About me
Having been a beneficiary of a mathematically oriented schooling throughout most of my primary and secondary education, I have come to appreciate the importance of the quantity and flavor of mathematics we encounter while very young. Currently at my PhD student stage in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Stony Brook University, I am working on questions in the field of neuroscience applying quantitative methods. I frequently find myself delighted and empowered with the research community's ability to reformulate a mushy problem from a field that doesn't enjoy strict formalities into the mathematical language and crank its powerful machinery.
In addition to becoming the backbone of all future scientific efforts that today's young students may undertake, mathematics also accompanies them as a more general-purpose tool. The mind, being a machinery for constantly explaining the surrounding environment by detecting patterns and regularities, enjoys the compressions and shortcuts it gets in the form of mathematical relations. This might be why when taught in a challenging and insightful way, learning mathematics can be immensely enjoyable. This also is where I hope to aid the young students' minds and try to equip them with not only the pre-cooked relations and recipes, but with a way to cook-up, test and verify their own laws and recipes.
My teaching at SchoolNova will include mathematics clubs for 7-year-olds (complementing regular classes and SchoolNova classes) and 7-th graders (preparing for the annual competitions).
