Undergraduate Mentoring

I am co-organizing with my postdoctoral mentor Ming Xiao a summer 2025 workshop for undergraduate students called the UCSD Undergraduate Research Mini-course in Complex Variables and Complex Geometry.  This program will introduce selected topics in complex analysis and geometry.  There will be lectures, discussion sections and towards the end of the program,  seminars about faculty research and short student presentations on topics related to the mini-course.  One of the goals of the program for participating UCSD students is that it will lead to undergraduate research problems that they can work on as part of an honors thesis during the 2025-2026 academic year.

Math Circles

From 2021-2023, I worked with the Texas A&M University Math Circle (TAMU Math Circle) as a instructor for beginning, intermediate and advanced discovery learning sessions.   In the fall of 2022, I became an organizer for the TAMU Math Circle.

During the 2020-2021 school year, I was a UCI Math Circle (UCIMC)-Coordinator.  UCIMC is a weekly math enrichment program open to students grades 4-12.  As coordinator, I was responsible for curriculum development, recruiting and training mentors and leading the lessons.  With Alessandra Pantano and Yasmeen Baki, we wrote a paper (published by the Journal of Math Circles) on the transition of the UCI Math Circle to an online format during the COVID-19 pandemic

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UCI Math Circles was held in person.  Below are the activity packets I created for lessons I led between 2016-2020.  You are free to use these packets for your own math circles as long as you don't take credit for them.  Answers to the problems are available upon request.  

• The Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality

• Complex Numbers

• Convex Sets and Functions

• Floor and Ceiling Functions

• Sequences and Series

• The Josephus Problem

• Thinking about Sums Visually and Computationally