that suggests that grading, as it is traditionally implemented, actually functions in opposition to learning. If you would like to read more about this, I recommend the work of Jesse Stommel, Susan Blum, including the book Ungrading, and Alfie Kohn.

• Inclusive teaching: Comprehensive resources from Brown University, a syllabus rubric from University of Virginia, and an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. 

• Mathematicians from whom I have learned: This list is necessarily incomplete, but I wanted to highlight the folks whose websites and thoughts I regularly return to: Debbie Borkovitz, Li-Mei Lim,  Björn Sandstede,  Francis Su, and  Chad Topaz.