Post by swamprat on Dec 5, 2017 19:48:24 GMT -6
There ARE some smart people out there! We'll be hearing more from this young lady!
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (born June 3, 1993) is an American physicist from Chicago, Illinois who studies high energy physics. She describes herself as "a proud first-generation Cuban-American & Chicago Public Schools alumna." She completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a graduate student at Harvard University.
She enrolled at the Edison Regional Gifted Center in 1998 when she was 5, and graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010.
Gonzalez Pasterski holds an active interest in aviation. She took her first flying lesson in 2003, co-piloted FAA1 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2005 and started building a kit aircraft by 2006. Her first U.S. solo flight was in that kit aircraft in 2009 after being signed off by her CFI Jay Maynard.
Gonzalez Pasterski named among her scientific heroes Leon Lederman, Dudley Herschbach, and Freeman Dyson, and said she was drawn to physics by Jeff Bezos. She has received job offers from Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
As a sophomore, Gonzalez Pasterski worked on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Gonzalez Pasterski is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in high energy physics under the supervision of Andrew Strominger from whom she was given her academic freedom in the Spring of 2015 based upon Pasterski et al's 2014 discovery of the "spin memory effect" which may be used to detect/verify the net effects of gravitational waves. After being granted that academic freedom, she would complete the Pasterski-Strominger-Zhiboedov Triangle for EM in a 2015 solo paper that Stephen Hawking cited in early 2016.
Gonzalez Pasterski’s 2016 work in promoting the Let Girls Learn initiative has been recognized by an invitation to the White House, a congratulatory message from the White House played on network television, as well as a two page spread in Marie Claire's January 2017 issue with First Lady Michelle Obama.
Gonzalez Pasterski's continuing efforts to promote STEM education for girls in Cuba has been recognized by the Annenberg Foundation.
Gonzalez Pasterski's 2017 work in promoting STEM education for girls in Russia has been recognized by the U.S Embassy in Moscow and by the Moscow Polytech.
International print and television coverage of Gonzalez Pasterski's work has appeared in Russian, Polish, Czech, Catalan, Spanish, German, Hindi and French: Russia Today, Poland's Angora magazine, DNES magazine in Czechia, People en Espanol, Jolie in Germany, Vanitha TV in India, Madame magazine in France, Qui in Catalonia, le Figaro magazine Paris, Femina magazine in Switzerland, and Marie Claire Espana. In 2016, rapper Chris Brown posted a page with a video promoting Gonzalez Pasterski. Forbes and The History Channel ran stories about Gonzalez Pasterski for their audiences in Mexico and Latin America respectively.
Awards and honors
2010, Illinois Aviation Trades Association Industry Achievement Award
2012, Scientific American 30 under 30
2012, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Young Researcher
2013, MIT Physics Department Orloff Scholarship Award
2015, Forbes 30 under 30
2015, Hertz Foundation Fellowship
2017, Forbes 30 under 30 All Star
2017, Marie Claire Genius Award
2017, Silicon Valley Comic Con Headliner
Source: Wikipedia
Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski (born June 3, 1993) is an American physicist from Chicago, Illinois who studies high energy physics. She describes herself as "a proud first-generation Cuban-American & Chicago Public Schools alumna." She completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and is currently a graduate student at Harvard University.
She enrolled at the Edison Regional Gifted Center in 1998 when she was 5, and graduated from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2010.
Gonzalez Pasterski holds an active interest in aviation. She took her first flying lesson in 2003, co-piloted FAA1 at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in 2005 and started building a kit aircraft by 2006. Her first U.S. solo flight was in that kit aircraft in 2009 after being signed off by her CFI Jay Maynard.
Gonzalez Pasterski named among her scientific heroes Leon Lederman, Dudley Herschbach, and Freeman Dyson, and said she was drawn to physics by Jeff Bezos. She has received job offers from Blue Origin, an aerospace company founded by Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
As a sophomore, Gonzalez Pasterski worked on the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Gonzalez Pasterski is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in high energy physics under the supervision of Andrew Strominger from whom she was given her academic freedom in the Spring of 2015 based upon Pasterski et al's 2014 discovery of the "spin memory effect" which may be used to detect/verify the net effects of gravitational waves. After being granted that academic freedom, she would complete the Pasterski-Strominger-Zhiboedov Triangle for EM in a 2015 solo paper that Stephen Hawking cited in early 2016.
Gonzalez Pasterski’s 2016 work in promoting the Let Girls Learn initiative has been recognized by an invitation to the White House, a congratulatory message from the White House played on network television, as well as a two page spread in Marie Claire's January 2017 issue with First Lady Michelle Obama.
Gonzalez Pasterski's continuing efforts to promote STEM education for girls in Cuba has been recognized by the Annenberg Foundation.
Gonzalez Pasterski's 2017 work in promoting STEM education for girls in Russia has been recognized by the U.S Embassy in Moscow and by the Moscow Polytech.
International print and television coverage of Gonzalez Pasterski's work has appeared in Russian, Polish, Czech, Catalan, Spanish, German, Hindi and French: Russia Today, Poland's Angora magazine, DNES magazine in Czechia, People en Espanol, Jolie in Germany, Vanitha TV in India, Madame magazine in France, Qui in Catalonia, le Figaro magazine Paris, Femina magazine in Switzerland, and Marie Claire Espana. In 2016, rapper Chris Brown posted a page with a video promoting Gonzalez Pasterski. Forbes and The History Channel ran stories about Gonzalez Pasterski for their audiences in Mexico and Latin America respectively.
Awards and honors
2010, Illinois Aviation Trades Association Industry Achievement Award
2012, Scientific American 30 under 30
2012, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Young Researcher
2013, MIT Physics Department Orloff Scholarship Award
2015, Forbes 30 under 30
2015, Hertz Foundation Fellowship
2017, Forbes 30 under 30 All Star
2017, Marie Claire Genius Award
2017, Silicon Valley Comic Con Headliner
Source: Wikipedia