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authorBlaise Thompson <blaise@untzag.com>2018-06-13 09:15:57 -0500
committerBlaise Thompson <blaise@untzag.com>2018-06-13 09:15:57 -0500
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\item Developed novel algorithms to streamline optical parametric amplifier tuning procedures.
\item Maintained and conducted experiments on a custom ultrafast laser system.
\item Contributed to general-purpose multidimensional spectra modeling software.
- \item Taught younger students how to use instrumentation.
+ \item Taught fellow students how to use instrumentation.
\end{rSubsection}
\begin{rSubsection}{Matthew J. Cote Group - microscopy and plasmonics}{2009 - 2011}
{Undergraduate Researcher}{Lewiston ME}
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<center>
725 W Washington Ave. Apt. 306 <br>
Madison, WI 53715 <br>
+ USA <br>
<br>
1 424 225 2493 <br>
blaise@untzag.com <br>
@@ -54,13 +55,13 @@
</p></h3>
<em><a href="http://wright.chem.wisc.edu">John C. Wright Group</a></em><br>
<ul>
- <li>Used ultrafast spectroscopy to research semiconductor systems, with a focus on solar energy canditates.</li>
+ <li>Used ultrafast spectroscopy to research semiconductor systems, with a focus on solar energy candidates.</li>
<li>Designed and constructed software tools to collect and process multidmensional spectra.</li>
<li>Designed and constructed optomechanical and electronic hardware.</li>
<li>Developed novel algorithms to streamline optical paramteric amplifier tuning procedures.</li>
<li>Maintained and conducted experiments on a custom ultrafast laser system.</li>
<li>Contributed to general-purpose multidimensional spectra modeling software.</li>
- <li>Taught younger students how to use instrumentation.</li>
+ <li>Taught fellow students how to use instrumentation.</li>
</ul>
For more information, see my dissertation: <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ik2aaVaT-60R2KSATaFOlG5qDiR_xRze">Development of Frequency Domain Multidimensional Spectroscopy with Applications in Semiconductor Photophysics</a>
@@ -206,7 +207,7 @@ Journal of the Americal Chemical Society (2014)
<h2 id="presentations"><span>PRESENTATIONS</span></h2>
-<ol>
+<ol reversed>
<li>
<header><h3><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UWnfb_HsGg7ay7mKl2qscoikOWQsZRNl">Nonlinear Multidimensional Spectroscopy</a></h3>
@@ -260,12 +261,22 @@ Madison, WI USA
<em>Software for controlling hardware and collecting data in the Wright Group.</em>
<ul>
<li>Supplies modular hardware control, calibration, and orchestration during complex, long-lasting CMDS experiments.</li>
- <li>Provides interface to optomechanical hardware from a variety of manufactures, including National Instruments, Thorlabs, Horiba, Newport, and Aerotech. Also controls hardware built and customized in-house.</li>
+ <li>Provides interface to optomechanical hardware from a variety of manufacturers, including National Instruments, Thorlabs, Horiba, Newport, and Aerotech. Also controls hardware built and customized in-house.</li>
<li>Focuses on seamless user experience with integrations such as automatic data backup and notification via Slack.</li>
<li>In conjunction with contemporaneous hardware improvements, algorithmic improvements in acquisition strategy increased scan rate by up to two orders of magnitude over prevous software.</li>
</ul>
<header><h3><p>
+ <span>Co-creator: <a href="https://github.com/wright-group/WrightSim">WrightSim</a></span>
+ <span>2017-Present</span>
+</p></h3>
+<em>Efficient, flexable simulation package for multidimensional spectroscopy.</em>
+<ul>
+ <li>Uses Liouville's theorem to numerically simulate nonlinear spectroscopy.</li>
+ <li>See also <a href="https://github.com/wright-group/NISE">NISE</a>, the predecessor of WrightSim.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<header><h3><p>
<span>Contributor: <a href="https://github.com/dib-lab/osf-cli">osfclient</a></span>
<span>2017</span>
</p></h3>
@@ -275,6 +286,7 @@ Madison, WI USA
<li>Distribute on conda-forge.</li>
</ul>
+
<h2 id="teaching"><span>TEACHING EXPERIENCE</span></h2>
<header><h3><p>
@@ -295,7 +307,7 @@ Madison, WI USA
<em>Teaching assistant, 1 semester.</em>
<ul>
<li>Led laboratory section of course.</li>
- <li>Introduced graduate students to basic electronics skills such as bread-boarding, oscilliscope usage, component choice, and enclosure design / construction.</li>
+ <li>Introduced graduate students to basic electronics skills such as breadboarding, oscilliscope usage, component choice, and enclosure design / construction.</li>
<li>Assisted students during extended independent instrument design and construction.</li>
</ul>
@@ -309,7 +321,7 @@ Madison, WI USA
<li>Prepared homework assignments and led homework review sessions.</li>
<li>Lectured in professor's absence.</li>
<li>Switched course from mathcad to Python using Jupyter notebooks, introducing first-year graduate students to script-based programming.</li>
- <li>Recieved James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award.</li>
+ <li>Received James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award.</li>
</ul>
<header><h3><p>