Justin Williams

Particle Physicist
University of Kansas

Space Defense Physicist
Johns Hopkins University

About Me.


A sports fanatic and a food enthusiast.

I wear many different hats as a particle physicist, adjunct lecturer, and former college basketball player. I am currently working on the CMS experiment at CERN studying the interactions of light as a way to search for extra dimensions in our universe.

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Williams Receives Self Graduate Fellowship from the University of Kansas

UWF basketball student-athlete will study physics and astronomy

Justin Williams Named To Allstate NABC Good Works Team

Tallahassee native has done charitable work in Pensacola and as far away as Nicaragua

Data Analysis

I’ve spent the last 3 years analyzing the world’s largest datasets from the LHC. I make use of Python, C++, Matlab, and more. I’ve become proficient in statistical modeling and have become increasingly interested in Machine Learning algorithms.

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Leadership

Senior captain of my collegiate basketball team, Student Athlete Advisory Committee president, and project manager of various research projects for CMS.

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Problem Solving

I’ve spent copious amounts of time solving physics problems and debugging codes. Problem solving has become a strong suit.

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Searching for Extra Dimensions in the Universe


Cheered on by thousands of spectators, in 2012 Nik Wallenda fulfilled his child hood dream by tight rope walking across Niagara falls. Wallenda finished his journey faster than expected and even completed the process with a trot.

While suspended in the air, a tightrope walker has one goal - to reach the other side. From that person's point of view, there are two directions they can move along the rope - forwards or backwards. But what about something smaller, say an ant? The ant could move forwards and backwards, but could also walk around the rope in a circle.

So depending on the perspective, there are actually a different number of directions for motion.

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