In the big chair at the Oasis Restaurant, Austin, Texas

A Concise Guide To

Andrew Chin

Geographical | Educational | Mathematical | Legal

Societal | Musical | Familial | Social | Memorial

Geographical

1966	Needham, MA	1993	London, England
1978	Austin, TX	1994	Austin, TX
1987	Budapest, Hungary	1995	New Haven, CT
1987	Oxford, England	1998	Washington, DC
1991	College Station, TX

Educational

1971	Stephen Palmer Elementary Needham, MA
1976	Hillside Elementary Needham, MA
1978	Murchison Junior HS Austin, TX
1980	Stephen F. Austin HS Austin, TX	Valedictorian, 1984 Winner, 1984 USA Mathematical Olympiad Co-Editor-in-Chief, The Maroon
1984	University of Texas Austin, TX	Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, 1987 Valedictorian, College of Natural Sciences President, Students' Association Associate Editor, The Daily Texan
1987	University of Oxford Oxford, England	Doctor of Philosophy, Mathematics and Computer Science, 1991 Rhodes Scholarship Marshall Scholarship, declined National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
1995	Yale Law School New Haven, CT	Doctor of Jurisprudence, 1998 National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Fellowship Olin Fellowship in Law, Economics and Public Policy Notes/Dev. Editor, Yale Law Journal

Mathematical

Publications in Mathematics and Computer Science

1991	Texas A&M University Visiting Assistant Professor Mathematics	Faculty advisor, Mathematical Modeling Team Co-founder, Texas A&M Invitational High School Mathematics Tournament
1993	University of London Assistant Professor Computer Science	Science and Engineering Research Council Grant Dartmouth Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies Fellowship
1994	University of Texas Lecturer Public Affairs	National Science Foundation Research Grant Founding Producer, Asian American Austin, Austin Community Television

Legal

Publications in Law

1996	Fish & Richardson P.C. Boston, MA Summer Associate
1997	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP Washington, DC Summer Associate
1997	Federal Trade Commission Washington, DC Summer Law Intern
1998	Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. U.S. District Court Washington, DC Law Clerk
2000	Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP Washington, DC Associate

Societal

I've played a small role in attempting to reduce the disparities in educational opportunity that seem to occur in every community. Here Assad, a sixth-former in Cowley, England, works out a trigonometry word problem I've assigned him on one of his weekly visits to St. Catherine's College in Oxford.
The last church I attended that tackled the issue of social injustice head-on was the John Wesley Society at Wesley Memorial Church in Oxford. Here is a group Bible lunch I hosted in my cramped student quarters. (I'm not pictured.)
I worked on the 1992 Paul Tsongas campaign. Tsongas (1941-1997) is the only heroic figure who has run for President during my lifetime. We have already become a lesser nation for his loss.

Musical

Here's what I've been listening to lately:

Taja Sevelle, Toys of Vanity
Al Stewart, Past, Present & Future
The Go-Go's, Return to the Valley of the Go-Go's
Deacon Blue, Riches & More

Familial

Mom (Loretta) in front of the house in Austin she had custom-built in 1993. She was recently appointed Executive Director of the Texas Asian American Chamber of Commerce!
Dad (Daniel) and his new wife Kathy Block are attorneys in Austin. Dad's firm, Chin & Patrick, LLP, has offices in Austin and Round Rock, TX. Dad just passed the patent bar!
Sister (Pam), Bobby, Wesley and Amy Hamilton recently moved from Columbia, SC to Taiwan. When they return in four years, everyone will be bilingual! This will provide Bobby, who holds a PhD in Linguistics (Second Language Acquisition), with even more data to study.
Mom's mom Alice owned and operated a small restaurant off Broadway in the 1940s. No, it wasn't called "Alice's Restaurant"! It was called "China Moon," and her patrons included Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and the cast of The King and I.

Social

Gregg Eck is my best friend from childhood. He's a Jesuit priest now. I haven't seen him since we met up in Budapest in 1987.
During high school, it seemed like I went on road trips for math and debate tournaments every weekend, mostly to San Antonio and usually with this guy, Alex Kolesnik. Years later, I introduced him to his wife Sharon Beynon. They still go on frequent road trips -- to bridge tournaments.
My fiancee Judy Tseng lives in Arlington, Virginia. Our relationship was, in retrospect, long overdue. She recently moved her homepage onto DemocracyWeb.

Memorial

I've had two close friends taken away well before their time. Their passing has lent urgency to my work. I dedicate this page to their memory.

Nadine Kowalsky (1966-1996) lost her battle with leukemia after a long struggle. In high school, she and I were the only two students representing our year in the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad Training programs. She went on to outshine me, graduating from Harvard, earning a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Chicago, and taking a fellowship at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study. I remember her for her compassion and indomitable spirit. When I failed to qualify for the USAMO in 1983, her witty and self-deprecating correspondence from the training program was genuinely consoling. I learned of Nadine's passing when I came across her archived messages to a Bone Marrow Transplant list server, and her courageous words of support bore posthumous witness to her remarkable character.

Navid Saheb-Kashaf (1966-1987) was about to start his senior year at Harvard when he was killed in a car accident. We were classmates during the spring of 1987 in Hungary. I remember him for his resourcefulness and initiative. Since he didn't have an English-speaking roommate, he reached out to the rest of us by organizing more than his share of outings. That spring, he also taught himself to play violin, and took an interest in the emerging Eastern European democracy movements. On the last day I saw him, he cooked us a spaghetti dinner and then we went out to see a Woody Allen film.