Wolfgang Bauer (physicist)

Prof. Bauer has a dual appointment at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, where he works on nuclear physics topics. He is best known for his work on phase transitions of nuclear matter in heavy ion collisions,[2] and transport theory of heavy ion collisions, in particular as applied to interferometry,[3] particle production,[4] collective flow,[5] and isospin degrees of freedom.[6]

Prof. Bauer has taught physics and astronomy classes on the undergraduate and graduate level since 1988. He is particularly interested in the introductory physics curriculum for engineering and science majors. For decades he has collaborated closely with his MSU colleagues Walter Benenson and Gary Westfall. They obtained NSF funding to develop novel teaching and laboratory techniques, and authored multimedia physics CDs for their students at MSU's Lyman Briggs School. Based on this work they co-authored cliXX Physik, a complete physics textbook on CD-rom. In 1992, they became early adopters of the Internet for teaching and learning by developing the first version of their online homework system. In subsequent years, they were instrumental in creating the LearningOnline Network with CAPA (LON-CAPA), which is now used at more than 70 universities and colleges in the United States and around the world. Since 2008, Bauer and Westfall have been part of a team of instructors, engineers, and physicists, who investigate the use of peer-assisted learning in the introductory physics curriculum. This project has received funding from the NSF STEM Talent Expansion Program, and its best practices have been incorporated into their textbook "University Physics", which was published in 2010 by McGraw-Hill, and which has also been translated into Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish languages. The second edition was published in 2013, and an e-book in 2015.

Prof. Bauer has worked on nonlinear dynamics and chaos, where he is best known for he work on billiards systems and their decays[7] and for his work on buckyball fragmentation.[8] He also worked in bio-medical physics and holds a US patent on cell-by-cell cancer detection.[9] In recent years, he has focused much of his research and teaching on issues concerning energy, including fossil fuel resources, ways to use energy more efficiently, and, in particular, alternative and carbon-neutral energy resources. He has been a member of the group designing the energy transition plan for Michigan State University.[10]

• https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=oQQOzjUAAAAJ&view_op=list_works

• Bauer, W.; Westfall, G.D. (2010). University Physics (with Modern Physics). McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-285736-8
  • Korean translation: Bauer, W.; Westfall, G.D. (2011). University Physics (with Modern Physics). McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-89-94464-56-5
  • Spanish translation: Bauer, W.; Westfall, G.D. (2011). Física para ingenieros y científicos. McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-607-15-0545-3
• Bauer, W.; Benenson, W.; Westfall, G.D. (2012). cliXX Physik (Version 2.5). Harri Deutsch.