Math and Coding Camp

Karl Ho

School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences (EPPS)

University of Texas at Dallas (UTD)

Instructor training (coding)

Summary

  1. Beginning 2024, EPPS offers Mathematics and coding camp for all incoming Ph.D. students.
  2. First two days Math, three following days Coding
  3. Focused on R, maybe some Python and Stata
  4. One instructor per day.
  5. Compensation: $500 for instructor, $200 for TA

School leadership support:

  • Dean Dr. Holmes and Associate Dean Dr. Kim

  • All program heads and DGS's

Cost and benefits

  1. Some compensation
  2. Training to be instructor
  3. Time (weekly)

Expectations

  1. Meet regularly
  2. Materials compilation
  3. Be ready to be equipped to be coding instructor
  4. Development of materials/manual (online)
    1. Quarto/Markdown
    2. Shiny

Master's:

PA (4)- Marco Rodriguez, Matthew Owens, Alesia Cate, Jaeyoung Choi

IPE (3)- Tom Cowart, Ava Garrett, Amy Arias

PP(1)- Emily Stern

GIS (2)- John Glendenning, Bahareh Hedayat

SDAR (3) - Shiu-Ting Ling, Monica Campos, Sabina Ampon-Wireko

Crim (1)- Riviere Addams

Econ (3) - Maha Awan, Joshua Buchanan, Jalil H Fathullah

 

PhD:

PA (5)- Richard Dunks, Brandy Wicker, Ushaswi Rayala, Md. Al Hasib, Ajoke Shuaib-Adeniyi

Econ (3)- Steven jones, Reza Ansari, Ayesha Tasnim

GIS(3) - Nicholas Aboagye, Mahbubur Rahman, M Shahriar Sonet

PPPE (4)- Rafsanul Hoque, Deena Essa, Samihul Haque, Kayleigh Tompkins

Crim (4)- Gurmessa Jiru, Meeghan Gross, Eustace Chidozie, Andrew Bray

PSCI (3) Ariel Wang, Huiyan Yin, Avinash Singh

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