Focus Session: Incorporating Computational Physics into Teaching

Presentations

• One Lattice Gauge Theorist's Perspective on Important Skills and Concepts for Computational Physics Courses

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 17, 2009, 2:30 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Steven Gottlieb

    Indiana University

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• Tips and Tools for Teaching Quantum Mechanics

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:06 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Guangtian Zhu

    Department of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

  • Chandralekha Singh

    Department of Physics \& Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh

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• Building a Digital Library: Theory, Computation, and Education

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:18 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Wolfgang Christian

    Davidson College

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• Introducing scientific computation from high school to college: the case of Modellus

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • V\'Itor Teodoro

    UIED e DCSA, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

  • Rui Neves

    UIED e DCSA, Faculdade de Ci\^encias e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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• DIYModeling: a place for students and faculty to build their own game-quality simulations to enhance learning.

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:42 PM – March 17, 2009, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Bryndol Sones

    US Military Acdemy, US Military Academy

  • Frank Wattenberg

    US Military Acdemy

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• Computational Physics at Haverford College

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 3:54 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Peter Love

    Haverford College

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• Developing Computational Physics in Nigeria

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Godfrey Akpojotor

    Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden and Delta State University, Abraka

  • Emmanuel Enukpere

    College of Education, Warri

  • Famous Akpojotor

    Federal Government College, Sokoto

  • Sunny Ojobor

    Delta State University, Abraka

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• EJS enhances traditional learning in freshman mechanics

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Amy Bug

    Swarthmore College

  • Jen Trinh

    Swarthmore College

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• Computational Labs Using VPython Complement Conventional Labs in Online and Regular Physics Classes

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Martina E. Bachlechner

    Fairmont State University

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• A New Graduate Minor Program in Computational Science

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2009, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Lyle Long

    The Pennsylvania State University

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• Material and Virtual Workspaces in Physics Research

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2009, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Chad Wickman

    Department of English, Kent State University

  • Christina Haas

    Department of English, Kent State University

  • Peter Palffy-Muhoray

    Liquid Crystal Institute, Kent State University, Kent State University, Kent, OH USA

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• Singular Function Integration in Computational Physics

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2009, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Javier Hasbun

    University of West Georgia

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• N-body, parallel simulation using a Barnes-Hut algorithm: performance versus accuracy

  ORAL

  March 17, 2009, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2009, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Norman Chonacky

    Department of Applied Physics, Yale University

  • Brian Dobbins

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale University

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