News
In August I will be moving to Pensacola, FL to join the Physics Department at the University of West Florida.
A Strange New Quantum State of Matter: Spin Liquids
Quantum liquids moving to a higher dimension
About Me
In 2011 I joined the Physics Department of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as a postdoctoral fellow in Egor Babaev's group. I graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics in 2009, specializing in strongly correlated electronic systems and computational physics, particularly quantum Monte Carlo. Afterwards, I held a joint appointment as a postdoctoral scholar at Georgetown University and the Joint Quantum Institute (University of Maryland), working with Marcos Rigol and Victor Galitski, respectively. On this page you will find information about my research (which has focused on topics such as quantum magnetism, ultracold atomic gases, topological insulators, and quantum spin liquids), the courses I taught while at UC Davis, and some notes from the various courses taken throughout my graduate career.
Education
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, 2004 -- 2009
Ph.D. in Physics, September 2009
Dissertation Title: Phase Transitions in Strongly Interacting
Quantum Systems
Area of Specialization: Condensed Matter Physics
Research Advisor: Richard T. Scalettar
Committee Members: Richard T. Scalettar, Warren E. Pickett,
Ching-Yao Fong
M.S. in Physics, 2005
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, 2000 -- 2004
B.S. in Physics, Mathematics minor
Summa cum laude, with honors
Academic Positions
| 09/2011 -- present | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
|---|---|
| Postdoctoral Scholar (Advisor: Prof. E. Babaev) | |
| 09/2009 -- 08/2011 | Georgetown University / Joint Quantum Institute |
| Postdoctoral Scholar (Advisors: Profs. M. Rigol and V. Galitski) | |
| 09/2004 -- 09/2009 | University of California at Davis |
| Graduate Student (Advisor: Prof. R. T. Scalettar) | |
| 08/2003 -- 05/2004 | Northern Arizona University |
| Undergraduate Researcher (Advisor: Prof. G. L. W. Hart) | |
| 06/2003 -- 08/2003 | Brookhaven National Laboratory |
| Summer Scholar (Advisor: Prof. M. White) |
Short Term Visits
| October 2011 | Visiting Scientist | Department of Theoretical Physics |
| KTH Royal Institute of Technology | ||
| April 2011 | Visiting Scientist | Department of Physics |
| Indian Institute of Science | ||
| October-November 2010 | Visiting Scientist | Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics |
| University of California, Santa Barbara | ||
| June 2008 | Visiting Scientist | Instituto de Física |
| Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro | ||
| November 2005 | Visiting Scientist | Department of Physics |
| University of Cincinnati |