Teaching
Whenever there is room to do so, I treat the classroom as a working scientific community. Students present ideas, question assumptions, and revise their understanding in public, because I think the messy, collaborative process of understanding is itself what is worth teaching.
I currently teach physics at Laney College and mathematics at Mount Tamalpais College at San Quentin. In that work, I care especially about building rigorous courses that remain inviting to students with uneven preparation, including a no-prerequisite course on the physics of complex systems.
UC Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor
MPS 101
Careers in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Course websitePHYSICS 21
Physics of Music
Course websiteLS 22
Sense and Sensibility in Science
Course websitePHYSICS 8A
Introductory Physics for Medical Students
Laney College and Mount Tamalpais College at San Quentin
Instructor of Record
Laney College
PHYSICS 10
Conceptual Physics
PHYSICS 3A
General Physics with Calculus: Mechanics
Mount Tamalpais College at San Quentin
MTH 050A
Developmental Math I
MTH 050B
Developmental Math II
MTH 099
Elementary Algebra
MTH 115
Intermediate Algebra
PHY 170
From Particles to People to Planets: Understanding the Physics of Our World at Every Scale
Course designed with Madeline Bernstein.
A no-equations-needed exploration of physics across scales, moving from quantum theory and protein machines through complex systems, social networks, climate, planets, and black holes. Students use estimation, physical models, and the scientific method to connect hidden forces across life, society, and the cosmos.