Short Bio

Jason
		  Underdown Although I have lived in California and Illinois for brief periods, I mainly grew up in Rhode Island, where I attended Ponaganset High School. In high school I played football and wrestled.

After high school, I attended Brigham Young University in Utah, where I studied Computer Science. After one year there, I decided to serve a two year LDS mission and served in the Tokyo South mission. While there, I learned to speak Japanese and I also learned a great deal about Japanese culture and customs. After my mission I returned to BYU and graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science.

triple nerd score Upon graduation I worked for five years in the software industry mainly for Rigaku/MSC, a Japanese company that specializes in X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluorescence instruments. I was fortunate to be able to spend seven months working in Osaka Japan for them. I also spent some time working for the company that is now called Omniture. During this time I met and married my lovely wife Jennifer.

In January 2005, I returned to school at the University of Utah, and did a double major in Math and Physics. Currently, I am a graduate student in Mathematics at the University of Utah.

Quotes

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)

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