Teaching and Mentoring Experience


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past teaching experience

University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark (2014--current)

teaching assistant

Taught exercise sessions:

NMAK14024U: Stochastic Models for Genetic Data
NMAA05009U: "Mathematical Modeling"
Spring 2015
Winter 2014

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA (2011--2013)

course instructor

Designed syllabus; developed course and assessment materials; planned and taught lectures; set up and managed class website; graded exams and assignments; assigned final grades:

Math 106: The Mathematics of Money
Math 477: Mathematical Theory of Probability
Math 354: Linear Optimization
Math 250: Introductory Linear Algebra
Summer 2014
Summer 2013
Fall 2012
Summer 2012

recitation instructor

Developed course and assessment materials; taught recitation sessions; set up and managed class website; graded exams and assignments:

Math 244: Differential Equations for Engineering and Physics
Math 136: Calculus II for the Life/Social Sciences
Math 152: Calculus II for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Spring 2012
Fall 2011
Spring 2011

Universidade de Brasília, Brasília, DF, Brazil (2003--2007)

teaching assistant

Helped design syllabus; developed course and assessment materials; helped teach lectures:

MAT 117412: "Introductory Measure Theory and Integration"
Fall 2007

peer mentor

Co-ran workshop sessions; helped develop course materials; graded assignments:

MAT 113301: "Differential Equations I"
MAT 113069: "Complex Variables I"
MAT 113051: "Calculus III"
MAT 113051: "Calculus III"
MAT 113034: "Calculus I"
Spring 2006
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Spring 2003

past mentoring experience

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA (2010--2013)

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)

Co-mentored a rising Rutgers University junior, Gabe Marquez, for the DIMACS REU 2013. Project was on a Dynamical Systems approach to Machine Translation.

Directed Reading Program in Mathematics (DRP)

Guided undergraduate students through semester-long, independent studies of topics in Mathematics:

Haripriya Chakraborty Spring 2013
Topics in Ergodic Number Theory: Recurrence Theorems and Arithmetic Progressions
Textbook: Ergodic Theory: With a View Towards Number Theory; Manfred Einsiedler and Thomas Ward. Springer, 2012.

Haripriya Chakraborty Fall 2012
Topics in Axiomatic Set Theory: The Axiom of Choice
Textbook: Introduction to Set Theory; Karel Hrbacek and Thomas J. Jech. CRC Press, 1999.

David Feinblum Spring 2011
Topics in Real Analysis: Counterexamples in Real Analysis
Textbook: Counterexamples in Analysis; Bernard R. Gelbaum and John M.H. Olmsted. Dover Publications, 2003.

David Feinblum Fall 2010
Topics in Axiomatic Set Theory: Construction of Number Systems
Textbook: Elements of Set Theory; Herbert B. Enderton. Academic Press, 1977

Abdelrahman Mohamed Summer 2010
Topics in Real Analysis: Fourier Series and Weierstrass Approximation Theorem
Textbook: The Theory of Functions; Edward C. Titchmarsh. Oxford University Press, 1976.