Education is the most powerful way to change the world
During my first year at Davis, I created a math pedagogy reading course for first year students. This has grown into a reading course that serves all graduate students in the math and applied math programs, and will run every year as MAT 303A.
I have mentored undergraduate students at UC Davis through the Directed Reading Program (DRP). I have worked with undergraduate students on hyperbolic knot theory, representations in knot theory, and Legendrian knot theory. More info about the DRP can be found here.
Most recently, I've been part of a project to create a new calculus sequence at UC Davis that better prepares our students for future work. The sequence is called MAT 19, and focuses on teaching students how to apply calculus to economics and data science. Instead of 1 hour discussions, the 19 series has 2 hour weekly labs where students use R to manipulate large data sets and apply calculus to answer questions pertinent to their lives and the field of economics. Here is more info on the syllabi for 19A, 19B, and 19C.
Courses I've taught:
MAT 19B (Second quarter calculus for data science)
MAT 17A (First quarter calculus for life sciences)
Courses I've TA'ed:
MAT 239 (Graduate Differential Topology)
MAT 114 (Convex Geometry)
MAT 111 (History of Math)
MAT 21B (Integral calculus)
MAT 21C (Partial derivatives and series)
MAT 19A (First quarter calculus for data science)
MAT 19B (Second quarter calculus for data science)
MAT 19C (Third quarter calculus for data science)