I am currently in my third year in the University of Washington's Physics department.

Current area of study:

Theory and analysis for condensed matter experiments involving core-level xray spectroscopy and actinide physics.

Prior topics of study:

Effective field theory for p-wave scattering near unitarity

Applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to the quantum mechanics of fermions at unitarity

Courses taken (quarters):

Classical Dynamics (1)

Quantum Mechanics (3)

Classical Electromagnatism (3)

Statistical Mechanics (1)

General Relativity (1)

Interferometry (1)

Quantum Field Theory (2)

Nuclear Theory (2)

High Energy Physics (1)

Physical Applications of Group Theory

Theory topics: Green's functions in condensed matter systems

Theory topics: Superfluidity and superconductivity

Current Courses:

Numerical Methods

I have given talks for the particle theory journal club on:

The Migdal-Kadanoff recursion relations

The magnetic moment of the electron and muon - "g minus 2"

And introduction to Effective Field Theory

The renormalization group and the epsilon expansion

Former papers from my undergraduate years in Prof. Downer's lab:

P. Figliozzi, L. Sun, Y. Jiang, N. Matlis, B. Mattern, M. C. Downer, S. P. Withrow, C. W. White, W. L. Mochan and B. S. Mendoza, "Single-beam and enhanced two-beam second-harmonic generation from silicon nanocrystals by use of spatially inhomogeneous femtosecond pulses," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 047401 (2005). Published in Virtual J. Nanoscale Science & Technol. (Feb. 14, 2005)

M.C. Downer, P.C. Figliozzi, Y. Jiang, L. Sun, B. Mattern, C.W. White, S.P. Withrow. "Optical second-harmonic generation from silicon nanocrystals." Proc. SPIE Vol. 5223, p. 1-8. Dec 2003.