Presentations

Presentations, 1989 -

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 6 November 2007.