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Most Current Professional Biosketch Affiliations: OSU Physics Education Research Group OSU Center for Cognitive Science. Research Interests: Physics Education and Cognitive Science: - Cognitive origins of misconceptions - Learning and the transfer of learning - Abstract and concrete representations - Hierarchy of physics knowledge - Role of diagrams in learning/problem solving Cosmology/Particle Astrophysics (I am not currently active in this area) - Phase Transitions in the very early Universe - Emergent radiation spectrum from evaporating Black Holes - Properties of plasmas in the early universe and astrophysical objects Some of the papers that I have written on these subjects (at times in collaboration with others) can be found in the Astrophysics Archive under my name, or here. |
