PHYSICS

NAIC Arecibo, PR
REU Student June-August 1999
My project involved numerical calculations and computer simulations (written in IDL) for Dr. Hines (University of York, CA) and Dr. Sulzer (NAIC, PR) on the large wavenumber spectral tail of  atmospheric gravity waves.

Oxford University, UK
Visiting Student October-June 1999-2000
I attended lectures and tutorials in Part A (kinetic theory, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics,  quantum mechanics, special relativity, electromagnetism, optics,  atomic physics, classical mechanics theory option, quantum mechanics theory option), and Part B (condensed matter physics major option, chaos theory minor option) courses.  Additionally, I worked in Clarendon Laboratories using the MVNA to develop a spherical resonant cavity (December - March) and conduct EPR studies of LiHoF4 (May-June) with Eleanore Lyons and Rachel Edwards.

University of Washington, Seattle
REU Student, June-August 2000
I worked with Silas Beane, (UW) Paulo Bedaque (UW, soon to be Berkeley), and James McGuire (Yale; another REU student) on renormalization of attractive singular inverse power law potentials using a square well ultraviolet cutoff in spatial coordinates.    All numerical (and most analytical) calculations were performed using Mathematica.