Hello! Welcome to Strellis Beach

Hello and welcome! It looks like your ship has landed on my beach along the vast coast of world-wide-web surfing spots. I'm a Ph.D. candidate in Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. I would like to thank the Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering for supporting my research.

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My research in being performed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the 88- inch Cyclotron. Here are a few links pertaining to my research:

• My research group, the Hoffman/Gregorich group with a group picture.
• In April and May we performed experiments to produce Element 116 and Element 118. We were successful in our attempts. Read more about these experiments at the Element 118 page with pictures, the story behind the discovery, and downloadable copies of the preprint paper sent to Physical Review Letters in PDF and PostScript format.

• I own International 505 US7886 named Fasterin Fog. Go to the Fasterin Fog website.

• Occasionally I race aboard Mission Impossible a Merit 25 racing sailboat owned by Dave Hamilton. She is harbored in the Berkeley Marina near the Berkeley Yacht Club.

• The Cal Sailing Club, a non-profit sailing cooperative located at the Berkeley Marina.

• The fast Melges 24
• Like the Merit 25, but more beamy: The J 24
• The "class" of all racing sailboats, the Etchells
• The gritty but unsuccessful San Francisco challenges for the America's Cup: AmericaOne and America True See the races live at the Louis Vuitton Cup site. .

  Other subjects....

  • Special Web Link: The Getty Center is a fantastic art museum plus much more that just opened in the Santa Monica mountains between downtown L.A. and Malibu.

  • Quotes of the Month:

    "There is nothing so powerful as truth,--and often nothing so strange." -- Daniel Webster, senator and statesman.

    "Since light travels faster than sound, isn't that why some people appear brighter until you hear them speak?" -- Steven Wright, comedian.

  • Photo Album (Some of my favorite scenic photos from around the world)
    1. The Grand Tetons on Jan. 1, 1995
    2. The Scottish Highlands on Aug. 8, 1994

  • Current Books:: "Tales from a Former World", by John McPhee

  • Recent Books: (Rated on a scale of 5 *)
    1. "Harry Potter #1" by J. K. Rowling (****)
    2. "How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci" by Micheal Geld (****)
    3. "The Perfect Storm" by Sabastian Junger (**1/2)
    4. "Championship Tactics" by Tom Widden and Gary Jobson (****)
    5. "Plum Island" by Nelson Demille (***1/2)
    6. "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose (****)

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  Web sites that I haunt....

  • My favorite magazine, The Atlantic Monthly

  • The Cubs are off and running. Could this be their year? Go to the live score of Today's Game

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  • For good skiing, snowmobiling, hiking, mountain climbing, canoeing, "peeling-out" of an eddy on a kayak, sailing, whitewater rafting, horseback riding, saddle sitting at the Million $ Cowboy Bar, wood cutting, and much, much, more, I go to Jackson Hole, Wyoming!

  • San Francisco Bay Area Events and More!

• My alma mater, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and my old department, UIUC Nuc. E.

• I play tennis, including tournaments around the Bay Area. Call me for a match.