Today the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera published on his online column about women my interview about possible solutions to encourage women in STEM. I already mentioned some aspects of the problem in this post, but you can find infinite material about the gender gap in science in the net. Locally in Helsinki and […]
Category: research
Women network in Kumpula
Last Monday the first lunch meeting of women researchers in Kumpulan Kampus took place. The meeting was an attempt by Prof. Hanna Vehkamäki and myself to start a network of women researchers in Kumpulan Kampus. There is an existing association of women researchers in Helsinki called Helsingin tutkijanaiset ry (The Helsinki Association of Women Researchers) and […]
The book that will improve your presentations
How many times have you been sitting among the audience of some conference, regretting you did not take anything to read? Or blaming yourself for not having charged your laptop the night before? Surely, one too many. Unfortunately good presenting skills do not belong to the standard professional package of a scientist. Many thinks it is not so […]
Mathematics and breast cancer prevention
Few days ago I came across this sad and beautiful website: The battle we didn't choose: my wife's battle with breast cancer (*) Angelo Merendino is a photographer based in Cleveland. Angelo and his wife Jennifer's story is moving: love at first sight (at least from Angelo's side :)), soon culminated to a wedding in Central […]
Transmission eigenvalues: promising for applications? (part I)
In the past two years I have been working on my licentiate thesis - now under evaluation by my supervisor - about transmission eigenvalues and non-scattering energies. Let's try to explain in a simple way what the problem is. Imagine you have a medium (i.e. an object of study), of which you know the inner structure. […]
5 upcoming events for Inverse Problems you cannot miss
The following months will be really rich in events regarding Inverse Problems, either if you want to get acquainted with such field or if you are looking for new stimulating collaborations. Here is a small collection of some of the upcoming happenings. Inverse Days 2014 - 20th anniversary Tampere University of Technology is organising this year Inverse […]
How playing Team Fortress can help your teaching
Finally the time has come to go back to our parents and rub in their faces that all that time spent playing video games was useful for our future. I bet I am not the only one having an amazing portfolio of insults when fighting, am I? Anyway, today we talk about Team Fortress and […]
Getting paid to play with LEGO blocks
You know you are working in the right place when you find yourself proudly wandering around your workplace with a full bag of original 80s LEGO blocks. People cannot help but throwing inquisitive looks and you go like "It's SCIENCE.". Today I had to take some measurements with my colleagues Aki and Alexander in the Physics Department X-ray tomography […]