Office Location: | 017 Physics |
Office Phone: | (919)660-2870 |
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Starting Year: | 2007 |
Advisor(s): | Hubert Bray |
Thesis Title: | Wave Dark Matter and Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies |
PhD | Duke University | 2013 |
MA | Duke University | 2008 |
MS | Utah State University | 2007 |
BS | Utah State University | 2006 |
I'm interested in Differential Geometry and its applications to General Relativity. Currently, I've been studying dark matter modeled as a scalar field, called wave dark matter, and comparing this description to observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies, the smallest known types of gravitationally bound objects that have a significant presence of dark matter.
In the past, I have studied Lie Algebras, in particular classifying solvable Lie algebras of small dimension. My master's thesis was on classifying such Lie algebras through dimension seven.