Series of oddly colored balls balancing on a see-saw. Photo by Myles Bloomfield on Unsplash

Interactive Live Scripts

Project Description

Professor Carlsmith has developed roughly 90 open source interactive MATLAB Live Script tutorials/labs available at the MATLAB File Exchange introducing physics, astronomy, and engineering students to computation in science. These Live Scripts span topics from analysis of open source gravitational wave and exoplanet data to hands-on measurement of the speed of sound with a mobile phone and laptop. Many have been used in Physics 247-8. They are designed to advance computation throughout the curriculum.

The Live Scripts interleave code, documentation, and interactive devices along with ‘Try this’ suggestions, ‘Challenges’, references, and hyperlinks to MathWorks documentation. Interns test and improve the usability of existing Live Scripts and may have an opportunity to make algorithmic improvements and to develop new scripts.

Mentor

Duncan Carlsmith

Interns

Andrew Dirkse (Spring 2026)
Eshaan Chaturvedi (Spring and Summer 2025)

Lightning Talks

Eshaan Chaturvedi, Spring 2025