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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 My research is mostly in solar astrophysics (the physics of events at the Sun). Specific research interests include solar flares and solar activity, the statistics of that activity, coronal magnetic fields, solar-terrestrial relations, and Bayesian probability. An up-to-date list of my publications is maintained here, and overheads for a number of recent talks are here. I maintain a page with some of my contributions to the popular media related to this research. I have worked on the problem of modelling magnetic fields in the Sun's corona using nonlinear force-free fields. I have more than ten years' experience in university teaching. I currently lecture AFNR 1002 Climate and the Environment, PHYS 1001 Physics 1 (Mechanics), PHYS 1902 Physics 1B (Quantum), and COSC 3011/3911 Scientific Computing. I have set up a YouTube channel (Mike's PhysFest) with clips of lecture demos and computer simulations from my Junior physics lectures in 2010 and 2011. I established the Computational Science (COSC) major at the University of Sydney in 2002, which teaches the application of computers to science problems. The School of Physics offers units in COSC at Junior and Senior levels -- I teach the Senior unit. The COSC co-ordinator is Pulin Gong. I am the Intermediate Physics (Physics 2) coordinator. |
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Various links Theoretical Physics group in the School of Physics Research opportunities - Senior/Hons/PhD projects (updated March 2012) My publications What's new on the Sun? - solar links Teaching-related links 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 Mike's PhysFest - YouTube channel with my lecture demosc Popular media stories - a scrapbook of media contributions. |
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