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Month: August 2015

MYMF2015: excellent maths, career mentoring & fun

30 August 201530 August 2015 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

Last week one of my goals of the year was fulfilled and Meeting for Young Mathematicians in Finland, the conference I helped organise as member of the scientific committee, was a success. The meeting was promoted by the Finnish Mathematical Society and sponsored by Aalto University, DOMAST and Finnish Cultural Foundation. The chair of the […]

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Curiosity and determination: the example of Amalia Ercoli-Finzi

14 August 201514 August 2015 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

Today I came across this nice piece on one of my favorite Italian columns on women. The following article is extracted from a book called “Il senso delle donne per la scienza” by Maria Luisa Agnese and tells the story of Amalia Ercoli-Finzi, an Italian scientist who is deeply involved in the amazing space mission Rosetta. The […]

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4D tomography: walkthrough of my project - part 3

11 August 201511 August 2015 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

Here comes the final part of the walkthrough of my current project on dynamic sparse tomography (see also part 1 and part 2). In the previous post I left the question of the choice of the cut-off function hanging. In a classical level set method,  would be the Heaviside step function. The Heaviside function is […]

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Making science pictures: a fascinating MITx photography course

3 August 20153 August 2015 Paola Elefante Leave a comment

Last week I completed an exciting six week photography course I found on edX, a MOOC platform I have been following in the past few years. EdX was originally founded by Harvard University and MIT, but nowadays many universities worldwide contribute with their free high quality lectures. Few weeks ago I successfully completed a course on framing - […]

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