Department of Physics and Astronomy

The Forbes Group

kyle-elsasser

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Kyle Elsasser

Kyle Elsasser

Kyle was raised on a farm in the mountains of northern Idaho before becoming a Nuclear Reactor Technician on US Navy submarines and later a firefigher/EMT back in his hometown. His curiosity got the better of him and he attended Eastern Washington University, completing a bachelor's degree in Physics and one in Mathematics in 2017 before continuing to Washington State University to pursue his PhD in Physics.

Currently, he is working jointly under Dr Forbes and Dr Bose to re-derive the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff (TOV) equations for arbitrary rotation speeds, and has interest in investigating the mechanisms that cause neutron star glitching.