ESP Biography



SARAH GELLER, MIT Senoir



Major: 8/physics

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: Not available.

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

Hey
I'm Sarah, a senior at MIT, studying the most awesome stuff on earth (or in the universe, whatever): Physics! I also play electric guitar and read other random stuff (Biomed, math, Literature) in my free time, and like long distance swimming in lakes and watercolors. I live in MA when I'm not on campus and am working in research trying to find a theory of Quantum Gravity. I specialize in AdS/CFT correspondence which is a duality between certain string theories or gravity theories and conformal field theories that provides a very nice candidate for quantum gravity.



Past Classes

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S5308: Physics of the Electric Guitar in Splash! 2011 (Nov. 19 - 20, 2011)
Come and learn about the physics of electric guitar and be a physics rock star! The electric guitar is an awesome instrument which uses some of the most beautiful physics ever discovered: waves (lots of sweet waves!) boundary conditions, electric fields inducing magnetic fields inducing currents, amplification of signals, distortion and filtering... Come learn how all this physics works and how it makes the electric guitar rock!


X5309: Venomous Snakes of Australia in Splash! 2011 (Nov. 19 - 20, 2011)
The 10 deadliest snakes on Earth live in Australia, the Land Down Under. Come learn about these snakes, how they look, where they live, how their venom works... and how to avoid getting bitten by one.


M2081: Typographical Number Theory with Achilles and the Tortoise in Spark! Spring 2009 (Mar. 07, 2009)
The basis of this course comes from Douglas Hofstadter's book "Godel, Escher, Bach." By explaining some concepts, such as strange loops, recursion, and strings and theorems as they appear in axiomatic systems of varying strength, as well as some insightful and comical dialogue between Achilles and the Tortoise, the subjects of a favorite Zeno's paradox, we can open up a whole new possible way of thinking about logic and intelligence, and hopefully get a conceptual handle on Godel's theorem of Incompleteness.