Andy Anderson, Ph.D. Academic Technology Specialist for Mathematical and Spatial Data Analysis
Supporting: The software applications ArcGIS and Mathematica, along with related mapping technologies such as GPS and Google Earth, numerical applications of Excel, and programming languages such as Fortran, C, C++, and Java. Background: Ph.D. in Physics. More than twenty years experience in research, teaching, and using and supporting academic technology in higher education.

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Projects:

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Beyond Chalk: Using the Web to Animate Your Class

Presented at: Amherst College Fall Mellon Seminar, 2001-10-10;

and Five College Conference & Multimedia Fair:        
     Transforming Practice with Technology, 2002-03-01

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Excel in the Curriculum

The Basics of Using Excel Graphing with Excel

Grading with Blackboard and Excel Collecting Data with Excel

Presented at: Amherst College January Mellon Workshop, 2002-01-15;

Amherst College Spring Mellon Seminar, 2002-02-20;

and Amherst College Interterm Faculty/Staff Short Course 2003-01-14…16

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Introduction to JavaScript

Presented at: Amherst College Curricular Computing Summer Intern Training, 2002-06-19;

and Amherst College Curricular Computing Summer Intern Training, 2003-06-12…13

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Summer Intern Projects

Faculty-student educational projects facilitated:

2002
Chemistry Interactive Tools:	Calculation of Harmonic and Anharmonic Schrödinger Wave Functions
Mathematics Course Website:	The Art of Mathematical Thinking
Astronomy Animations:	A Pulsar Beacon The Orbits of Pluto and Charon
Revisions of Three Chemistry Sites:	The Pesticide Project Chem 11 Goes to School Molecular Structures Gallery
2003
Math & Computer Science Interactive Tools:	Animating Sort Algorithms Graphing Randomness Tromino Tiling
First-Year Seminar Course Websites:	FYS 02: Gender and Science FYS 11: Life in Extreme Environments
Geology Lecture Images:	Scanning Images for Geology 27 Lectures

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Introduction to Mathematica

Presented at: Amherst College Faculty/Staff Short Courses, 2002-10-25 and 2003-05-20…22;

and Amherst College Curricular Computing Summer Intern Training, 2003-06-20

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Introduction to Mathematica for Chemistry Students

Presented at: Amherst College Chemistry 44 Laboratory, 2003-09-02

1. Numerical Manipulation

2. Symbolic Manipulation

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Mathematica Users Group

Presented at Amherst College:

Graphing in Mathematica, 2002-11-19

Programming in Mathematica, 2003-04-25

webMathematica, 2004-04-30

Visualizing Scientific Concepts, 2004-10-15

New Features in Mathematica 5.1, and the GUIkit, 2005-04-29

gridMathematica and the Parallel Computing Toolkit, 2005-11-09

Mathematica 6: “The Most Important Advance in Its 20-year History”, 2007-05-17

Organized at Amherst College:

New Features in Mathematica 5, 2003-09-12

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Fun Stuff

Where's Albert? An Example of an Asynchronously Moving Image

Planetary GuestBook: Express Yourself with PHP!