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Student Profile - William, Boyd

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Soracco, David
Material Science & Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2009
Jakus, Adam
Material Science & Engineering
Graduation: Spring 2009
Boyd, William
Physics
Graduation: Fall 2010
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Major: Physics
Hometown: Dayton
Graduation Date: Fall 2010
Interests
Modeling and simulation for renewable energy and condensed matter physics applications
Clubs/Organizations
Trailblazers Co-founder, Sora Corporation President and Co-founder
Hobbies
Backpacking, mountain biking, and traveling to as many places as possible
Favorite Quote
"The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us are going to the stars." - Peter Diamandias
Career Goal
To obtain a PhD in computing and an MBA and pursue a career founding and building renewable energy startup companies.
Research Area
Nonlinear optics; Distributed computing
Publications or Honors Releated to Your Research
Goldwater Scholar, runner up Presented at Sigma Xi National Conference, 2008 Presented at Argonne National Laboratory, 2008 PURA Awardee, Spring 2007
Description of Student's Research
I spent two years researching silver nanoparticle photophysics effects on fluorescent dyes. Currently, I am working on a separate research project modeling distributed data allocation algorithms with the Distributed Data Management group at CERN.