Former professor of experimental particle astrophysics

But you know, you can’t leave things completely behind. So here I have some files, data, papers, and a seminar syllabus from the academic days.


There’s a lot more than can be found with a quick search though. I recommend using scholar.google.com for these sorts of searches. Also see the Books section. I’ll add stuff that is of more general interest here as I run across it.

Academics

I was a student of John A. Simpson’s at the University of Chicago (now deceased) and a postdoctoral fellow with James Beatty at the Pennsylvania State University (now at Ohio State University).


John A. Simpson: Link to the Bulletin of

    the Atomic Scientists J. A. Simpson

    Collection


Talks


  1. -Cosmic Ray history slides

  2. -Radioactives in the Galaxy

  3. -Introduction for students to the Particle Astrophysics group

  4. -Pierre Auger status talk, circa 2002

  5. -CREAM overview

  6. -Final summary talk (UMN Particle Astrophysics)


Papers (mostly pdf format)


  1. -Syllabus for my Freshman Seminar

  2. -ANITA Fact Sheet

  3. -ANITA Overview

  4. -ANITA SMEX Proposal to NASA

  5. -CREAM Flowchart Draft

  6. -Cosmic Ray Conference RF paper

  7. -2002 OJI Application/Funding Request


My Primary Experiments


- High Energy Telescope (HET) on the Ulysses spacecraft

  1. -Cosmic Ray Telescopes on CRRES and IMP-8 satellites

  2. -High Energy Antimatter Telescope (HEAT) balloon experiment

  3. -Antiproton HEAT balloon experiment (HEAT-pbar)

  4. -The Pierre Auger Observatory, giant air-shower array detector for both hemispheres, built in Mendoza Province, Argentina, and a northern site starting construction in Colorado, USA

  5. -Cosmic ray energetics and mass (CREAM) balloon experiment (Animation of trajectory)

  6. -Antarctic Neutrino Impulsive Transient Array (ANITA) balloon experiment

  7. -Cosmic Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope (CREST) balloon experiment

  8. -Test detectors for cosmic-ray radio pulse measurements, atmospheric radio fluorescence measurements, and shower thickness-timing determinations