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These conference proceedings provide the presentations, activities, and outcomes of the 2007 AAPT Topical Conference on Computational Physics. This conference explored the tools, common practices, and pedagogy used in physics departments to instruct students in computational methods and the use of computer-based resources. The materials available include a summary and outcomes of the conference, invited talks, and some of the contributed posters.

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These recommendations are the outcome of the discussions and presentations at the conference

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This file contains the invited and contributed abstracts for the conference.

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Presentation by Amy Bug on the integration of computational physics into the physics curriculum at a liberal arts institution.

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Presentation by Norman Chonacky outlining the need for change in the physics curriculum to include computational methods.

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Presentation by Francisco Esquembre outlining the use and goals of the Easy Java Simulations modeling platform.

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Presentation by Steven Gottlieb on computational methods used in lattice gauge theory and how they can be taught to undergraduate students.

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Presentation by Laurie Heyer on the use of mathematical and computational research in the life sciences.

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Poster by Mario Belloni on materials developed to help students learn quantum mechanics using Open Source Physics tools.

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Presentation by Rubin Landau describing the skills our graduates should have and a suggested structure for computational physics to help provide these skills.

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Presentation by Angelia Shiflet describing a multi-discipline computation science program designed to prepare students for computational research.

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Presentation by Clint Sprott on chaotic systems that can be used for student learning of computational methods and computational student research.

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Presentation by Robert Swendsen on using computers to improve students understanding of physics, and differences between student and instructor views of computers and computational results.

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Poster by Doug Brown describing the merging of video analysis of real experiments and computational modeling.

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Paper by J. E. Hasbun describing a junior-level classical mechanics textbook with integrated computational physics exercises using Matlab.

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Poster by William Junkin and Anne Cox describing the purpose and functions of the BQ curriculum database.

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Poster by Rob Salgado illustrating tools to display and study a broad range of vector and tensor types, with applications in relativity, E&M, and mathematical physics.

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Poster by David Schaich describing the features and uses of a high performance computing cluster at Amherst College.

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Poster by Todd Timberlake describing student computational project both in a classical mechanics class and in student research.

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Poster by J. Jay Wang describing the use of computational techniques and visualization to increase student understanding of quantum mechanics.

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