Talks, Workshops, and Public Work

This workshop uses geometry as an entry point into questions of truth, order, and intelligibility. Through familiar mathematical ideas, participants are invited to reflect on how mathematics can reveal patterns of reason, beauty, and structure in creation.

This seminar considers the relationship between mathematics, intelligibility, and Christian faith. It explores how mathematical order can invite reflection on creation, reason, and the ways human beings come to know the world.

This talk focuses on student-centered approaches to mathematics teaching, emphasizing active learning, formative feedback, and course structures that help students take ownership of their mathematical growth.

A practical introduction to alternative grading systems in mathematics courses. The talk highlights ways to make assessment more transparent, feedback-oriented, and supportive of long-term learning while remaining manageable for instructors.

A faith-and-reason workshop using geometric ideas to prompt reflection on order, truth, and the human desire to understand. The session connects mathematical reasoning with broader questions of meaning and creation.

This talk presents Survivor as a framework for interdisciplinary and game-based learning. It explores how strategy, social dynamics, decision-making, and game theory can help students connect mathematical reasoning to human behavior.

This presentation describes how an online pre-college learning experience can support incoming students academically and socially. It focuses on belonging, near-peer support, reflection, and structured preparation for the transition to college-level mathematics.

A teaching-focused presentation on building classroom structures that help students engage actively with mathematics, practice productively, and develop confidence through repeated, meaningful participation.

This workshop reflects on how Notre Dame’s mission can shape concrete choices in teaching, mentoring, and course design, with attention to the formation of students as whole persons.

A workshop on designing assessments that remain meaningful in an AI-rich learning environment. The session emphasizes authentic tasks, student reasoning, process-oriented work, and assessments that invite students to demonstrate real understanding.

A workshop focused on the learning side of generative AI. Rather than treating AI only as a threat to assessment, this session considers how instructors can design learning experiences that preserve student agency, reflection, and intellectual growth.

This workshop introduces active learning strategies for mathematics and STEM classrooms, with attention to student participation, collaborative work, and designing class time around thinking rather than passive reception.

A workshop on supporting undergraduate students in research settings, including mentoring structures, project design, expectations, and ways to invite students into meaningful scholarly work.

This talk presents ASCEND’s near-peer mentoring model as a support structure for incoming STEM students. It highlights how coaching, reflection, community, and mathematical preparation can work together during the transition to college.

This talk explores the theological and philosophical resonance of geometry, considering how mathematical order and spatial reasoning can illuminate broader questions about creation, intelligibility, and the human search for truth.

This presentation describes how a narrative framework can increase student engagement and mathematical discourse in an online undergraduate course. It focuses on course storytelling, student motivation, and designing online learning experiences that invite participation.

Organize regular practice sessions and interactive lessons for young chess players, using chess as a setting for reasoning, patience, pattern recognition, and joyful problem solving.

Visit undergraduate dorms to speak with first-year students about preparing for college life, developing healthy habits, and approaching academic challenges with confidence and purpose.

Host students for meals and conversation about the relationship between family, work, vocation, and life at Notre Dame.