Workshop Participants

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Participants

Keynote Speaker: Nathan Kutz, University of Washington

Sandra Akelbek, Weber State University, Mathematics

• Activity: Investigating Properties of Determinants using Numerical Examples
• Essay: Using MATLAB to Enrich Elementary Linear Algebra Course

Jean-Pierre Bayard, California State University - Office of the Chancellor, Academic Technology Services

Brielle Bjorke, Carleton College, Biology

Jayne Bormann, California State University-Long Beach, Geological Sciences

Benjamin Bratton, Princeton University, Molecular Biology

• Activity: Introduction to strings and sequence alignments
• Essay: Students are not unit tests: providing assessment that is fair across students with different types of skills

Kristina Closser, California State University-Fresno, Chemistry

• Activity: Investigating Real and Ideal Gasses
• Essay: Specifications-Based Grading for Assessing Student Learning

Jeremy Deans, University of Southern Mississippi, Geography & Geology

• Activity: Visualizing symmetry elements for crystal classes using MATLAB

James Demas, St. Olaf College, Physics and Biology

• Essay: The programming bump in the night, what are we afraid of?

Rebecca Edwards, Southwestern University, Department of Physics

Eric Ehler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Radiation Oncology

• Activity: Simulation Klein-Nishina cross section using the Monte Carlo method
• Essay: Use of Matlab to reinforce concepts of Compton effect

Andrew Fischer, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

• Activity: WORKING WITH SCIENTIFIC DATASETS: Mapping Biodiversity with Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) in MATLAB
• Essay: "The Gentle Art of Data Science:" Increasing comfort with computation

Cynthia Flores, California State University Channel Islands, Mathematics & Applied Physics

• Activity: Traffic Data Interpolation

Julie Fogarty, California State University-Sacramento, Civil Engineering

• Activity: Finite Element Project
• Essay: Computation in Civil Engineering

Morgan Fonley, Alma College, Mathematics and Computer Science

• Activity: Traffic flow model
• Essay: Troubleshooting mathematical instruction that includes computation

Diane Fribance, Coastal Carolina University, Marine Science

• Activity: Synthesizing Marine Data Sets using MATLAB
• Essay: Building quantitative skills in Marine Science using MATLAB

Tangan Gao, California State University-Long Beach, Mathematics and Statistics

Amir Golnabi, Montclair State University, Mathematical Sciences

• Activity: Fetal body composition

Michael Groves, California State University-Fullerton, Chemistry and Biochemistry

• Activity: Superposition and the Stern-Gerlach Experiment
• Essay: Computation and Assessment

Melisa Hendrata, California State University Los Angeles, Mathematics

• Activity: Developing a hybrid root-finding algorithm
• Essay: Using Matlab in Applied Math Courses

Manuel Hernandez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Kinesiology and Community Health

• Activity: Introduction to Occupational and Rehabilitation Biomechanics
• Essay: The importance of programming skills in improving health across the lifespan

Michelle Isenhour, Naval Postgraduate School, Operations Research

• Activity: Introduction to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

Thomas Kelley, Northeastern University, Physics

• Activity: Sunspots
• Essay: Using Mastery Learning Ideas to Assess Student Work

Jeremy Loebach, St. Olaf College, Psychology

• Essay: Scientific Computation and Preparedness for Undergraduate Research

Eugene Mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio College, Physics and Engineering

• Activity: Cool Roof
• Essay: Developmentally Appropriate Numerical Analysis for Engineers?
• Course: Programming Applications for Engineers

Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine, Civil Engineering

• Activity: Climate change and extreme values analysis
• Essay: Challenges of starting on the computer directly

Michele McColgan, Siena College, Physics and Astronomy

Gunnar Newquist, Brain2Bot, Inc.

Ali Payandeh, LSU, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences

• Activity: Tidal analysis and prediction
• Essay: Computation for Oceanography and Coastal Science

Andy Ridgwell, University of California-Riverside, Earth Sciences

David Sterling, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Radiation Oncology

• Activity: Image Registration in MATLAB
• Essay: The success of implementing a MATLAB project in a Medical Physics course

Ali Tabei, University of Northern Iowa, Physics

• Activity: Dropping a Stone from a Bridge
• Essay: Teaching Computational Physics to upper level undergraduates

Brittnee Veldman, CSU Channel Islands, Chemistry

Joan Weiss, Fairfield University, Mathematics

• Activity: MATLAB Explorations
• Essay: Using MATLAB as an Exploration Tool in Numerical Analysis

Heather Whitney, Wheaton College, Physics

• Activity: Initial value problems
• Essay: Coding is Thinking

Michael Wright, California State University-Sacramento, Biological Sciences

• Activity: Simulating Passive Properties of Neurons Using Matlab
• Essay: Never Too Late: Developing Quantitative Thinking Skills in an Upper-Division Biology Course
• Course: Data Science for Biologists

Matthew Zelisko, University of Houston, Engineering

• Activity: While Loop Applications using the Newton-Rhapson Method for Polynomials

Conveners

Dan Burleson, University of Houston, Engineering

Princess Imoukhuede, Washington University in St. Louis, Biomedical Engineering

Lisa Kempler, MathWorks

Cathryn Manduca, Carleton College, SERC

Dylan Mikesell, Boise State University, Geosciences

Kelly Roos, Bradley University, Engineering Physics

Staff

Mitchell Awalt, Carleton College, Science Education Resource Center (SERC)

Paul Kassebaum, MathWorks

• Activity: Arduino Pendulum Physics Lab