{"id":4551,"date":"2019-08-15T16:12:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T21:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=4551"},"modified":"2019-08-16T08:53:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:53:21","slug":"kyle-spurgeon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/kyle-spurgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Spurgeon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kyle Spurgeon<\/strong><\/div>\n
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I’m into rock climbing \u2013 sheer faces, not mountaineering. It\u2019s actually very similar to physics in that you have a challenge that you have to figure out how to overcome \u2013 but instead of just solving mental challenges, you\u2019re using your whole body by yourself out in nature. I think part of the draw of rock climbing is being so alone with nature, just you and the challenge. I’m from a small farming town in Iowa, so that atmosphere is always a bit reminiscent of home.<\/p>\n

I went to a pretty poor high school, so I kind of discovered physics on my own. This was all around the time when the LHC was starting up, and the mysticism around what they’d discover and the act of having to mostly teach myself physics made me feel more connected to it. For DUNE, I’m mostly involved in the photon detection systems. At first I worked with simulations looking at various designs for how we’ll optimize catching the flashes of light, and now I’m working on how we interpret the experimental data as light. Honestly, it’s cool that at such an early level you can make a big impact on the experiment. The things that I’m doing and helping build now will actually play a role in everybody’s experience with the experiment, not just the data that I pull and deal with myself.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

Curious about the project? Learn more about DUNE, LBNF and PIP-II<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kyle Spurgeon Graduate student Syracuse University, United States I’m into rock climbing \u2013 sheer faces, not mountaineering. It\u2019s actually very similar to physics in that you have a challenge that you have to figure out how to overcome \u2013 but instead of just solving mental challenges, you\u2019re using your whole body by yourself out in… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4551","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4658,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4551\/revisions\/4658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}