YouTube – Creating a Hubble Galaxy in Two Minutes
YouTube – Creating a Hubble Galaxy in Two Minutes.
Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
YouTube – Creating a Hubble Galaxy in Two Minutes.
A few weeks ago, Astrophysics Master’s student Tina Wentz gave a great overview of the phenomenon known as the Pioneer Anomaly in our gr-qc journal club. I’m indebted to her for that overview as well as pointing me to relevant papers in the preparation of this post. Background Launched in 1972 and 1973 respectively, the Read More …
I stated 10 of my principles of teaching stream of consciousness today on twitter while preparing a lecture on Green’s functions. Principle #1: side with your students. Here are the rest…
Stars Could Have Wormholes At Their Cores, Say Astrophysicists – Technology Review. I haven’t read the original paper, but plan to take a look. It seems non-peer reviewed thus far. Interesting concept at the least.
Globular Clusters (GCs) Globular clusters are groups of roughly spherical, densely packed stars. They are thought to have formed at the same time as most galaxies and the stars which make them up are some of the oldest known–thus GCs are an excellent probe of galaxy formation and evolution. They have a high central stellar Read More …
QFT I’m lucky to have a job in which I can take two weeks of mornings of work to study a nominally tangential subject in greater depth. These past two weeks I attended a series of lectures at the ETH on physics beyond the standard model, the first week was very technical but exciting to Read More …
I had tea and a brief lab tour recently with my friend Dr. Arzu Coltekin (who conveniently works in the building across from mine) and in her own words I am a researcher/lecturer, doing what I do in a ‘geovisualization’ unit (GIVA). I come from a Geomatics engineering education. I mostly work on a number Read More …
In the morning when I get into lab, around 10 in the morning, I have a set routine. Make a cup of coffee or tea, update my research wiki with a new entry corresponding to the day’s tasks, write/reply to work related emails, admin phygg.com (spam management etc.), scan/vote on papers of interest. Finally I Read More …
This semester was my first full semester as a PhD student. I got my feet wet with some projects, assisted teaching a course, and advised a student on his Bachelor’s thesis. After a semester of what amounted to preparation, I’m excited to bring both my teaching and projects to the next level this coming semester. Read More …
Phygg featured on MIT Technology Review. Phygg was down for a bit today due to overload, upgrading my hosting and starting to do some analytics. Having your site go down is a tangy bitter shot of success and failure in the same glass. Here’s to steady uptime and a great phygg community to come! Read More …