TEACHING:
Courses assigned to teach at the University of Maryland College Park:
The Manhattan Project (PHYS 235) in the Fall of 2022 & 2023.
Public Policy courses taught at the University of Maryland as an Emeritus Professor until 2023, when Prof. Gates returned to UMD as a professor of physics and public policy:
Public Policy Course Co-taught at Univ. of MD with Prof. Rosina Bierbaum: Influence of Science on Policy, and of Policy on Science. (PHYS7891/PLCY689L) Taught during the Spring semester in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023.
Courses Taught at Brown University, or “studio style” facilitator for conferences:
Flat Earth to Quantum Uncertainty: On the Nature and Meaning of Scientific Explanation (PHYS 0100) Fall of 2017, 2018, & 2019.
Foundations of Electromagnetism and Modern Physics (PHYS 060) Spring of 2018, 2019 & 2020.
ADVISING (Research Directed):
Student Summer Theoretical Physics Research Session (SSTPRS):
From the summer of 1999 to 2017, Prof. Gates, collaborators, and teaching assistants supervised a group of undergraduate students in a summer research activity, the Student Summer Theoretical Physics Research Session (SSTPRS) held during the month of June at the University of Maryland.
From 2018 to 2020, this activity moved with Prof. Gates to Brown University. The activity continued and involved the placement of undergraduate students into some of the research activities formerly of the Center of String and Particle Theory (CSPT) in its period of closing out.
SSTPRS continued virtually from 2020-2022, and in 2023 the program returned to in-person at the University of Maryland College Park.