Welcome
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago. My contact information can be found here.
A PDF copy of my CV can be downloaded here.
Research
Graduate
I am currently working with Prof. Carlos Wagner on constraining a dark matter model with a gravitino NLSP and an axino LSP. I am also working with Prof. Richard Hill on the relic abundances of a WISP model.
Undergraduate
- 2006: I worked on the commissioning of the TIGRESS gamma-ray detector at TRIUMF.
- 2005: I designed and built electronics for resistivity measurements in a dilution refrigerator for the low-temperature laboratory run by Prof. Stephen Julian.
- 2004: I analyzed climatological data in relation to large-scale atmospheric patterns (NAO and SAM) with Prof. Paul Kushner.
Publications
- M.A. Schumaker et al. “Coulomb Excitation of the Proton Dripline Nucleus 20Na”, Phys. Rev. C 80, 044325 (2009).
- A.M. Hurst et al. “Narrowing of the neutron sd–pf shell gap in 29Na”, Phys. Lett. B, 674, 3, 168-171 (2009).
- M.A. Schumaker et al. “Coulomb excitation of radioactive 21Na and its stable mirror 21Ne”, Phys. Rev. C 78, 044321 (2008).
- P.J. Kushner and G. Lee, “Resolving the Regional Signature of the Annular Modes”, J. Climate, 20, 2840-2852 (2007).