Teaching
  • Teaching
Lecturing
    1. Dark Matter, ICTP+Giambiagi Winter School in Buenos Aires, July 2023 [Lecture Notes (in progress!)]
    2. Introduction to General Relativity, Fall 2023 (upcoming)
    3. Galaxies and Cosmology, Rice University, Spring 2023
    4. Galaxies and Cosmology, Rice University, Spring 2022
    5. Honors Mechanics, Rice University, Fall 2021
    6. Galaxies and Cosmology, Rice University, Spring 2021
    7. Honors Mechanics, Rice University, Fall 2020
    8. Quantum Field Theory, Rice University, Fall 2019 [Lecture Notes]
    9. Galaxies and Cosmology, Rice University, Spring 2019 [Lecture Notes (hand-written)]
    10. Quantum Field Theory, Rice University, Fall 2018
    11. Galaxies and Cosmology, Rice University, Spring 2018
    12. Quantum Field Theory, Rice University, Fall 2017 [Lecture Notes (LaTeX+handwritten)]
    13. Galaxies and Cosmology, Rice University, Spring 2017 [Lecture Notes (hand-written)]
    14. Quantum Field Theory, Rice University, Fall 2016 [pic]
    15. Galaxies and Cosmology, Rice University, Spring 2016 [pic]
    16. Statistical Mechanics at The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), South Africa Jan-Feb 2014 [pic]
    17. Statistical Mechanics at The African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), Senegal Jan-Feb 2013 [pic]
    18. Statistical Mechanics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Spring 2012 (recitation)
    19. Light and Heat,  Stanford University, Fall 2007 (3 weeks)
    20. Introduction to Cosmology, Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) at Stanford University, Summer 2005-2006 (photo)
Mentoring
  1. Dr. Zong-Gang Mou, Rice University, 2020- (Postdoctoral Fellow)
  2. Hongyi Zhang, Rice University, 2019 – (PhD Student)
  3. Anamitra Paul, Rice University, 2019- (UG)
  4. Rohith Karur, UC Berkeley, 2018 – (UG)
  5. Tim Skaras , Rice University, 2017-2018 (UG)
  6. Alex Winkner , Rice University, 2017-2018 (UG)
  7. Jia-Liang Shen, Rice University, 2016-2017 (PhD Student)
  8. Scott Carleston, Rice University, 2017 (UG)
  9. Osmond Wen, Rice University, 2016-present (UG)
  10. Dr. Marcos Garcia, Rice University, 2016-present (Postdoctoral Fellow)
  11. Kaloian Lozanov U. of Cambridge, 2013-2017 (PhD student)
  12. Indranil Banik and Carinae Nagreanu, Oscillon Collisions, undergraduate summer Project at the Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge), 2013
  13. Clarisse Uwizeye , Statistical Mechanics of Gravitational Systems, Research Essay for African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Senegal), Feb 2013-June 2013
  14. Kate McCutcheon, Horizon scale power spectrum at the end of inflation, Cambridge Part III Masters project, Sept 2012-May 2013
  15. Micheal Pearce, Oscillons with non-canonical kinetic terms, MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Summer 2012
  16. Danny Bulmash (with E. Bertschinger), The missing flare in Fermi, flux anomalies in strong lensing, MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Jan 2011-Sept 2011
  17. Antony Speranza (with A. Guth), Oscillon collisions in 1+1 dimensions, MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Oct -Dec 2010
  18. Arsen Mamikonyan (with A. Silvestri and E. Bertschiger), Testing models of modified gravity in our solar system, MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Feb-May 2009
  19. Thomas Roxlo (with A. Guth), Decay rates of flat-top oscillons in an expanding universe, as part of MIT Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP), Nov 2009-March 2010
Awards
  1. Rice Graduate Student Association’s Teaching & Mentoring Award, Rice University 2019
  2. Kirkpatrick Award for Excellence in Teaching Physics, Stanford University 2005
  3. Centennial Teaching Assistant Award, Stanford University 2006
Teaching Consultant Teaching consultant for the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at Stanford University and mentor teaching assistant for the Stanford physics department.