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Science Teaching and Mentoring

I was a TA for a class on waves, optics, and particles (P214) at Cornell, for which I led biweekly sections and wrote quizzes. At Swarthmore, I graded problem sets and tutored students in Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, and Multivariable Calculus, in addition to organizing and staffing a physics clinic for introductory students and mentoring students as a Writing Associate to help with their technical writing.

I also taught other students through Swarthmore's unique seminar-style classes, and some of my seminar presentations and lab reports are collected on my undergraduate website. For example, see my presentations on the 2D Ising model, plasma waves, or the Casimir force.

Before I graduated from Swarthmore, I organized a panel discussion for seniors to tell underclassmen about applying to physics grad school, and here is the handout (now slightly out of date) that I made. I have served on three similar panels at Cornell, which have used variations of my handout.

This picture of me teaching Galois theory made it into a Dutch article!