JOHN M. WEEKS
Mailstop 3368, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843
Email: first initial, last name, zero, three, at, tamu.edu

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, College Station, TX

• Oversee hiring assignments and teaching-related mentoring for over 150 Master's and Ph.D. students

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

Texas A&M University

Ph.D. in Mathematics

• Committee: E. Rowell, M. Brannan (U. Waterloo), K. Dykema, K. Easwaran
• Thesis: "Property of Rapid Decay and Free Wreath Products"

Lee University

• Major GPA 4.0, Summa Cum Laude

RECENT CLASSES TAUGHT

• Instruction on effective AI use, accessibility requirements, and hands-on course instruction
• Students prepare and present their own lectures and recitations as final projects

• Elevates student understanding of advanced and several-variable calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations to prepare for graduate coursework

• Created reading curriculum in online annotation platform Perusall

• Created original online curriculum

SERVICE & OUTREACH

Texas A&M Mathematics Graduate Office
Graduate Teaching Assistant Director

• Assign graduate students teaching duties and mentor them with orientations, periodic check-ups, and conflict arbitration
• Interview and hire instructor of records and undergraduate teaching assistants for pre-calculus and calculus courses (MATH-140/142/171/172/221)
• Advise department on job creation for graduate students

Texas A&M Mathematics & Statistics Fair
Director

• Featured in Spirit Magazine Winter 2025 issue
• Work with faculty and student volunteers to create and host activities for all school-grade students on A&M campus
• Advertise to students locally and in nearby municipalities - over 150 families attend on average each year
• Recruit students from local schools (Rock Prairie Elementary, River Bend Elementary, College Station High School, Allen Academy) by bringing interactive activities to their classroom

Steering Committee - Transformational Teaching and Learning Conference

• Advise on conference topics, logistics, and structuring

Texas A&M Math Learning Center
Hands-On, Grades-Up Program Designer

• Designed an interactive learning program to supplement mathematics service courses
• Created inquiry-based content and manage student tutors
• Had regular voluntary attendance of $\tilde{2}00$$\tilde{2}00$tilde(2)00\tilde{2} 00$\tilde{2}00$ students

Texas A&M Math Circle
Co-Director

• Gave several public lectures on interactive inquiry-based activities for 5th-12th grade gifted/talented students
• Created and designed activities for other instructors
• Coordinated faculty and student volunteers
• Maintained online presence and coordinate with hybrid online sessions
• Recruited at local schools and at local job fairs
• Designed topology mini-curriculum for 9th-12th grade students

Aggie Honor System Office

Honor Council Member

• Served as panel member and/or investigator for student rule violation cases

Department Committee Work

Outreach Committee

• Co-chair since Fall 2024

RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

FIELDS OF INTEREST

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

University of Waterloo

• Networked with University of Waterloo pure mathematics department; worked with M. Brannan, P. Ganesan on quantum groups and quantum graphs research

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Recent B.S. Intern

• Worked with C. Webster on problems in sparse information in image processing

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS

Outstanding Teaching Award (Department)

Mathematical Association of America

Project NExT Fellow Blue '24 Cohort

• National fellowship for networking between new faculty in university mathematics

Member

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Served as Primary Advisor

• Nicholas Dominguez (current)
• Taylor Schofield (current)
• Hunter Shepard (current)
• Nicolas Towers (graduated Spring 2025, title Fourier Series and Transforms)
• Hannah West (current)

Served as Committee Member

• Rachel Bevan (Spring 2025, chair J. White)
• Adam Dajani (Spring 2025, chair G. Petrova)
• Jeffrey Leskiw (current, chair O. Shatalov)
• Sarah Vastani (Spring 2025, chair M. Tran)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

RECENT CONFERENCES ATTENDED