Patrick Chan

Mathematics PhD Student at Indiana University Bloomington

Voice PhD Minor at IU’s Jacobs School of Music | Engineering Research Assistant at Loyola University Chicago

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Teaching

Indiana University – Bloomington (Current)

Lab of Experimental Mathematics and Math Applications [LEMMA]

Formerly Lab of Geometry at IU [LOG(IU)]

Graduate Director: Fall 2025 – Present

Mentor: Fall 2023 Present

LEMMA is graduate student lead and designed project-based course for a small group of undergraduate students (1-3 students). This is meant to cover a subject or niche that is not covered in the Mathematics Department of Indiana University.

My LEMMAs:

þ Fall 2023: Fundamental Groups, Covering Spaces, and their Galois Correspondence

þ Spring 2024: Visualizing Higher Dimensional Spheres and Disks

þ Fall 2024: Knots from Crochet

þ Spring 2025: Quilting Covering Spaces

þ Fall 2025: Grid Homology of Knots

þ Spring 2026: Topological Invariants of Music (Current)

MATH-M125: Pre-calculus Mathematics Fall 2024, Fall 2025, Spring 2026 (Current)

MATH-M106: Math of Decision and Beauty Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Spring 2025

Loyola University Chicago

MATH 266: Differential Equations and Linear Algebra (assisting) Spring 2021

MATH 161: Calculus I (assisting) Fall 2021

MATH 201: Discrete Math & Number Theory (assisting) Spring 2022