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Professor Michael S. 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 My office is Rm 355 in the School of Physics
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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. I have worked on the problem of modelling magnetic fields in the Sun's corona using nonlinear force-free fields. I currently teach PHYS 1001 Physics 1 (Mechanics) in Semester 1 and in the July intensive, PHYS3x34 Computational Physics in Semester 1, and PHYS 2012 Physics 2B (Quantum) in Semester 2. I also developed and help to teach two Open Learning Environment (OLE) units which run in both semesters: OLET1622 Numbers and Numerics, and OLET1652 How to Estimate Anything. |
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Various links ORCID page ResearcherID page University of Sydney Faculty of Science Profile page Some contributions to popular media Research opportunities - Undergraduate/Hons/PhD projects Publications What's new on the Sun? - solar links Solar Physics - I am an Editor in Chief at this journal Teaching-related links Additional research links The dynamics of a biased ball Modeling the fall of a slinky 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 lecture demos Popular media stories - a scrapbook of media contributions |
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