Presentations, 1990-
- A generalized asset exchange model with economic growth and wealth distribution, contributed talk, APS meeting, 5 March 2019.
- Simple models of earthquake faults:
Examples of driven dissipative systems, A symposium in honor of Gene Mazenko, University of Chicago, 18 May 2015.
- New challenges and opportunities for old physics departments (Millikan medal talk), Summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, 15 July 2013.
- How will computer technology affect the physics curriculum?, CCP 2010, Trondheim, Norway, 23 June 2010.
- Reform, don't weaken the physics curriculum, Winter Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Session IF, Technology for Teaching Advanced Physics, 17 February 2010.
- Approaching and leaving metastability, WPI colloquium, 1 October 2007; Boston University seminar, 2 November 2007; Siena College colloquium, 5 November 2007.
- Teaching statistical and thermal physics using computer simulations, Tutorial T2, APS meeting, Denver, 4 March 2007.
- "Recent curriculum developments in the teaching of statistical physics," invited talk, AAPT
summer meeting, Sacramento, August 2004.
- "Pseudospinodal interpretation of the glass
transition," contributed talk, APS meeting, March 2004.
- "How computers are changing physics," University of Massachusetts, Lowell, colloquium, 9 April 2003.
- "Computational physics and the open source physics
project," contributed talk, DCOMP, San Diego, 26 August 2002.
- "Using open-source Java applets for teaching statistical physics," invited talk, summer 2002 AAPT meeting, Boise.
- "Integrating computational science into the physics curriculum," Computational Science 2001 - ICCS 2001, 30 May
2001.
- "Approaching the glass transition," WPI, physics colloquium, 22 January 2001.
- "Approaching the glass transition," Purdue University, condensed
matter seminar, 10 November 2000.
- "Approaching the glass transition," John Hopkins University,
Materials Science and Engineering Seminar, 25 October 2000.
- "Computational physics and the undergraduate
curriculum," AAPT/APS Department Chairs Conference, 15 April
2000.
- "Computational physics and the undergraduate
curriculum," colloquium, Northeastern University, May 13, 1999.
- "Computational physics and the undergraduate curriculum,"
invited talk, Division of Computational Physics/CCP99, 23 March
1999, Atlanta. Article in Computer Physics Communications 127, 6 (2000) based on talk.
- "What is a glass?," physics colloquium, Brown University, 7 December
1998.
- "What is a glass?," SPS seminar, Holy Cross College,
2 December 1997.
- "What is a glass?," physics colloquium, Amherst College, 7 November 1997.
- "What is a glass?," Sigma Pi Sigma induction banquet, Siena College, 23 April 1997.
- "What is a glass?," physics colloquium, URI, 25 October 1996.
- "What is a glass?," condensed matter seminar, Northeastern University, 16 November 1995.
- "What is a glass?," physics colloquium, University of Maine, 7 April 1995.
- "Bringing chaos to the classroom," physics colloquium, University of Rhode Island physics, 23 September 1994.
- "What is a glass?," colloquium, Wesleyan University, 27 October 1994.
- "What is a glass?," condensed matter seminar, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 5 May 1994.
- "Using computer simulations to learn physics," Society of Physics Students, WPI, 16 February 1994.
- "What is a glass?," physics colloquium, Emory University, 14 January 1994.
- "Are computers changing the way we do physics?," physics colloquium, WPI, 6 December 1993.
- "What are computers doing to physics?," physics colloquium, Hunter College, 14 April 1993.
- "Non-classical nucleation effects in systems with long-range interactions," invited talk, Los Alamos conference on Nonlinearity in Materials Science, 18-22 May 1992.
- "What are computers doing to physics?," physics colloquium, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2 May 1991.
- "How does a supercooled liquid become a crystalline solid?," invited talk, American Chemical Society meeting, Atlanta, 17 April 1991.
- "What are computers doing to physics?," special seminar, Morehouse College, 16 April 1991.
- "What are computers doing to physics?," physics colloquium, University of Alabama, 15 April 1991.
- "How does a supercooled liquid become a solid?," physics colloquium, Wayne State University, February 26, 1991.
- "What are computers doing to physics?," physics colloquium, Bates College, 28 March 1990.
- "How does a supercooled liquid become a solid?," physics colloquium, Universite de Montreal, 10 November 1989.
- "Using computers to learn physics," invited talk, APS Topical Group on Computational Physics, Boston University, 8 June 1989.
- "How can we bring chaos to the classroom?," invited talk, Conference on Chaos and Fractals, Miami University, 1 June 1989.
- "What are computers doing to physics?," Sigma Pi Sigma induction banquet, Siena College, 27 April 1989.
Updated 8 June 2015.