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I'm a postdoc in the Physics Department at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, working in the area of experimental high energy particle physics. I work on a number of different projects, among them:

• The Belle Experiment at the KEKB electron-positron collider located in Tsukuba, Japan.
• The Belle II upgrade to the existing Belle Experiment.
• The Large Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD) project.
• Various other projects in the UH Instrumentation Development Lab

• I also sometimes cover the UH Physics Computational Physics Course, Physics 305 as well as Electronics for Physicists.

Check out some of my current activities below. Anyone who bothers to read this can probably tell I don't update it often. I'm thinking of implementing a slightly different way to organize my work, so check back “soon.”

• My Google Calendar

• Links

Current Activities:

• iTOP: Imaging Time of Propagation Particle ID System
  • Geant4 Simulations
  • Cosmic Test Stand
    • Muon Tracking Readout (TRAMP)
    • Geometry Simulations
• Belle Physics Analysis
• NBB
• fDIRC Development (primarily data acquisition & electronics)
• Timing Calibrations
• Physics 476 Projects
  • Spring 2008 (Board design)
    • Muon Tracking Readout (TRAMP)
    • MPPC Test Board (Physics 476 Project Page)
  • Spring 2010 (ASIC design)
    • TRigger-Onboard Gigahertz Digitizer Optimized for Range (TROGDOR)

If you'd like to contact me about anything, physics related or otherwise, you can reach me at kurtisn(at)phys(dot)hawaii(dot)edu.