Contact Info
| Email: | kosack hbar.wustl.edu |
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| Office: | Compton 267 |
| Office phone: | (314) 935-5035 |
| Homepage: | http://jelley.wustl.edu/~kosack |
| CV: | [PDF] |
| Ph.D. Dissertation: | [PDF] |
About myself
I Just graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from Washington University in St. Louis,
Missouri, and I will be taking a post-doc position at MPIK in
Heidelberg, Germany at the end of the summer. I spent my undergrad
years at Carnegie Mellon University
in Pittsburgh where I got a B.S. in Computational Physics. I'm
originally from the small town of Yarmouth, Maine.
Research and Projects
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Projects:
- Here is a copy of my Ph.D. thesis (in PDF format, about 6mb)
- Developing a new analysis package for Whipple telescope data that automatically scales with zenith angle and camera geometry.
- debugging, testing, and making ready our newly finished Flash-ADC boards. These will be the primary electronics used in the telecopes of the VERITAS project.
- Writing the part of the data acquisition software which provides the low-level FADC interface (over a VMEBus) and graphical testing software for debugging and characterizing the boards.
- Data analysis of Sagitarius A*, which is the center of the galaxy and possibly a gamma-ray source. (Developing techniques to search for a possible dark-matter annihilation signal).
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Past Research
Development of a Three Dimensional X-Ray Diffraction Microscope (at CMU). This is a project to create a machine which can three-dimensionally image the grain microstructure of polycrystalline materials non-invasively (providing a way to look at grain boundary dymanics).