
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
Kathy Copic, kac21@cornell.edu
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.
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Favorite Cornell
Physics Memory: Dinner with Kip Thorne when he
explained worm holes with a Coke can.
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