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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