Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Sacramento State. Follow my lab @sacstatelowtemp

Joined January 2014
As a low temperature physics experimentalist, I find that my mood is inversely proportional to the temperature of my fridge.
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Loop rule or junction rule?
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And today I was reminded that 1 kilobyte is *not* 1000 bytes.
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Things I've learned so far this summer - don't drink coffee right before you use the wire bonder.
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This is probably the worst draw you could have in a lab.
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People don't want to know about his math, they just want to know how to pronounce his name!
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Wait a second, mathematician? Them's fight'n words!
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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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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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Somebody really doesn't like low temperature physics
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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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Sometimes electroscopes look like dancers surrounded by sparkles.
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The semester so far.
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Back when the braves were inexplicably in the NL West.
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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Damn that third law
Why hasn't this already been applied everywhere????
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🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 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!
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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And now I can say things like CALE is the CURE for what ALEs ya!
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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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