Florian Schwarz - My teaching/outreach

Florian Schwarz

I love teaching Mathematics to interested students in a meaningful way. That is why I happily volunteered teaching multiple courses at summer schools and I worked as a instructor multiple times at the University of Calgary.

Outreach

Math Climate Day

I am one of the initiators and a regular organizer of the Math Climate Day, a recurring one day workshop about how mathematicians, statisticians and other mathematically thinking people can help to solve the current climate crisis.

https://sites.google.com/view/gumsmathclimateday

My involvements included securing funding, assembling a team of organizers, inviting speakers, preparing the location

CdE summer schools

I love teaching Mathematics to interested students in a meaningful way. That is why I happily volunteered teaching the following courses at summer schools:

General relativity: Turning space into time (May 2023)
Topological Quantum field theories: About pipes and vectors (together with Dr. Simon Felten, August 2024)

Teaching

Awards

For my work as teaching assistant I received multiple awards:

Graduate Assistant Teaching Excellence Award, for fall 2023
Faculty of Science Fred A. McKinnon Graduate Teaching Assistant Award for 2022-2023 (https://science.ucalgary.ca/about/excellence-and-awards/award-recipients-2023#students)
Graduate Assistant Teaching Excellence Award, for fall 2022

Instructor

As an instructor I have taught Linear Methods I in Winter 2023 and Calculus I in Winter 2025.

Teaching Assistant

As a teaching assistant I have taught tutorials for

Analysis I
Analysis II
Linear Algebra I (Including a one week long exam preparation course)
Geometric Mechanics
Differential equations for engineers

Teaching Philosophy

I believe that studying discipline is unnecessary if the content is presented well, that universities should respect all different learning styles and that reducing barriers to neuro-divergent students has the potential to raise many great scientists. Additionally (it should be obvious) I consider my students' time to be valuable and I don't want to waste it.

My full teaching philosophy can be seen here:

Teaching_statement_Florian_Schwarz.pdf

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