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Programming Support Tech

As a Programming Support Technician for the UW-Milwaukee Mathematics, I'm developing a scheduling and assignment system that transforms preference forms and an initial semester course offering into a workable, department-ready teaching plan. The tool ingests faculty and graduate teaching assistant preference data, then "whittles down" the proposed offerings into a schedule that assigns instructors to course while producing an exportable plan for University reporting and spreadsheet-based workflows.

A key design goal is editable optimization: the output is a custom database-backed object system built so coordinators can make targeted adjustments—moving a few instructors or reshuffling a small set of sections—then re-run the optimization without destabilizing the entire schedule. To support this, the planned engine is a depth-first heuristic search aimed at finding high-quality assignments while minimizing unnecessary downstream changes, prioritizing stability and practicality over rebuilding the schedule from scratch each time an update is needed.

Interview with Undergraduate Stephen Lasinis on Getting Started with LaTeX — MATH VALUESBy Pamela E. Harris @DPEHarris and Stephen Lasinis

Hitchhiker's Guide to LaTeX

As featured in Math Values as a guide for beginners on getting started with using only the best typesetting language for writing mathematics. This guide covers everything from using packages, to plotting 3-dimensional curves in space.

My first exposure to LaTeX was in Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations where my professor made a comment about it being more professional and versatile than other word processors / typesetting languages. I took it as a challenge to learn how to write up my homework, and I was amazed at how easy this was to do with templates in Overleaf. I managed to submit my final two assignments for the class using LaTeX.

I then managed to completely forget about how useful Overleaf was until taking Abstract Algebra with Dr. Pamela Harris. She strongly encouraged everyone taking the course to learn how to use LaTeX/Overleaf, especially those of us who were going to pursue a higher education in mathematics. It was for those classmates as well as future student that I wrote my guide to writing homework assignments in Overleaf.

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