David Steele
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Department of Physics
1150 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
e-mail:
steele@amanda.wisc.edu
Education
Computer Skills
- Operating Systems
Linux/UNIX, Windows, Macintosh
- Software
LA TEX
PAW++
Microsoft Office and other Windows programs
IGOR (Macintosh)
- Programming Languages
Experience and Activities
- Astronomy in the Ice: Summer Master's course in Science Education at UW-River Falls,
co-instructor 2000, 2001, 2002.
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K-Thru-Infinity Fellow, UW-Madison, 2000 - 2002
- Teaching Assistant, General Physics (E&M), UW-Madison, Fall 1999
- Teaching Assistant, Physics in the Arts, UW-Madison, Fall 1998
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WCKN Television
- Station Manager, 1997-1998
- Executive Producer of FOCUS, 1997-1998
- Executive News Producer, 1995-1996
- News Anchor 1994-1998
- Physics Group Tutor, Clarkson University, Fall 1995.
Research Experience
Research Assistant, UW-Madison, 1999-2005
AMANDA (Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array)
Data analysis, Monte-Carlo simulation, muon track reconstruction
Research Assistant, UW-Madison 1999
Atomic Physics
Development of a far-off-resonance atom trap (FORT)
Research Assistant,
Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Group P-23, 1996, 1997, 1998
High precision beta asymmetry experiment
Monte Carlo Analysis
Calibration of photo-multiplier tubes
Publications
- Observation of Atmospheric Neutrinos with Cherenkov Detectors
Embedded in Deep Antarctic Ice, Nature
- Observation of High Energy Atmospheric Neutrinos with AMANDA (with J.~Ahrens et al.),
Phys. Rev. D66, 012005 (2002)
Last updated July, 2005