Dr Michael S. Wheatland
Senior Lecturer in Computational Physics
School of Physics
University of Sydney
NSW 2006
Australia
Email: m.wheatland at physics.usyd.edu.au
Tel: +61 2 9351 5965
Fax: +61 2 9351 7726


Teaching and research interests
Mike's research interests include solar flares and solar flare statistics, solar activity in general, coronal magnetic fields, coronal heating, and solar-terrestrial relations. An up-to-date list of Mike's publications is located here.

Mike has worked on methods for calculating nonlinear force-free magnetic fields. An example of a calculation is shown at right.

Mike is the coordinator for 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 scientific problems. The School of Physics offers units in COSC at Junior and Senior levels. See these pages for a more complete description of the major.

Mike is the academic in charge of IT in the School of Physics. The local IT support pages are here.


Current-field iteration movie

Links
The School of Physics at the University of Sydney
Theoretical Physics group in the School of Physics
Publications
Solar links
COSC major at the University of Sydney
Local IT support pages
Animated MRI scans - an exercise in visualization
A DIY Linux cluster in the School of Physics
The double pendulum
Double square pendulum - a model for the pendulum in the SoP corridor
Solar flare prediction - a statistical method for flare prediction

Double square pendulum

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