What's been going on the last couple of days? Well, not much really. Astro pub, a very interesting one. We have a new PhD student here in Uppsala and he's from South America. He is trying to learn about silly Swedish x-mas traditions: glögg, gingerbread biscuits and Lucia buns. He first tried glögg and said "hmm?" and then he ordered some more. I guess he liked it. He is also trying to learn some Swedish and apparently the people in South America seem to think Swedish is like Russian. He was positively surprised when he realized Swedish is very much related to English. On Thursday we're gonna celebrate Lucia with the traditional girl with candles in her hair here at the astrophysics department. We'll see if he will be a part of that tradition. God, Swedes have alot of silly traditions... A couple of PhDs here spent 12 hours baking gingerbread biscuit rockets, probes and space walkers. It is currently standing on our lunch table here at the department with a big sign "Don't touch, don't eat! Merry X-mas!". I'll take a pic and publish here before anyone start to eat it.
Today Andreas asked my about my popular scientific article I published in September. Apparently he wanted to see it coz he's now writing one as well. Isn't it kinda cool that the really highly educated people in astronomy look at MY article to get inspired. After all, I'm just a student... He's going to write about Solar twins, and I'm looking forward to read it!
For my master thesis I just wanna say "Whaaah!". Optical depth here, source function there, Planck function here and over population there. Will I ever understand this? I guess I will, it's just taking some time... I'm also working with IDL (yes, the same programing language as the "Climate gate"-thing!). Scripts and stuff isn't really a hard thing for me, I leared to do it when I was around 8 years old. To understand why things get ionized and not in the stars are a bit harder! There can be so many things: Collisions, temperatures, densities, radiation, and some lines are sensitive because of... uhm, I don't know right now. But I'm confident I can do this!
Now it's time for lunch. Yäy!
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| Courses I've studied at Uppsala University Math Introduction to Mathematics 3 points Algebra MN1 7,5 points Analysis MN1 15 points Linear Algebra MN1 7,5 points Analysis MN2 15 points Fourier Analysis with Applications 7,5 points ---------------------------------------------------- Math total: 55,5 points (60 points = 1 year) Computing Use of MATLAB 7,5 points Scientific Computing NV1 7,5 points ---------------------------------------------------- Computing total: 15,0 points (60 points = 1 year) Physics Science in Society MN1 7,5 points Quantum Physics and Astrophysics 9 points Mechanics MN1 7,5 points Mechanics MN2 7,5 points Wave Physics NV1 7,5 points Mathematical Methods of Physics NV1 7,5 points Electromagnetism MN1 7,5 points Solid State Physics MN1 7,5 point Thermodynamics MN1 7,5 points Statistical Mechanics MN1 7,5 points Theory of Special Relativity 4,5 points Quantum Mechanics MN1 7,5 points Electromagnetic field theory MN1 7,5 points ---------------------------------------------------- Physics total: 96,0 points (60 points = 1 year) Astrophysics The structure of the Universe 7,5 points Introduction to Astronomy 7,5 points Principles of Astronomy MN1 7,5 points Astrophysics II 5 points Physics of the Planetary System 10 points Radiation processes in Astrophysics 10 points Galaxies 10 points Cosmology 10 points Dynamical processes in astrophysics 10 points Celestial Mechanics 5 points Observational Astrophysics I 5 points Observational Astrophysics II 10 points ---------------------------------------------------- Astrophysics total: 97,5 points (60 points = 1 year) Thesis Image reduction and dust map construction of the local galaxy UGC08012 by using NOT observations | bryt | About Uppsala University Uppsala University (Swedish: Uppsala Universitet) is a research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded as early as 1477, it is the oldest such institution in the Nordic countries, and for centuries has been one of Europe's most renowned seats of learning. One of the main centres of higher education in Europe, the university rose to pronounced significance during the rise of Sweden as a Great Power at the end of the 16th century and was then given a relative financial stability with the large donation of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 17th century. Uppsala also has an important historical place in Swedish national culture, identity and for the Swedish establishment: in historiography, literature, politics, and music. Many aspects of Swedish academic culture in general, such as the white student cap, originated in Uppsala. It shares some peculiarities, such as the student nation system, with Lund University and the University of Helsinki. Uppsala belongs to the Coimbra Group of European universities. The university has nine faculties distributed over three 'disciplinary domains'. It has about 40,000 students (20 000 full-time eq.), and about 2,000 doctoral students. It has a teaching staff of 4,000 (part-time and full-time) out of a total of 6,000 employees. Of its annual turnover of around 4.3 billion SEK (approx. 715 million USD), approximately 60% goes to graduate studies and research. Architecturally, Uppsala University has traditionally had a strong presence in the area around the cathedral on the western side of the River Fyris. Despite some more contemporary building developments further away from the centre, Uppsala's historic centre continues to be dominated by the presence of the university. Source: Wikipedia |
Newspapers I've been in Newspaper: Populär Astronomi, Sep 2009, No 3, Year 10, Page 22 Language: Swedish About: My homepage, my education and astronomy interest, and me moving to Australia. Pages: 4 Newspaper: Upsala Nya Tidning, Dec 7 2008, B6 Language: Swedish About: My homepage and my astronomy interest Pages: 4 | bryt | Articles I've written Popular scientific Newspaper: Populär Astronomi, Sep 2009, No 3, Year 10, Page 30 Language: Swedish Swedish title: Behövs verkligen mörk materia? English title: Do we really need dark matter? About: The MOND theory. Pages: 4 Popular scientific Newspaper: Populär Astronomi, Sep 2008, No 3, Year 9, Page 32 Language: Swedish Swedish title: Solens nya innehållslista English title: The Sun's new content list About: The chemical abundances in the Sun according to Martin Asplund et al. Pages: 4 |
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