Education

B.A., summa cum laude, mathematics and physics, May 1990
National Merit Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa
Three honorable mentions in the Putnam Competition

Perfect scores on all sections of the GRE, including the mathematics and physics subject tests

Princeton University

M.A., physics, June 1993
Ph.D., physics, June 1999
National Science Foundation Fellow

First half of doctoral thesis published as a paper:
Scattering from a Domain Wall in a Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theory, hep-ph/9412270, Phys. Rev. D51, 5889–5904 (1995)