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Joined: 18 Oct 2000
Posts: 2733
Location: Atlanta, USA
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 Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:59 pm
Mike Potter and His Resume
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For kicks I just took another look at your resume. I don't know if it's by design or because of the changes you've been making to the site the first letter of most of the lines in headers and topics is 2 - 3 times larger than the others.
I was also looking there because I was curious to know if you still did any research, reading or writing in Astrophysics? For example I recently read that the FermiLab may beat CERN in the search for the top quark. (Forgive me I don't have my Scientific American with me so I may be mis-referencing the article).
I know I'm rambling and this post probably doesn't belong where I put it, but I was curious and couldn't think of a better place to place the post. |
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Zugg
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Joined: 25 Sep 2000
Posts: 23379
Location: Colorado, USA
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:51 pm
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Yes, the larger initial letter was considered "stylish" back in the day :) It's been a long time since I updated it (haven't needed my resume for a while thankfully). Maybe I'll update it some night so that it doesn't look so clunky.
And yes, my PostDoc position at Los Alamos National Lab was in Astrophysics. I was involved in a project called "Cygnus" many years ago that was searching for ultra-high-energy particles from various point sources. We published some findings back in 1990 or so. As you might expect, I did a lot of the software for the project. I still keep up with reading when I can, although I don't actually subscribe to Scientific American anymore.
It's actually kind of sad how much physics and math I've forgotten over the years. |
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Rainchild
Wizard
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 1551
Location: Australia
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:31 pm
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| Zugg wrote: |
| It's actually kind of sad how much physics and math I've forgotten over the years. |
But ask him about pattern matching and path finding and woah!
It's interesting how the brain works, I bet if you were given a task it would all come rushing back to you, so if you ever do have a wave of physics nostalgia (is there such a thing?), you would probably be right on the ball again quickly. I'd say the hardest thing you'd face is learning the last 17 odd years of discoveries and revisions to theory. |
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