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Rachel Chaiser

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University of Colorado Boulder
Department of Mathematics
Graduate Student
Office: MATH 366
Email: rachel(dot)chaiser(at)colorado(dot)edu

Ph.D. student in Mathematics at University of Colorado Boulder, expected graduation May 2024

M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Colorado Boulder, Dec 2021

B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Puget Sound, May 2018

Research

I am interested in C*-algebras, topology, dynamical systems, and the interplay between the three. My advisor is Robin Deeley.

Publications:

  1. Chaiser, Coates-Welsh, Deeley, Farhner, Giornozi, Huq, Lorenzo, Oyola-Cortes, Reardon, and Stocker, Invariants for the Smale space associate to an expanding endomorphism of a flat manifold, Munster Journal of Mathematics 16 (2023), 177-199.
  2. Chaiser, Pelatt, and Thatcher, Using the Particle Model to Find Structure in Eilenberg-MacLane Spaces, The PUMP Journal of Undergraduate Research 4 (2021), 86-107.
  3. Ball, Chaiser, Dustin, Edgar, and Lagarde, Some combinatorics from Zeckendorf representations, Involve 12(7) (2019), 1241-1260.

Teaching

Instructor

Course Semester(s)
Calculus I Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Calculus II Fall 2021, Spring 2022
Linear Algebra for Non-Math Majors Spring 2023
Calculus III Spring 2024

Teaching Assistant

Course Semester(s)
Precalculus Fall 2019
Calculus I Spring 2020
Calculus III Fall 2023

Resources

Desmos (A very nice graphing tool with a free mobile app)

Desmos Demos I made for teaching Calc I:

Open Soure Textbooks (i.e., "free")

CoCalc (SageMath, LaTeX, Jupiter, R, and more; free and in the cloud)

Sage Cell (A Python based calculator for quick computations)

Tutoring

I am happy to tutor students in math at any level from K-12 through college, with the exception of students in a course I am currently teaching.

I charge $50/hour.

Reach out via email to set up an appointment.

rachel(dot)chaiser(at)colorado(dot)edu