Research
| 2001-present |
Precision gravity tests with cryogenic torsion pendulums (www.physics.uci.edu/gravity): ● measurement of Newton’s constant G ● test of the inverse-square law ● test of the weak equivalence principle Riley D. Newman, UC Irvine Paul Boynton, University of Washington Seattle (collaborator) Experiment Site: Battelle Gravitation Physics Laboratory, Hanford, WA (with Pacific Northwest National Lab) |
| 1997-2001 |
LF/VLF/ELF
radio transmitter system design and support, including: ● dual-antenna intermodulation distortion study for the US Navy in Cutler, ME ● antenna bushing SF6 insulating gas study for the US Navy in San Diego, CA ● control system design and programming for the NIST time broadcast (WWWVB) in Fort Collins, CO ● antenna and transmitter monitor systems development, installation and support for the US Navy in N. Dakota, central California, and Okinawa/Japan |
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1995-1996 |
Search for chaotic escape rates in microwave-assisted
tunneling of electrons electrostatically trapped on the
surface of liquid helium at ~0.1 Kelvin (John M. Goodkind, UC San Diego). |
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1994-1996, 2001, 2005 |
Quantum Mechanics Philosophy and Interpretation |
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1994-1995 |
Calculational validation of a quaternionic spinor
formulation of general relativity with specific focus on postdiction of the anamalous magnetic moment of the electron (Mendel Sachs, SUNY Buffalo). |
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1990-1995 |
PhD Thesis (advisor:
Charles D.
Buchanan, UC Los Angeles): measured the production rates
of Ko, Lo, X-, S*±, and W- from the final TPC/two-gamma dataset, compiled world averages for all hadron production rates, energies, and experiments, and evaluated the best widely-used models. |
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1992-1993 |
Medical imaging independent study and observation with PET at UC Los Angeles (Ed
Hoffman), MRI at UC Los Angeles (Roger Woods), and MRI at University of Southern California (Manbir Singh) |
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1989 |
E771 fixed target B-physics experiment: scintillation
array and pad chamber construction at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (David B. Cline, UC Los Angeles). |
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1988-1990 |
F-factory experiment simulations: CP and CPT violation analysis methods and detector design for a proposal at UC Los Angeles (Charles D. Buchanan, UC Los Angeles) |
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1987-1988 |
B-factory simulations: CP violation detectability dependence on beam asymmetry (Donald Stork, UC Los Angeles) |
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1987 |
Stationary state calculation of the quartic potential (Oscar J. Lumpkin, UC San Diego) |
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1986 |
FFT and display programming for non-linear oscillations of Pt or Pd catalysis
(M.
Brian Maple, UC San Diego) |
| 1978-1983 | Oceanography, Marine Biology |