Resume (updated April 16, 2012)
CV (updated April 16, 2012)
Ph.D. thesis (defended April 13, 2012)

Undergraduate Goucher College, Baltimore, MD B.A.: Physics and Mathematics Minor: Music

Graduate Boston University, Boston, MA M.A.: Physics ('08) Ph.D.: Physics ('12)

Presentations

• Differential Conductance of Extreme Type-II Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields
  • National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Lexington, VA. April, 2005.
    
  • Posters on the Hill, Council on Undergraduate Research. Washington, D.C., April, 2005
• Correlation Networks of Earthquakes APS March Meeting 2009, American Physical Society. Pittsburgh, PA, March 19, 2009.
• Correlation Networks of Earthquakes International Workshop on Network Science 2009. Venice, July 1, 2009.
• Can Networks Help Understand Earthquake Physics? International Conference on Statistical Physics of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) 2010. Cairns, Australia, July 29, 2010.
• The Sign Effect in Emerging Markets: the Inherent Instability of Bad News HES70: Horizons in Emergence & Scaling. Poster session. Boston, March, 2011
• The Sign Effect in Emerging Markets: the Inherent Instability of Bad News APS March Meeting 2011, American Physical Society. Dallas, TX, March 21, 2011.
• The Growth Dynamics of Words: How Historical Context Shapes the Competitive Linguistic Environment APS March Meeting 2012, American Physical Society. Boston, Feb 28, 2012.
 Coverage:
• Science News
(further coverage of associated paper below)

1. Differential Conductance of Extreme Type-II Superconductors in High Magnetic Fields (PDF) Proceedings of the National Conference of Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Lexington, VA. April, 2005. With Sasha Dukan.
   
2. Asymmetry in power-law magnitude correlations (pdf) Physical Review E: Rapid Communications V 80, July 17, 2009. With Boris Podobnik,* Davor Horvatic, and H. Eugene Stanley.
3. STM differential conductance of a disordered extreme type-II superconductor at high magnetic fields (pdf) Physical Review B V 82, October 4, 2010. With Sasha Dukan,* Joe Porembski, and Karl Tata.
4. Comparison between response dynamics in transition and developed economies (pdf) Physical Review E V 82, October 8, 2010. With Davor Horvatic, Slavica Cosovic Bajic, Beco Pehlivanovic, Boris Podobnik, and H. Eugene Stanley.
5. Statistical Laws Governing Fluctuations in Word Use from Word Birth to Word Death Scientific Reports 2, 313. Published, March 15, 2012. With A. M. Petersen,* S. Havlin, and H. E. Stanley.
 Coverage:
• Wall Street Journal: "The New Science of the Birth and Death of Words "
• The Economist: Friday Reading List
• United Press International: "Study tracks births, deaths of words", duplicated in:
  • Outcome Magazine
  • e! Science News
• The Guardian: "Study reveals words' Darwinian struggle for survival"
• The Times of India: "Digital spell-check blamed for killing words: Study"
• Science News: "Modern era brings death to words"
• Innovation News Daily: "Languages Lose Vocab to Science and Spell-Check"
• Mobiledia: "Texting Kills Off Words, But Language Survives"
• Live Science: "Digital Spell-Checking May Be Killing Off Words", duplicated in:
  • Discovery News
  • msnbc.com
  • News Track India
• El Pais: "El corrector de textos mató a las palabras"
• El Especatador: "La guerra de las palabras"
6. Earthquake networks based on similar activity patterns (pdf) Submitted April, 2011. With S. Havlin and H. E. Stanley.
 Coverage: Technology Review
7. Scaling of Seismic Memory with Earthquake Size (pdf) Submitted September, 2011. With Zeyu Zheng,* Kazuko Yamasaki, Boris Podobnik, and H. Eugene Stanley
8. Interdisciplinary Applications of Statistical Physics to Complex Systems: Seismic Physics, Econophysics, and Sociophysics (final Ph.D dissertation, defended April 13, 2012)

* indicates first author.

I also cowrote the 2004 Calculator of the Year for Intro Computer Science

Research Interests
Network physics, econophysics and statistical physics

Here's a hypnotic animated gif I made of the electric field of a dipole

Articles contributed concerning RIAA interests

• "How it feels to be sued for $4.5m", The Guardian, 27 July 2009.
• "Filesharer Joel Tenenbaum's trial diary: Part one", The Guardian, 6 August 2009.
• "Filesharer Joel Tenenbaum's trial diary: Part two", The Guardian, 7 August 2009.
• "Filesharer Joel Tenenbaum's trial diary: Part three", The Guardian, 10 August 2009.
• "Filesharer Joel Tenenbaum's trial diary: Part four", The Guardian, 11 August 2009.
• "Joel Tenenbaum: a year on from being sued for $4.5m", The Guardian, 9 November 2010.

• Musical: piano, guitar, and drums (mp3s from my recital)
• Homestar Runner
• xkcd.com
• pbfcomics.com
• Questionable Content
• Just keeping things in perspective

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