The recent decision on Rhodes Scholars, one of the most prestigious scholarships around, included four students from MIT, which is wonderful, but even better it includes Sofia Lara, one of the inaugural generation of FCC-ee students participating in our undergraduate research program. Big congratulations!
To give you a little bit of background: In Fall 2022 I taught Freshman Classical Mechanics (8.01) and Sofia Lara was assigned to my section. She contacted me about research opportunities and from there on we started at MIT in 2023: She participated in the four weeks “FCC January at MIT”, went with us on the legendary road trip to Brookhaven National Laboratory for the First Annual U.S. FCC Week to present her work on dimuon cross section and forward backward asymmetry measurements. We wish her all the best for the future and expect to hear great things from her.
Professor Paus,
I am deeply honored to have been a UROP in your lab. I will carry the knowledge of your particle physics and computational clustering methods with me as I continue my work at Oxford. Thank you for believing in a student with nothing but passionate curiosity. You are a wonderful professor.
Best regards,
Sofia