Name your favorite books, authors, films, and/or artists. (50 word limit)
Feynman Lectures on Physics, Christopher Nolan, What the Bleep Do We Know - Quantum Physics, Cloud Atlas, Blade Runner, A Serious Man, Interstellar, Star Wars/Trek, Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Corporation, No Country for Old Men, Infinite Jest, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Pokémon.
What newspapers, magazines, and/or websites do you enjoy? (50 word limit)
Quora, New York Times, LEGO.com (nostalgia), Wired, Forbes, The Nerdwriter, Honest Trailers, PBS Spacetime. I also love The Young Turks’ and Stefan Molyneux's podcasts. The former is very liberal and the latter is very conservative. This forces me to continuously evolve my political opinions and ideologies. It's fun.
What were your favorite events (e.g., performances, exhibits, competitions, conferences, etc.) in recent years? (50 word limit)
Adele concert, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Lincoln and Washington monuments (when we went, there was a brilliant rainbow that overlit the sky), judging middle school Lego Robotics competitions, Comic-Con, AZ State Science Bowl, watching Mad Max: Fury Road in IMAX, attending a birthday party at “Escape the Room.”
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How did you spend your last two summers? (50 word limit)
This past summer, I interned at the Single Molecule Lab at Johns Hopkins, conducted research sending problems to the DWave quantum computer, wrote pieces for my blog. Last summer, I attended Quantum Mechanics at the Stanford Summer Institute, meeting fun and diverse people from places like Indonesia and China.
What is the most significant challenge that society faces today? (50 word limit)
Income inequality. By ensuring that educational opportunities are not determined by income or geographic location, we can help lessen the disparity between lower income and higher income populations in the US.
What historical moment or event do you wish you could have witnessed? (50 word limit)
The 1927 Fifth Solvay International Conference. Einstein, Bohr, Born, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Pauli, DeBroglie, Planck, and Lorenz were in attendance. If they just could’ve dragged the nine-year-old Feynman from New York and the yet-to-be-born John Bell from Ireland we could've had all the great twentieth-century physicists in one place!
What five words best describe you?
Smiley, passion-powered, physics lover, dreamthinker.