Outreach & Service

UT Directed Reading Program Mentor

The DRP pairs undergraduate students with graduate student mentors to undertake independent projects in mathematics. The program helps students learn about topics that either aren't covered by or don't appear until the end of a typical math major. In addition to building up their mentoring network and sense of belonging in the mathematical community, DRP also helps prepare students for REUs and graduate school. Here are the students I've mentored and the titles of their projects:

• Rohith Muthukumar, "Smooth Manifolds and the Whitney Embedding Theorem" (Summer 2025)

• Kaissa Doichev, "Computer Assisted  Proofs using Lean" (Fall 2024)

• Tong Wu, "Logical Foundations of Computer Assisted Theorem Proving" (Fall 2024)

• Angela Yuan, "Poincaré Duality" (Summer 2024)

Sanger Learning Center Math Refreshers and Reviews Instructor

The Sanger Learning Center provides free academic support available to all undergraduates at UT. Their math resources include one-on-one tutoring sessions; drop-in tutoring; panel discussions; 3-day refresher courses to prepare for pre-calc, calc I, and calc II; and 2-day exam review sessions for calculus midterms and finals. The refresher courses are designed to support students whose high school math background may not have prepared them to succeed in a faster-paced college setting. Here are the courses and panels I've taught and participated in:

• Calculus I Midterm Exam Reviews (Spring 2025)

• Preparation for Calculus II Refresher Course (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

• How to Succeed in UT Math Courses Panel (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

UT Junior Topology Seminar organizer (2025-2026 academic year)

The UT Junior Topology Seminar is run by and for graduate students interested in topology and geometric structures. Weekly talks are given by grads at all stages of the PhD program, on topics including introductions to foundational tools, exciting results from recent (or not-so-recent) papers, and students' original research. 

• Fall 2025 schedule

Graduate Representative Committee

The Graduate Representative Committee is an 8-person body of mathematics graduate students democratically elected at the beginning of each fall semester to represent the interests of our fellow grad students from with the Mathematics Department, the College of Natural Sciences and the broader Graduate Student Assembly. The GRC also organizes social events, oversees the maintenance of the lounge and ensures tea is consistently available.

• 2023-2024 Secretary

• 2022-2023 Social Chair

Captain of SO(2), the math grad ultimate frisbee team

I inherited this team from the esteemed Dr. Theodore Weisman, who led the team to victory on the same day as his thesis defense in April, 2022. We have yet to repeat his success. Stay tuned for the Spring 2027 season -- perhaps lightning will strike twice.

• Spring 2025: 3rd place (out of 24 teams)

• Fall 2024: no playoffs. Not our best season. Perhaps our worst season, but we learned a lot.

• Spring 2024: tied for 3rd in the B bracket, which had 12 playoff teams. A bracket had 8 teams. There were at least 24 teams total.

• Fall 2023: lost in quarter finals of the A bracket

• Spring 2023: 2nd place! Shared the CNS College News Weekly spotlight with Luis Caffarelli winning the Abel Prize.

• Fall 2022: lost in quarter finals of the A bracket. We are not a rain team. Maybe because so many of us wear glasses.

Miscellaneous Service

• Created a new UT DRP website (Summer 2025)

• Audrick's NSF GRFP proposal

• Updated/maintained the TWIMS 2023 website

• UT Math representative at 2022 SURE in CNS (Symposium for Undergraduate Research Exploration), an annual event for recruiting exceptionally promising students with identities historically marginalized in our disciplines.