Experienced physicist with a focus on quantum information theory.

Adam P.

I am an award-winning graduate physics student on the cusp of receiving their PhD in quantum measurements and quantum information theory, and I have extensive (8+ years) experience teaching and tutoring collegiate and high school level students in both physics and mathematics.

In graduate school, I primarily taught physics labs and led discussion sections (problem solving sessions). Additionally, I have also taught algebra-based physics one classes during the summer. I have generated a large number of overwhelmingly positive student reviews for each of these teaching environments, and I strongly believe that my teaching style greatly benefitted the 1000+ students I have taught over the course of my graduate student career.

I try to characterize my teaching style as a "human-first" approach to tutoring. Many students who struggle with math or physics get frustrated when they can't readily solve a problem or understand a concept, but I try to persuade students that, at one point or another, the concepts that they are struggling with were at one point the state-of-the-art science that some of the smartest people in history had to dedicate their entire lives to understanding. A fair bit of resistance is expected during the learning and mastery processes, but I try to point out and eliminate unhelpful prior conceptions that students might have about the subjects I teach --- with some luck, students will be able to change their perceptions about studying and problem solving: problems can be solved, and most topics can be understood. That, I believe, is a healthy first step towards learning.