Jared Pagett

Biography

Jared received his B.S. in physics from UCSB in 2018. As an undergraduate he worked in the research group of Andrew Jayich, building an apparatus to study the spectra of low-abundance molecular ions in a plasma discharge.

Outside of research he worked extensively in education, both as a math and physics tutor teaching group sessions at CLAS from 2016-2019, and with Nathaniel Craig as a Learning Assistant in a pilot program run from 2017-2018. After graduation, he worked with Don Marolf and Sathya Guruswamy to develop the Learning Assistant program as it exists now in the Physics Department.

As a graduate student, Jared works with David Weld studying the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates of Strontium in quasiperiodic optical lattices. He is also working on the design of a new ultracold Potassium experiment, which aims to manipulate ensembles of K atoms with optical tweezers.

Outside of lab, Jared enjoys playing music, attending concerts, and scuba diving in the local kelp forests.

Research

Jared works with David Weld, studying the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates of Strontium in optical lattices.