Teaching & Mentorship

Teaching and mentorship by Ron Nissim.

Teaching & mentorship

Teaching

At MIT, I have taught multivariable calculus, stochastic calculus, and random matrix theory, and mentored undergraduate students through directed reading and research programs in probability and mathematical physics.

Teaching experience

Fall 2025

18.02: Multivariable Calculus

Recitation leader · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spring 2024

18.676: Stochastic Calculus

Teaching assistant/grader · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Fall 2023

18.338: Random Matrix Theory

Teaching assistant/grader · Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mentorship

January 2026

Directed Reading Program

Mentored Diego Caballero and Davit Kldiashvili in a reading course based on Berestycki and Powell’s Gaussian Free Field and Liouville Quantum Gravity.

Summer 2024

Summer Program in Undergraduate Research

Mentored Enrique Rivera on \(\mathrm{U}(1)\) lattice gauge theory and random height functions.”

January 2024

Directed Reading Program

Mentored Brandon Wang, Enrique Rivera, and Matija Delic in a reading course based on Le Gall and Miermont’s notes Scaling Limits of Random Trees and Planar Maps.

Summer-Fall 2023

Undergraduate Research Opportunity

Mentored Omar Abdelghani on “Geometric Derivation of the Finite \(N\) Master Loop Equation.” The project led to a joint preprint.

January 2023

Directed Reading Program

Mentored Saba Lepsveridze in a reading course based on Ramon van Handel’s High Dimensional Probability.

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