http://www.cns.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~daid/phd/kahl_phd_final.html
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DAID
Re: It's done!
09/01/2015 10:24 AM CDT
...except some conversions that aren't playing nice for the web-format. I'll fix it..."soon"...
PDF is fine, though
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PDF is fine, though
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PEREGRINEFALCON
Re: It's done!
09/01/2015 08:50 PM CDT
Gratz dude! I scanned through it and have idea what it actually says but it looks complicated!
Can I expect the world to be changed in any stunning way in the near future as a result?
Also out of curiosity, why Tokyo?
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Can I expect the world to be changed in any stunning way in the near future as a result?
Also out of curiosity, why Tokyo?
-- Robert
"All wizards are beginners; some of us have just been beginning longer!"
VANKRASN39
Re: It's done!
09/01/2015 09:03 PM CDT
>Gratz dude! I scanned through it and have idea what it actually says but it looks complicated!
I can totally understand the Acknowledgements section :)
Congrats Daid, I can't even fathom writing something like that.
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THROGG
Re: It's done!
09/03/2015 01:37 PM CDT
You do realize that last month the constant for the reaction rate was determined to actually be 31 S + a?
DAID
Re: It's done!
09/25/2015 01:51 AM CDT
>Also out of curiosity, why Tokyo?
Well, everything has a story...
When I was in undergrad, my supervisor, who was teaching our nuclear class, was attending a workshop at another dinky liberal arts college. He said he had room in his car for three students, should any of us want to go. (I think the class was about 14 students.) I think he got exactly three students interested. This was in 2004, when Argonne and Michigan State were bidding for the next major accelerator upgrade, and so they were doing essentially physics outreach.
At the workshop, one researcher gave a talk on nuclear astrophysics. And I was like, "What...that exists?" since our school had a small broken accelerator we were assigned to repair, and I had keys to the observatory. So I got a summer internship with him. I asked him who he recommended to study under for graduate school, and he gave me six names. I got accepted to two of the schools, and I took the offer in Canada since the department seemed to respect my interest in a specific topic with a researcher (and he took me out to dinner).
So I went there, and my project was in Tokyo, and I flew out here four times in two years. I liked the lab and the project, but I was never awesome at doing analytic problems and that, so I wasn't sure I'd be able to move on to the PhD course at McMaster. So I sent an email to our liaison in Tokyo to see about the PhD program. He recruited me like a hawk and got me a sweet "not widely advertised" government scholarship.
But it's a great laboratory. Most places you want to do nuclear physics with a radioactive beam you order it like a pizza, only it takes a bit longer to get it. At this lab, you can make it. One professor controls the laboratory, and there's no more than 5 people in the room at a time.
I also like the chance to move around and get some perspective, and Tokyo sounded better than staying in Canada, or returning to the US (where I had graduate school offers, eventually).
I found out later University of Tokyo is consistently ranked #2 worldwide in physics research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankings_of_University_of_Tokyo)
A little strange since I actually came here for the research and not because I understood it was better than something like Yale under some guise. Then again, I effectively run half the experiments now, and not many people my age can claim that expertise and experience, and minus the frequent desire to smash my head into a cement wall, it's been pretty awesome.
Next stop: Scotland.
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>Daid: Pretty sure you have a whole big bucket as your penny jar. You never have only two cents. :p
Well, everything has a story...
When I was in undergrad, my supervisor, who was teaching our nuclear class, was attending a workshop at another dinky liberal arts college. He said he had room in his car for three students, should any of us want to go. (I think the class was about 14 students.) I think he got exactly three students interested. This was in 2004, when Argonne and Michigan State were bidding for the next major accelerator upgrade, and so they were doing essentially physics outreach.
At the workshop, one researcher gave a talk on nuclear astrophysics. And I was like, "What...that exists?" since our school had a small broken accelerator we were assigned to repair, and I had keys to the observatory. So I got a summer internship with him. I asked him who he recommended to study under for graduate school, and he gave me six names. I got accepted to two of the schools, and I took the offer in Canada since the department seemed to respect my interest in a specific topic with a researcher (and he took me out to dinner).
So I went there, and my project was in Tokyo, and I flew out here four times in two years. I liked the lab and the project, but I was never awesome at doing analytic problems and that, so I wasn't sure I'd be able to move on to the PhD course at McMaster. So I sent an email to our liaison in Tokyo to see about the PhD program. He recruited me like a hawk and got me a sweet "not widely advertised" government scholarship.
But it's a great laboratory. Most places you want to do nuclear physics with a radioactive beam you order it like a pizza, only it takes a bit longer to get it. At this lab, you can make it. One professor controls the laboratory, and there's no more than 5 people in the room at a time.
I also like the chance to move around and get some perspective, and Tokyo sounded better than staying in Canada, or returning to the US (where I had graduate school offers, eventually).
I found out later University of Tokyo is consistently ranked #2 worldwide in physics research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rankings_of_University_of_Tokyo)
A little strange since I actually came here for the research and not because I understood it was better than something like Yale under some guise. Then again, I effectively run half the experiments now, and not many people my age can claim that expertise and experience, and minus the frequent desire to smash my head into a cement wall, it's been pretty awesome.
Next stop: Scotland.
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DAID
Re: It's done!
09/25/2015 01:58 AM CDT
>Isn't that how the Incredible Hulk was created?
Since you ask...
They used an instrument at Argonne (where I was a summer student a decade ago) called GammaSphere in the Hulk film.
Of course, GammaSphere detects high-energy photons, but the film had it emitting energy. Oh Hollywood, you're so crazy. (But not...they did get permission to film on site near really expensive equipment. It was pretty genius of them for a prop, even if it wasn't correct.)
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>Daid: Pretty sure you have a whole big bucket as your penny jar. You never have only two cents. :p
Since you ask...
They used an instrument at Argonne (where I was a summer student a decade ago) called GammaSphere in the Hulk film.
Of course, GammaSphere detects high-energy photons, but the film had it emitting energy. Oh Hollywood, you're so crazy. (But not...they did get permission to film on site near really expensive equipment. It was pretty genius of them for a prop, even if it wasn't correct.)
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>Daid: Pretty sure you have a whole big bucket as your penny jar. You never have only two cents. :p
DAID
Re: It's done!
09/25/2015 02:00 AM CDT
>You do realize that last month the constant for the reaction rate was determined to actually be 31 S + a?
...right...
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...right...
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