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Computation across the curriculum: What skills are needed?
Computation, the use of a computer to solve, simulate, or visualize a
physical problem, has revolutionized how physics research is done. Computation
is used widely to model systems, to simulate experiments, and to analyze data.
Yet, in most undergraduate programs, students have little formal opportunity to
engage with computation and, thus, are left to their own to develop their
computational expertise. As part of a larger project to study how computation
is incorporated in some undergraduate physics programs (and how it might be
incorporated further), we convened a mini-conference and conducted a series of
interviews with industry professionals, academic faculty, and employed
bachelor's graduates who make use of computation in their everyday work. We
present preliminary results that speak to how participants developed the
requisite skills to do professional computational work and what skills they
perceive are necessary to conduct such work.Comment: 4 pages; accepted to 2015 Physics Education Research Conference
Proceeding
Neutrino emission, Equation of State and the role of strong gravity
Neutron-star mergers are interesting for several reasons: they are proposed
as the progenitors of short gamma-ray bursts, they have been speculated to be a
site for the synthesis of heavy elements, and they emit gravitational waves
possibly detectable at terrestrial facilities. The understanding of the merger
process, from the pre-merger stage to the final compact object-accreting system
involves detailed knowledge of numerical relativity and nuclear physics. In
particular, key ingredients for the evolution of the merger are neutrino
physics and the matter equation of state. We present some aspects of neutrino
emission from binary neutron star mergers showing the impact that the equation
of state has on neutrinos and discuss some spectral quantities relevant to
their detection such as energies and luminosities far from the source.Comment: 7 pages , 3 figures. XI LASNPA conference proceeding
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