Alain Plattner

California State University-Fresno

Website: www.alainplattner.net

Current position: Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. 

Past: Postdoctoral Researcher at Princeton University, Department of Geosciences 

PhD: ETH Zurich, Switzerland 

Webinar Leader, Workshop Participant, Website Contributor

Website Content Contributions

Activities (2)

X-ray vision for aspiring superheroes: Introduction to Ground Penetrating Radar data analysis using Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2017:Activities
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Click to watch Alain Plattner discuss his activity or watch the full webinar.In this lab activity, ...

Choice of geophone layout in a simple near-surface seismics setting part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Click to watch Alain Plattner discuss his activity or watch the full webinar.We use MATLAB functions ...

Essays (2)

Computational teaching tools in the classroom: GUI vs Command Line part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2017:Essays
Alain Plattner, Earth & Environmental Sciences, California State University-Fresno Computational tools in the classroom are becoming increasingly popular for good reasons. Instead of being handed down wisdom ...

Motivating undergraduates in the geosciences to learn programming part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Alain Plattner, Earth and Environmental Sciences, California State University-Fresno Learning to write simple computer programs can have tremendous effects on students in the geosciences. Besides training their ...