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Teaching

Excellence in teaching is a crucial part of serving the greater mathematical community and you can find my teaching philosophy here.

I'm currently not teaching any courses for the academic year 2011-2012.

  

Mentoring undergraduate research:

Mentoring undergraduate research is a fantastic way to get undergraduate students in mathematics more excited about there choosen field.  In addition to being a student at an REU while I was an undergraduate,  I have had the pleasure of mentoring several REU projects as both a graduate student and postdoc. I'm currently co-advising a senior LMU student in the area of non-commutative spectral analysis of large data sets.

Over the summer of 2011, I  co-advised an REU project on game theory and crime modeling at the California Research Training Program in Computational and Applied Mathematics at UCLA.  A preliminary report of the work to come!

I also spent the summer of 2007 at the Applied Mathematical Sciences Summer Institute (AMSSI) mentoring two groups of undergraduate research projects with Prof. Angela Gallegos, Erika Camacho, and Stephen Wirkus.  You can find their preliminary reports here and here.  A published paper in the Journal of Mathematical Biology from the first group can be found here.


Previous courses taught:

At UCLA:

At Boston University:

Calculus III: Multivariate Calculus  - MA 225, Summer I, 2009
Calculus I: For Life and Soc. Sci. - MA 121, Summer II, 2006
Differential Equations - MA 226, Summer II, 2004

At Harvey Mudd College:

High School Chemistry Teacher for Upward Bound, Summer 2001

At CSU Bakersfield:

Remedial Mathematics Teacher, Summer 1999


Courses for which I was a teaching assistant:

At Boston University:

MA124: Calculus II, Fall 2006
MA120: Applied Math for Soc. and Mgt. Sci. Spring 2006
MA123: Calculus I, Fall 2005

At CSU Bakersfield:

MA222: Calculus Lab, Spring 1999