Henry Smith
Bio:
Henry Smith is math-Physics Double major at Kenyon College in his Junior Year. He is a native of Somers, NY, outside of New York City. Despite neither parent having a particularly scientific background, he has wanted to be a scientist of some kind for nearly his entire life, considering. at various times, engineering, chemistry, or, finally, physics. He was convinced to pursue physics after taking it for two years in high school with an enthusiastic and extremely knowledgeable teacher. His twin sister Katy is also pursuing a scientific career in geoscience.
Outside of physics, Henry enjoys reading, especially hard science fiction, epic poetry and Shakespeare. When he is home, he often goes into New York City to see various show's on Broadway, with his family, and to take advantage of several of the fantastic dining establishments the city has to offer. He is an avid snowboarder and enjoys playing basketball even though he is terrible at it. He is currently treasurer of the Beta Alpha chapter of Beta Theta Pi and is a weekly volunteer at Wiggins Street Elementary school.
Henry's research this summer will investigate the effects of an anisotropically expanding universe, investigating a class of space-time metrics known as Bianchi metrics. He will compare the evolution of these metrics with random initial conditions to type 1a supernova data to determine what sets of initial conditions would be expected for each metric.
