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Teaching

I've had the opportunity to do a lot of physics teaching at several levels. For various classes I've been a tutor, a teaching assistant (TA), or a grader. Recently I've been the Instructor of Record some classes, including a small class that exposes first-year undergraduates to lattice field theory. This was made possible through the Science Research Initiative.

Bielefeld University

Recitation Tutor

  • Elementary Particle Physics, Winter 2025.
  • Computer Physics, Summer 2021 & 2022.
  • Theoretical Physics I, Winter 2020.

University of Utah

Instructor of Record

Florida State University

Studio TA

  • General Physics A (PHY2048) Spring 2018.

Recitation TA

  • General Physics B (PHY2049) Summer 2016.
  • College Physics A (PHY2053) Spring 2016.

Grader

  • Special and General Relativity (PHZ4601) Fall 2017.
  • Graduate Electrodynamics B (PHY5347) Spring 2017.
  • Graduate Electrodynamics A (PHY5346) Fall 2016 & 2015.

Lab TA

  • College Physics A (PHY2053) Spring 2015.
  • General Physics A (PHY2048) Fall 2014 & 2013.
  • General Physics B (PHY2049) Spring 2014.

Ohio State University

Lab TA

  • Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Waves, Fall & Spring 2010.

Lecture weeks

HGS-Hire offers several courses to help develop skills for graduate students, including soft skills and coding skills. These courses are taught either as ``power weeks", which involve lots of hands-on activities, or lecture weeks. I was a trainer for the following courses:

Python pedagogical talks

Bielefeld University was partnered with two other German universities in a CRC; this was essentially a collaboration to tackle the QCD phase diagram using multiple methods. One of my responsibilities was to help teach interested CRC members, in particular young scientists like grad students and postdocs, some basics of using Python. These pedagogical talks are a result of that.

Talks about teaching

Every year the American Association of Physics Teachers hosts a conference about teaching physics. Sometimes I share something about my teaching experience when I'm there.