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Brant Carlson

email: (my first name).carlson@gmail.com2005-2009: Ph.D, Physics

Stanford University.

Thesis: Terrestrial gamma-ray flash production by lightning. Advisor: Umran Inan

2001-2005: B.S., Physics, with honor

California Institute of Technology.2010-present: Postdoctoral scholar

Built models of terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF) production mechanisms and models of observations of TGF-associated electrons, built lightning electrodynamics models and made comparisons to data.

2006-2009: Graduate student researcher

Theoretical studies of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes. Built Monte Carlo simulations of energetic particle interactions, wrote lightning electromagnetics models, analyzed statistics of satellite data and cosmic ray physics, published several results.

2004-2005: Physics undergraduate senior thesis

Search for impurities in scintillator for KamLAND. Designed and executed neutron capture and gamma-ray spectroscopy experiments with cryogenic germanium detectors, analyzed resulting data, no significant impurities were found.

2002-2004: Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships

Modeling and data analysis for the California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory. Simulated cosmic ray air showers with AIRES, modeled resulting observations, wrote maximum likelihood estimators to determine cosmic ray parameters, developed visualization software and web interfaces for data search and analysis.Spring 2009: Led study group

Stanford University, for new research group members.

Winter 2009: Teaching Assistant

Stanford University, Physics 23, E&M and waves.

Summer 2008: Teaching Fellow / Lecturer

Stanford University, EE242, Electromagnetic Waves.

Winter 2008: Teaching Assistant

Stanford University, EE356, Plasma Physics.

2003-2005: Teaching Assistant

California Institute of Technology, assorted laboratory courses.2005-2008: Stanford Benchmark Fellowship

3-year Stanford Graduate Fellowship.

June 2005: Sigma Xi Award

Excellence in research, California Institute of Technology.

June 2005: Kothari Prize

Outstanding undergraduate thesis, California Institute of Technology

2004-2005: Upper-class Merit Scholarship

Full scholarship, California Institute of Technology

2004-2005: Goldwater Scholarship

Partial scholarship, California Institute of Technology

Peer-Reviewed Publications

12+ publications in refereed journals, see .

Conference Presentations

23+ talks and posters at conferences and workshops, see .C/C++, Python, Perl, Haskell, Lisp, RMonte Carlo, statistics, RK4, fitting, . . .Matlab, Mathematica, Root, GSL, . . .LaTeX, Inkscape, ScribusHDF5, FITS, Root, SQL, . . .GEANT4, AIRES, FLUKA, LWPC, . . .R, Asymptote, PyX, OpenGL, . . .Linux, Vim, Apache, . . .

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