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Unsolicited ACP summer visit advice Some background on the center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsQB-wkG30g Obituary for George Stranahan (NYTimes) Clothing Aspen can get cold, even in the summer. I always pack a lightweight, compressible puffy jacket and glove liners.

Theoretical physicist Philip (Flip) Tanedo is an associate professor at the University of California, Riverside. His research seeks to determine the fundamental physics of dark matter. He is a 2021 NSF CAREER award winner and a 2020 Hellman Fellow.

ParticleBites is an outreach blog I started in 2013 after attending the first ComSciCon workshop. It grew out of my early blogging efforts with US/LHC and later Quantum Diaries and is now hosted by the AAS.

In 2022 a group of physicists launched an effort to create a space to support refugee physicists from the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. I was asked to think about a logo for the group and came up with the following.

The Theoretical Advanced Studies Institute is a summer school for theoretical particle physicists. One of the traditions of the school is for the students to design a t-shirt. You end up seeing these t-shirts worn by grad students and postdocs for years to come.

Tinker Feynman is a Science Hack Day: San Francisco (2017) hack in collaboration with Prof. Matt Bellis and Siena College undergraduate Maddy Hagen. Matt and Maddy 3D printed our hack and sent me a copy:

The 2021 Snowmass Community Planning Exercise is a year-long, decadal study to craft a scientific vision for the future of high-energy physics in the US. It is organized by the American Physical Society’s Division of Particles and Fields.

The June 2020 Strike for Black Lives was a call for social justice within academia. During the discussions at my home department and reflecting on some of the ongoing barriers to meaningful equity and inclusion I found myself sketching some of the ways in which we, as academics, can fail in our attempts to create real positive change.

Here are some instructions if you would like to ask me for a letter of recommendation. Key guidelines: Please let me know at least four weeks before a letter is due.

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