Anthony E. Pizzimenti

My drop-in hours are 10-11am and 1-2pm on Fridays in Exploratory Hall Room 4311 (the Mathematical Sciences Department GTA workrooms) or by appointment. College is hard, and math in college is even harder. If you feel like you're struggling, please stop by — we can discuss your coursework (even from other classes), class schedule, career plans, and whatever else you might want to chat about. If you can't make my drop-in hours, you can schedule an appointment with me.

My teaching style is a "get your hands dirty" one: rote drill-and-kill problem-solving doesn't make us better mathematicians, but messing around and being creative do. My past course handouts and problem sets, alongside their source \(\TeX\), are available online. In Spring 2023, I received the GMU College of Science Dean's Excellence in Graduate Teaching award.

(Almost-)weekly workshops with curriculum spanning

• intro/intermediate programming with Python and MATLAB
• writing Python, MATLAB, and C/C++ for GMU's high-performance compute cluster
• programming for advanced undergraduate/intro graduate numerical analysis and linear algebra using Python, MATLAB, Wolfram Mathematica
• free software and services offered by GMU
• personal website, résumé, and CV design
• making pretty documents with \(\LaTeX\), creating pretty pictures with TikZ and Inkscape, general printmatter design

The schedule is updated weekly.

The Mason Experimental Geometry Lab (MEGL) is Mason's mathematics research incubator. Here, faculty and students of all levels collaborate on research projects, taking advantage of the Lab's advanced computing toolset. I mentor the Analysis of Algorithms for Alternative Models of Computation group, a project supervised by Dr. Michael Jarret, and grand-mentor the Geometry of Random Surfaces project supervised by Dr. Ben Schweinhart.

The PhD LaunchPad Program is a three-week transitional learning experience for incoming doctoral and Masters students. The Program comprises two seven-day courses plus a field trip, and is designed to:

• refresh students' knowledge in algebra and analysis;
• detail what knowledge they are expected to have in their first year of graduate study at Mason;
• preview material that's expected to be covered in Algebra (MATH:621) and Linear Analysis (MATH:675), the typical fall-semester prelim courses;
• help students familiarize themselves with Mason's Fairfax campus, campus resources, the math department and its organization, and the structure of the PhD program;
• feel more comfortable living in the DC metro area.

The course runs from July 24th to August 11th, 2023 at George Mason's Fairfax campus.

• Recitation 304 meets Mondays from 8:30am to 9:20am in 1105 Peterson Hall. (Early birds!)
• Recitation 305 meets Mondays from 9:30am to 10:20am in 1105 Peterson Hall.

• Recitation 309 meets Wednesdays from 6:20-7:10pm in 2016 Horizon Hall.
• Recitation 310 meets Wednesdays from 7:20-8:10pm in 2016 Horizon Hall.