ALUMNI PAGE

Welcome to the Cornell SPS Alumni Page. Everybody listed here was part of Cornell SPS as an undergraduate and they would all LOVE to answer your questions, especially about grad schools and life after your bachelor's degree!

Cornell Class of '02

Han Pin Goh, hg32@cornell.edu

• Year/Major: 2002/ Physics & Math
• Current Location: Harvard University, Applied Physics
• Current Position/Research: Optoelectronics research and physics education with Prof. Eric Mazur

Mason Porter, mason@cam.cornell.edu

• Year/Major: 2002 Ph.D. in Center for Applied Mathematics at Cornell (B.S. in applied math from Caltech in '98)
• Current Location/Job: Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Mathematics Research Associate Member, Center for Nonlinear Science, School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Cornell Class of '01

Heather Eddy, hne2@cornell.edu

• Year/Major: 2001/Astronomy
• Current Location: Indiana University of Pennsylvania (26 Fairman Hollow Road, Creekside, PA 15732)
• Current Position/Research: I'll be getting a second bachelor's in education at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and after getting my teaching certificate in that program, will be teaching high school physics. Attention people who'll be grad students in physics in two years or later: field trip! field trip! Can we visit? :-)

Carolyn Sealfon, csealfon@sas.upenn.edu

• Year/Major: 2001/College Scholar & Physics
• Current Location: Physics Ph.D. program at UPenn
• Current Position/Research: Currently working on research in cosmology, specifically gravitational microlensing (summer '02).
• Favorite Cornell Physics Memories: Helping start SPS Outreach with such an amazing group of peers, taking general relativity, building a snowman on Ho Plaza in 50 degree weather, so many awesome conversations (both in and out of RUPH), running into Hans Bethe and his wife during a bike ride around the Plantations, staring into an empty paper bag (with a pin hole in it) in front of Willard Straight to see a partial solar eclipse and having people ask us what was in the bag, lectures by Alan Guth, Kip Thorne, Rocky Kolb, ...

Cornell Class of '00

Patrick Amihood, pamihood@ucsd.edu

• Year/Major: 2000/Physics
• Current Location: UCSD
• Current Position/Research: Pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering (Communiation Theory and Systems)
• Favorite Cornell Physics Memory: xpilot

Will Bertsche, wab6@cornell.edu

• Year/Major: 2000/Physics

• Current Location: ATG in Boston, but will soon be doing physics PhD in UC Berkeley, CA

• Current Position/Research: I'm currently working at a software engineer, taking a year deferral to grad school. It's been an educational experience - the real, not-academic world and all that jazz. I'm pretty excited to go back to school, though.
• Favorite Cornell Physics Memory: Xpilot wasn't that bad (Patrick ;-) ), but I think I'm going to generalize this to "hangin' in ruph."

Kathy Copic, kac21@cornell.edu

• Year/Major: 2000/Math and Government (with a interest in Physics!)

• Current Location: Berkeley Lab in particle physics, on ATLAS, will attend grad school at U Michigan in Fall 2001

• Current Position/Research: see http://design.lbl.gov/~kcopic
• Ask me questions about applying/visiting grad schools! I can talk about physics (especially particle physics) at Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara and UC Santa Cruz, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Carnegie Mellon, since I visited all of them!

Cornell Class of '99

Takemi Okamoto, tokamoto@oddjob.uchicago.edu

• Year/Major: 1999/Physics
• Current Location: University of Chicago
• Current Position/Research: Cosmology Theory -- inflationary cosmology, observable cosmological consequences of exotic physics
• Favorite Cornell Physics Memory: Hmm... dinner with Alan Guth, maybe.

Mukund Thattai, thattai@mit.edu

• Year/Major: 1999/Physics
• Current Location: MIT physics PhD program
• Current Position/Research: I work in an interdisciplinary area that can loosely be described as biological computation. There are two aspects to this field. First: computing with biology, as in DNA computation or cellular computation. Second and more interesting: natural biological systems as computers. Cells figure things out, and I study how they do this, how they make decisions, process signals and communicate with each other. The research involves topics in dynamical systems, control theory, stochastic processes and signal processing. I work with theoretical and experimental physicists, both here at MIT and at Bell Labs; and I also spend a lot of time with biologists and with people from the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

Elizabeth Hays, ehays@umdgrb.umd.edu

• Year/Major: 1999/Physics
• Current Location: University of Maryland
• Current Position/Research: I'm working on a gamma-ray astrophysics experiment, Milagro, a water cherenkov array in the Jemez mountains of New Mexico. More literally it is a very large covered pool with two layers of photo-multiplier tubes. Milagro can see ~ 2 steradians of sky 24 hours a day so the main purpose is to search for gamma-ray transients (GeV-TeV energies) like gamma-ray bursts and flaring active galactic nuclei. Currently, I am spending time on calibrations, running part of the online flare search, and finding ways to get rid of the cosmic-ray proton background.
• Favorite Cornell Physics Memory: Dinner with Kip Thorne when he explained worm holes with a Coke can.

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