Sean Fox

Technical Director
Science Education Resource Center, Carleton College
507-646-4365, sfox@carleton.edu

I am the Technical Director for SERC. I design, build and run the technical infrastructure that powers the web sites (like this one) which are central to most of SERC's activities. This requires familiarity with a broad range of acronyms and pseudo-words (e.g. http, css, php, mod_auth_mysql, w3c-wai, xslt, sun4u, rtsp, smil, oai, ims) as well as (to a lesser degree) an understanding of what they all mean. I aspire to coerce these disparate technologies into performing their best tricks in the service of creating exceptional websites.

I have been a web site author and web server administrator since 1993. Before joining the SERC office in January of 2002 I was the Academic Computing Coordinator for the Natural Sciences at Carleton College. I worked closely with science faculty implementing a wide variety of computing technologies in support of curricular innovation and was part of a team nationally recognized for excellent faculty support.

Education

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR - Physics, M.S., 1993
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA - Physics, B.A. with honors, 1991

Publications

SERC Publications

Fox S., Jansen H., Total energy of trigonal and tetragonal cobalt, Physical Review B, v. 60, p. 4397-4400, 1999 abstract

Fox S., Jansen H., Structural and magnetic properties of trigonal iron, Physical Review B, v. 53, p. 5119-5122, 1996 abstract

Curriculum Vitae (Acrobat (PDF) 91kB Apr23 04)