Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Network meeting

No seminars today, because of a meeting of our European Network in Ghent.

I'm up at this ghastly hour but looking at the agenda it will be worth it. A quick view of the topics

Recent results from the CDF experiment, by Gilles De Lentdecker

Search for neutrino point sources, by Amanda by Bruny Baret

Is String Theory predictive?, by Frederik Denef

Dark Matter in galaxies, by Athnassoula

Classification of 2-Higgs models

Getting ready for the LHC : Commissioning the theoretical tools, by Fabio Maltoni

Getting ready for the LHC : racker commissioning and jets in CMS, by Dorian Kcira

Sounds like fun doesn't it?

D.

Thursday, February 8, 2007

First lab went well

Hehe...

Tuesday I had my first lab session with the 1st year industrial engineering students. It was quite the education, the way of doing things is very different at a Hogeschool compared to a University. Not better or worse, just different. My partner in crime (i.e. the other TA) Paul is a great guy to work with and has helped me immensely and the students were nice enough. All in all a good experience.

The lab is your average "basic physics lab for engineering freshmen" dealing with things like determining the resonant frequency of a spring, viscosity measurements, specific heat measurements, etc... It had been a while since I'd done these things, but in the end it all came back to be.

In less exiting news, there is a stack of lab reports that await me, in urgent need of grading. Better get on it then.

Tata,

D.

First lab went well

Hehe...

Tuesday I had my first lab session with the 1st year industrial engineering students. It was quite the education, the way of doing things is very different at a Hogeschool compared to a University. Not better or worse, just different. My partner in crime (i.e. the other TA) Paul is a great guy to work with and has helped me immensely and the students were nice enough. All in all a good experience.

The lab is your average "basic physics lab for engineering freshmen" dealing with things like determining the resonant frequency of a spring, viscosity measurements, specific heat measurements, etc... It had been a while since I'd done these things, but in the end it all came back to be.

In less exiting news, there is a stack of lab reports that await me, in urgent need of grading. Better get on it then.

Tata,

D.