Harvard -- Jason Gallicchio

Harvard

On the way out, we flew over the Fermilab accelerator -- my future home if I ended up going to Harvard.

 

The Harvard Physics building, over 100 years old.

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But the offices with glass walls that are used as whiteboards wouldn't make you guess it's age.

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I stayed in the graduate dorms while I was visiting.

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My host was Stephen Maxwell, and this is his lovely fiancé Eva.

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They had a movie for us in this cool new classroom, along with pizza and ice cream.

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Andy Foland in blue, a potential advisor, taking to students.  Harvard's Open House was very student-oriented.  I stayed with students, I ate with students, I talked with students constantly for two days.  It was very well done.

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The High Energy Physics building.

 

From the other side.

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I hung out with Paul Horowitz, of Art of Electronics fame.

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He's got so much cool stuff.

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The libraray.

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The student lounge area.

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The String Palace.

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The String Throne.

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The String Cappuccino Machine.

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This was cool. They had the electron's g-factor along with the ratio of wavelengths in a gravitational red-shift experiment compared to those calculated from our best theories.  Of course the string theorists are a long way from predicting anything this testable.  :-)

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It's not a church.  It's where the freshmen eat.  On to MIT.

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