Christine Nattrass
Post doc in the Relativistic Heavy Ion Group at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville
christine.nattrass@utk.edu
Publications
Thesis
Talks Posters
Cirriculum vitae
Christine's Recipes
About Me
I am a recent graduate from the relativistic heavy ion physics
group at Yale University. My thesis work was on high pT triggered correlations. I
studied collisions at both 62 GeV and 200 GeV in the STAR detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. I studied
correlations with identified strange particles (lambda and anti-lambda,
K0s, and xi and anti-xi) identified in the STAR TPC by the
reconstruction of their decay verticies in Cu+Cu collisions at 200
GeV. I also compared the results for unidentified hadrons at 62
GeV and 200 GeV. I recently began a post doctoral position on ALICE at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
I was a teaching assistant every Spring and Fall semester in
gradute school, including physics lab for premeds, physics for
non-majors, graduate math methods, and differential equations. I
was a tutor for the Colorado State University College of Natural
Sciences tutorial hall for four years. I have attended several
seminars and lectures on teaching and tutoring and I am a certified
tutor.
For more details of my research, teaching, and service work please see my resume and my talks or email me.
In addition to being a heavy ion physicist, I am also an avid cook and
I brew my own beer, wine, and mead. Since I moved this year I am
not currently brewing anything, however, I am planning on buying a
kegging system in the near future and I still have to make a few
batches of thesis beer.
I used to bike all of the time, since I did not have a car. I
have five bikes. It is impossible to live in Knoxville without a
car, so I now have a little blue Hyundai Accent - named the Poison Dart
Frog. This is a me-sized car. I also run and weight
lift. Physics has dramatically reduced the amount of time
I spend on non-science related activities, but when I get time I still
play cello, sing, and play guitar. I am a former rugby player and
archer.
Somewhat obsolete links
Research Web page (STAR only)
Notes on ALICE calorimeter work
Useful computer info for the RHIG group
PH166 website
Information on how to get to New Haven from various Airports