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non-linear scientists, mathematicians, psychologists, architects, artists and linguists) and countries (USA, Canada, Mexico, UK, Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Brazil, Egypt, Turkey and Iran). The subject of my talks have included Nanotechnology, Quantum Physics, Modern Physics, Industrial Physics, Fractals, Human Vision, Retinal Implants, Abstract Art, the Art-Science Divide, Interdisciplinary collaboration, the Science of Creativity, Jackson Pollock, Leonardo Da Vinci, M.C. Escher, Albert Einstein and Nikola Tesla. • My research has received significant attention from television and radio media. I give regular interviews on radio and TV programs in the UK, USA, Italy, New Zealand and Australia (30 in the past 10 years). I was the subject of a 30-minute national TV science program (“Quantum”, Australian Broadcasting Company, May 1998) and played a central role in the theme development and in writing the narration. I recently featured on the NOVA episode “Hunting the Hidden Dimension’ (PBS, 2008), the BBC TV program “The Code” (August 2011) and the NHK, Japan, documentary “Pollock” (March 2012). My research has been reported on TV news in the UK (BBC 1, 1999), the USA (ABC, 2004, ABC, 2006, ABC, 2011, CBS, 2006, Fox news, 2011, ZEZI and KVAL, 2011) and Italy (Deriva Film, 2004). • I have been commissioned by a diverse range of societies to give public lectures around the world. Examples include the Australian Museum (1998), the Australian National Art Gallery (1999, 2001), The Pollock-Krasner Center, USA (2001), the Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi Research Societies, USA (2001), the Guggenheim Museum in Venice (2004), the Schoenberg Center in Vienna (2005), the New Zealand Royal Society (2007), Australian Technet (2007), the Pompidou Centre in Paris (2009), the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (2010), PICNIC, The Netherlands (2011) the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (2011), and the SunRiver Nature Center (2012). These lectures communicate science to a broad range of audiences, attracting up to 650 people for each lecture, and lectures have been televised. For example, I gave a public lecture at the National Art Gallery with Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in 1999. In 2013, I am planning to undertake a public lecture series through East Africa (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda). • I plan to organize a continuing series of public event in which I interview a prominent scientist and the event is recorded for release as a DVD. 2009 was the inaugural event and featured Freeman Dyson. • I hold the record attendance for the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry “Science Pub” public talks, with an audience of 350. • My work has also been presented by other public lecturers, e.g. at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in 2000, reviewed in Nature (Science-update, 13/9/2000), by Cosmologist John Barrow at a Royal Society “Excellence in Science” public lecture in 2003, and at the Lunar Society (“from Leonardo to you”) in 2012. Benoit Mandelbrot also regularly presented my Pollock research in public lectures. • I am part of the Tate Gallery’s (UK) Bigger Picture project, where prominent experts are invited to write about novel interpretations of famous art (2003-present). I have written information panels to accompany exhibits at the Tate Modern Gallery (UK) and The Portland Art Museum (USA). I have also designed an art-science instillation for the Portland Art Museum (seen by over 60,000 visitors in 2009) and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI “After Dark” 2010) to promote art-science endeavors to a wider audience. My art, sculptures and photography have featured in exhibitions organized to emphasize inter-disciplinary connections to the public. These include The Royal Northern College of Music (UK, 1994), The Whitworth Art Gallery (UK, 1994), The Manchester School of Art (1995), Sacred Heart Hospital (USA, 2004), The UO Knight Library’s Art of Science (USA, 2009), The Portland Art Museum (USA, 2009) and Scientific American’s “The Unreasonable Beauty of Mathematics” internet exhibition (2011). -8-
2.6 Teaching/education • In addition to my three teaching awards (see section 2.2), in 2011 the UO website announced that I was one of its “champion professors” (the students’ top 25 professors). • I have gained a wide experience of different approaches to university-level physics education by teaching in the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand to over 7000 students. • I have taught a wide spectrum of undergraduate and graduate courses, with class sizes up to 500 students. Recent physics courses I have taught include Electrostatics, Magnetism, Physics of Light and Color, and General Physics. A recent evaluation by students gave me a rating of 9.7 out of 10 (where 5 is the UO average rating). • My research has been the subject of undergraduate lectures at other universities e.g. “Art and Physics” (Physics Department, Hong Kong University), “Complexity” (Philosophy Department, Xavier University, USA), “Aesthetic Computing” (University of Florida, USA), “Math in The Art Curriculum” (Mathematics Department, Connecticut College, USA), “Science and Art”(Art History and Physics Departments at Boston College, USA) “Methods in Written Communication” (English Department, University of Alaska, USA), “Computational Physics (Physics Department, Oregon State University, USA) and “From Hamiltonians to Chaos” (School of Physics and Astronomy, Nottingham University, UK). • My research appears in college level educational DVDs “Chaos Theory” (by Steven Strogatz, Cornell University) and “The Quantification of Style” (by Dan Rockmore, Dartmouth College) published by the Teaching Company (USA). • My work has been the subject of graduate-level and high school exam questions, demonstrating the wide-spread impact of my research on education (e.g. Senior Secondary Assessment Board of South Australia, November 2007). • I hold a Courtesy Professor position in Psychology at UO. My teaching responsibilities have included co-chairing the Complexity and Nonlinear Dynamics Focus Group, which included a research seminar series for undergraduates and graduates from Psychology, Physics, Human Physiology, Computer Science and the Teaching Effectiveness Program. • I have held a Courtesy Professor position/affiliated membership of Art (2003-present) at UO and I am an affiliated member of the Comparative Literature Faculty. I participated in a ‘Pathways’ scheme at UO that unites Physics and Arts courses. I gave lectures at an international sketch class (Italy 2004) organized by the UO Art Department and contributed to the associated art exhibitions (2005). I was awarded a US$75k scholarship to develop courses to communicate science to arts students and have also been invited to give an education talk “Teaching Across the Art-Science Divide” at the 15 th Annual Cottrell Scholar Conference, July 2009, Tucson, USA. • I helped to develop an educational PhD program at UO (“Interdisciplinary Materials Program to Accelerate the Transition from Student to Scientist”) and served on the committee (2001-5 and 2008-9) that administers the associated US$2,759,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. • I have promoted education across society, including supervising exams taken by prison inmates (Eugene Jail, 2008-9, BUS 318Z Parts 1-4, for Adams State College, Colorado). • Recent research supervision (1995-2012) included 3 post-doctoral associates, 1 research associate, 15 Ph.D. students, 8 Masters students and 21 undergraduate students. This includes students majoring in physics, mathematics, chemistry, computer science, psychology, human physiology and philosophy. I -9-
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