Mark Baumann Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

Austin, Texas Area

Wrote, developed, and taught the astronomy curriculum (one lab course and one lecture course) at St. Edward's University.Also taught thermodynamics and calculus-based physics 1 and 2 (a two-semester physics sequence that uses project-based group learning).

Austin, Texas Area

Company co-founder, programmer, and architect of a mobile, multiplayer, asynchronous text adventure roleplaying game.www.4thwallgames.net

Austin, Texas Area

Ongoing research in relativity and gravitational dynamics. Current project: Breakthrough Starshot, a proposed gram-scale spacecraft that uses a laser sail to accelerate to 20% the speed of light to achieve short-time-scale exploration of the solar system and neighboring planetary systems. We are using our methodology to help plot the trajectory of the.

Uteach Primary

University instructor of record for courses in the Hands-On Science program, including physics, chemistry, biology, and astronomy. Courses are taught using guided inquiry and are designed for education majors that will eventually teach these subjects to elementary and middle school students. Additional responsibilities include developing and writing the.

Department Of Physics

University instructor of record for a course titled "Electricity, Magnetism, and Light". Course was geared towards non-science majors and focused on developing analytical and reasoning skills applied to physics and applications. Course materials and new teaching tools were developed and designed for general educational purposes. Course included lectures.

Jackson School Of Geosciences

Fellow of the NSF-funded GK-12 program, which partners graduate students in the sciences with K-12 teachers to enhance science education through new classroom activities, workshops, and field projects.Spent 10 hours per week in 5th and 7th grade classrooms interacting with students, teaching lessons, lesson-planning with teachers, and participating in.

Uteach

Worked in the UTeach program, which aims to train people with a passion for the sciences (e.g., math and science majors) to become high school science and math teachers.As a teaching assistant to the Research Methods course, my role was to advise students on individual projects from beginning to end, including: finding topic that interests the student.

Department Of Physics, Department Of Mathematics

Taught a laboratory section for Mechanics, Heat, and Sound (Physics I for biological sciences majors)Also worked as a discussion section leader (Teaching Assistant) for the following courses:- Differential Calculus- Multivariable Calculus- Physics I: Mechanics (for engineering students)- Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism (for engineering students).

Theoretical Astrophysics Center

Worked with the Berkeley Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics group on supercomputer simulations of star formation, with the particular aim of investigating why binary star systems are so common in the galaxy. Used adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technique and implemented adaptive time step component of simulation code (in C++).

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics

Activities and Societies: Center for Relativity (CfR), Center for Inquiry in Mathematics and Sciences (CIMS), Institute for Computational.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computational And Applied Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Institute for Computational Engineering and Science (ICES), Computational Visualization Center (CVC), Galaxy.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

My senior thesis in the field of computer graphics was titled "On-Demand Appearance-Preserving Simplification of Terrain Meshes"