I'm a professor in the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University. My research centers around building and using new instruments to measure properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, a relic glow from the Big Bang.
I'm currently involved in two major CMB projects: the South Pole Telescope (which saw first light in 2007 and is currently on its 3rd generation camera), and CMB-S4 (a new set of instruments we'd designing, which will make observations from both Chile and the South Pole).
The courses I teach here varies from year to year, but lately has included a junior/senior level course in Physical Optics, and a sophomore-level electronics laboratory course. We use Arduino's in the electronics course, and I love to see the creative projects the students inevitably come up with for that!
As you might notice from the "Resources" page if you look there, I'm a huge fan of python jupyter notebooks as a tool for exploring simple (and some not-so-simple?) problems and topics in physics and data analysis. Having grown up as personal computers were just coming to be, and in the text-only era when interactive plotting was so much more difficult, I'm in awe of, and grateful for, today's tools! I'm even more thankful that they are free!
