Kevin Schlaufman

Noi non potemo aver perfetta vita senza amici

I attended the Pennsylvania State University as an undergraduate where I studied mathematics and astronomy and astrophysics in the Eberly College of Science and Schreyer Honors College.  I did my undergraduate honors thesis in Penn State's Center for Gravitational Wave Physics; it involved a study of the performance of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. I picked up a master's degree from Stanford University in a program called Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics with a concentration in statistics.  While there, I worked at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology. I've also worked at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory and at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

I was born and raised in the 9th rainiest and 13th snowiest city in the continental US -- Erie, Pennsylvania and attended McDowell High School. As a result, I'm constantly marveling at the beautiful weather here in California.

Friends' webpages (let me know if you want to be included)

• Matt Turk

• Phil Marshall

• Justin Eichenlaub

• Marc Friedenberg

• Fen Zhao

• John Wise

• Lance Sims

• Kenny Lau

• Many UCSC Astro Grad Students

Newspapers I read

• The New York Times

• The San Francisco Chronicle

• The Santa Cruz Sentinel

• The Daily Collegian

• The Stanford Daily

Letters to the editor I've written

• I had this to say in response to this letter to Penn State's Daily Collegian

• I had this to say in response to this letter to Penn State's Daily Collegian

• I had this to say in response to David Brooks' column in the New York Times dated 5/5/2005

• I had this to say in response to this Penn State Daily Collegian Editorial

Pictures

I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.  Life's been good to me so far...