Welcome to the Pasayten Institute
Our mission is to build and share mathematics and physics without barriers. For us right now that means putting educational material out through as many channels as possible.
We are currently focused on adult education, but increasingly interested in helping parents and teachers help their students learn mathematics.
We are not a 501c3 nonprofit at this time. We raise funds through our supporters, private events, working with individuals and teams, and selling coffee. If you’d like to learn more about any of these, please get in touch.
We’re located in Washington’s Methow River Valley, just south of the peaks and drainages which collectively share our institute’s name. These are the highlands East of the North Cascades whose rivers drain into the Methow and Okanogan Rivers. Because of this beautiful setting, we try to fold the outdoors into as much of our work as possible.
Website Overhaul
It’s been a tricky couple of years out here at the confluence of the Chewuch and Methow rivers. We’ve been working on fundraising and getting distracted by some health issues and a couple of adventurous side projects. Not to worry, we’re still here!
Hey friends!
It’s been a tricky couple of years out here at the confluence of the Chewuch and Methow rivers. We’ve been working on fundraising and getting distracted by some health issues and a couple of adventurous side projects. Not to worry, we’re still here!
The Field Guide to Particle Physics remains our most popular material, and the last two episodes of Season Three are currently in production. We also wanted to highlight some other small projects we’re been developing in the past year or two. You can find those under the newsletters tab.
If you’re keen on video material, we’ve also put together some summaries
The biggest trouble we have right now are the notes for the Sean for Science videos involving Vertex Operator Algebras and the Lie algebra sl2R. Those got lost in the shuffle of moving websites around and switching everything over under the Pasayten Institute label. In all likelihood we’ll have to put together some summary lecture notes, rather than recreate the originals. This is probably better, as we find a better way to explain these ideas each time we revisit them.
Hope you are all well. More to come this summer.
Yours truly in Math and Physics,
Sean