Paul Abbott gained an appointment as a lecturer in the Department of
Physics at The University of Western Australia in 1992 and was
promoted to senior lecturer in 2001 on the basis of his research and
his
teaching. He has taught courses on a wide range
of topics, including electromagnetism, relativity, data analysis, group
theory, special functions, and wavelets. His
Computational Physics course received a
Computational Science Award in 1995. Abbott has
lectured on
Mathematica in the U.S., Japan, Singapore,
Thailand, and India and has given
Mathematica courses at
several Australian universities. These courses have been attended by
professionals and students from a wide range of backgrounds, including
people from government departments and financial institutions,
scientists, engineers, academics, and medical researchers.
