A/Prof. Mike Wheatland Sydney Institute for Astronomy 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, research and administration 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, and the overheads for a number of recent talks are available 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.

A twisted bipolar force-free field.

Additional links Theoretical Physics group in the School of Physics Research opportunities - Third year, Hons., & Ph.D. projects (updated June 2009) 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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