ESP Biography



AGUSTIN VALDES MARTINEZ, MIT Senior Studying EE and Physics




Major: Physics, EECS

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: 2025

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Hi!
My name's Agustin, a senior at MIT interested in a lot of things, but especially physics and electrical engineering & computer science (EECS).

I'm currently working as a research assistant at the Quanta group, a team in the Research Lab of Electronics helping with quantum computing research.

This is now my fourth semester teaching for HSSP; I've always loved to teach, and have taught math up to and including calculus. Teaching is a great way to learn something multiple times over, and when it comes to stuff I'm passionate about, that's super exciting!



Past Classes

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C15914: A Primer in Quantum Computing in HSSP Spring 2024 (Mar. 02, 2024)
Ready to delve in the math and physics required for understanding quantum algorithms? Looking to gain valuable experience simulating quantum systems? Or just wanna know what the hype is all about? If so, this might be the class for you! We'll start by laying a strong foundation in probability, linear algebra, complex numbers, quantum measurement, etc. From there, we'll apply what we've learned through Python simulations written using the QuTiP library. By the end of the class, we will have enough tools under our belt to simulate quantum algorithms!


M15656: Modeling Mechanics and Circuits via Differential Equations and JavaScript in HSSP Summer 2023 (Jul. 09, 2023)
Science comes down to models of the super complicated world around us; and the best models are the ones we use to this day to send rockets into space, create electrical systems, and invest in the stock market. And as we’ll find in this course, some of the most famous and applicable models don’t even need to be that complicated to be useful! This course will give a broad outlook on modeling electrical and mechanical systems using first and second-order differential equations and coding up small simulations to visualize our mathematical predictions. On a typical class day, we will start with a system, analyze it mathematically in the first half, and program a simulation in the second half. As such, we ask that you please bring a laptop to our sessions. If this poses an obstacle for you, please contact me and/or the HSSP staff to help you out!


M15472: Modeling Mechanics, Chemistry, and Circuits via Differential Equations and JavaScript in HSSP Spring 2023 (Feb. 25, 2023)
Science comes down to models of the super complicated world around us; and the best models, are the ones we use to this day to send rockets into space, create electrical systems, and invest in the stock market. And as we’ll find in this course, some of the most famous and applicable models don’t even need to be that complicated to be useful! This course will give a broad outlook on modeling electrical and mechanical systems using first and second-order differential equations and coding up small simulations to visualize our mathematical predictions. On a typical class day, we will start with a system, analyze it mathematically in the first half, and program a simulation in the second half.


C14906: Using Computer Science to Model our World in HSSP Spring 2022 (Feb. 26, 2022)
Ever wondered how powerful computer science can be in predicting the world around us? The average computer alone can execute around 150 MILLION commands per second, and we're going to tap into that power to see some pretty awesome results! Using just a bit of math and a whole lot of programming, we'll be able to describe the motion of objects here on earth and in space, delve into finance-related topics, explore video-games, and a whole lot more! This course is the intersection of math, science, and computation, and if that's as exciting to you as it is to us, go ahead and sign up!