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Robert
Weigel
Assistant Professor, Department
of Computational and
Data Sciences
Mailing
Address
Department of Computational and
Data Sciences
College of Science
George Mason University
4400 University Dr., MSN 6A2
Fairfax, Virginia 22030
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Current Research
Interests
Magnetospheric
physics and
geomagnetism, solar wind/magnetosphere/ionosphere coupling, inverse
methods for magnetospheric modeling,
nonlinear dynamics, decision theory
applied to rare event forecasting,
scientific visualization, and collaborative software development.
Education
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Ph.D. 2000 - University
of Texas
at Austin,
Physics
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M.S. 1997 - University of
Illinois
at Urbana–Champaign, Physics
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B.S. 1995 - University of
Wisconsin–Platteville, Mechanical Engineering
Courses Taught
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CSI 769: Magnetospheric
Physics
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CSI 763: Statistical Methods in
the Space Sciences
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ASTR 111: Introduction to Astronomy
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ASTR 114: Astronomy Lab
Recent Publications
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Weigel,
R. S., Solar wind time
history contribution to the day-of-year variation in geomagnetic
activity, J. Geophys. Res., 112, A10207,
doi:10.1029/2007JA012324,
2007.
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Baker, D. N., Wiltberger,
M. J., Weigel, R. S., and Elkington, S.
R. Present status and future challenges of modeling the Sun Earth
end-to-end
system, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume
69, Issue
1-2, p. 3-17, 2007.
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Weigel,
R. S., T. Detman, E. J. Rigler, and D. N.
Baker, Decision theory and the analysis of rare event space weather
forecasts,
Space Weather, 4, S05002, doi:10.1029/2005SW000157,
2006.
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Wiltberger,
M., Weigel, R.S., Gehmeyr,
M., Guild,
T., Analysis and Visualization of Space Science Models Outputs and Data
with
CISM-DX, doi:10.1029/2004JA010956 {J. Geophys. Res., 2005.
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Sitnov,
M.I, A.Y. Ukhorskiy, A.S. Sharma, and R.S. Weigel,
Roles of Chaos, Self Organized Criticality and Phase Transitions in
Magnetospheric Physics, in Multiscale
Coupling of Sun-Earth Processes, Liu, A.T.Y., Y. Kamide,
and G. Consolini eds., 2005.
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