teaching and outreach

In 2017 and 2018 I taught two classes at the University of Maryland. Unfortunately, my research lately has had me too busy to teach, but I still regularly supervise a number of undergrads and NASA interns working in the lab.

Fall 2018: ASTR288C – Astronomy Research Techniques

This course covered an introduction to scientific analysis (parsing data, fitting, “tools of the trade”) and independent research.

Fall 2017: ASTR288P – UNIX and Scientific Programming

In this class, we began with a very basic introduction to scientific programming (“the command line is a tool that exists”) and progressed through to general use of *NIX systems. An introduction to scripting (bash) and Python were given, and various analysis concepts were presented, such as data extraction and fitting. Courses were taught using GitHub and Python Notebooks as a base for accessing course notes.

Outreach

I have a long history of working in outreach. Indeed, my first job out of highschool was as a camp counselor at Space Camp Canada at the Laval Cosmodome outside of Montreal.

I was also a founding member of the Astro McGill public outreach group which now hosts massively successful lectures to hundreds of members of the public. I was also a co-host of the Astro McGill podcast.