current professional projects & interests

  

   Completion of graduate course work en route to Ph.D. in theoretical condensed matter physics, Yale University department of physics

   Analysis of decoherence-free subspaces in supersymmetric oscillator nets for quantum computation (Prof. Steven Girvin, Advisor)

   Theoretical models of ultra-cold polar molecules as the substrate for qubits (Prof. David DeMille, Advisor)

   Evolutionary programming of quantum information algorithms

   Massive parallel processing and quantum annealing in biological systems

   Adaptive and self-organizing systems methods applied to market analysis and investment

I am presently completing coursework and other academic requirements prior to taking up full-time research activity in the Girvin and de Mille groups at Yale in pursuit of a Ph.D. in (theoretical condensed matter) physics. I am especially interested in fundamental quantum theory and its application to quantum computation, as also in quantum effects in biological systems (e.g., protein-folding as a form of quantum annealing, which as a minimization problem may be considered an alternate, “parallel”  form of [already-parallel] quantum computation). A recent paper explores supersymmetric quantum many-body systems (combined boson and fermion sites) as fertile ground for the decoherence-free subspaces useful in quantum information processing (see Decoherence-Free Subspaces in Supersymmetric Oscillator Networks (quant-ph/0211172). During the 2002-2003 school year, I have been privileged to serve as the head teaching fellow for the introductory physics sequence for physical science majors at Yale. The course is taught by Professor R. Shankar, chairman of physics and long-standing member of the Condensed Matter Theoretical Physics group.

I also serve as the "quant" for a private market-neutral quantitative hedge fund headquartered in Westport, Connecticut. The fund applies the principals of statistical physics and adaptive systems for the identification, allocation and trading of securities and commodities.