Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae ALE XA N. STALEY EDUCATION Bowdoin College Brunswick, ME • BA in Mathematics and in Physics expected May 2011 • Current GPA: 3.846 • Tutored Mathematics for Bowdoin's Quantitative Skills program • Secretary of SPS • Academic Awards: The Edwin Herbert Hall Prize in Physics • Scholarships: Clare Boothe Lice Research Scholars Program The Chapin School New York, NY • Graduated with GPA: 4.0 • Tutored Students in Spanish • Academic Awards: Latin, Biology, Bausch and Lomb Honorary Science Award from the University of Rochester. Meritorious in the COMAP thirty-six hours Mathematics competition Otago Univeristy Dunedin, New Zealand • Junior year semester abroad studying quantum physics and analysis Gravitational Wave Summer School South Padre Island, TX • Attended a two week program where we studied General Relativity and learned about Laser Interferometers for gravitational wave detection RESEARCH Honors Project Department of Physics and Astronomy Brunswick, ME June 2010-May 2011 • Participating in a research project involving Numerical Relativity under the guidance of Professor Thomas W. Baumgarte • Analyzing the Oppenheimer-Snyder dust cloud collapse in the moving-puncture coordinate system CONFERENCES The Physics of the Universe Summit Los Angeles, CA January 8th-lOth, 2010 • Attended a conference hosted by Caltech which aimed to discuss questions like "How such can we understand about the universe, soon?" and "What is the role of theory and of experiment in getting there?" • Participants included: Lisa Randall, Kip Thome, Lawrence Krauss, Maria Spiropulu SPEC IA LS KILLS • Experience with Mathematica, MatLab, C++, Fortran 90. gnuplot. Supermongo, Blueiay, Bloomberg, Excel, and Powerpoint • Fluent in Portuguese WORK EXPERIENCE Tudor Investment Capital Greenwich, CT June-August 2008 Commodities Intern • Interned at a hedge fund, doing research for the Commodities group • Created a report on speculative trading activity in gold and broad commodities and participated in a trading competition Spinnaker Captial London, England June-August 2007 Summer Intern • Interned at a hedge fund, shadowing their quantitative representative and assisting him with Excel spreadsheets • Assisted in cakulating the risks for pools of collateralized debt obligations and participated in negotiations with counter parties EFTA00730238 Aceco Ti Sao Paulo, Brazil Summer Intern • Interned at an engineering firm, assisting primarily in electrical and mechanical engineering June-August 2006 LACE Sao Paulo, Brazil June-August 2005 Mentor • Worked with unprivileged children and introduced them to other cultures, specifically that of the American culture Project Sunshine New York, NY Volunteer • Volunteer assistant at non-profit organization for kids with cancer July 2004 EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES • Bowdoin College Varsity Indoor/Outdoor Track and Field • Participated in the Newport-Bermuda Sa0ung Race, the Round the Island sailing race in Whales. England, and the Opera House sailing race in Nantucket • NYSAIS 400meter Hurdles Championship Record Holder EFTA00730239