About me

I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in the mathematics department at the University of Minnesota. I study analysis and probability, and in particular discrepancy theory and energy optimization. My advisor is Dmitriy Bilyk. I did my undergraduate work at Carleton College.

You can contact me at michmast "at" umn "dot" edu. My office is Vincent Hall 520.

Find my CV here (updated Sept. 2022)

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From undergraduate research

Talks and Travel

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Teaching

Spring 2023: I am the instructor for an asynchronous online section of MATH 1272 (Calculus II).

Previously:  Have lectured for MATH 1271 (Calculus I) in asynchronous online format; four sections of MATH 1272 (Calculus II) in both synchronous and asychronous online formats; MATH 2243 (Linear Algebra and Differential Equations) in synchronous online format; MATH 1031 (College Algebra), conducted in-person until the class moved to synchronous online instruction; and TA'ed for MATH 1051 (Precalculus I).

Pre-graduate school: I was a Title I teacher for 9th-grade math at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School in midtown Minneapolis in 2017-18.

Other: I occasionally tutor math and statistics at the high school, college, and graduate levels through Advantage Testing of Minneapolis, since 2016.