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During Fall of 2001, I am the lecturer for Physics 2010. I am a Senior Instructor in the Physics Department, and I am responsible for undergraduate curriculum development. Here are slides for one of my talks on physics pedagogy.
My current projects include CAPA (Computer Assisted Physics Assignments), an Internet-based physics homework system, and the Physics HelpRoom, a centralized facility providing tutoring services for students in Freshmen physics courses. The Physics HelpRoom is wildly popular with undergrad physics students and is chronically understaffed. If you are an altruistic person, with a grasp of freshmen-level physics, please consider volunteering an hour per week of your time to help freshmen physics students in the HelpRoom. Email Dubson for details.
My brief resume may be viewed. My background is in experimental condensed matter physics, and my present physics interests include adaptive optics and image analysis. See a picture of the crater Clavius , which I took through CU's 24" Telescope. (Clavius is the location of the Moon Base in Stanely Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odessey.) You can download the 5M(big!) Windows Media format movie of Clavius or the 10M (very big!) RealPlayer movie of Clavius , which my friend Doug Johnson produced from the video I shot. Notice the shimmering of the image, due to atmospheric turbulence. Download a 2Meg Mathcad simulation of the effect of atmospheric turbulence on a stellar wavefront and the resulting speckle pattern in the image plane of a 0.5 m telescope.
Music News: I am an adult beginner at piano, and have taken lessons for 3
years from Farah Beale in
Personal ancestry: My father was Russian, born in Vladivostok and raised in Harbin, China. As a boy, he was trained to be a classical pianist, but gave up music when he came to the US at age 18. In WWII, he served as a gunner on a sea rescue plane; in 1943 his plane was shot down and crashed in neutral Spain. He and his crew were interred for several months, but eventually escaped via submarine-pickup from a midnight beach. He subsequently became a navigator in the US Air Force. My mother, who is still vital at age 78 + (last two digits of the present year), served in the Marine Corp. She was a draftsman and met my father in Korea, where they were both stationed in the late 40's. Father often flew on "Weather Reconnaisance" missions, a euphemism for electronic surveillance of the Soviet Union. Dubson is a rare name in the US.
Jokes:
My favorite Dilbert cartoon.
Man at a restaurant asks the chef: "How do you prepare your
chicken?"
Chef replies: "We just tell'em straight out --
You're gonna die."
There are 3 kinds of people -- those who can count and those who can't.
How many dyslexics does it light to take in a screwbulb?
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