Teaching and outreach

Teaching

Award: Received the “Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant” award in May 2024.
Main Instructor for Financial Mathematics (1 semester): Prepared lectures and assignments, graded and provided feedback, and created projects to facilitate student group work.
Main Instructor for Calculus I and II (4 semesters): Delivered lectures and graded assignments in a coordinated course setting.

Instructor for Introductory Courses on Mathematical Thinking (1 semester): Taught at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede La Paz, as part of an initiative to support indigenous communities. Implemented active learning and teaching with social responsibility as part of a pedagogical innovation plan.
Main Instructor for Calculus I (1 semester): Prepared lectures, created, and graded assignments in a coordinated course setting.
Discussion leader for Calculus I (3 semesters): Led discussion sessions, graded assignments, and exams.

I am currently member of the AWM chapter at UVA and mentored two undergrad students.
I was a TA in the topology REU at UVA together with David Chasteen-Boyd where we helped a group led by Brandon Shapiro. Below you can find our team.

Here's a picture of the algebraic topology team at the 2024 REU giving their final presentation.

The team members were Paul Bianco (GWU), Catherine DiLeo (Tuffs), Ansel Huffman (Virginia Tech), and Preston Sessoms (Clemson).

I was part of the Directed Reading Program at UVA as both mentor and committee member. As a mentor, together with Mina Kim, we did a project called "Introduction to Machine Learning".
I led two teams at the Geometry Lab during the academic year 2022-2023 where we explored hyperbolic geometry through crochet (newest website).

On the left there's a picture of one of the crochet projects we completed at the geometry lab.

It is a bouquet of hyperbolic flowers that we crochetted exploring different styles of flowers and curvatures.

Here are some additional things I've been part of:

For the 2024-2025 academic year, I organized the "What is...?" seminar at UVA, which is a companion series to the Virginia Mathematics Lectures.
- - Fall: Darien Farnham answered the question "What is Residual Finiteness and what are Profinite Completions?" and we had a lunch with the speaker Alan Reid.
  - Spring: Petch Chueluecha answered the question "What is a Cap Set?" and we had a lunch with the speaker Jordan Ellenberg.
I am part of the IDEAs committee (IDEA= Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility) at UVA. We brainstorm, solicit input (both undergrad and grad) outside of the committee, and implement steps to promote inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility.
I participated in the Research Story seminar as a part of a panel (23-Sep) and speaker (9-Oct). "The Research Story Seminar gives mathematicians a venue to talk about the aspects of research that don't make it into traditional research talks. Specifically, we hope the seminar will demystify the research process for early-career scholars and shed light on the mode human aspects of doing math."
I co-organized the Graduate Students Seminar.

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