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Category Archives: General
Galaxy Bias is an Isocurvature mode
This is a post I started writing nearly a year ago and have only finally got around to publishing. Part of the reason for this are my doubts about whether I should simply hold back and write it up as … Continue reading
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The Famelab Experience
Gazing out at the crowd of 960 people, mostly teenagers, the thought occurred to me that standing alone on a big stage, attempting to entertain such a large crowd of people with science might not be everyone’s cup of tea. … Continue reading
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Type 1a SNe and Cosmic Dust – Joel Johansson
Just before the Christmas break we fortunate enough to have Joel Johansson form Stockholm University tell us about his research on Type 1a SNe and cosmic dust. Joel began his talk by giving us an overview of supernovae (SNe) and … Continue reading
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D-Branes and The Disformal Dark Sector – Danielle Wills and Tomi Koivisto
Two weeks ago at AIMS we were visited by Danielle Wills from the University of Durham and Tomi Koivisto from the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Oslo. After powering through 110km of the Cape Argus, they came in on Monday … Continue reading
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Cosmo-not: A Brief Look at Methods of Analysis in fMRI and in Diffusion Tensor Imaging – Paul Taylor
Far too much time has passed without updates on recent AIMS Cosmology seminars. There’s a lot to catch up on, over the last few months we’ve had talks on subjects as diverse as functional MRI to oscillons in the early … Continue reading
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This Blog in 2012: an automated review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 12,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the … Continue reading
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2012: Publications
Cosmology with Photometrically-Classified Type Ia Supernovae from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey Heather Campbell, Chris B. D’Andrea, Robert C. Nichol (ICG, Portsmouth), Masao Sako, Mathew Smith, Hubert Lampeitl, Matthew D. Olmstead, Bruce Bassett, Rahul Biswas, Peter Brown, David Cinabro, Kyle S. Dawson, Ben Dilday, Ryan J. Foley, Joshua A. Frieman, Peter Garnavich, Renee Hlozek,Saurabh W. Jha, Steve Kuhlmann, Martin Kunz, John … Continue reading
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Chumroo Vijay Prakash
I am Mauritian and graduated from University of Mauritius- Bsc (Hons) Physics with Electronics. This was followed by me joining the Student Work Experience Programme at the Mauritius Radio Telescope. I am currently a High School Physics Educator. What inspired … Continue reading
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Entropy, oscillators and Nietzsche
I am giving two talks at a high school in Mauritius on Monday and in trying to imagine what might inspire 14 year olds, I started thinking of the cool physics videos out there (there are now also lots of … Continue reading
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The problem with Type Ia Supernovae
The 2011 Nobel prize was given to the two teams who discovered the acceleration of the Universe using Type Ia supernovae; a result supported by every other method sensitive enough to probe acceleration. However, it remains a disturbing truth that … Continue reading
Some Exciting Updates
There have been exciting developments at the AIMS Research Centre recently. We are excited to announce that Romeel Davé will arrive in early 2013 as the joint research SARChI Chair between UWC, SAAO and AIMS. Romeel is a prolific academic who brings a wealth … Continue reading
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The most suggestive piece of mathematics I know
What is the most suggestive piece of mathematics you know? Aside from the feeling of suggestive similarities between Gödel’s theorem and the Uncertainty Principle, the answer to this for me has always been the subject of exotic manifolds. Exotic manifolds … Continue reading
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