My name is David, I studied for a BSc in Physics and graduated around 18 months ago in 2011. When I was at school choosing which subject to study for my degree I had no idea what I wanted to do. The reason I chose Physics was because I believed that it gave me the […]
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My name is Martin; I am a former MPhys student from Surrey currently studying a PhD in the Laser Consortium at Imperial College in London. I am mainly looking in to the synthesis, in the time and space domain, of femtosecond laser pulses. I am helping build and design a new Hollow Core Photonic Crystal […]
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In an earlier post, I pointed out that, according to one metric used to assess how good a scientist is, I am twice as good as a hamster. One way of assessing not a scientist, but a single scientific paper, is how many other scientific papers reference (cite) it. This is certainly a measure of […]
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As a final year high school student I went to open days at Dutch Universities, trying to find out what I wanted to do later. Later? I did not really know what that meant. So I passively absorbed the information given to me by enthusiastic staff and students in colourful T-shirts. I had an interest […]
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This was (according to the mighty Wikipedia) the title of a talk given by Edward Lorenz, one of the pioneers of chaos theory. Apparently, Lorenz didn’t come up with the title himself. He was too lazy/badly organised to give the organisers a title for his talk, so one of the organisers, in frustration, came up with this title. I can sympathise with the organisers here. I am currently organising a workshop, and am at the stage when my co-chair and I are trying to extract the last few titles from our speakers. It can be tricky to get some people to come up with a simple 10 to 20 word title.
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