On 15 November 2022 I gave a talk as part of the STELR (Science and Technology Education Leveraging Relevance) program. They run STEM webinars to inspire school students. This was a short webinar for school students, talking about my career path and work, followed by discussion with a facilitator.
Here’s the blurb for the talk:
“Hi, I’m Dan. I’m a mathematician. I work at Monash Uni.
I’ve been into maths since I was very young. At school I enjoyed learning lots of things, including mathematics and science and history and everything. I’ve always wanted to know how the world works.
At school I found out I enjoyed maths, and I got involved in the Maths Olympiad. I actually represented the country at the International Maths Olympiad. I’ve been doing maths ever since. I’ve done maths in California, in Boston, in France, before coming home to Australia and doing it here too. I’ve also worked in IT and as a lawyer and a writer. Nowadays I teach mathematics and do mathematical research at Monash University.”
The slides from my talk are available here (11mb pptx and 2mb pdf).
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