A summary of papers I keep in a special Mendeley folder: stuff that I consider big news and major developments in the field of cosmology and nearby areas.
I will do one every year from now on. This is aimed at a general physics audience, and the stories are not presented in any particular order.
(more…)Gold sold out. Silver still available for US$1 each.
(more…)With beautiful afternoon daylight, a brain freshly loaded with spherical harmonics, a vial of soap water, and a powerful lens, I ran behind bubbles and attempted to zoom in on their exquisite optical details.
For unclear reasons, I really wanted to write down one wacky (read: elegant) calculus exercise tonight — have you integrated the cotangent function twice?
(more…)Genghis Khan (K): I unified the Mongol clans.
Mark Zuccboi (Z): I founded Feicebuk.
K: I expanded my empire, and proved that the Mongols were the most capable.
Z: I expanded my empire, and also discovered that Feicebuk is the most influential.
K: Under my rule, the Mongolian Empire became the largest country on the earth.
Z: Under my rule, Feicebuk became the largest social network empire on earth too.
K: Later somebody told me “The Great Mongolian Empire” doesn’t sound good, and needed changing.
Z: Somebody too told me “Feicebuk” doesn’t sound good, and needed changing.
K: After extensive deliberation, we decided on a cool name, “元” (Yuan), English translation “Meta”.
Z: After extensive deliberation, we decided on a cool name, “Meta”, Chinese translation “元”.
K: Later Yuan was conquered by a new empire called 明 (Ming).
Z: Heck. Legal? Go look up if there’s a Ming LLC out there, and if you find one, shut it down!
(Adapted from Chinese)
Well, Y. F. Wang, PhD student at the Auckland U’s physics department is going. I don’t think my (computational) musical misadventures deserve any recognitions yet.
This Event is hosted by University of Plymouth in late November, and features many downstream Quantum info professionals at places such as Cambridge Quantum Computing Lab and IBM.
My notes might be posted some short time after.
I’ve been going to proper computational and cosmological academic conferences and symposiums of course, so I find it amusing that this one is the first to get a blog post.
Yourong Frank Wang 