Dr. Yoshinori Okada

Shankar Kunwar - shankaku@bc.edu

Hometown: Achham, Nepal
Undergraguate: Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Nepal
Interests: Learn about Nature, Practice Meditation, Learn about world religion practices and science behind it.
Favorite Books: The Path of Purification, The Elegant Universe, Feynman Lectures on Physics, Return to Nature
Favorite Movies: Gandhi, Bowling For Columbine, The Mission, Doing Time Doing Vipassana.

Jihua Ma - jihua.ma.1@bc.edu

Hometown: Wuhu, China
Undergraduate : Univ. of Sci & Tech. of China (USTC)
Research interests: Hole-doped and electron-doped superconductor, strong correlated electronics.
Hobbies: Movie, soccer, basketball

Francis Niestemski - niestems@bc.edu

Hometown: Trumbull, CT
Undergraduate: College of the Holy Cross
Favorite Book: Catcher in the Rye, Cannery Row
Favorite Movie: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Back to the Future, Amadeus
Hobbies: Golf, writing, playing violin and home repair
Favorite Quotes:

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." -Jean-Paul Sartre

"Be bold—and mighty forces will come to your aid." -Basil King

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late." -William Shakespeare

Dimitri Phillips - phillidl@bc.edu

Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Interests: Language, logic, and laughter
Favorite Book: The Lord of the Rings
Favorite Movie: The Lord of the Rings
Favorite Quotes:  "The Lord of the Rings is the best!"