Erin De Pree
The College of William and Mary, Department of Physics, P.O. Box 8795
Education
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Ph.D. in Physics expected in 2008
M.S. in Physics 2004
B.S. summa
cum laude in Physics and Mathematics 2003
Honors program
Honors in Mathematics, Thesis: “Failure of Sequences” (Advisor: J. Boardman)
Awards
Rolf G. Winter Teaching Award 2004
The College of William and Mary
Outstanding Senior Physics major 2003
Hillsdale College
Taylor Mathematics Prize 2003
Hillsdale College
Annual CRC Press LLC Freshman Chemistry Achievement Award 1999
Delta Community College
Research Experience
The College of William and Mary 2004 – 2005
KK top – bound states with regular quarks, decays, lifetime, branching ratios
Advisor: Dr. Marc Sher and Dr. Josh Erlich
The College of William and Mary summer 2004
Experimental neutrino physics: worked on the MINOS project. Wrote a c++ program to predict matter effects of 2- and 3-flavor neutrino oscillations.
Advisor: Dr. Jeff Nelson
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
REU Program summer 2002
Studied the effects of disorder caused by decreasing the thickness of very
clean, ultra-thin, superconducting niobium films which leads to an increase in
interface scattering
Advisor: Dr. Laura Greene
Los Alamos National Laboratory summer 2001
Computational geophysics: modeling runaway subduction of the seafloor to the
core-mantel boundary
Advisor: Dr. John Baumgardner
Teaching Experience
The College of William and Mary
Teaching Assistant 2003–present
Taught two introductory physics laboratories each semester (fall 2003, spring
2004, fall 2004, and spring 2005)
Hillsdale College
Physics tutor 2000 – 2003
Helped introductory physics students with their homework (4 hrs/wk)
Publications
E. De Pree and M. Sher, “Kaluza-Klein Mesons in Universal Extra Dimensions,” accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D, 2005. [arXiv.org: hep-ph/0507313]
E. De Pree, “Dramatic Effects of Ultra-Thin Niobium Film Thickness on Superconducting Properties,” Proceedings of the Summer 2002 University of Illinois Physics “Research Experiences for Undergraduates,” ed. N. Drummer and G. Gladding (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), pp. 25-34 (2002)
Presentations
“The Failure of
Sequences”
presented at the 2003 Joint Annual
Meeting of the Michigan Section of the Mathematical Association of America and
MichMATYC, the Michigan Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges (Saginaw
Valley State University), 3 May 2003.
Conferences
Frontiers in Contemporary Physics 2005
May 23-28, 2005
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee
Memberships
American Physics Society
joined in 2000
Sigma Pi Sigma
physics honorary
joined in 2001
President of Hillsdale chapter (2002-2003)
Kappa Mu Epsilon
mathematics and computer science honorary
joined in 2001
Sigma Zeta
science and mathematics honorary
joined in 2001
Service Experience
Graduate Studies Committee summer
2005 - present
Graduate Student Representative
Department of Physics, The College of William and Mary