Admit it: this little flaming R logo I made for my talk about souping up R code with C++ is awesome. And after you experience speedups in your own code with RCpp, you may even be moved to get the logo tattooed on your body! Tutorial slides and materials are here.

I had great fun designing and teaching a 2-part crash course in time series modeling for employees in the AIR Worldwide Research Department. Slides are here and a zip-file including all tutorial materials, including R code to do the examples shown in the slides, is here.

Mentor for Math 485 (Mathematical Modeling) at the University of Arizona. The group of four undergraduate math majors I worked with examined how pathogen mutation can affect the spread of diseases through probabilistic numerical simulations using small-world networks. Their final project poster is here, and their final report is here.

Instructor for Math 263 (Introduction to Statistics and Biostatistics) at the University of Arizona. My students' evaluations of my teaching are here.

Fall 2007: Super-TA for Math 583 (Principles and Methods of Applied Mathematics) at the University of Arizona. This is a core course for first-year graduate students in Applied Mathematics, which I had just passed the previous year.

I taught high school physics at Concord Academy in Concord, MA during my first year out of college. I also got to design and teach a pilot course teaching basic principles of physics through applications in astronomy and cosmology! Highlights included rapt looks on students faces when a) I taught the physics students about the Twin Paradox from Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity, b) I showed the astronomy kids the moon through a telescope one observing night, and c) I described how we'll never be able to learn anything beyond the light cone of our expanding universe. Great times molding young brains!