Jill P. Naiman

I've been a mentor with the Lamat program for the past several years. In addition to mentoring summer students from Hartnell Community College, I've worked with several transfer students as they continue their education at UCSC.

In the summer of 2011 I was a co-developer and teacher of a short course for art and physics students collaborating through the OpenLab project and the CfAO's Program for Professional Development Program, or PDP. The course taught coding and visualization techniques to a mixed group of art and physics undergraduates who then worked together to convey a physical concept in an informative and visually appealing way. The link to a more detailed description and videos of their projects will be on the OpenLab website in the next few weeks.

As mentioned in my CV I've been an instructor in Professor Mark Krumholz's Program for Inmate Education, PIE, for the past several years. Through this program, I've had the opportunity to teach several Algebra classes to the inmates in the Santa Cruz County jail.

During the 2010 school year I worked with an art student, Nathan Kandus and another Astrophysics graduate student, Rachel Strickler, on visualizing the chaotic motions of a large double pendulum in real time. Photographs and videos can be found on Nathan's website here.

I've done a Sun and Moon lighting representation for the 20th Anniversary show of the Firebird Dance Company

Many other present and future collaborations will happen through the Astro-Art Departments collaboration via the OpenLab project.