As an academic and an educator, being of service to the community is especially important to me. Beyond contributing to the commons, there are many ways to share mathematics and science with the the rest of our society.
Science World
Science World is Vancouver’s science museum and one of the many program they offer is call “Future Science Leaders” where 30 students in grade 10 and 11 learn essential skills in weekly meetings, meet top experts and innovators and apply their new knowledge and skills. The program coordinator, Cathernine Anderson (@genegeek) has asked me to be the Mathematics Fellow for this program for the year 2012 – 2013.
My responsibilities were to create and facilitate two weekly sessions on Quantitative Reasoning (in October 2012) and three sessions on Mathematical Research (in January 2013).
High School to University Transition
Invited at a panel on university educators’ perspective of incoming students’ mathematical skills part of the Transition from High School to the University meeting hosted by the UBC Department of Mathematics in June 2011.
With the public
Was invited to give a talk: “Mathematics as a quest for beauty” at the PechaKucha Night Volume 7 part of the Whistler Readers and Writers Festival; Whistler BC – October 2012.
Euclid exam marking
The UBC Department of Mathematics has hosted the marking of the Euclid exam (see https://cemc.math.uwaterloo.ca/contests/euclid.html for more info on this exam) for the entire province of British Columbia for over a decade. Mathematicians, High school math teachers and math amateurs gather every year for this special event. I participated to this event in 2009, 2010 and 2011.