Dr. D. Sumith Doluweera

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Gerorgia State University

Talks and Presentations

  1. Presented a poster on "Student Evaluations of Cookbook versus Guided Inquiry Laboratory Activities," Brian D. Thoms, Sumith Doluweera, 2020 Winter Meeting, American Association of Physics Teachers, Orlando, Fl, (01/20/2020).
  2. Contributed Talk, "Development of Energy Concepts and Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem," D. G. Sumith P. Doluweera, Annual meeting of Georgia Science Academy, University North Georgia, Gainesville, GA, (03/16/2019).
  3. Contributed Talk, "Thinking Through the Model II," AAPT Summer meeting, Washington, DC. (07/30/2018).
  4. Contributed Talk "Thinking Through the Model," D.G.Sumith P.Doluweera, Annual meeting of Georgia Science Academy, University West Georgia, Carrolton, GA, (04/14/2018).
  5. Contributed Talk on "Thinking through the model," D.G. Sumith P. Doluweera, AAPT Summer 2017 meeting, Cincinnati, OH, (07/24/2017).
  6. Contributed Talk on "Student's Understanding of Centripetal acceleration as Evidenced by Answers to a Guided Inquiry-based lab," D. G. Sumith P Doluweera, Brian D Thoms, Joshua Von Korff, and Carola Butler, AAPT Summer 2016 meeting, Sacramento, CA, (07/20/2016).
  7. Contributed Talk on "Mechanical Equilibrium," D.G.S.P.Doluweera and B.D.Thoms, SAAC-AAPT regional meeting at Citadel, Charleston, SC, (10/31/2015).
  8. Presented a poster on "Reforming Calculus based introductory physics at Georgia State University and its effect on student learning," D.G.S.P.Doluweera, B.D.Thoms, J.Von Kroff, 2015 Physics Education Research Conference, College Park, MD, July 27, 2015.
  9. B. D. Thoms "Enhancing Diversity in Physics Teacher Preparation through the Georgia State University PhysTEC Project," Brian D. Thoms, Joshua Von Korff, and Sumith Doluweera, 2015 Physics Teacher Education Coalition Conference, Seattle, WA, February 5-7, 2015.
  10. Contributed Talk, "Reforming Calculus based introductory physics at Georgia State University and its effect on student learning," D.G.S.P.Doluweera, B.D.Thoms, J.Von kroff, 2015 AAPT Summer meeting, College Park, MD July 27, 2015.
  11. B. D. Thoms "Enhancing Diversity in Physics Teacher Preparation through the Georgia State University PhysTEC Project," Brian D. Thoms, Joshua Von Korff, and Sumith Doluweera, 2015 Physics Teacher Education Coalition Conference, Seattle, WA, February 5-7, 2015.
  12. W. A. Stoll presented "Developing PCK in physics teachers: Collaboration between scientist and educator," Stoll, W. A., Thoms, B. D., Criswell, B., Demir, K., & Doluweera, S., 2015 AAPT Winter Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 3-6, 2015.
  13. Contributed Talk, "Measuring Centripetal Acceleration with a Liquid Accelerometer," D.G.S.P.Doluweera, B.D.Thoms, O.I.Olesya, M.Rusert, C.Butler, and J.Von Korff 2014 AAPT Summer Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, July 28, 2014.
  14. Contributed Talk by M.E.Walker, "The Part-time TIR and Classroom Teacher," M. E. Walker, B. D. Thoms, S. Doluweera, and J. Von Korff, 2014 Summer AAPT Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, July 26-30, 2014.
  15. Contributed Talk by M.E.Walker, "The Part-time TIR and Classroom Teacher," M. E. Walker, B. D. Thoms, S. Doluweera, and J. Von Korff, 2014 Spring SACS-AAPT (Southern Atlantic Coast Section of American Association of Physics Teachers) Meeting Atlanta, GA, March 21-22, 2014.
  16. B.D. Thoms presented "Undergraduate Pathway to Teaching Physics at Georgia State University," B. D. Thoms, M. E. Walker, S. Doluweera, and J. Von Korff, 2014 Winter AAPT Meeting, Orlando, FL, January 4-7/2014.
  17. Did a guest lecture about "Trajectories beyond free fall," for the Neuroscience class, at Georgia State University, November 2013.
  18. B.D. Thoms presented "Undergraduate Pathway to Teaching Physics at Georgia State University," B. D. Thoms, M. E. Walker, S. Doluweera, and J. Von Korff, 2013 Fall SAAC- AAPT Meeting, Greenville, SC. October 25-26, 2013.
  19. Guest lecture about "Quantum Computing" for the Gateway to Physics class at Georgia State University, October 2012
  20. Presented a poster "Improving Future High School Physics Teachers' Preparedness," to the AAPT regional meeting Nashville. North Carolina Section of the American Association of Physics Teachers, Ashville, TN. 11/18-19/2011
  21. Talk on "High Temperature Superconductivity," Department of Physics, Indiana University- Purdue University, Fort Wayne, IN, Physics Society Meeting, 11/02/2008.
  22. Contributed Talk "Suppression of d-wave superconductivity in the weakly inhomogeneous checkerboard Hubbard model," American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 03/12/2008.

Publications

  1. A. F. Kemper, D. G. S. P. Doluweera, T. A. Maier, M. Jarrell, P. J. Hirschfeld and H- P. Cheng, "Insensitivity of superconductivity to disorder in the cuprates," Phys. Rev. B, 79, 104502, (2009).
  2. D. G. S. P. Doluweera, M. Jarrell, T. A. Maier, A. Macridin and Th. Pruschke "Suppression of d-wave superconductivity in the checkerboard Hubbard model," Phys. Rev. B, 78, 020504(R), (2008).
  3. M. Jarrell, A. Macridin, K. Mikelsons, D. G. S. P. Doluweera, J. E. Gubernatis, "The Dynamical Cluster Approximation with Quantum Monte Carlo Cluster Solvers," Lectures on the Physics of Strongly Correlated Systems XII, AIP Conference Proc., Eds. A. Avella and F. Mancini, 1034, 34, (2008).
  4. M.A. Majid, D. G. S. P. Doluweera, B. Moritz, and P.R.C. Kent, J. Moreno and M. Jarrell, "Charge Density Wave Driven Ferromagnetism in the Periodic Anderson Model," arXiv:0710.5937, (2007).
  5. A.Macridin, S. P. Doluweera, M. Jarrell and Th. Maier, "Analytic continuation of QMC data with sign problem" : cond-mat/0410098,(2004).