Advisory Board
The San Diego Math Circle enjoys collegial relationships with a number of respected professionals in the San Diego area and beyond who lend us the benefit of their experience and expertise in a variety of ways. While in some cases this includes teaching SDMC students on site, we particularly wish to acknowledge here the value we receive through consultation or collaboration and extend our thanks to these individuals for the generosity they demonstrate toward us.
Quan K. Lam - bio pending
Lei Ni - Lei earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Califorina, Irvine in 1998. He has served on the faculty of Purdue University and Stanford University. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at UCSD. Prof. Ni’s research interests include differential geometry and partial differential equations, which includes elements of complex analysis. Prof. Ni has been a long-time supporter of SDMC, teaching classes for the full scope of our ability groups, from Fermat to Cauchy.
Richard Rusczyk - Richard founded AoPS Inc in 2003 to create interactive educational opportunities for avid math students. Richard is one of the co-authors of the Art of Problem Solving textbooks, author of Art of Problem Solving's Introduction to Algebra and Introduction to Geometry textbooks, one of the co-creators of the Mandelbrot Competition, and the Director of the USA Mathematical Talent Search. He was a participant in National MATHCOUNTS, a three-time participant in the Math Olympiad Summer Program, and a USA Mathematical Olympiad winner (1989). He graduated from Princeton University in 1993, helped inaugurate ESPN's SportsFigures program, and worked as a bond trader for D.E. Shaw & Company for four years. AoPS marks Richard's return to his vocation - educating motivated students.
Patrick Yoo - Patrick is Director of the Korean Gifted Students Evaluation Association. KGSEA is a Korea-based non-profit organization that aims to be a resource center for gifted students, to provide access to information about educational opportunities, and to promote student involvement in high-level math activities. He has been energetic in providing opportunities for Korean students to participate in a variety of international math competitions such as AMC, ARML, BAMO, WMTC, WMI and HMMT. Many Korean schools and Korean parents rely on KGSEA for access to such opportunities. In addition, Patrick has founded the first math circle in Korea and a scholarship foundation to support high-ability students and high-value activities.
Patrick is not only a leader at home in Korea, but is a supporter of events that involve Korean students internationally, including with the United States. He and his students are notable participants in events such as the American Regions Math League (ARML), the World Mathematics Team Championship (WMTC), and the World Mathematics Invitational (WMI), the first of which was hosted by Patrick in Seoul in 2013. With his support on the Korean side, students in Korea and in San Diego collaborated in developing the World Youth Mathematics League (WYML), a student-created, student-run, internet-enabled, team-based international math competition for younger students.
Paul Zeitz - Paul is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of San Francisco and Director of the San Francisco Math Circle. In 1974 he won the USAMO and was a member of the first American team to participate in the IMO. The following year he graduated from Stuyvesant High School. He earned a Westinghouse scholarship and graduated from Harvard University in 1980. Since 1985, he has composed and edited problems for several national math contests, including the USAMO. He has helped train several American IMO teams, most notably the 1994 "Dream Team", the only team from any country to ever score a perfect 252 in the Olympiad. Zeitz founded the Bay Area Math Meet in 1994 and co-founded the Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad in 1999. In 1999 he wrote popular book The Art and Craft of Problem Solving and has recently created a video course with the same title for The Teaching Company. In 2003 Zeitz received from the MAA the prestigious Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for excellence in university teaching.
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