I am an applied physicist with experience in the design and construction of technical instruments, specifically charged-particle beam devices such as particle accelerators and electron microscopes. My specialties are charged particle optics, magnets, and RF systems.
I am currently an accelerator physicist at SLAC (the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) in Menlo Park, CA, where I am involved with the RF systems for PEP-II operations.
For information on my education, publications, patents, and other places I have worked,
see my resume or CV.
I am also available for consulting in various technical areas, including:
I am very interested in Bible study and teaching. Much of this is general Bible teaching at my local fellowship, Grace Bible Chapel in San Jose, California. I also enjoy teaching on science-faith issues in various venues, including churches and at Western Seminary in Los Gatos, CA, where I earned an MA in Exegetical Theology. I am involved with "science apologetics" through two groups, the Bay Area Apologetics Group and the Bay Area (San Jose) RTB, a forming chapter of Reasons to Believe. I have been a member of the American Scientific Affiliation for many years, and have recently started to become a more active participant (e.g. see my rebuttal of the ICR/RATE radiocarbon claims).
I enjoy a number of things which I developed a taste for during my time in graduate school in Berkeley:
Recommended Web Sites -- This list may be helpful if you share any of the above interests, or if you use a Macintosh computer.
FTP area -- Various things which I've written are available here. (You may also access this area by anonymous FTP to members.aol.com/KBertsche/ftp/)
Biblechapel.net -- Website for Hillview and Grace Bible Chapels in Silicon Valley, CA.
