Left: Infinite series are best taught outdoors. Photograph courtesy
The Daily
Iowan. Right: Me and several former students waiting to see the
2008 lunar eclipse.
It was COLD. From Left to Right: Mike Baker, Joey Squires, me, and
Renugan Raidoo.
A poem, to commemorate the last FAC [Friday Afternoon
Calculus, a de facto help session] during Fall 2007:
For what better should thouest do,
But partial fractions and limits too!
And ever behold the curves galore,
For arc lengths and areas dost I adore.
With epsilons and N's and M's,
And thy series comparison test of lims;
For convergeth if a_n zero doth goes, nay!
For that beith thy converse, I hear you say.
Though the skies gray, gloom, and cold,
To do calculus! Aye, that is bold!
For with Archimedes and Newton do we stand,
Upon foreign beaches and pebbled sands.
Now make thy trek across thy frozen land and sea,
And behind that glass facade, you shall plus C.
For Four Square and Four Score,
Rhyme on upon calculus evermore.
Current Teaching at Iowa:
Fall 2009 - VIGRE Traineeship. This semester I'll be working with
Professor Stroyan and his undergraduate
student Alys Rodriguez on research involving 3D geometry and
vision. In particular, we are studying optic flow and perception.
For more infomation on this, see my Optics research page.
Previous Teaching
History at Iowa:
Spring 2009 -
22M 031 007/008 Engineering Calculus II -
Teaching Assistant to Professor Stroyan
Fall 2008 - 22M 031 081/132 Engineering Calculus I -
Teaching Assistant to Professor Ton-That
Summer 2008 - Mathematics Tutorial Laboratory - Tutor
Summer 2008 - Upward Bound (Cancelled due to the Midwest Floods of 2008)
Spring 2008 - 22M 009 081 - Elementary Functions -
Instructor.
Fall 2007 - 22M 026 A01/A02 - Honors Calculus II
- Teaching Assistant to Professor Krishnamurthy
Summer 2007 - Upward Bound Project - Trigonometry, The
Matrix - Instructor
Spring 2007 - 22M 009 (331) - Elementary Functions -
Instructor
Fall 2006 - 22M 005 (081) -
Trigonometry -
Instructor
Summer 2006 - Upward Bound Project
- Trigonometry, Fractal Geometry and Complex Numbers - Instructor
Spring 2006 - 22M 026 A01/A02 - Calculus
II - Teaching Assistant to Professor Goodman
Fall 2005 - 22M 025 H15/H16 - Calculus I - Teaching Assistant to
Professor Lee
Summer 2005 - Upward Bound Project - Precalculus and Knot Theory -
Instructor
Spring 2005 - 22M 015 - Math for the Biological Sciences
(Precalculus) - Teaching Assistant to Professor Khurana
Fall 2004 - 22M 017 - Calculus and Matrix Algebra for Business -
Teaching Assistant to Professor Camillo
Previous Teaching
History at UT Dallas:
Summer 2003 through Summer 2004 - Math Lab Tutor - University of Texas at Dallas Learning
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