Apologies for the very long delay between postings. It has been over a month, which is completely unacceptable! Between running my first set of solo experiments as a grad student, trying to write my first conference paper and taking a long-planned week vacation to DC, I find I really need to catch up on my blog posts.
A brief overview first, before I go into detail on my sessions. I have just about memorized all my students' names, which makes it much more comfortable to start conversations with them, and they in turn have become much more comfortable with asking me for help with their classwork. I have given several talks to both classes by now, and have pulled out some lessons along the way which I'll share in upcoming posts. George and I have reached a good arrangement where when I talk, I take 15-20 minutes or so either at the beginning or end of the hour, with a primary goal of keeping the students engaged and inquisitive in some technical discussion, and a secondary goal of relating the discussion back to current material when possible.
Coming up next, in no particular order: my talks about primes, football & predicting the future, what we can learn from starlight, the snickers challenge, and more.
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