Teaching

Courses & Programs: 

All information for current courses can be found on Canvas

• Spring 2026 -- No Teaching (boo admin duties...)
• Previous Teaching
• 2017 Participating School in Analysis of PDE
• Numerical PDE's and Geometry/Topology Seminar (Fall 2014)
• Undergraduate Certificate in Interdisciplinary Data Science!
• (Unofficial) Undergraduate Certificate in Pirate Studies! (pdf)

Lecture Notes:

• From Math 951 -- Advanced PDE II (Spring 2020)
  • Chapter 3 -- Energy Methods in Parabolic PDE (pdf)
  • Chapter 4 -- Introduction to Fixed Point Methods (pdf)
  • Chapter 5 -- Variational Methods (pdf)
  • Chapter 6 -- Introduction to Semigroup Methods (pdf)
• From 2017 Participating School in Analysis of PDE (Held at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea)
  • Basics of Stability Theory in Nonlinear PDE (pdf)

I have been honored to receive several teaching awards:

• 2020 G. Baley Price Award for Outstanding Teaching of Graduate Mathematics, awarded by KU math grad students.
• 2016 Don & Pat Morrison Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching.
• 2015 Outstanding Honors Course Award, awarded by KU Honors Program.
• 2014 G. Baley Price Award for Outstanding Teaching of Graduate Mathematics, awarded by KU math grad students.