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Quarks Influenced by Their Neighborhood
November 20, 2009
The quark structure inside protons and neutrons changes based on the local nuclear environment, according to electron accelerator experiments.
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Todd Squires
Todd Squires received a B.S. and B.A. from UCLA in 1995, his Certificate of Advanced Studies in Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics as a Churchill Scholar at Cambridge University, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2002. He worked as a Lee A. Dubridge Prize Postdoctoral Scholar in Physics and NSF Mathematical Sciences Fellow in Applied & Computational Math at Caltech from 2002–2005, and has been an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, since 2005. In 2008, he was recognized as an Outstanding Referee for the Physical Review journals.
The inner life of mesoorganisms
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