Steve and Hanna's Web Site





Welcome!






Blue Angels 2018

Grand Canyon 2018

Hawaii 2015

Blue Angels 2014

Kings Canyon 2014

chopin

2009 Poland Trip

2007 Hawaii Trip

Steve's Pictures on Photo.net

Steve's Pictures on Panoramio.com


Pictures from our Wedding!

A Walk Behind Our House



New Astrophotos on Astrobin



Astrophotos

Launch of Space Shuttle STS-107!



Come join me in the Grand Canyon!

or on the Big Island of Hawaii (Dolphins and Whales and Sea Turtles, oh My!)


Liquid Light for OS X


My Music Page

My Electronic Compositions

or Piano Improvisations

My Synthesizer Page

My Debussy page


I grew up in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to California to do graduate school at Berkeley in 1981. I now live with my honey Hania and our cats in Marin, California among wonderful hills, redwoods and streams. I love to walk in the hills and sometimes climb Mount Tamalpais from my house.

I have strong interests in US foreign policy, and Chinese culture and politics holds a special charm for me. I also like to study world religions, as a window of understanding into people and how we work. I enjoy classic science fiction and poetry, particularly Rilke.

I work at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain view on the Kepler mission, finding lots of planets around other stars. Prior to that I had a short stint working on numerical methods for non-linear evolution equations. Further in the past I had a good run helping to pioneer applications of virtual reality to scientific visualization. All of that was at NASA. 

I have many interests. My formal training is in mathematical physics, particularly the application of geometry and topology to classical and quantum field theories. Though it's been a while since I've taken classes in these subjects I try to keep up by reading. My main focii are general relativity and the classical structure of gauge theories. These interests have an outlet in the adult-education courses I teach at the California Academy of Sciences (when I have the time). I have a strong interest in astronomy and astrophysics, and own a 12.5" Mead dobsonian reflector.

Course notes from my classes can be found here.



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