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Research Statement
Unit 4: Radio-frequency Antenna Design and Manufacture
IceCube Gen2 requirements
Experience with ARIANNA, TARA
Proficiency with MEEP, NEC, and expanding into other tools
MEEP
openEMS
gprMax
Grant for RNO to assemble and test antennas
Received shop training at KU and worked with Inst. Design Lab
Unit 5: Drones and Glaciology
Experienced in ice properties analysis
Single-spot versus survey
Drones fill a gap in knowledge
Fill in missing spaces in polar server, map attenuation length and layers versus (x,y,z)
Open Polar Server
Connection to teaching liberal arts courses
Using shop, we built a drone and flew it
Assessment of battery life, payload, and adding solar charging all part of the project
Already a similar effort in CReSIS underway at KU, opportunity for cross-department collaboboration
Collaboration with Ins. Design Lab as well, first pulser design already complete
Unit 2: Mathematical Physics of Askaryan Radiation
Connection to teaching
Mathematical physics
Electromagnetism (I've taught this)
Enhancement of NuRadioMC with a fully analytic model
Speed in HPC environments
Fine-tuning, connection of particle physics parameters to event geometry parameters
Connection to CEM
Analytic form allows new studies
Full 3D propagation
Effect of ice surface roughness, reflections, layers, and n(z) curvature on signal shape
Unit 1: Computational Electromagnetism
Using open-source tools to model RF elements and phased-arrays
PUEO arrays
design optimization confirmation and systematic characterization
Phased arrays for in-situ detectors
Connect to NSWC Corona award
Incorporation of n(z) and other ice properties results
Note past success in that area
Full 3D EM fields and realistic propagation, enhancement of ray-tracing
Connect to horizontal propagation
Connection to teaching
Computational physics (I've taught DSP)
Electromagnetism (I've taught this)
Unit 3: Firmware and Software Development and Integration
Automation of ARIANNA thresholds
Software, firmware, and hardware integration
Informs UHE neutrino signal searches
Developing firmware triggers
Askaryan Module
Phased/FFT based triggers
RF bench-top calibration and testing
General skill useful for a variety of hardware projects
KU anechoic chamber
Connection to teaching
COSC330 and the pynq-z1, jupyter
Digital Signal Processing