Teaching and Mentoring

PROMYS

Summers 2019, 2020, and 2021.
PROMYS is a rigorous summer mathematics program for high schoolers. Its centerpiece is a number theory course taught with a blended discovery/lecture method. Students also participate in advanced seminars on a variety of topics, exploration and research labs, and minicourses taught by the counselors. As a PROMYS counselor, my primary job is to guide my students and all of the students in the program through their coursework and overall experience at PROMYS. Additionally, I teach minicourses for the students and seminars for my fellow counselors, organize non-mathematical activities for students, and assist in various administrative tasks. In 2021 and 2020, the program was online due to COVID, but in 2019 it was in person at Boston University. Here are the tasks I've taken on in different years:

Grading number theory (2021, 2019), Galois theory (2021), graph theory (2020), and group theory (2019)
Advising research labs (I was also the research lab coordinator in 2021)
- 2021: Hypergraph Fuss-Catalan Numbers (students Parth Chavan, Andrew Lee, and Karthik Seetharaman, project proposed by Dr. Paul Gunnells of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- 2020: Hypergraph Catalan Numbers (students Derek Chen, Neil Malur, Advait Nene, and Medha Yelimeli, project proposed by Dr. Paul Gunnells of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- 2019: Bernoulli Ladder Sandpiles (students Siddhant Chaudhary and Ashwin Padaki, project proposed by Dr. Lionel Levine of Cornell University)
Advising an exploration lab on Fibonacci numbers (2021)
Giving minicourses for students
- Intro to Proofwriting (with Jiazhen Tan in 2019 and with Advait Nene in 2021)
- Influence in Referendum Elections (2019)
- Fractal Design (2020)
- Ramsey Theory (2021)
- Voronoi Diagrams (2021) (This talk was coordinated with the 2021 t-shirt design, which I made)
Giving seminars for my fellow counselors
- How to Give a Talk (with Philip Lamkin in 2020, alone in 2021)
- Philosophies of Mathematics (2019)
- Distribution and Extensions of Farey Sequences (2019)
- Perfectly Balanced Dice (2020)
- Problem Solving Seminar (2021) (This seminar met weekly and was in the spirit of the pedagogical model developed by Hungarian mathematician and educator Lajos Pósa)
In 2021, I moderated the panel of faculty for students to get to know their professors, and was a panelist for the panel on the experiences of women and LGBTQ+ people in mathematics.
In 2019, I helped with the execution of the PROMYS 30th Anniversary Conference.

Art of Problem Solving (AoPS)

Since May 2020
The Art of Problem Solving website hosts a variety of math (and other STEM) courses for middle and high school students. I have graded homework assignments for classes like Intro & Intermediate Algebra, Intro Geometry, Precalculus, Intermediate Counting & Probability, and Intro Number Theory. I have been a "halper" (mentor and homework helper on AoPS message boards) for classes like Prealgebra, Intro & Intermediate Algebra, Intro Geometry, Precalculus, Calculus, Intro & Intermediate Counting & Probability, Intro & Intermediate Number Theory, and various contest prep courses. I have been a teacher's assistant for the live weekly meetings of courses including Intro Counting and Probability, Intro Algebra A, Intermediate Algebra, Intro Number Theory, and various contest prep courses.

My self-designed icon on AoPS. Say hi if you see vacuously-true!

Rose-Hulman Center for Global Engagement (CGE)

Since Fall 2016
I did a variety of work for the Rose-Hulman Center for Global Engagement (called the Office of Global Programs when I started) during my time at Rose-Hulman. This work involved supporting and mentoring our exchange students in a variety of contexts. I was an assigned buddy for our exchange students who were with us for a term or more, and an assigned mentor for the students in the short-term Aizu Global Gateway Experience program. I participated in both of those programs for several years. I was the orientation leader for incoming exchange students in the Fall of 2018. In addition to my work directly with our exchange students, I did reception and clerical work in the office, designed flyers and other materials for our programs, and provided support for a variety of programming, like our Study Abroad Fair. Additionally, I was the social media manager for the office from 2018 to 2020.

A few flyers from a matching series I designed, advertising each of Rose-Hulman's partner schools.

Rose-Hulman Accelerated Math and Physics (RHAMP)

Summer 2017
RHAMP is an intense five week summer program for incoming freshmen at Rose-Hulman, which earns them credit for Calc III, Physics I, and Physics II. I was a student in the program in 2016 and a counselor in 2017. As a counselor, I graded large quantities of daily homework in both calculus and physics, served as a TA, RA, and lab assistant, and generally tried to keep students' spirits up. Our math professor had a medical emergency during the program, so I took on extra responsibility to support the students mathematically while he was recovering.

Me, sitting in lecture during my time as a RHAMP student. This photo was the face of the Math Major webpage on Rose-Hulman's website for years, and still is as I write this.

Grading at Rose-Hulman

Since Fall 2016
At Rose-Hulman, I've been the assigned grader for many courses, including Real Analysis, Linear Algebra, Discrete and Combinatorial Algebra, Matrix Algebra and Systems of Differential Equations, Calculus III, Calculus II, and German III.

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