Laura Bodine
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What she does:
- Laura is a physics graduate student/research assistant in the Elementary Particle Experiment group at UW in the Department of Physics. She works on the muon spectrometer for the Atlas detector at CERN.
- Laura uses math constantly. Her homework involves LOTS of multivariable calculus. For her research, she does computer programming and statistical analysis.
Laura's background:
- Laura received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, from the University of Washington, Spring 2005, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics.
- Laura says she always loved math, and her parents emphasized mathematical thinking (puzzles, logic problems, building things geometrical, tangrams, etc.) when she was younger. Math is also necessary for doing physics, which is her main passion. She still loves pure mathematics because of the logic and beauty of such abstract concepts.
Advice for students:
- Her advice for students is that math can be a very marketable degree and there are lots of opportunities in the way of consulting and other non-traditionally math oriented areas. She has found that the logic she learned through studying mathematics has helped her be successful not only in the classroom but in research as well.