Kevin Peter Hickerson I am a third year PhD student in Physics at the California Institute of Technology in the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory. I study ultra-cold neutrons with my research advisor Brad Filippone. For my thesis, I will measure the lifetime of the neutron using ultra-cold neutrons stored in a magnetic bottle at LANSCE, the proton accelerator at Los Alamos National Laboratory. My research interest include knots, topological solitons, the standard model, ultra-cold neutrons and non-imaging optics. I also work as an engineer in the prototype team for Idealab in Old Town Pasadena, California. At Idealab, I work on solar concentrators, robotics, rapid prototyping, imaging and non-imaging optics and software development.

News

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September 4, 2007

Patent 7,266,236 Hickerson et al. was issued.

You can read the patent here:
Accelerated handwritten symbol recognition in a pen based tablet computer

August 28, 2007

Patent 7,261,542, Hickerson et al. was issued.

You can read the patent here:
Apparatus for three dimensional printing using image layers

May 7, 2007

I was mentioned in the New York Times for my work on the Desktop Factory 3D printer which uses a drum to sinter nylon powder into layers that build up a part.

You can read the article here:
Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty

October 4, 2006

My daughter Melanie Kate Hickerson was born at Verdugo Hills Hospital eight pounds, five and a half ounces and twenty-two inches long at three ten in the afternoon.

July 1, 2005

I was mentioned in Wired for my contribution to a product under developed by Energy Innovations. I invented a linkage that connects multiple mirrors on a heliostat array using the conchoid of Nicomedes so that they are driven by only two motors.

You can read the article here:
The Dotcom King & the Rooftop Solar Revolution

September 2005

I began graduate study in the PhD program at the California Institute of Technology under Profesor Brad Filippone.

June 2002

I graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachlors of Science in Physics.

Contact Information

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Idealab 130 West Union Street Pasadena, CA 91103	California Institute of Technology Kellogg Radiation Laboratory, 106-38 1200 East California Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91125
Work: 626.585.6900 Fax: 626.535.2701 Email: kevinh@idealab.com	Work: 626.395.4202 Fax: 626.564.8708 Email: kevinh@caltech.edu