Welcome
This site is still under construction. More is
added as my research and course schedule allows. If there is
something you think I should add or needs correction please email
me.
I am currently a physics Ph.D. student at the University
of California Davis, in my second year of studies. I am a member of
the
Cosmology Group and have recently
begun researching
weak gravitational lensing
with my advisor
David Wittman. We are working with observations from the
Deep Lens Survey, a 20
deg2 survey* to ~27 magnitude in B, V, R, & z.
Originally an offshore structural engineer, I
worked for four years in the offshore oil industry at
Technip.
This is where I helped with design and development of over five
floating offshore platforms, known as
SPARS.
* To give you an idea of how
large this survey is, the image to the left is only 1/10,000th
of the total DLS survey. However this is still a small fraction of
the observable universe. To give you an idea of how large the
universe is, almost everything in the image to the left is a galaxy
with hundreds of billions of stars in them and this image covers
roughly 1/10,000,000th of the entire sky... THE SIZE OF
THE UNIVERSE IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE!
Thanks to the DLS and NOAO for this wonderful image.
Site Summary
About Me: Graduate student at UC Davis
Research: Weak Gravitational Lensing
CV: My Exploits
Photo Gallery: Check out the oil rigs
Resources:
Cosmology,
Linux,
emacs, Prelim, & more
Contact: Not the movie