18 January 2013 • Friday
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Pete Trautman is a graduate student in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology. Prior to coming to Caltech, Pete was a Captain in the United States Air Force, assigned first to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center and later to the Air Force Research Laboratories, both at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Applied Math and Physics in 2000 from Baylor University. He grew up in Alamogordo, New Mexico, near Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was detonated.