Teaching

We dress like students

I spent the better part of four years in graduate school teaching various flavors of introductory physics. It was even enjoyable, after the first year, since then I had some idea of what I was doing. It was especially enjoyable if the students were bright and well-prepared, since that meant I could be lazier and duller.

(I was also the grader for PANZ 619, Biology of Mind one semester, which was instructive, but not an experience I'd care to repeat, at least not at that salary.)

I was quite proud to be a union member; in fact, I was one of the physics department stewards.

On the off chance you end up taking a class from me, I warn you to read my student evaluations.

Lecture Notes and Other Teaching Materials

Lecture Notes on Computational Mechanics (Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, 1998)
Notes on Probability, Statistics and Stochastic Processes (Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, 2000, 2001)
Advanced Probability II, Theory of Stochastic Processes (36-754, Statistics Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Spring 2006 and 2007) — for the current state of the notes, see Almost None of the Theory of Stochastic Processes
Chaos, Complexity, and Inference (36-462, Spring 2008 and 2009)
Undergraduate Research (36-490, Spring 2010)
Data Mining (36-350, Fall 2006, 2008, 2009)
Introduction to Statistical Computing (36-350, Fall 2011)
Graduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-757, Fall 2010)
Undergraduate Advanced Data Analysis (36-402, Spring 2011 and 2012)