Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. I had a really tough time deciding which woman to profile (see my International Women’s Day post for a collection of links about women I admire), so I decided to go for three in the end Read More …
The beginning of this week I spent in sunny Lugano, Switzerland at the High Performance Computing Advisory Council workshop and the kickoff meeting for my PhD project, the “Computational Cosmology on the Petascale” collaboration under the Swiss High Performance and High Productivity Computing initiative. The HPC advisory council workshop, which I unfortunately only got to Read More …
Happy International Women’s Day 2010! I’ll be doing a longer post on Ada Lovelace Day March 24th (please consider pledging to make a post in your personal blog) but for now, here are some tasty links to bios and articles relating to gender issues, particularly women in the science and technology sector whom I admire. Read More …
There will be many more posts about my primary research arena (computational astrophysics) over the next years. For a few months, however, I am pursuing a slightly different track, doing a project in pure observational astronomy between finishing my Master’s and beginning my PhD. Actually seeing stars and galaxies on a daily basis has been Read More …