Education:

• The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania
  1997 Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics (IGPG formerly CGPG home page)
• Syracuse University Syracuse, New York
  1993 M. S. in Physics (Relativity Group's home page)
• Swarthmore College Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
  1991 Honors in Physics and Philosophy, B.A. (Physics Department home page)

Academic Experience:

• Professor
  Hamilton College: 2012 - present
• Associate Professor
  Hamilton College: 2006 - 2012
• Assistant Professor
  Hamilton College: 2000 - 2006
• Visiting Assistant Professor
  Swarthmore College: Sept. 1999 - Aug. 2000
• lise Meitner Fellow - Institute for Theoretical Physics
  University of Vienna Institute for Theoretical Physics June 1998 - June 1999
• Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow
  Deep Springs College : Jan. 1998 - May 1998; May 2000 - June 2000

Publication list from INSPIRE

A Selection of Talks:

• Quantum Gravity: Quantum Geometry and links to Physics (pdf)
  
• The Attractiveness of Loops and Ribbons(pdf)
  Mathematics colloquium (sponsored by SIAM) RPI, 4 February 2008.
• Quantum Gravity: Physics?(pdf)
  University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, 14 March 2007.
• A Discrete Machian Model: Fermionic Sector (pdf)
  Loops 05 Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Golm, Germany 10 October 2005.
• Quantum Gravity and Physics: How the former may become the latter (pdf)
  Amherst College 7 October 2004.
• Exploring Quantum Gravity with Undergraduates (talk with audio and slides hosted by KITP)
  Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara CA, 21 July 2003.
• life without Lorentz Invariance: Good, worthwhile, or merely crazy?
  Perimeter Institute/CITA (U. Toronto) Mini-Workshop, 30 October 2002.

Research with Undergraduates

• William Kahlbacker -- Hamilton '08
  Senior Project 2007

• Walter Schoen -- Hamilton '08
  Senior Project 2007

• Timothy Minella -- Hamilton '09
  Summer 2007

• Michael Gregg -- Hamilton '08 (SUNY Downstate Medical School)
  Summers 2006, 2007 Senior Project 2007

• Yubo Lu -- Hamilton '07
  Summers 2006, 2007

• Julia MacDougall -- Hamilton '08 (Brown in Geophysics)
  Summer 2006

• Rob Silversmith -- Clinton High School (Williams 2011, University of Michigan in Mathematics)
  Summer 2006

• Alice Francis -- Hamilton '06
  Senior Project 2005-06

• Benjamin Auerbach -- Hamilton '05 (Yale PhD 2011)
  Summer and Senior Project 2004

• Sean McGovern -- Hamilton '07 (Notra Dame in Philosphy)
  Summer 2004 and Senior Project 2006

• Nancy Shaw -- Hamilton '07 (SUNY Potsdam in Computer Science)
  Summer 2004

• Dan Heyman -- Hamilton `02
  Summer and Senior Project Fall 2002

• Julien LeBrun -- Paris VI (French exchange student)
  Summer 2002

• Tomasz Konopka -- Hamilton `01 (Waterloo/PI, PhD 2007 now in Brussels in Biology)
  Summer and Senior Project Fall 2001

• Kevin Setter -- Swarthmore `02 (Cambridge and CalTech)
  Summers 2000, 2001 and Honors Thesis

• Michael Seifert -- Swarthmore `01 (Chicago, PhD 2008, now at Williams)
  Summer 2000, Honors Thesis (Apker Award finalist)