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 - Graduate Student at Case Western Reserve University.
Reid Pfaltzgraff-Carlson, '26 - Graduate Student at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Adam Blum, '25 - Graduate Student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Eve Currens, '25 - Graduate Student at the University of Massachusetts.
Amanda Miller, '25 - Graduate Student at The Ohio State University.
Wyatt Phillips, '25 - Graduate Student at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Sophie Schmitz, '24 - Graduate Student at the University of Iowa.
Isaac Tjandra, '24 - Graduate Student at the University of North Carolina.
Ericka Florio, '23 - Graduate Student at the University of Cambridge.
Mary Gerhardinger, '23 - Graduate Student at the University of Pennsylvania.
Rand Burnette, '20 - Graduate Student at Oregon State University.
Ryn Grutkoski, '20 - Graduate Student at the University of Chicago.
Sarah Murphree (Maggie), '19 - Graduate Student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Rachel Nguyen, '19 - Graduate Student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Patrick Shaw, '19 - Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University
Christian Solorio, '18 - Graduate Student at Oregon State University
Caroline Popiel, '18 - Graduate Student at the University of Vermont
Arthur Conover, '17 - Graduate Student at the University of Virginia.
Avery Tishue, '17 - Graduate Student at Dartmouth College.
Eva Nesbit, '16 - Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics at Kenyon College.
Zachary Weiner (Zach), '16 - Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Washington.
Timothy Scully (Tim), '15 - Graduate Student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Ryan Darragh, '14 - Graduate Student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Hillary Child, '13 - Consultant.
Tate Deskins, '13 - Data Scientist.
Evan Pease, '11 - Data Scientist
David Bohl, '09 (Bates College) - Graduate Student at TBA
Les Wade, '09 (Bates College) - Associate Professor of Physics at Kenyon College (!)
