As a UBC Teaching Assistant (TA), I'm a member of the CUPE Union Local 2278.
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Email:
UBC Office: Hennings 222
Phone: (604)-822-1445
UBC Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
6224 Agricultural Road
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z1
BSc. from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC 1998
MSc. from UBC, Vancouver, BC 2005
Research
- I'm currently pursuing a Phd in experimental particle physics under
the supervision of Dr. Thomas Mattison. My research is based on data
and simulations of the BaBar Experiment at SLAC
(http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT).
PhD Thesis Abstract:
My PhD project will be an analysis of neutral B-meson mixing and lifetimes using dilepton events.
I will post more detailed information here soon, but here is my PhD thesis proposal.
PhD Thesis Proposal.
Master's Thesis Abstract: This thesis contains
a study of track-impact parameter resolution in the BABAR detector
using lepton pair events from e+e- -> l+l-(gamma) and from
gamma*gamma* -> l+l- where l is either mu or e. The high number of
these events in the data set and Monte Carlo simulations allows the
tails of the resolution to be studied in detail. The Gaussian core of
the resolution is consistent within 20% with the track-by-track
errors returned by the track fitting software for both data and
Monte-Carlo simulations. Beyond about three standard deviations
(sigma) the non-Gaussian tail approximately obeys power laws. A
simple parameterization is presented which fits the data well to
beyond 10 sigma. The tail shape is consistent with that expected from
a large-angle Coulomb scattering Toy Monte-Carlo. The GEANT 4 -based
BABAR Monte Carlo software reproduces the core out to approximately 2
sigma but the behaviour of the tails further out disagrees with the
data and the predictions of Moliere Theory.
Download my MSc. thesis in pdf format.
UBC Thesis LaTeX Class:
Are you a UBC Grad student yourself? Need a LaTeX template to create your thesis? Michael Forbes created a nice one,
and I used it for my Master's thesis above. You can download it here.
UBC Thesis Class.
As an undergraduate, I spent one year working on the data-acquisition system of the TRINAT experiment at TRIUMF.
(http://www.triumf.ca/welcome/trinat_exp.html)
Teaching - I worked as a Teaching Assistant (TA) in the following lab courses:
Quantum Mechanics - Finally, I have put a lot of time and energy into my grad courses,
especially Quantum Mechanics & Quantum Field Theory. Here are some useful links I came across during
late-night homework sessions. You might find them useful in your grad-level QM course.
BABAR MC Production Docs:
Personal: