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A/Prof. Mike Wheatland
Sydney Institute for Astronomy School of Physics The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Email: michael.wheatland@sydney.edu.au Tel: +61 2 9351 5965 Fax: +61 2 9351 7726
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Teaching, research and administration Mike's research interests include solar flares and solar flare statistics, solar activity in general, coronal magnetic fields, solar-terrestrial relations, and Bayesian probability. An up-to-date list of Mike's publications is located here, and the overheads for a number of recent talks are available here. Mike has developed methods for calculating nonlinear force-free magnetic fields, which provide models for fields in the solar corona. Mike also investigates solar flare statistics, and applies novel Bayesian methods in this context. His recent study of a remarkable series of flares produced by a small sunspot region in Oct-Nov 2009 revealed an apparent departure from an established statistical rule of flare occurrence. An image at right shows the region, and provides a link to a page with details of media stories on the result. Mike established the Computational Science (COSC) major at the University of Sydney, an interdisciplinary major available to students across a range of degree programs teaching the application of computers to science problems. The School of Physics offers units in COSC at Junior and Senior levels.
Mike is the academic in charge of
IT in the
School of Physics.
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