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About Roberto B. Salgado, PhD

Professor Salgado is interested in various aspects of Special Relativity and General Relativity, which is Einstein's (now experimentally well-tested) Theory of Space, Time, and Gravity. He uses geometrical techniques, applied mathematics, computation, and scientific visualization to be better understand relativity and to make it more accessible and understandable to others. He developed a new method of graphical calculation for relativity, called "Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper". More recently, he has been using similar methods to analyze PV-diagrams in thermodynamics. He is an advocate of using computation (e.g. Desmos, GeoGebra, and WebVPython) to better understand physics. (For more of his work and research interests, visit his website visualrelativity.com .)

Dr. Salgado earned a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from SUNY Stony Brook, an M.S.in Physics from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Syracuse University.

Positions

Present Associate Professor, St. Catherine University ‐ Physics Department
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August 2020 - August 2022 Assistant Professor, Minnesota State University Moorhead ‐ Department of Physics and Astronomy
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2018 - 2020 Visiting Assistant Professor, Colgate University ‐ Department of Physics and Astronomy
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2013 - 2018 Instructor, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse ‐ Department of Physics and Astronomy
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2012 - 2013 Visiting Assistant Professor, Lawrence University ‐ Department of Physics and Astronomy
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2010 - 2012 Visiting Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College ‐ Department of Physics and Astronomy
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2008 - 2010 Visiting Assistant Professor, Mount Holyoke College ‐ Department of Physics and Astronomy
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2002 - 2005 Assistant Professor, Dillard University ‐ Department of Physics
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2001 - 2002 Research Scientist, SUNY Upstate Medical University ‐ Department of Radiology
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1999 - 2001 Temporary Assistant Professor, Truman State University ‐ Department of Physics
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Education

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2008 PhD, Syracuse University ‐ Physics
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1993 M.S., University of Chicago ‐ Physics
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1989 BS, State University of New York at Stony Brook ‐ Mathematics, Physics
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