Forest Kirschbaum
I am a third year student in the undergraduate program at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. I am going for a physics major with a math minor. I have a lot of different dreams for after college; many of which involve working in a foreign country, like Sweden, for the IceCube project. I plan to graduate this spring.
The reason I mention working in Sweden, is because I worked with Mike Fitzl on determining an objects distance from a camera using the camera’s focus values. We also helped in preparing a freezer container for a tank equipped with four Digital Optical Modules (DOMs). This freezer will be shipped on the Oden, an icebreaker boat, to Antarctica and back to calibrate the IceTop tanks at the South Pole.
I loved being in Stockholm, Sweden for the late night city walks, as I love big cities at night. Also, the person we were working under, Per Olof Hulth, respected us enough to let us work on our assignments in ways that we wanted which made working on Icecube fun for me.
