Thomas (Tom) C. Gorordo

(he/him)

Welcome to my academic site! See also: my personal site, my UO Blog.

I’m a Physics PhD candidate/Graduate Student in the Institute for Fundamental Science (IFS) at the University of Oregon working with Graham Kribs.

As of May 2026 I am the UO PhysGrad listmaster - if you need to contact me in that capacity, please do so at physgradlist-owner@lists.uoregon.edu.

I previously held a Research Assistant position at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL/LBL) from 2020-2022, after finishing my undergraduate BS in Physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2019.

This site is under-construction at the moment, so a lot of content is missing and links may not terminate correctly - be sure to check back later :)

Publications

INSPIRE: T.Gorordo.1

ORCID: 0009-0001-0342-6205

Software Contributions (Git, Gists, Github)

Selected:

• StandardHaloModelsPP.jl: A package encoding galactic Dark Matter velocity distributions and various integrals.
• NRNuclearDMResponses.jl: A package implementing general NREFT Dark Matter Nuclear Response functions.
• WignerSymbols.jl: A fork of Jutho/WignerSymbols.jl adding the Wigner 9j symbols (yet to be upstreamed).

Email for software collaboration: tgorordo@proton.me (primary) or tcgorordo@gmail.com (backup/legacy - being phased-out).

GPG key: E0ACF8B14679F35EC65934ED29D7C746CC4ED6C1

Presentations, Posts and Ponderings

Recent:

or check the archive for more.

Course Notes & (Extra) Content

• UO Ph. 611 - Theoretical Mechanics (TA Fall 2025)
  • TA Solution Sets.
• UO Ph. 410/510c - Scientific Computation (TA Spring 2024)
  • Scientific Computation Resources List.
• UO Ph. 410/510a - Image Analysis (TA Fall 2024)
  • Intro Python venv Setup Guide
  • TA Solution Sets: s0.py.html, s1.py.html, s2.py.html, s3.py.html, s4.py.html, s5.py.html, s6.py.html, s7.py.html, s8.py.html
• UO Ph. 444/544 - Intro. BioPhysics (TA Fall 2023)
  • TA Solution Sets:
• UO Ph. 20Xabc and Ph. 25Xabc - Foundations (TA Various)
  • Introductions: Working with 3-Vectors (.xopp).
  • Optics: Fun with Fermat’s principle of least time.

Misc./Tools

• smithy (CGI App Form) a Smith-set solver for RCV ballots that can e.g. be used to check GSG elections.
• carousel (NONFUNCTIONAL CGI App Form): A stable-matching solver that can e.g. be used to find optimal TA assignments.