Alexander Betts
Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematics
(Image credit: Kush Singhal)

Contact details

Postal address:
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Email: abetts[at]math[dot]harvard[dot]edu

Teaching

University teaching

  • Teaching Fellow in Harvard, Math 1A Introduction to calculus
  • Teaching Fellow in Harvard, Math 283Z Foundations of non-abelian Chabauty | course page
  • Teaching Fellow in Harvard, Math 1A Introduction to calculus
  • Mini-course at Paris 6 The Chabauty–Kim method
  • Supervisor in KCL for Master's essay Counterexamples to the Hasse Principle (2017)
  • Tutor in Oxford
    • Geometry (2016)
    • Number theory revision (2016)
  • Teaching assistant in Oxford
    • Elliptic curves (2015)
    • Lie algebras (2014)
  • Supervisor in Cambridge
    • Galois theory (2014)

Outreach teaching

  • Before my move to the US, I ran frequent training sessions at UKMT summer schools
    • Trinity College training camp (2011–2015, 2017–2018)
    • National mathematics summer school (2015–2020)

Other outreach and enrichment activities

  • Marker/problem captain for the British mathematical olympiad rounds 1 & 2 (2011–2021)
  • Problem selector for the UKMT advanced mentoring scheme (2012–2013)
  • Setter for the British mathematical olympiad rounds 1 & 2 (2011–2021)
  • UK problem selection captain for international competitions (2013–2016)
  • Team leader on international mathematics olympiads
    • Balkan mathematical olympiad (2015)
    • Romanian master of mathematics (2016)