November 2005
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From Tokyo
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…where I’m attending the fifteenth Japanese Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation. At some point, I’ll blog about: All the interesting work being done by the mostly young, mostly Japanese physicists here; The distressing things The Royal Society is saying about open access to scientific information (which has already been covered all over the blogosphere);…
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Live From 33,000 Feet over Siberia
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Alright, in-flight wi-fi internet is a luxury I do not need and can scarcely afford, but too cool to resist this once. Next stop, Tokyo.
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Helsinki
So, why Helsinki? I was here to be the “Opponent” for a Ph.D. examination for a student at the University of Helsinki. I felt like the host of a talk show: after short presentations by the candidate and me, we sat at the front of an auditorium, and I quizzed him on topics near to…
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Happy Thanksgiving
… from Helsinki, Finland (no turkey for me…)!
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Science and Parliament II
The official aims of the MP-Scientist pairing scheme are To help scientists recognise the potential methods and structures through which they can feed their scientific knowledge to parliamentarians. To help practising research scientists understand the pressures under which MPs operate. To give MPs the opportunity to forge direct links with a network of practising research…
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Science and Parliament (UK)
Sorry I’ve been so quiet this week: I’ve just finished participating in the Royal Society’s MP-Scientist Pairing Scheme. They’ve linked 25 youngish scientists from throughout the UK with a member of Parliament, and let us “shadow” them for much of this week (as well as giving us presentations on the way science and scientists interact…
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To Sir, With Love
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Yesterday I had the privilege and the pleasure of teaching cosmology to some of the A-Level Physics students at the Maria Fidelis Convent School in London, where they are justly proud of their science curriculum. Despite the weird (to me) habit of calling all the adults “Sir” or “Miss” and the very Catholic (but not…
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Karmann Ghia
Spotted on Gloucester Road, London SW7.
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Question for the community: Blogs and Teaching
Any good suggestions for or case studies of using blogs as part of teaching? The obvious possibilities: I could blog all of my notes (although I’m not actually teaching any lecture courses this year). But that’s just using a slightly different medium for an old task (and it’s hard to translate math into html!). Or…
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Big Academia is Watching Me
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Next week, I need to account for my time down to about 15 minutes, as part of Imperial’s TOAST (The Original Academic Staff Time) Survey. This will let the College figure out exactly how we (collectively and anonymously, or so we’re told) spend our time. Which, I presume, lets them figure out how to best…
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