Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Sacramento State. Follow my lab @sacstatelowtemp
Joined January 2014
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20 Sep 2024
As a low temperature physics experimentalist, I find that my mood is inversely proportional to the temperature of my fridge.
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6 Jul 2024
And today I was reminded that 1 kilobyte is *not* 1000 bytes.
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10 Jun 2024
Things I've learned so far this summer - don't drink coffee right before you use the wire bonder.
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5 Feb 2024
People don't want to know about his math, they just want to know how to pronounce his name!
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2 Feb 2024
First time running a dilution fridge.
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18 Jan 2024
Student asks for recommendation letter
[writes a carefully crafted recommendation letter]
[goes to website to upload letter]
[finds out that you cannot upload a letter, but instead must answer a series of 6(!) essay questions about the student]
[screams into void....]
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12 Jan 2024
Nothing will endear you to your kids more than learning their slang, and yelling it out the window of the car when you drop them off at school.
Of course it's extra points if you use the slang in the wrong way.
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6 Oct 2023
aps.org/publications/apsnews…
It was great attending this workshop and working on ideas for incorporating computation into the advanced lab. And now I get to be in the picture on APS news!
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20 Sep 2023
Sometimes electroscopes look like dancers surrounded by sparkles.
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13 Sep 2023
Back when the braves were inexplicably in the NL West.
13 Sep 2023
Here’s the final out from the 1993 Phillies / Braves NLCS.
Catch Harry Kalas with the “Bedlam at Veterans Stadium” call.
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9 Sep 2023
Damn that third law
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26 Aug 2023
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
Publication alert
So great to work with @SquishyPhysics on this great project.
Also, big shout-out to @KMc2Teach, @enidgonzorta and the rest of the @SacStateSIRIUS2 team for all their support for this project. It's been really great working with everyone on this!
26 Aug 2023
Our latest article, "Implementing a course-based authentic learning experience with upper- and lower-division physics classes," is out now in the American Journal of Physics!
doi.org/10.1119/5.0137141
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26 Aug 2023
And now I can say things like CALE is the CURE for what ALEs ya!
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18 Aug 2023
At my kid's back to school night, and I just kept getting distracted by the obvious flaw in these posters.
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