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1981 Jennifer (Salem) Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, New Zealand, was featured on the BioSpectrum Asia website during International


Women’s Week in March. In the article, “I like to work on things people say can’t be done,” Jennifer describes her childhood in Colombia, her U.S. schooling, her 23-year career at UOP and her work at LanzaTech, where she and her team are working to “democratize energy supplies, providing a way for millions of people to not only decrease their reliance on imported sources of fuels and energy, but actually enable a greater number of people to access a previously unobtainable standard of living.” Read more at http://tinyurl.com/bm5lrs5.


1983 REUNION YEAR Fred Streitz P13 presented the HMC Physics Colloquium, “Opening


Frontiers with Extreme Capability Computing,” March 12. He discussed his work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which involves the development of software to enable large-scale simulations—some involving the molecular dynamics of more than 60 billion atoms—on supercomputers such as IBM’s Blue Gene/L and Blue Gene/Q. He presented the challenges and successes experienced while developing applications to model fl uid instability, the solidifi cation of molten metal and the electrophysiology of a human heart.


1988 REUNION YEAR Louis Rossi and members of his swarm dynamics group at the


University of Delaware and colleagues at the Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) have published the fi rst quantitative evidence of information cascades in swarms. Their article,


“Quantifying and Tracing Information Cascades in Swarms,” appeared in PLOS One and can be viewed at http://tinyurl.com/cwncdj8.


1991 Claremont Entertainment & Media (CEM) partnered with the Los Angeles Professional Chapter of SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on


GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques) to offer a private screening of Oz:


The Great and Powerful at Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif. Participants viewed the fi lm then enjoyed a discussion focusing on the develop- ment of the graphics and the fi lm’s visual effects with Scott Stokdyk, Academy Award-winning visual effects supervisor. Scott, a three-time Oscar nominee, has worked with director Sam Raimi on all three of the Spider-Man movies, and won the Academy Award for Best Achievement in Visual Effects for his groundbreaking work on Spider-Man 2.


1994 Greg Harr formed his own nonprofi t company, Solar for All Inc., and will soon complete his fi rst project: solar panels for an affordable


housing development in Portland, Ore.


1996 Nick Melosh received tenure as a professor of material science at Stanford University. He says HMC played a big role in his success.


Andrew Ross teaches mathematics and “sneaks in some operations research” when he can at Eastern Michigan University. He writes: “We have three kids now, and I was just thinking the other day that by the Intermediate Value Theorem, at some point we had e (2.71828…) kids, if you pro-rate a kid during the nine months of pregnancy to make it a continuous function—though, there may be ethical objections to this.”


1998 REUNION YEAR Brian Johnson moved from Manhattan to Portland, Ore., in 2009 to be


with Marissa Anderson SCR ’03. He has been getting fi t, hacking and living the dream of the 1990s.


1999 Christian Jones serves as a surgical critical care fellow at The Ohio State University Medical Center and is in the process of becoming a


trauma surgeon.


Neil Martinsen-Burrell was tenured as an associate professor of mathematics at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. He enjoys teaching mostly statistics despite being an applied mathematician at heart.


2000 Jake Kimball (né Walker), his wife, Katie, and son, Barlow, launched Twin Cities Trapeze Center (TC2), an indoor fl ying trapeze


school in St. Paul, Minn. Jake and Katie teach adults and kids year- round. Barlow, at 11 months old, is already fl ying through the air with the greatest of ease with his parents.


2001 Chris Hanusa won the Mathematical Association of America’s Metro New York section 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award. He teaches


at Queens College in Flushing, N.Y.


Marco Latini works for the Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Palmdale, Calif. He worked previously with the Center for Naval Analyses on a two-year assignment at the Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine out of China Lake, Calif. He writes: “I am glad to be back in Califor- nia and to live here on a more regular basis. In fact, I love the outdoors and backpacking.”


Jill Sohm and Adi Drost welcomed a baby boy, Simon Alexander Sohm Drost, on Jill’s birthday. Adi is working as a test engineer, while Jill is enjoying teaching biology courses at local colleges. They recently moved into their fi rst house.


2003 REUNION YEAR Adam Bliss retired after seven years of working at Google and moved


to Bangkok. He writes: “Here I enjoy a life of leisure and fi ll my hours by tinkering with the lambda calculus and writing computer-verifi able formal proofs from the Peano axioms.”


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