Principal Investigator
John T. Giblin, Jr (Tom) - Tom has been at Kenyon Since 2009 and is currently a Professor of Physics. Tom is interested in how numerical methods can help us learn about fundamental physics. His interests are in Cosmology, Particle Physics and Computation.
You can also visit my page on the Kenyon Website
Students
Cam Benedix - Cam is a junior physics and math double major from Greencastle, Indiana. He is studying the effects of nonlinear gravity and relativistic fluid dynamics on cosmological first-order phase transitions.
Vivien (Viv) Luce - Viv is a junior physics major from Cleveland, Ohio. She is currently using a model of GABE with Newtonian gravity and gauge fields to test the viability of gauge preheating with the presence of charged particles.
Max Swanson - Max is a sophomore physics major from Valparaiso, Indiana. He is studying a hypothetical particle and potential dark matter candidate, the axion.
Jack Thatcher - Jack is a sophomore physics major from Boulder, Colorado. He is working on a project exploring the dynamics of axion and modulus fields that share a non-minimal gravitational coupling.
Alumni
Here are some of the past members of our group and where they are now:
Christine Kessens, '26 - Ph.D. Physics, Case Western Reserve University (in progress).
Reid Pfaltzgraff-Carlson, '26 - Ph.D. Physics, University of Rochester (in progress).
Adam Blum, '25 - Incoming Ph.D., Applied Mathematics & Computational Science, University of Pennsylvania.
Eve Currens, '25 - Ph.D. Physics, University of Massachusetts (in progress).
Amanda Miller, '25 - Ph.D. Physics, The Ohio State University (in progress).
Wyatt Phillips, '25 - Ph.D. Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (in progress).
Sophie Schmitz, '24 - M.S. Environmental Engineering, Iowa State University (in progress).
Isaac Tjandra, '24 - Ph.D. Physics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (in progress).
Ericka Florio, '23 - Ph.D. Physics, University of Cambridge (in progress).
Mary Gerhardinger, '23 - Ph.D. Physics, University of Pennsylvania (in progress).
Rand Burnette, '21 - Ph.D. Physics, Oregon State University (in progress).
Allegra Fass, '21 - M.S. Information Systems & Technology, Claremont Graduate University; currently Asst. Director of Admission Operations, Pitzer College.
Ryn Grutkoski, '21 - Ph.D. Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago (in progress).
Maria Huey, '21 - Musical Theater Choreographer and Math & Physics Tutor.
Gwyneth Phillips, '20 - Freelance Writer (Ghostwriting).
Sarah Murphree (Maggie), '19 - Graduate Student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Rachel Nguyen, '19 - Ph.D. Particle Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2024); currently Patent Examiner, USPTO.
Patrick Shaw, '19 - Ph.D. Physics (Cosmology and Astrophysics), Carnegie Mellon University (in progress).
Christian Solorio, '18 - Ph.D. Physics Education Research, Oregon State University (2023); currently Program Evaluator, Brockport Research Institute.
Caroline (Popiel) Valdez, '18 - M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Vermont (2020); Systems Engineer, Sikorsky (Lockheed Martin).
Arthur Conover, '17 - Graduate Student at the University of Virginia.
Avery Tishue, '17 - Ph.D. Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College; currently Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Furqan Dar, '16 - Ph.D. Physics, Washington University in St. Louis; currently AI Engineer / Data Scientist.
Eva Nesbit, '16 - Ph.D. Physics, Syracuse University (2021); currently Data Scientist, Chemical Abstracts.
Zachary Weiner (Zach), '16 - Ph.D. Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2021); currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Timothy Scully (Tim), '15 - M.S. Physics, University of Illinois; currently QA Engineer.
Ryan Darragh, '14 - Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder (2020); currently Senior Professional Staff, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Alexander New, '14 - Ph.D. Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2019); currently Senior Scientific Machine Learning Researcher, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Hillary Child, '13 - Ph.D. Physics, University of Chicago (2019); currently Principal, Boston Consulting Group.
Tate Deskins, '13 - Ph.D. Physics, Case Western Reserve University (2019); currently Director of Data Science, Independence Pet Holdings.
Evan Pease, '11 - Ph.D. Physics, Yale University (2017); currently Manager, Data Science and AI, Cisco.
David Bohl, '09 (Bates College) -
Les Wade, '09 (Bates College) - Associate Professor of Physics at Kenyon College (!)
