Mario Belloni and Wolfgang Christian
Mario Belloni is an associate professor of physics at
Davidson College. He received his B.A. in physics and economics from
the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in physics from
the University of Connecticut at Storrs. His research interests are
in the areas of theoretical physics and interactive curricular
material development.
He is the co-author of Physlet Quantum Physics: An Interactive Introduction (Prentice Hall 2006), Fislets: Enseñanza de la Física con Material Interactivo (Prentice-Hall, España 2005), Physlet Physics: Interactive Illustrations, Explorations, and Problems for Introductory Physics (Prentice Hall 2004), and Physlets: Teaching Physics with Interactive Curricular Material (Prentice Hall 2001). He is the past Chair of the Committee on Educational Technologies of the AAPT, is the North Carolina Section Representative of the AAPT, and is a member of the ComPADRE Quantum Physics Editorial Board. He can be contacted at mabelloni@davidson.edu |
Wolfgang Christian received his Ph. D. in Physics in
1976, from the North Carolina State University at Raleigh. He is
currently the Brown Professor of Physics and Director of the Physics
Computation Center at Davidson College, North Carolina, and a Fellow
of the American Physical Society. His academic expertise includes
laser spectroscopy, computational physics, and the use of technology
for physics education.
Wolfgang is the originator of Physlets and the author of eight books and numerous papers on the use of computers for physics teaching and learning. He is a past Chair of the American Physical Society Forum on Education and a Vice Chair of the 2006 Gordon Research Conference on Electromagnetism. Wolfgang has given numerous invited talks and contributed talks and has been a workshop leader for over twenty national and international faculty development workshops in the past five years. He has taught at Davidson College since 1983 and is currently the principal investigator of the NSF funded Open Source Physics and OPTIC projects. He can be contacted at wochristian@davidson.edu |
OSP Retreat Echo Lake 2004 (Anne Cox, Doug Brown, and
Wolfgang Christian)