Ground State



• Some of the SMU ATLAS group members working on Higgs physics at the LHC

   

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• My alter ego: Professor Steve Sekula

   

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• Lightning strikes over St. Genis, France. I often stay here when I work at CERN.

   

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• Well . . . ahem . . . THAT happened.

   

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• What AM I looking at?!

   

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• A few of the SMU ATLAS Physics Group, based at CERN in the summer of 2012. Photo by Tingting Cao.

   

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• Jodi and I at Mt. Blanc, 2003

   

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• From a trip from Wisconsin to California, 2000

   

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• Jodi and I in the mountains of Idaho, on a trip from Wisconsin to California in 2000

   

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• Michael Olson demonstrates physics under pressure - including me, sandwiched in beds of nails, a concrete block, and a freaking sledge hammer.

   

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• On top of the Jura Mountains, July 2012

   

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My name is Stephen Sekula, and I welcome you to my personal homepage. I am a husband, a physicist, a drummer, and an occasional writer. I have a reputation for my devotion to linux and open-source software, I am passionate about the methods and discoveries of science, and I delight in a good story. I am also Steve #1211 of the National Center for Science Education’s “Project Steve.” Please find here more information about my interests. Thank-you for visiting!