Research

Academic publications, dissertation, and research interests.

Education
PhD Physics
University of California, Santa Cruz · 2025
BS Physics
Stanford University · 2017
Dissertation

Prospects for Finding Primordial Black Holes with the Rubin Observatory

Introduced a new statistic (WOOD/WMS) to detect gravitational microlensing events and a Monte-Carlo method reducing computational requirements from months on a supercomputer to minutes on a laptop.

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Publications
Obstacles to constructing de Sitter space in string theory
Dine, Law-Smith, Sun, Wood, Yu · JHEP 2021
DOI · arXiv
Laboratory measurements of instrumental signatures of the LSST camera focal plane
Snyder, Barrau, ... Wood et al. · SPIE 2020
DOI
Performance characterization and verification testing of the LSST Camera
Roodman, Bond, ... Wood et al. · SPIE 2020
DOI
Profiles
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