Serious topics
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-Nova Express LLC: My consulting business
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-Academic work: Particle Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays
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-Consulting work with Nova Express LLC
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-Humanitarian demining site being built
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-Online collaborations (are you interested?)
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-LinkedIn resume and work connections
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-Reports and white papers (coming soon)
Oddities
The Family
Some selected personal photographs
Less serious ones
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-Blog
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-Facebook connections for friends and family
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-Old web pages (quite old in places, for humor)
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-DuVernois genealogy site
Travels with Dr. Mike
Mike DuVernois
Michael DuVernois grew up in Newington, Connecticut, and as a result still says “tag sale” to refer to what many call garage, or yard, sales and he pronounces the final “R” in area and idea. He attended the Georgia Institute of Technology, which was a culture shock, graduated with a perfect 4.0 in physics, and still managed to have a life outside of classes. He attended the University of Chicago where he earned an M.S. and Ph.D. in physics and astronomy doing thesis work under the direction of Professor John A. Simpson (deceased). He worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Pennsylvania State University under the direction of Professor James Beatty, and then started his own research group at the University of Minnesota. His students have moved on to postdoctoral fellowships at Queen’s University (Canada), CERN, University of New Mexico, Heidelberg University, and CalTech.
His research was in the area of particle astrophysics, studying the the cosmic rays and high energy neutrinos. Among his experiments were the HET instrument on the Ulysses spacecraft; the HEAT antimatter balloon experiment; the CREAM long-duration balloon program; the Pierre Auger Observatory in Malargue, Mendoza Province, Argentina; and the ANITA neutrino balloon observation program over Antarctica. He is the author of over eighty peer reviewed scientific papers, and several hundred conference proceedings. More recently, he was a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii and has left academia to pursue engineering and project management interests in the private sector. He is available for physics, engineering, and project management consultations.
In all of this, Michael has traveled to a shockingly large amount of the world, and has bowled on all seven continents. He is most proud though of his twin daughters, Mara and Sylvia, who have been helping him with all of the books he missed as a child. And that’s a good thing. He lives in an old house in south Minneapolis with his partner Anne Lies, many books, lots of music, and flower and vegetable gardens. He is interested in most everything.
Mac
Coffee
Very important paper
Debris
Fax machine
Conference phone
Good music
Autumn leaves
Mike
