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Stuff that I've done:
From 2002-2005, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Ion Storage Group, in the Time & Frequency division of NIST in Boulder Colorado.
I earned my Ph.D. in the Department of Physics at The University of Texas at Austin, where I worked in Mark Raizen's Atom Optics Laboratory.
I worked in the summer of 1996 on data collection electronics for the BaBar
project at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory.
From the fall of 1992 to the spring of 1996, I attended Lake Forest College, where I studied
physics and mathematics.
View my CV (hyperlinked pdf file, 88 kB).
Physics News & Online Journals:
News
- Physical Review Focus, featuring Physics News Updates and summaries of articles from PRL.
- What's New by Bob Park (Weekly news & editorial humor.)
Online Journals
- APS Research Journals: Physical Review A, B, C, D, E, Letters, PRST-AB, and RMP.
- Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
- American Journal of Physics
- Physica D
- Optics Communications
- AIP Scitation, Formerly the Online Journal Publishing Service (OJPS).
- Physical Review:Advance
listing of Accepted Papers
- APS Electronic Author Status Inquiry System
Physics Organizations:
- American Physical Society
- American Association of Physics Teachers
- American Institute of Physics.
- Optical Society of America
- American Vacuum Society.
Reference: Time
- NIST Web Clock in Java (www.time.gov)
- The United States Naval Observatory
- The Royal Observatory Greenwich (Home of the prime meridian).
- JPL Frequency Standards Laboratory
Patent, Trademark, and Copyright references:
- Delphion patent search
- United States Copyright Office.
Computing:
- Slashdot: News for Nerds (Linux fetish)
- UT ACITS Introduction to UNIX
- CTAN The Comprehensive TeX Archive Network
Star, Space, and Satellite Watching:
- Astronomy Picture of the Day (@ NASA).
- Where is
the International Space Station?
- Where are you? Use the
Eagle Geocoder.
- GSOC Satellite
Predictions
- SETI Institute.
- SETI@Home project.
Places to buy Equipment: Lasers, Optics, and Optomechanics:
- New Focus.
- Coherent
- Thorlabs
- Edmund Scientific.
- VLOC.
- Melles Griot
- Intelite Diode laser dealer
- ILX Lightwave (Diode laser control electronics)
- Rolyn Optics Company
- Casix
- Optosigma sells the exceptionally fine "extended contact bearing" translation stages. I suspect that they're actually made by Sigma Koki.
- Wavelength Electronics (Diode laser control electronics) [ Web page seems to be having issues...]
CCD Cameras:
Electronics:
- Equipment Manufacturers:
- Component Distributors (new):
- Digi-Key Electronics.
- Newark Electronics.
- Mouser Electronics
- Batteries America (Mr. NiCd)
- Semiconductor Manufacturers:
- Analog Devices
- Burr-Brown, now part of TI.
- Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector (Now ON semi)
- Freescale Semi, also a Motorola spin-off
- National Semiconductor
- Texas Instruments
- STMicroelectronics
- Misc:
Used & Surplus Electronics and such:
- Buy all sorts of nifty things, from unlabled surplus military capacitors to rubber snakes at American Science & Surplus in Chicago, IL.
- B.G. Micro. I like these guys.
- Hosfelt Electronics. I like these guys too.
- Electronic Goldmine
- Marlin P. Jones
- All Electronics
- Excess Solutions
- Herbach and Rademan
- MECI
- Alltronics
Used & Surplus Optics and such:
- Surplus Shed
- MWK Industries. "World's greatest laser source." (Whatever.)
- Meredith Instruments (Laser Surplus)
- Laser Resale, Inc.
- Laser Surplus, Inc.
Toys and Misc. Stuff For Sale:
- Acme Klein Bottles, Made by Cliff Stoll.
- ThinkGeek
- Arbor Scientific (Home of tie-dyed lab coats).
- Science Hobbyist: Science fair projects, geek classifieds.
- Information Unlimited. ("Some of the items we carry are 'DANGEROUS' and may be 'ILLEGAL' in your state or country. Please be sure to check local laws 'BEFORE' ordering.")
- Check out
in Seattle, WA. Note that they sell
fortune telling 8-balls. (Click
here to see an 8-ball
autopsy.)
Physics Humor & Distractions:
- My QQQ humor collection contains lots of physics and math oriented jokes.
- If all else fails, you can always Ask Dr. Science!
- The Oracle of Bacon at the University of Virginia.
- And the related Erdos Number Project.
- Tom Weller is the author of Science Made Stupid, one of the finest... um... science books ever written. Also includes five Sure-Fire Zucchini Recipies.
People that I know from the UT physics department, friends and colleagues.
- Daniel Steck.
- Cyrus Bharucha.
- Bruce Klappauf.
- Kirk Madison.
- Kendall Reeves.
- Eric Weeks. (Now at Emory)
- Flip Kromer.
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