Adam
Teaching Experience
Upper School Math and Physics August 2003 - present
Classes taught:
Intensive
Intermediate Algebra (series, functions, fractals)
Intensive Physics (mechanics, electricity and
magnetism, waves)
Advanced Physics
(calculus-based AP curriculum)
Intensive Geometry
(proof, vectors, transformations, matrices, complex plane)
Precalculus (conics, functions, trigonometry, sequences
and series, probability)
Advanced Math (post
BC-calculus: probability, cryptography, game theory, multivariable calculus)
Teaching Assistant August 1999 - May 2003
Classes taught:
Education 115,
Introduction to college mathematics
Physics 112, PHYS
I Mechanics (two semesters)
Physics 213, PHYS
II Heat/Electromagnetism
Physics 214, PHYS III Optics, Waves & Particles
Physics 207,
Fundamentals of Physics I
Physics 208,
Fundamentals of Physics II
Education
Master of Arts in Teaching May, 2003
Mathematics and
Physics Education
Master of Science January, 2002
Physics
Thesis: Search for
high-frequency periodicities in
gamma ray bursts and soft gamma repeaters
Bachelor of Science May, 1999
Physics, Summa cum Laude
Awards and Honors
Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Fellowship Competition, 2000
Earle
H. Kennard Award,
Undergraduate
Research Award,
Undergraduate
Scholarship,
Alice Siu-Fun Lueng Award in Mathematics, UWM, 1998
Marden Undergraduate Mathematics Award, UWM, 1998
Undergraduate
Research Award,
Undergraduate
Scholarship,
Presentations
Murdock Trust,
Partners in Science Regional Conference, August 2007
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Gravity Group Seminar, May 1999
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Math Colloquium, December 1998
Wisconsin
Space Conference;
Publications
Adam T. Kruger, Tomas J. Loredo, Ira Wasserman, 2002, Search for high-frequency periodicities in
time-tagged event data from gamma ray bursts and soft gamma repeaters, accepted for publication in
The Astrophysical Journal, also available at http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112192
S. R. Blattnig, S. Swaminathan, A. T. Kruger, M. Ngom, J. W. Norbury, R. Tripathi, 2000, Parameterized
cross sections for pion production in proton-proton collisions, NASA Technical Paper TP-2000-tp210640,
also available at: http://techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/PDF/2000/tp/NASA-2000-tp210640.pdf
S. R. Blattnig, S. Swaminathan, A. T. Kruger, M. Ngom, J. W. Norbury, 2000, Parameterizations of inclusive
cross sections for pion production in proton-proton collisions, Physical Review D. vol. 62, 094030, also available
at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0010170
Adam T. Kruger and John W. Norbury, 2000, Another exact inflationary solution, Physical Review D. vol. 61,
087303, also available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0004039