Me and my mom at LIGO Livingston while I was a graduate student at LSU in 2016ish. Mom blocked out of photo. I am a fat white nonbinary transman with reddish brown hair and a beard and glasses wearing black shorts and a brown tshirt. Iβm holding a strap that probably belongs to a camera but Iβm not sure. This was a trip that I took my parents on to show them the detector. I worked on software while there so was not on site much but when I was I forgot to take photos. I was there at LIGO Livingston for the announcement of the first detection as a member of the collaboration and that was cool, although I was not on the team who made or analyzed the first discovery.
A small selection of my reference books. These are many of my computational ones, though I doubt itβs that well organized
My four diplomas.
BS Physics MIT 2004
MS Astronomy Ohio State 2006
MS Physics UMN 2013
MS Physics LSU 2017
The diplomas are hard to read in the image but the name on the diploma is my legal/birth name, for all four, because I have not changed my legal name.
The diplomas are mounted on a tan wall over a dresser and a desk and a printer
Me, Steven Dorsher, in the foreground. Fat nonbinary transman wearing glasses with short reddish brown hair and a beard. Blue and white striped button down shirt with a broadly striped blue and green sweatshirt on top.
Iβm Steven, he/him. Iβm a former computational astrophysicist, 20 yrs in the field. BS from MIT, 3 MSβs. Iβm disabled now, by seizures, still in education. Iβm 42, unsurprisingly not in a PhD program π nor seeking one
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