Hi all! This is my third (and final) blog post on my CURF research. You can find the second and first here. The featured image on this post is me presenting my research at the physics department spring poster session. Presenting research is really cool, particularly getting to talk to people who are knowledgable about…

Hi all, this is a continuation of my first blog post, which I would recommend reading before this one, that you can find here. Finding research is easy (probably not absolutely true, but seems to be true in most cases). Finding good research is hard (I think of good research as having two aspects: being…

Hi, my name is Ethan Lilie and I am a junior majoring in physics and minoring in math. I currently do research under Dr. Andrew Zentner in the field of theoretical cosmology (which basically means how the universe evolves over time). My research is on the effects of spin-independent dark matter on stellar evolution, which…