Dr. Scott H. Hawley

Professor of Physics, Belmont University

Hello! I typically teach physics to audio engineering students (undergrads), and develop new software applications (often via machine learning) to help prepare them for the future. In 2017 I also started getting involved in "AI Ethics" and "Science, the Humanities and Religion" through a special grant program in Oxford, UK.

I used to do computational relativity and astrophysics, but it's been a while.

Google Scholar CV Dissertation
Dr. Scott Hawley

Teaching

Courses

  • PHY2010 - Physics for Audio Engineering
  • PHY2250 - Electronics & Circuit Theory
  • PHY/BSA 3895 - Deep Learning & AI Ethics [GitHub]
  • PHY3110 - Analytical Mechanics
  • PHY4410 - Survey of Advanced Physics

Teaching Resources

Interactive Physics Apps

Interactive apps for physics, audio, and electronics instruction

Acoustic Tool Suite

Specialized tools for acoustics education

Selected Publications

2026

Flow Where You Want

S.H. Hawley | ICLR 2026 Blogpost Track | Submitted, Under Review

2025

Flow With What You Know: basic physics provides a 'fast, straight' way to get up to speed with flow-based generative models

S.H. Hawley | ICLR 2025 Blogpost Track | Best Blog Post Award | April 2025

2024

Narrative, Creativity, and Open Source in 'Back to Eden'

S.H. Hawley | Chapter in Faithful AI: Stories of Hope from 2045 | July 2024

Pictures Of MIDI: Controlled Music Generation via Graphical Prompts for Image-Based Diffusion Inpainting

S.H. Hawley | In submission | July 2024

Website • Demo

Individual Identification in Acoustic Recordings

E. Knight, T. Rhinehart, D. de Zqaan, M.J. Weldy, M. Cartwright, S.H. Hawley, et al. | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | April 2024

Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion

Z. Evans, CJ Carr, J. Taylor, S.H. Hawley, J. Pons | ICML 2024 (Oral) | July 2024

Operational Latent Spaces

S.H. Hawley and Austin R. Tackett | AES International Symposium on AI and the Musician | June 2024

Demo Website

Speaking

Practical Guide to Developing Flow-Based Generative Models

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Rome Italy | June 30, 2025

Large Language Models Are Stupid

Belmont Humanities Symposium | September 23, 2024

Out of the Heart, the Mouth Speaks: Modeling Generative Physical & Creative Processes

Keynote, Faith and Science Scholarship Symposium, Bethel University | April 6, 2024

Data, Compute, and Ethics: Navigating the Intersection of AI and Humanity

CCCU Multi-Academic 2 Conference | March 1, 2024

Contact

Address

Chemistry & Physics Dept
Belmont University
1900 Belmont Blvd
Nashville, TN 37212 USA

Office

Janet Ayers Academic Center (JAAC) 4008

Email

scott.hawley dot elmont.edu

Phone

1-615-460-6206