Physics
The majority of the physics papers which I have written were written for MIT's junior laboratory affectionately known as "Junior Lab" (and also goes by the numbers of 8.13 and 8.14). Of all of the physics classes at MIT that I have taken, Junior Lab has been both the most fun and the most hated. Needless to say it continues the typical love/hate relationship that most MIT students have with their studies and set me back a full semester in sleep. During the two semesters, the experiments that I had the opportunity research spanned a huge scope from mapping the 21cm radiation of the Milky Way to implementing the Deutsch-Josza algorithm on a two qubit quantum computer. Of course, the good old standards of physics were not neglected with such experiments as the Zeeman effect and relativistic dynamics. All of the data presented in these papers is original, excluding the quantum cryptography paper, which was written for Quantum Mechanics III (8.06) and was meant as an introduction to the state of the art of quantum cryptosystems. Both semesters of Junior Lab I had a lab partner, Lawrence and Rurick respectively, but in the end we individually were required to do all research and analysis. The papers presented here have not been published, nor will they be, just like the papers in my Math section.
I have also included with these papers a paper that I wrote while researching at CERN. During the summer of my sophomore year (2006) I had the opportunity to work the MIT CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) group at CERN and work on the simulation of the Drell-Yan dimuon production process. While the paper is very, very incomplete, and by no means in a final form, I include it just so that people have an opportunity to see what I spent my summer doing. At the time the paper was written, the reconstruction software was in a very initial form, and most of my work went into working with the fast release schedule and developing a mass generation Monte Carlo project for the GRID. I returned to CERN the winter of my junior year (2007) and worked on writing a monitoring program for the HLT (High Level Trigger). I have now returned again to CERN for the summer of my junior year (2007) and am currently working on a project regarding tau's within CMS. In the end I truly am a particle physicist at heart and hope that I will be able to continue to research in such areas.