previous outreach

At UC Santa Cruz in 2018, I founded the Directed Reading Program in the Mathematics Department, which pairs undergraduate students with graduate students to meet weekly on a reading project of their choice. As far as I know it is still running! I also applied for and received additional funding (through the DRP Network through their NSF DUE grant) to expand the program and include graduate students from applied mathematics. I also supervised DRP projects for three students in a variety of subjects including machine learning, real analysis, and fair division.

From 2018-2019 I also worked with Matt Hesby and gave a series of talks on public-key encryption and RSA at four Summit Public Schools in Daly City, Redwood City, San Jose, and Sunnyvale, CA.

During Summer 2018 and Summer 2019 I taught courses on Symmetry at the Stanford Pre-Collegiate Summer Institutes. The 2-week course took an inquiry-based approach to symmetry and group theory by studying symmetries of wallpaper patterns, regular polygons, and simple physical systems.

While at UT Austin I participated in their Directed Reading Program and worked with three students on a variety of topics in differential topology and geometry (the Hairy Ball Theorem, Morse theory, and the Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem). I also volunteered in a 2nd grade classroom at Maplewood Elementary School through Austin Partners in Education.

From 2010-2011 I served as an Americorps volunteer through Notre Dame Mission Volunteers in San Francisco, CA .