Jeremy Wachter

visiting assistant Professor

Office: Annex 205
Telephone: (518) 580-8473
Email: jwachter@skidmore.edu

Education

• B.S. (Physics and Electrical Engineering), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• M.S. (Physics), Tufts University
• Ph.D. (Physics), Tufts University

Research Interest

Analytic and numeric studies of gravitational self-interaction on cosmic strings. Gravitational wave production by, and detection of, cosmic strings. Tunneling and vacuum solutions in random and string-theory-inspired landscapes.

Courses

• General Physics I

Selected Publications

• Gravitational backreaction simulations of simple cosmic string loops. Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum, Jeremy M. Wachter. Phys.Rev.D100 no.2, 023535 (2019)
• Gravitational backreaction near cosmic string kinks and cusps. Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Ken D. Olum, Jeremy M. Wachter. Phys.Rev.D98 no.12, 123507 (2018)
• Approximating tunneling rates in multi-dimensional field spaces. Ali Masoumi, Ken D. Olum, Jeremy M. Wachter. JCAP 1710 no.10, 022 (2017)