Teaching
I have taught widely at Michigan and in 2009 was designated an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at Michigan. Awarded to five professors each year across the campus, this Provost Office designation honors those tenured faculty whose commitment to and investment in undergraduate teaching has had a demonstrable impact on the intellectual development and lives of their students. Here are two classes with openly available materials.
Introductory Mechanics
Learning goals:
Know fundamental physical quantities and the mechanical principles that tie them together,
Understand dynamical evolution of physical systems in terms of mechanical concepts such as energy, inertia, forces, etc.
Develop problem-solving skills to answer questions that require these mechanical principles.
Cyberscience : Computational Cosmology and the Rise of the Fourth Paradigm
Learning Goals:
Understand the ways in which computation empowers scientific inquiry and appreciate the social and technical issues associated with data-driven discovery;
Know details of the cyberinfrastructure elements that drive computational science, including hardware, software and network components, research data management, and institutional roles in provisioning and governance of facilities and services;
Be aware of current challenges to scholarship associated with compute-intensive, data-rich research, including energy and environmental impact of large-scale computing, the evolving nature of scientific publication, and reproducibility and verification/validation of published research.
Have done independent, collaborative research that produced new knowledge.