I am currently involved in the following mentoring, outreach, and organizational capacities. I have completed the UMass Mentor Training developed by the National Research Mentoring Network.
K-12
- UMass Math Festival Day, a yearly event bringing students to UMass campus for talks by math faculty
- UMass Eureka!, a five year program for middle and high school girls promoting continued persistence in STEM
Undergraduate
- UMass AWM: Undergraduate Chapter: I am the AWM faculty advisor and assist with planning, attending, and fundraising for twice monthly AWM events
- UMass Undergraduate Math Club, which hosts weekly faculty talks for undergraduates to engage with mathematics in a non-traditional capacity
- UMass Honors Discovery Seminar: What is research in theoretical mathematics?: in addition to my departmental teaching load, I led a seminar for non-math majors in the UMass Honors College on what mathematical research can look like. For more details on what we covered, see the course page here.
- Undergraduate independent study and senior theses: I have supervised several independent study and senior thesis projects with math majors at UMass. A paper resulting from joint work with one of these students, Nikita Singh, is available on my research page.
If you are an undergraduate interested in independent study or a senior thesis, please reach out and do so early--I have a limited number of students I can take on at any time.
Graduate
- Stacks Project Workshop mentor: I led a group of graduate students studying deformations of quotient singularities. We are in the process of writing up our work, which includes an expository summary of the surface case, a Macaulay2 program for coming deformations of affine quotient singularities, and new results on deformations of threefolds.
- AGNES Summer School on Higher Dimensional Moduli lecturer and mentor: I gave a series of lectures on K-moduli of Fano varieties, and with L. Ji, led a group of graduate students in a project on K-moduli of Fano family 2.18. Our results should appear shortly. Out of this program, with D. Bejleri, we are writing a survey with exercises on moduli of higher dimensional varieties. This is near completion and I am happy to share a copy upon request.
- I delivered a week-long lecture series for graduate students at the FRG Special Month in Ann Arbor and have two upcoming lecture series in 2024.
- UMass AWM: Graduate Chapter: I am the AWM faculty advisor and assist with organizing and mentorship for the AWM graduate chapter.
Conference organization
I have (co-)organized several conferences for the Algebraic Geometry community:
- BIRS Explicit Moduli Problems in Higher Dimensions
- AGNES at UMass, Fall 2022
- Women in Algebraic Geometry at the AWM Research Symposium
Other activities
I have historically been involved with outreach in several other capacities and have listed a selection below. For more, please see my CV.
- Lunch in the Time of Covid, cofounder and organizer: a weekly virtual thematic lunch series of community-oriented conversations
- SIMUW: a residential mathematical summer program for high students in the greater Seattle area
- UW Math Circle, a weekly math program for middle school students
- UW Math Day, a yearly event bringing high school students to the UW campus for talks and activities by math faculty