Season 1 Episode 5

Dr. Sasa Prelovsek is an associate professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her hobbies include making furniture, playing piano, sewing her own clothes, running and hiking among others. She calculates masses and decay times for various conventional and exotic particles made out of quarks using ab-initio lattice QCD. This has exciting implications for ongoing experiments, which are discovering a new interesting exotic hadron every few months. During Covid, she enjoyed a walk to a nearby hill every afternoon, accompanied by her husband and at least one of three kids.  

My Journey as a Physicist is brought to you by PhD student Bryan Stanley (he/him/his) and Prof. Huey-Wen Lin (she/her). 

Season 1 features interviews with the 2021 INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.

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Season 1 Episode 4

Dr. Zohreh Davoudi is an assistant professor at University of Maryland. She is the "Quantum Simulation" Instructor for the INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.  

"I am a theoretical physicist originally from Iran. In my free time, I enjoy reading political/social/cultural/medical commentaries. I also love fashion, design, and architecture. My research involves applying a range of theoretical and computational tools, from effective field theories and lattice QCD to classical and quantum computing to study the core of matter from the underlying Standard Model. I love my research since my theoretical-minded view of fundamental physics got expanded and deepened once I started figuring out how to "compute" nature from first principles — classically and quantum-mechanically! A year into the pandemic, I calculated that I gained 28 working days (= 8 hrs each) and reduced my carbon footprint by more than 3000 lbs by not having to commute to work!"  

My Journey as a Physicist is brought to you by PhD student Bryan Stanley (he/him/his) and Prof. Huey-Wen Lin (she/her).

Season 1 features interviews with the 2021 INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.

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Season 1 Episode 3

Dr. Meifeng Lin is computational scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory. She is the "High Performance Computing" Instructor for the INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.  

"I am a computational scientist with a background in lattice QCD. I am also learning to be a gardener in my spare time. My research focuses on the efficient utilization of the world's fastest supercomputers. I love my research as I get to work with scientists from different domains, and learn a lot of cool science. I have been working from home since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although I miss seeing my friends and colleagues, I have enjoyed spending more time at home with my six-year-old and my cat."  

My Journey as a Physicist is brought to you by PhD student Bryan Stanley (he/him/his) and Prof. Huey-Wen Lin (she/her). 

Season 1 features interviews with the 2021 INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.

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Season 1 Episode 2

Prof. Raúl Briceño (he/him) is an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University and a Joint Theory staff member at Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. He is the "Hadron Spectroscopy and Resonance" Instructor for the INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.  

"I'm originally from Venezuela, and in my free time I love climbing, biking, dancing, and sometimes painting. These days I also spend lots of time developing and hosting outreach programs to diversify the STEM. My research focuses on different aspects of few-body physics and scattering theory in/out of the lattice. What's there not to love about research? You get to spend your life being challenged and talking to remarkably interesting and smart people. I work in various outreach  programs to diversify the STEM which were canceled due to COVID, so we created REYES. This is a virtual program for inspiring the next generation of scientist, and in our first year we had over 7,000 participants for all over the world."  

My Journey as a Physicist is brought to you by PhD student Bryan Stanley (he/him/his) and Prof. Huey-Wen Lin (she/her). 

Season 1 features interviews with the 2021 INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.

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Season 1 Episode 1

Prof. Christopher Aubin (he/him/his) is an Associate Professor of Physics at Fordham University. He is the "Cooking in LQCD — Flavor physics on the lattice" Instructor for the INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD. 

"I am a gay physicist who loves (rescue) dogs and boardgames. A lot of my work is focused on analyzing systematic errors associated with lattice calculations as well as getting undergraduates involved in this research. I enjoy the ability to add to the body of knowledge in the world to assist even in the smallest way to understanding this universe just a little bit more. By teaching virtually I was able to spend six weeks with my family during the spring (the peak of the outbreak in NYC) during a difficult time when otherwise I couldn't have done so — while still not a great time, it was better because of COVID." 

My Journey as a Physicist is brought to you by PhD student Bryan Stanley (he/him/his) and Prof. Huey-Wen Lin (she/her). 

Season 1 features interviews with the 2021 INT Summer School on Problem Solving in Lattice QCD.

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