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<td> "A video of the actual installation":http://hepunx.rl.ac.uk/~wmurray/talks/UX15_Jura_3min_dwarf.mpeg </td>
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I realized that I don't have much information on here for friends and family about what I do in Physics.  So I'm going to compile some links and pictures and such.

First of all, I'm a Particle Physicist so I try to understand the "basic building blocks of nature":http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/frameless/chart.html . In particular I'm looking for the last particle of the StandardModel of particle physics: the HiggsBoson.  The best site I know of for an introduction to Particle Physics is the "Particle Adventure":http://particleadventure.org/  Unfortunately the site doesn't say much at all about Gravity and Einstein's Theory of GeneralRelativity, but I suppose that's not part of the Standard Model anyways.

Shortly after I graduated, I went to "CERN":http://www.cern.ch and worked on the "ALEPH":http://aleph.web.cern.ch collaboration to look for the HiggsBoson.  People had been looking for that particle for about 20 years, and we almost found it.  There was "a lot of excitement":http://particleadventure.org/particleadventure/news.html#HIGGS
but unfortunately the evidence didn't meat the stringent "5 sigma" requirement to claim a discovery.

So I went to Madison, Wisconsin and took classes for my Ph.D. and worked on a project called MadCUP to simulate particle interactions so we can search for it at the LHC.  The LHC is a big particle accelerator and there we will look for the Higgs again.  In fact, if we don't find it, then we will have to go back to the drawing board and people will be quite confused.  So the experiment I work on is called ATLAS.  There's a "educational movie":http://atlasexperiment.org/movie/index.html and an "educational site":http://atlasexperiment.org/ which are both quite nice.  

I've been pretty busy since I got here in August 2002... you can see a list of "publications and talks here":http://www.theoryandpractice.org/kyle/Publications 

Recently Atlas was "featured in Nature":http://www.nature.com/nphys/journal/vaop/nprelaunch/full/nphys005.html