Despite the confusing title, in the past days I have been coding. A lot. Even though I am dying to leak information about what exactly I am working on, I still need to wait few weeks to reveal. I thought anyway to write something about programming from the perspective of an applied mathematician. Research forces you […]
Category: research
Childcare in academia: hall of fame
Balancing work and family can be stressful, but balancing an academic career and family can be even worse. A lot of travelling to present your own work and network to find new collaborators and ideas, visiting periods abroad and social events undermine the fundamental component of family life management: routine. I am a young researcher […]
Live from Münster: summer school on inverse problems 2015
I have been visiting the lovely German town of Münster in the past two weeks and in the last few days I have been attending a summer school on inverse problems here. Even though knowing the family was struggling at home to keep up the routine has been worrying me, I must say I enjoyed these days here, both […]
Tweeting for Real Scientists: aftermath.
My week as curator of the Twitter channel @realscientists has just ended. It was refreshing and a lot of fun. I had the chance to review my own work from a fresh perspective and to check out old problems I didn't read about for a while. For those who don't know what Real Scientists is, I […]
4D tomography: walkthrough of my project - part 3
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 […]
Making science pictures: a fascinating MITx photography course
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 - […]
4D tomography: walkthrough of my project - part 2
After talking about motivation (see the first part and then part 3), I will now go into details with the mathematics foundations of the project. The novel tomography reconstruction algorithm I am contributing developing is based on a level set method approach. Level set methods A level set method is an elaborate, yet geometrically intuitive, framework to deal […]
4D tomography: walkthrough of my project - part 1
Last month the greatest event in Inverse Problems ever took place in Helsinki: the Applied Inverse Problems 2015 conference. In addition, I gave my first technical presentation at the 4D tomography minisymposium (find the slides here). I take the chance to write a series of posts as a walkthrough of my project and its current state. The project When […]
My Day series: my patchwork calendar
I was contacted some days ago by the University media officer Tiina Palomäki, who asked me to write a piece for the My Day series. My Day was launched this year in occasion of the 375th anniversary of University of Helsinki. It collects stories from various members of the academic community and tells about their […]
Work and life in progress
Dear readers, sorry I have been neglecting this blog lately. I didn't forget about it but life has been very hectic recently and I do not find anytime to write proper posts, only to note down some ideas. I was talking about work-life balance in my last entry and then I got myself tangled into my own work […]