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Tim Atherton awarded “Honorable Mention” at Tufts Teaching with Technology Symposium 2013

June 3, 2013June 3, 2013 Timothy Atherton

I was today one of 28 Tufts faculty to be awarded with an “honorable mention” at the 2013 Tufts Teaching

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Visualizing Quantum Mechanics with Mathematica

December 21, 2012May 29, 2013 Timothy Atherton Mathematica

Last semester, I saw a colloquium by Judah Schwartz from the Education department at Tufts University. Judah was one of

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Education 

Digital Storytelling Video Projects from Physics 13 Fall 2012

December 20, 2012May 14, 2013 Timothy Atherton

A signature component of Tim Atherton’s introductory classes for several years now has been the incorporation of Digital Storytelling video

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Education 

Tim Atherton announced as a CELT Faculty Fellow for Fall 2012

September 1, 2012May 29, 2013 Timothy Atherton

The Tufts Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching has announced that Tim Atherton is one of several Tufts

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Tim Atherton participates in the Physics New Faculty Workshop

June 28, 2012May 29, 2013 Timothy Atherton

I went this week to Washington, DC to participate in the NSF-funded workshop for new Physics Faculty, some of the

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Education 

Visualizing Complex Functions

January 22, 2012May 22, 2013 Timothy Atherton Mathematica

Tufts Math professor Moon Duchin asked me to come up with a simple way for her class to use Mathematica

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Digital Storytelling Video Projects from Physics 13 Fall 2011

December 23, 2011May 14, 2013 Timothy Atherton

One of the most important things scientists can do is to explain science to the general public. It’s also one

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3D Anaglyphs for Physics Education

October 29, 2011May 30, 2013 Timothy Atherton Mathematica

Many of the mathematical objects I work with are extremely hard to visualize in your head. Tools like Mathematica are

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Recent Blog Posts on Education

  • New publication “Developing a project-based computational physics course grounded in expert practice”
  • Video projects from Physics 12 Fall 2016
  • New publication: “Predicting the influence of plate geometry on the eddy-current pendulum”
  • Tim Atherton’s Teaching Highlighted in a Video
  • Physics 12 Video Projects Fall 2015

Recent Blog Posts about Publications

  • SoftMatterTheory Residency at the University of New South Wales 2018
  • New Publication: Computing equilibrium states of cholesteric liquid crystals in elliptical channels with deflation algorithms
  • New publication: “Predicting the influence of plate geometry on the eddy-current pendulum”
  • New publication: “Shape minimisation problems in liquid crystals”
  • New publication: “Competition of lattice and basis for alignment of nematic liquid crystals”

Recent Blog Posts

  • Summer Research in the softmattertheory group
  • Postdoctoral Scholar/Programmer Opportunity
  • Postdoctoral Scholar Job Opportunity
  • New Publication: “Crystal Comets: A Geometric Model for Sculpting Anisotropic Particles from Emulsions”
  • Physics 12 Video Projects Fall 2018

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