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Faculty

Calvin Berggren

  • Associate Professor, Department Chair; Holder of the Harold T. Johnson Professorship in Aviation or Pre-Engineering
  • Physics

Biography

Specialization

  • Theoretical courses
  • Computational courses
  • Theoretical particle physics
  • Event generators for particle colliders
  •  Computational physics simulations
  •  Physical computing

Publications 

• Calvin Berggren, Punit Gandhi, Jesse Livezey, Ryan Olf. A Tale of Two Slinkies: Learning about Model Building in a Student Driven Classroom. February 2018. The Physics Teacher 56, 134 (2018).
• Simone Alioli, Christian W. Bauer, Calvin Berggren, Frank J. Tackmann, Jonathan R. Walsh. Drell-Yan production at NNLL’+NNLO matched to parton showers. August 2015. Phys.Rev. D92 (2015) no.9, 094020. [arXiv:1508.01475]
• Simone Alioli, Christian W. Bauer, Calvin Berggren, Frank J. Tackmann, Jonathan R. Walsh, Saba Zuberi. Matching Fully Differential NNLO Calculations and Parton Showers. November 2013. Journal of High Energy Physics 1406 (2014) 089. [arXiv:1311.0286]

Presentations
• “Integrating Computation into Courses using the Jupyter Notebook.” Engaging Pedagogy Conference, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, TX, 17 May 2023.
• “Solving Kinematics Problems Using Kinematic Graphs.” 2021 AAPT Virtual Summer Meeting, 1 August 2021.
• “Integrating Computation into STEM Curriculum.” Engaging Pedagogy Conference, Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, TX, 17 May 2017.