Ummm. So Randall J. Scalise just sent this my way: Optimizing Thomsonâ^TMs jumping ring Paul J. H. Tjossem and Elizabeth C. Brost Department of Physics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 50112 !Received 21 May 2010; accepted 14 September 2010 So, Elizabeth Brost - you are apparently more awesome than you led me to believe! (We were house-mates for a time in 2013 while I was on a research leave at CERN... renting Trevor Vickey's awesome place!). 2015 Tue Mar 31 19:45 -18000