Steven Dorsher
Computational Astrophysicist and Educator
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I have had a 15+ year research career in physics and astronomy, over the course of my bachelor's degree, three master's degrees, and since my final graduation. Most of this (10+ years) has been in computational physics. My primary focus is in general relativity, black holes, and gravitational waves. I have also done research in cosmology, particle physics, neutrinos, exoplanets, the three-body Newtonian gravity problem, and fractional calculus.
I have 9 main publications/documents and 27 total, including membership in LIGO, spanning the time of the first three detections.
My background is primarily in scientific programming, in the context of data analysis algorithms, experiment development and assessment, and numerical methods for theory.
I have been a teacher or tutor for over 10 years. I recently left a tutoring job I loved, where I was getting good reviews but few students, due to a situation that was dangerous to me. Right now, I would be extremely well prepared for a remote tutoring job in a drop-in center in both semesters of intro physics, both semesters of intro calculus, trigonometry, precalculus, or algebra II. I have tutored at both the high school and college level. My teaching experience is in leading college laboratory classes in introductory physics for majors and non-majors, both semesters.
Education:
MS Physics, LSU, December 2017
MS Physics, U of MN, July 2013
MS Astronomy, Ohio State, August 2006
BS Physics, MIT, June 2004
Physics Fields:
General Relativity
Black Holes (EMRI's, LISA)
Gravitational Waves (LIGO)
Particle Physics
Neutrinos (MINOS, NOvA)
Exoplanets
Cosmology
Fractional Calculus
I have been working as a tutor most of the time since my last master's degree in 2017, and although I have done some programming and research, I could not pass any coding test today. However, I have substantial experience in this field, and I would love to return to it as a hobby or career. I am hoping AI has not made my knowledge obsolete. I would also like to point out that I can't afford AWS or any similar cloud platform, and I do not have a supercomputer allocation and, in general, rarely have had one.
Scientific Computing Languages:
Programming languages:
Python (numpy, matplotlib, pandas, tensorflow, random, scipy, seaborn, bokeh, mpi4py, ray tracing geodesics in general relativity, interpolation, fitting, Runge-Kutta, differential equations, github, Ubuntu, WSL, Jupyter)
C++ (5 years) (valgirnd, gdb, libblas, MPI, OpenMP, discontinuous Galerkin method, multipole decomposition, Runge-Kutta, differential equations, github, macOS, Ubuntu, bash)
Fortran (5 years) (Monte Carlo simulations, discontinuous Galerkin method, multipole decomposition, Runge-Kutta, differential equations, macOS, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat)
MATLAB (2.5 years) (signal processing, spectrograms, Fourier transforms, Monte Carlo simulations, fitting, goodness of fit, residuals, error bars, svn, Red Hat )
C (1.5 years) (Numerical Recipes in C, numerical integration, Monte Carlo simulations, Debian)
Java (1 year) (HBase API, github, Ubuntu)
On names and ID: My degrees were granted under the name of Susan Dorsher, which is my legal name (I have sent LinkedIn ID in the form of my passport card and MN state ID). The majority of my publications are under Steven Dorsher (please see ORCID or ResearchGate where both names are listed) to reflect the name I have used personally and professionally since 2009. Please, I go by Steven.
This is my real name and identity. I do not have alternate identities. My Guild Wars 2: WaveIn; SWTOR legacy: Dreamstar. FFXIV: Eternal Spiralduality. MIT & 90's: eirl; Legend's LARPing in 2000's: Aurbren
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