Welcome to Quantum Diaries. I’m Anže Slosar, a scientist living in New York and working at Brookhaven National Laboratory. I’ll also be occasionally blogging on this site. Let me tell you a little about myself.
I am originally from Slovenia, a small country with population of 2 million, which was created in 1991 after the disintegration of Yugoslavia. I studied physics as an undergrad at the University of Cambridge, UK, and, in a typical Oxbridge fashion, continued my graduate studies at Cambridge. My Ph.D. thesis was on the Very Small Array, an interferometric radio telescope designed to measure fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background. After receiving my Ph.D., I spent six years doing postdocs at the University of Ljubljana (in the capital of Slovenia), Oxford University, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory before moving to Brookhaven Lab.
Here, I work on a mixed salad of projects, both theoretical and experimental, but inevitably connected to the universe we live in. These days, my scientific focus is on the Lyman-alpha forest, part of a dark energy project called BOSS (Baryonic Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey), a topic that takes more than a healthy amount of my time and nerves but holds promise of being truly revolutionary. I will no doubt write more about it in the coming posts.
In my spare time, I do a lot of things at a very low level: real ales, real food, yoga, classical guitar. And then I do things New Yorkers do, namely following the real estate and thinking about cunning ways of getting rich while burning cash on restaurants, theaters, clubs, galleries, and a myriad other places.
More to come.
Anže
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