Bahar Acu

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    Upcoming Teaching

  • TBA

 

      Does the word proof give you nightmares and need a bedtime story?

      Then you might enjoy this Mathematical Fable and its Moral.

 

     Teaching Awards & Mentoring

  • University Outstanding TA Award Nominee, 2015, USC
  • Teaching mentor of the incoming PhD students, August 2014, USC
  • Teaching mentor of the incoming PhD students, August 2015, USC
  • TA coordinator, Winter 2018, Northwestern University

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Courses taught

 

ETH Zürich

  • Semester Research Projects, Spring 2021


Northwestern University

  • MATH 250 Elementary Differential Equations, Spring 2020
  • MATH 300 Foundations of Higher Mathematics (two sections), Spring 2020
  • MATH 306 Combinatorics and Discrete Mathematics, Winter 2020
  • MATH 399 Independent Study, Summer 2019
  • MATH 234 Multiple Integration and Vector Calculus (two sections), Winter 2019
  • MATH 240 Linear Algebra (two sections), Fall 2018
  • MATH 224 Integral Calculus of One Variable Functions (two sections), Winter 2018
  • MATH 220 Differential Calculus of One-Variable Functions (two sections), Fall 2017

 

University of Southern California

  • MATH 040x Basic Mathematical Skills*, Spring 2015

 

Santa Monica College

  • MATH 2 Precalculus, Summer 2016
  • MATH 85 Algebra, Winter 2017
  • MATH 2 Precalculus, Spring 2017
  • MATH 7 Calculus I, Spring 2017
  • MATH 2 Precalculus, Summer 2017

 

*This course is the only course offered in the Department of Mathematics at USC where select graduate assistants are given the opportunity to teach.

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Teaching assistantships

 

University of Southern California (USC)**

  • MATH 117 Introduction to Mathematics for Business and Economics
  • MATH 118 Fundamental Principles of the Calculus
  • MATH 125 Calculus I
  • MATH 126 Calculus II
  • MATH 225 Linear Algebra and Ordinary Differential Equations
  • MATH 425b Fundamental Concepts of Analysis
  • MATH 434 Geometry and Transformations
  • MATH 435 Vector Analysis and Introduction to Differential Geometry
  • MATH 440 Topology
  • MATH 475 Introduction to Theory of Complex Variables
  • MATH 520 Complex Analysis
  • MATH 535 Differential Geometry
  • MATH 574 Applied Matrix Analysis

 

Middle East Technical University (METU)***

  • Linear Algebra
  • Calculus I for Engineering and Sciences
  • Calculus II for Engineering and Sciences
  • Calculus III for Engineering and Sciences

 

**Teaching load for teaching assistants at USC: 6 hours of discussions per week and grading of quizzes, assignments and midterms.

***Teaching load for teaching assistants at METU: 4 hours of recitations per week and grading of quizzes and midterms.