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Silva Chang is a Teaching Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at CU Boulder. She founded the Colorado Math Circle and has directed it since 2005. Born and raised in New York City, Silva participated in ARML as a member of the NYC math team in high school, and attended the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Math (HCSSiM). At Oberlin College, she double majored in mathematics and East Asian Studies, then received an M.S./M.Phil in computer science at Yale University. She has worked as a software developer, a website designer, and a manager in a tea shop. |
Silva led the Summit MS MATHCOUNTS Team to first place in the state competition for five consecutive years. She also was the advisor for the Fairview HS Math Club for several years. Silva is a former member of the Colorado Mathematics Awards Steering Committee, and has given talks about the Colorado Math Circle at the Joint Mathematics Meetings and the Rocky Mountain MAA Section Meeting. After teaching at the MathPath program for advanced middle school students for several summers, Silva joined the Board of Directors in 2022. She served on the American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) 8 Panel as a reviewer, then became AMC 8 Co-Editor-in-Chief in 2018. As a member of the AMC 8 and AMC 10/12 editorial boards, Silva writes and reviews problems for the AMC contests.
In 2022 Silva received the Samuel L. Greitzer Distinguished ARML Coach Award. In 2020 she was awarded the CU Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence Award in Leadership and Service. In 2014 she was named the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) Colorado Educator of the Year.
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Thomas Davids is Co-Director of the Colorado Math Circle and Coach of the Colorado ARML Team. He grew up in Boulder, and is a Summit MS and Fairview HS alum. At Summit, he was a part of the school's founding MATHCOUNTS team that placed first in the state in 2003 and second in 2004, and was a member of the Colorado State MATHCOUNTS team in 2004. In high school, Thomas was a member of the Colorado ARML team in 2006, and placed 9th individually in the ARML competition of 2008. After graduating high school, Thomas attended Stanford University, where he majored in math with a minor in economics and a Masters in computer science. |
After Stanford, Thomas has worked as a software engineer for Udacity (an education technology company), Google, boodleAI (providing technology services to nonprofits), and Google (again), where he currently works out of the Boulder office. Outside of work, you'll find him swimming with the Colorado Masters swimming program, playing music, and rooting for all of Colorado's sports teams.