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David Feldman is Professor of Physics and Mathematics at College of the Atlantic. He is the author of two books: Chaos and Fractals: An Elementary Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2012), a textbook for non-math/science majors; and Chaos and Dynamical Systems (Princeton University Press, 2019), a contribution to the Primers in Complex Systems series. Dave has developed two MOOCs, one on Chaos and Dynamical Systems and one on Fractals and Scaling. These free, online classes are part of the Santa Fe Institute's Complexity Explorer project and have been taken by thousands of students. He is currently working on a textbook on renewable energy.
Dave has taught over twenty different classes in physics, math, and computer science at College of the Atlantic. He served as COA's Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2003-07. Dave served as Co-director of the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School (CSSS) in Beijing, China from 2006-08 and since 2017 has directed the Santa Fe CSSS. From December 2018 to August 2019 he was the Interim Vice-President for Education at the Santa Fe Institute. Dave was a U.S. Fulbright lecturer in Rwanda in 2011-12.
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