Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
This is from memory, so may contain a few jumps of logic, but I needed to write a quick tutorial for getting code on the iPhone for my Kliq cofounder and figured that it may be useful for the internet-at-large. Read More …
I’ve been managing working with two startups part-part-time, mod a few sleepless nights, but both could benefit from a streak of full-time work, so when all the stars aligned with my personal and professional summer schedule I jumped at the chance and on a plane to San Francisco. I will arrive back in Zurich exactly coincident with the rest of my team for the true kickoff of my major PhD project. Read More …
I’m at a very specialized conference, on structure finding in cosmological simulations, outside of Madrid call haloes going MAD (MAD being the airport code for Madrid). At the end of a cosmological simulation we have a collection of particles, up to trillions these days, and to connect that to the observable universe we need to do some abstraction.
Learning a language fluently is surprisingly more about social engineering than anything else. Read More …
I recommend having a good mobile productivity setup, and having good tools for home, work and travel. Read More …
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 …
I met up with my incredibly talented friend Nada for lunch at Google Zürich today. You can read about how lovely the Google offices are elsewhere on the internet. Nada works on the Gmail team, and she’s the second hacker at Google working on Gmail to deem me a “power Gmail user.” Never fear, it’s Read More …