David Steele

e-mail: steele@amanda.wisc.edu

Education

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Ph.D. (August, 2005)
Neutrino Astrophysics
Dissertation: A Search for Point Sources of Neutrinos with AMANDA-II

Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York
B.S., May 1998
Physics and Mathematics
GPA: 4.0

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Computer Skills

• Operating Systems
  Linux/UNIX, Windows, Macintosh
• Software
  L^A T_EX
  PAW++
  Microsoft Office and other Windows programs
  IGOR (Macintosh)
• Programming Languages
  FORTRAN
  C
  HTML
  Java Perl

Experience and Activities

• Astronomy in the Ice: Summer Master's course in Science Education at UW-River Falls, co-instructor 2000, 2001, 2002.
• 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
• 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)