User:Nrui

Hi, I'm Nicholas Rui, I'm a physics and astrophysics double major at Berkeley and also an incoming NSF Fellow to the California Institute of Technology in physics. My website can be found at [1], and I can be contacted at [2].

During my time at Berkeley, I have worked on a number of research projects:

• The reduction of a proper motion catalog of the Quintuplet catalog and analysis of its structure (with Jessica Lu, UCB Astronomy) [3]
• Various experimental projects broadly related to quantum sensing using the nitrogen-vacancy and silicon-vacancy centers in diamond (with Norman Yao, UCB Physics)
• Identification of globular clusters with models on a recent large model grid (with Fred Rasio, NU Astronomy)

Some other stuff I liked to do:

• Hang out with the Society of Physics Students. This turned out to be my major friend group and support structure at Berkeley.
• Teach DeCals. I co-taught the Python DeCal twice after taking it freshman year, and afterwards co-founded a DeCal called the Beginner's Guide to the Universe, where we qualitatively described interesting physics concepts to non-majors.

My course schedule throughout the years has been as follows:

	Fall	Spring	Summer
Freshman	Mathematics 53* Physics 7A* Breadth Breadth	Astronomy 7B Astronomy 98 (Python DeCal) Physics 5B* Physics 5BL* Physics 49* Physics 89*	Breadth
Sophomore	Mathematics 110 Physics 5C* Physics 5CL* Breadth Breadth	Astronomy 198 (Python DeCal) Physics 110A* Physics 137A* Physics 151 Physics C161*	Physics 111A*
Junior	Astronomy C249* Physics 105* Physics 129* Physics 137B*	Astronomy 199# (Python DeCal) Physics 112* Physics 138 Physics 139 Physics C202
Senior	Astronomy 199# (Beginner's Guide) Breadth Physics 209 Physics 221A	Astronomy 199# (Beginner's Guide) Astronomy 128* Physics 111B* Physics 221B

where an asterisk (*) indicates that a course was a "non-negotiable" major requirement (electives are not counted here), and a pound (#) refers to DeCal teaching credit.

In retrospect, some things I would like to have known: