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Research
Research
My research involves unlocking the mysteries of some of the fundamental processes of the universe at the smallest scales whilst also examining collective phenomena at our and much-much larger scales.
My CV can be found here.
In particular, right now I am studying the SU(7) group and its associated Lie algebra in order to extend the gauge symmetry of the Georgi-Glashow SU(5) grand unification model. Recently, a former undergraduate research assistant and I published a paper on our work that you can find below.
I am also using maximum entropy techniques in order to solve partial differential equations associated with various collective transport phenomena. In fact, my collaborators from SUNY-Fredonia and I just published a paper that you can find below on how to solve these differential equations when you don't even know the differential equation.
Grand Unification
Grand Unification
Grand unification involves studying the symmetries of the low energy effective theory of particles physics, known as the Standard Model, and embedding those symmetries into a higher symmetry framework. In particular, I am currently interested in symmetries associated with the Lie Group SU(7).
Entropic Techniques
Entropic Techniques
I use maximum entropy techniques to solve various differential equations typically those associated with transport phenomena (such as diffusion, advection, or the Fokker-Planck euqations).
Neutrinos
Neutrinos
I am a member of the Helium And Lead Observatory (HALO) that is waiting, ever so patiently, for neutrinos originating from a Type II supernova in our galactic neighborhood.
For more details about my work, I have links to a number of my papers.
For more details about my work, I have links to a number of my papers.
on maximum entropy techniques applied to the cosh and sech probability distribution functions with undergraduate research assistant Daniel Jones,
on using the maximum entropy principle and the gaussian plume model,
on cosmologies with a variable scale-dependent gravitation parameter that I published with undergraduate research assistant and McNair Scholar Armando Vega-Colon in 2022,
"A Study in the Variation of G", J.A. Secrest and A. Vega-Colon, Journal of High Energy Physics, Gravitation and Cosmology, 8, 3 (2022)
on characteristics of the SU(7) Lie group that I published with undergraduate research assistant Daniel Jones in 2021,
on cosmology with large dimensions and a time varying gravitational parameter with undergraduate research assistant Andrew Goetz,
on using maximum entropy techniques to solving transport equations that I published with collaborators from SUNY-Fredonia in 2020,
on algebraic properties of the SU(7) Lie group that I published with undergraduate research assistant Andrew Goetz in 2019,
My experimental particle physics papers can be found here.
My Ph.D. thesis on strange quarks can be found here.
Sydney presenting her work on a supernova simulation generator program that she wrote in C++ at a local American Physical Society meeting in South Carolina in 2014.
Undergraduate Research Students
Undergraduate Research Students
I have worked with a number of undergraduate research students:
Ibrahim Jarra* (current undergraduate research assistant)
Rohan Bolle* (current undergraduate research assistant)
Armando Vega-Colon (McNair Scholar)
Daniel Jones
Annasaria Antaran (now at Georgia Tech.)
Andrew Goetz (grad student at University of Florida)
Andrew Dye (grad student at University of Georgia)
Grace Song (grad student at Kansas State University)
Sydney Toney
Kaye Archer (grad student at University of Pittsburgh)
Derrick Brown (Field service engineer for IBA proton therapy)
Tyler Allen (officer in Navy)
Zachery Russell (computer engineer in private industry)
Christopher (Ryan) Considine (quantum computing in private industry)
Cameron Braun (software engineer in private industry)
Andrew presenting his work on entropic gravity at a local American Physical Society meeting in Georgia in 2017.
Armando and I caught in a moment of contemplation in 2021.
Andrew (obviously a different Andrew from the left) presenting his work on a hyper-dimensional universe. This work was later extended to an arbitrary number of extra-dimensions in 2017.
Rohan (partially hidden behind the person with the red shirt) and Ibrahim (located between the person with the red shirt and the person with the black t-shirt) at the regional American Physical Society meeting in Oxford, MS in 2022.
A few highlights from my career:
A few highlights from my career:
Spent sabbatical at SUNY-Fredonia working with collaborators in 2017.
Co-recipient of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics as member of the SNO collaboration in 2016.
Awarded the Distinguished Gignilliat Fellowship in 2014.
Supported by an external NSF grant from 2012-2016.
Physics Education
Physics Education
(Physics Education 57, Number 6 (2022))
The python code and other resources used in this work can be found here.
Quadcopters Operating in Different Atmospheres (The Physics Teacher 58, 101 (2020))
Arbitrary Rotated Coordinate Systems for the Inclined Plane as an Introduction to Group Theory in the Introductory Physics Classroom (Georgia Journal of Science, Vol. 75, No. 2, Article 8 (2017))
Electrical Power Quality--What's Behind the Outlet? (The Physics Teacher 55, 347 (2017))
Smartphones and Timezones (The Physics Teacher 54, 351 (2016))
Google Earth Science (Physics Education, Volume 50, Number 2 (2015))
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