Update: Our exhibit won a $500 prize
My research group made a presentation for UW-Madison’s Engineering Expo this year. It included a talk about our Large Hadron Collider research and a mock-collider to demostrate the concept of beam collisions. Our demo was made of a large half-cylinder. On the back of the cylinder we had mounted [...]

Napa is the wine capital of the United States. I knew this going in. Napa is near Sonoma. Sonoma also makes pants. In Sonoma you don’t have streets named Slacks Blvd or Stonewashed Dr. Businesses aren’t foisting free khakis on you at every opportunity. When you stay at a hotel, you are not placed in [...]

I passed my PhD Qualifying exams and have gained Advanced Graduate Status.