Brief Biographical Sketch:
Born and raised in Montreal, I did my undergraduate work in engineering at the
University of Toronto before switching over to pure science. I work in a lab at
MIT, studying ways of using ultra-cold atoms and quantum-mechanical tricks to
build better clocks, magnetometers, and other sensitive measurement tools.
Outside of work, I enjoy cooking, reading, and moderately eccentric cinema.
I've dabbled at various times in music (piano, saxophone, singing), sailing,
theatre lighting, needlework, esoteric programming languages, physics
competitions, translation, and go.
I've always enjoyed teaching, and over the years I've tutored subjects ranging
from English through electronics and classical mechanics to calculus.
This is my first time teaching for ESP.
Past Classes
(Look at the class archive for more.)
Agreeing about Places and Times: A Glimpse of Special Relativity in SPLASHONWHEELS (2008)
Starting from the seemingly simple question of how two observers can agree about where and when something happened, we will ...
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