About me:

I am an associate professor in the Department of Physics at Allegheny College, in my hometown of Meadville, PA. My undergraduate studies were in physics at Princeton University, and I went to graduate school in the Department of Astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. I taught at Vassar College for eight years before arriving at Allegheny in 2006. I have beautiful daughters named Lynnea and Abigail, and my wife Sheryl is a beautiful person too. .

My research students and I do work in computational astrophysics. In particular, we use hydrodynamic simulations to help determine what happens when stars collide. For details, see my publication list.

Last updated: August 2006