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Ph.D. Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001
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Advisors: Jeffrey Richman and Michael Witherell
Thesis: Search for exclusive electroweak penguin decays at BaBar. |
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B.A. Physics summa cum laude with High Honors in Physics, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, 1995 |
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| Research Experience |
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Postdoctoral fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2003-present
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Development of simulation and data analysis pipeline for the SuperNova Acceleration Probe (SNAP) experiment; Hubble Space Telescope data analysis of type Ia supernovae with the Supernova Cosmology Project (SCP) |
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Lederman Fellow, Fermi National Laboratory, 2001-2003
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Top quark data analyses at the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF); level 2 trigger electronics development
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Research Assistant, Dept. of Physics, UCSB, 1997-2001
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Search for rare electroweak penguin decays at BaBar; development of tracking algorithms; software and hardware for BaBar's Silicon Vertex Detector
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| Publications |
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Please see my selected publication list. Here are all of my publications on SPIRES. |
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| Teaching Experience |
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, 2003-present
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Outreach lectures on general relativity and cosmology for schools, QuarkNet teachers. Participation in the Expanding Your Horizons program for middle-school girls. |
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Lederman Fellow, Fermilab, 2001 - 2003
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Saturday Morning Physics lectures on relativity for area high school students; numerous public lectures; "Girls Scientific Salon" for middle school female students. |
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Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Physics, UCSB, 1995 - 1997
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Taught a year-long sequence of laboratory classes and one quarter of undergraduate elementary particle physics; provided homework solutions, graded homework and exams, held office hours. |
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| Other Professional Activities |
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Participant, Santa Fe Cosmology Summer Workshop; July 2005 |
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Participant, 31st SLAC Summer Institute: Cosmic Connections; July-August 2003 |
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Participant, NATO ASI Physics Summer School, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands; June 2000 |
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Participant, 27th SLAC Summer Institute: CP Violation; July 1999 |
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Winner, Leon Lederman Fellowship, Fermilab; 2001-2003 |
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Winner, Ferrando-Fithian Fellowship, Dept. of Physics, UCSB; 1995-1996 |