Projects
Scientific
Interaction-Free Measurements (with USC Professor Daniel Lidar)
Let’s say some evil-doer plants a highly sensitive bomb in a building, so sensitive in fact that a single photon (or any other interaction for that matter) will set it off. How do you find it? In the world of classical physics, your only chance would be to play an extremely lucky game of trial and error and eliminate every location in the building, leaving only the true location of the bomb. In the strange world of quantum mechanics, however, you can employ interference and quantum Zeno effects to find the bomb and save the day much more effectively (thus, Jack Bauer would do himself a favor by learning a bit of quantum mechanics). Under the guidance of USC Professor Daniel Lidar, I’m looking to improve the efficiency of these interaction-free measurements even further.
Quantum Information Theory Project (at the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
Project details still in flux, but I will at IQC for the first 6 weeks of summer 2010.
Computational Neuroscience Project (through Stanford’s Amgen Scholars Program)
Project details again in flux, but I will be in Palo Alto for the latter 8 weeks of the summer.
Web Development
CoLab (with Casey Stark)
CoLab is an online set of tools designed to promote open and massively collaborative science. Essentially, a friend and I became fed up with the lack of good web tools for scientific collaboration and decided to see what we could cook up. The site is still under heavy development and we’re looking for collaborators to help speed things up. Sign up and poke around on the site or check out our About page for more info.
Notetorious (with Casey Stark)
Yet another bit of mischief from Casey and I, we’re building a web application to allow readers (particularly students) to share questions and comments tagged to particular pages in a book. The goal is to make the book a living document and reading a more sociable experience. More details to come…