I am a third-year graduate student in the physics department. I was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, where I got bachelor degrees in physics and mathematics. Before entering graduate school I took a year off to be a snowboard bum/waitressin Silverthorne, Colorado near Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin, so I used to be good at hitting tables and rails before I became a lame graduate student. I work in Jean Carlson's group on complex systems, which includes work on abstract modeling of forest fires as well as understanding stress in granular materials and glasses and is surprisingly not lame. I have been learning how to surf for the past year and a half, and I am a fanatical Bengals football fan (Carson Palmer and Chad Johnson are on my fantasty football team!)
