Shawn McDougal

PhD candidate in Mathematics at UC Berkeley.

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Office: Evans 714. Exit elevator and head to the left.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
—Confucius

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
—Anais Nin

If you are coming to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you are coming because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
—Lilla Watson, Aboriginal educator and activist

About Me

My research interests are in geometric topology. I just passed my quals in the Spring '09, so don't ask me yet what exactly my dissertation will be about. =)
My adviser is Peter Teichner.
I am a member of Unbounded Representation, a math department grad student group committed to diversity in mathematics.
I am also a member of BGESS, a group for Black grad students in science and engineering at Berkeley.

Past Teaching at Cal

Learning Math Links

B-Space at Berkeley
If you're one of my current students, check out our online course stuff here.
Student Learning Center
Great resource. They offer "drop-in hours" for most of the core lower-division classes in the Math department. They even have midterm review sesions.

Other Cool Links

Common Dreams
Great place for news and perspectives the mainstream media tends to ignore.
Wikipedia
Where I go to get many of my questions answered.



Site last updated: 06.04.09