Teaching, Mentoring, Advising

Congrats to PhD student Paige Hillen, starting as a University of Wisconsin - Madison RTG postdoc Fall 2025!

Thank you for nominating me for the W.J. Barnes Teaching Award in 2020!

Educational Content

Friends of Tracking (Educational Soccer Analytics Youtube Channel Co-Hosted)

Higher Mathematics Language and Skills Bootcamp

Illuminating Mathematics via Sweet Potatoes and Sports: Riemann Sums

Illuminating Mathematics via Sweet Potatoes and Sports: Voronoi Diagrams & Delaunay Triangulations

Mentoring and Advising

PhD student (2024-Present): Paige Hillen (co-supervised with Darren Long, UCSB)
Masters student (2022-2024): Sana Arastehfar (co-supervised with Christian Muise)
Masters student (2019-2020): Troy Zeier (co-supervised with Mikhail Nediak)
USRA Summer Research Student (Summer 2020): Damara Gagnier
Women in Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics co-mentor with Rylee Lyman
Supervisor for Queen's Sports Analytics Research Group

Course Evaluations

Complete course evaluations for Queen's Math 126b Winter 2022 (a postdoc assigned the homework).
Complete course evaluations for UCSB Math 8 Fall 2017 (1.0 is best score possible, 1st time for online evals, I didn't use powerpoint, so at least 1 student submitted incorrect eval).
Complete course evaluations for UCSB Math 108B (Advanced Linear Algebra II) Fall 2017 (1.0 is best score possible).
Complete course evaluations for UCSB Math 8 Spring 2017 (1.0 is best score possible).
20/90 course evaluations for UCSB Off-Sequence Calculus II Spring 2017 (1.0 is best score possible, document camera referred to was because the room had no blackboards or whiteboards).
Complete course evaluations for UCSB Math 8 Winter 2017 (1.0 is best score possible).

By popular request: Cookies Recipe

Directed Reading Program

I am proud to have founded the Rutgers Directed Reading Program in Mathematics. Some of my mentees include Chris Skalit (who went on to earn his PhD from the University of Chicago and is now a postdoc at UIC), Charles Siegel (who went on to earn his PhD in algebraic geometry at UPenn and is now a postdoc at University of Tokyo), Aaron Samkoff, and Jordan Ledvina. I am also a faculty advisor for the Queen's Directed Reading Program in Mathematics.

Courses Taught

Queen's University

  • Undergraduate topology reading
  • Graduate topology reading
  • Calculus I for Social Sciences and Economics
  • Calculus II for Social Sciences and Economics
  • Calculus II for Life Sciences
  • Differential Geometry
  • Introduction to Topology
  • Rings and Fields
  • Advanced Perspectives on Elementary Geometry
  • Combinatorics

Other Institutions

  • Advanced Linear Algebra I and II, UCSB
  • Transition to Higher Mathematics, UCSB
  • Methods of Analysis, UCSB
  • Calculus II for Social and Life Sciences, UCSB
  • Calculus II, UCSB
  • Calculus I, UCSB
  • Graph Theory I and II, Bielefeld
  • Geometric Group Theory, Bard College at Simon's Rock
  • Calculus, Bard College at Simon's Rock
  • Elementary Functions (Precalculus), Bard College at Simon's Rock
  • Differential Equations for Engineers, Rutgers
  • Calculus I, Rutgers University
  • Multivariable Calculus (Calculus III), Rutgers University

Courses Teaching Assistant For