Courses taught and co-taught

WebGL for Numerical PDEs (Online Course)

This is a special course for graduate students at the GT-SCE that was offered during Fall 2020 semester. The course is designed around my computational library Abubu.js to teach Numerical PDEs. The course was delivered online and all the course material including the lecture videos can be found at this github page. The course covers:

• Fundamentals of the graphics pipeline
• Understanding vertex and fragment shaders in GLSL
• Loops in GLSL
• Designing macros in GLSL
• Designing functions with single and multiple outputs in GLSL
• Rendering to textures
• Using textures as input for calculations
• Time marching using WebGL 2.0
• Implementing cardiac models with large number of state variables
• Advance time marching algorithms
• 3D Simulation of PDEs in WebGL 2.0
• File IO for WebGL Simulations
• Dealing with tabulated data
• Reduction operations in parallel
• Basics of volume ray casting
• Random number generation in WebGL
• Interacting with underlying programs such as Python or C

Computational Physics

This is a course that Dr. Flavio Fenton and I revitalized at Georgia Tech to utilize the bleeding edge technologies to teach computational techniques to solve real-world physics problems. We have taught this course three years in a row (Springs 2018, 2019, 2020). The course is graded based on continuous assessment and a final project. By the end of the semester the student should learn how to apply modern tools and techniques in HPC, GP-GPU, and interactive programming to solve the most advance topics in physics including but not limited to:

• Kinetics and kinematics of multi-body systems
• Analyze electro-magnetic waves
• Understand nonlinear systems and chaotic behavior
• Be able to analyze turing patterns
• Be able to solve and analyze oscillatory systems
• ...

The experience has been very rewarding at the end of each semester when the students submit their final projects. With each batch, the students are so inspired, that we see a wide range of problems that usually would be considered beyond the scope of a course such as this one.

Introductory Physics I

This is an algebra based course at Kennesaw State University. I have taught this course in Spring 2020 and will be teaching again in Spring 2021. The course covers introductory topics on balance of forces, kinematics and kinetics in linear and rotational motion. The students learn to apply Newton's laws as well as conservation laws to analyze and solve basic problems.

Introductory Physics II

This is an algebra based course at Kennesaw State University. I have taught this course multiple times (Spring and Fall 2018, Spring and Fall 2019, and Fall 2020). The course covers introductory topics on static charges, electromagnetism, AC and DC circuits, electromagnetic waves, and modern physics.