Most people have a full measure of life,      and most people just watch it slowly drip away.      But if you can summon it all up           at one time           in one place      you can accomplish something glorious.                              -Juan Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez

I am in the Physics PhD program at the University of Arizona in Tucson, a very beautiful place. I will be taking my oral exams immediately after the winter break; wish me luck.
Research: My primary interest is in nonlinear optics and the numerical modeling techniques thereof. I am currently working on gain media coupled Maxwell solvers, metamaterials, and non-orthogonal grid finite difference methods at the Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences ACMS. I have accumulated some results and should have a research page put together by February 2010. Until then, please contact me directly for further information.
Teaching: I have tought extensively. Most recently I taught introductory E&M labs and wrote my own lab manual to accompany it. I also co-mentor the summer physics REU program (and maintain the website).
Service: I have volunteer-tutored senior physics majors preparing to take the physics GRE. I also maintain the (unofficial) grad program website.