Teaching and Outreach

TA

At UW-Madison, I was a TA for Astronomy 103 “The Evolving Universe: Stars, Galaxies, and Cosmology” in spring 2023. This was an introductory course for non-majors.

Wisconsin

As a graduate student, I have led public observing sessions of the historic 15.6″ refractor at UW-Madison’s Washburn Observatory. I have also led observing sessions at state parks throughout Wisconsin as part of the “Universe in the Park” program.

ESP

I have taught numerous classes for high school (and occasionally middle school) students as a volunteer teacher for MIT’s student-run Educational Studies Program. You can find a complete list of my class catalogs on my teacher’s bio page.

A list of distinct classes I taught includes

• Exoplanet discovery methods. (2014–2019)
• Introduction to quaternions. (2015–2019)
• Science as a social practice. (2019)

SSP

I was a TA for Summer Science Program’s Astrophysics Program in 2020. I was previously a student participant in 2013.

Because SSP was being held online for the first time ever, the 2020 TAs had to bear significantly higher teaching duties compared to past years. Some generic math and physics materials I personally prepared include

• A short introduction on polar basis vectors.
• A handy cheatsheet for computing orbital elements from state vectors.