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Info About Me I'm a physics graduate student at Harvard. My undergrad was Electrical and Computer Engineering, I tried my hand at particle physics experiments, and now working on theoretical particle physics and cosmology, all while looking for aliens in my spare time. "I think physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up, and they keep their curiosity." -- I. I. Rabi My Curriculum Vitae (that's Latin for "page with no pictures") |
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Cosmology & Particle Physics
My main research interests have been in theoretical cosmology and particle physics. |
Seeing Jets in
Color
Gallicchio, Jason; Schwartz, Matthew "Seeing in Color: Jet Superstructure" arXiv:1001.5027 [hep-ph] (2010) |
Higgs Searches
I've been spending all of my time in front of supercomputers, simulating collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. I'm trying to tell quark and gluon jets, and then it's on to discover the elusive Higgs particle! (Or at least improve the possibilities of other people discovering it by 10% or so.) |
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Teaching Energy Science
A new Energy Science course at Harvard. I'm a Teaching Assistant for Prof. Lene Hau. Topics include the solid state physics of solar cells, the organic and physical chemistry of photosynthesis, batteries, and hydrogen technology. |
Teaching Electronics
I've been a Teaching Assistant many times for Physics 123, the infamous Art of Electronics class. Over the summer, I've been giving the lectures. |
Brane Inflation
I'm working with Professor
Nima Arkani-Hamed and Rakhi Mahbubani
on using ideas of extra dimensions
that solve the hierarchy problem to provide a natural
model for early universe cosmic inflation.
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Optical SETI
I have been working with Paul Horowitz's Optical SETI group on a part-time basis since arriving at Harvard, mostly the allsky, but some targeted. I've built some random hardware, helped write the software to automatically or remotely control the telescope from the web. |
Rotational Shear Interferometer
I built several interferometers which combine an image with a rotated version of itself. This allows you to back out a 2D image of an object where each pixel has a full spectrum. Engineering Thesis / Other Material The second picture shows white light interference fringes which appear when the 10cm path lengths are identical to within a wavelength of like. The shapes reflect how non-flat the mirrors are on the scale of wavelengths. |
Random Projects
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Above is a light bulb filmed with an extremely high speed video camera. There's more... |
My site with a bunch of animations and Java: |
SVGKit is a collection of JavaScript libraries for painless client-side SVG manipulation: SVGKit provides browser-independent access and interaction, SVGCanvas implements Canvas API with SVG-specific additions, and SVGPlot plots/graphs data and functions. Other Software Palm Pilot to Google CSV/Vcard JavaScript Translates Palm to Google, especially for a G1 Android Phone. |
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Rowing on the Charles
I ran the Dudley House crew program for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences for three years and still get sucked back in to sub, film, or fix the web page. |
Trip to Argentina
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Trip to Japan
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