Physics Thread

sleepingbeauty

aw crap an extra course i didnt know about. ah sure i prob wont go anyway..

Nietzschean

o **** i forgot term started today......

cuckoo

ApeXaviour wrote:

Hmm.. that's also a curiosity. However we definitely have (or at least had last year) a py3031 lecture course, and we share this with the fourth years. Since it's not on the dept timetable at all then I'd wager that the sis timetable may actually be the one that's right this time. Though I'm hesitant to believe it.

so, did the anyone go to that lecture? If the third years had it last year, would they do it again this year round in 4th year? Messed up timetabling this term.

ApeXaviour

cuckoo wrote:

so, did the anyone go to that lecture? If the third years had it last year, would they do it again this year round in 4th year? Messed up timetabling this term.

I got the schpeel on it today. It's mandatory for fourth years but all years are invited to come apparently. Last year they actively asked us (JS), now they're not. My friends went today but I didn't. However I hear this tutorial course has been vastly improved so I intend on going from next week onwards.

ApeXaviour

The project titles for next year's SS are up.

This one looks very odd for a physics project:

13. Influence of income on cultural dynamics
To be performed at the Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB),
E07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Local contact: Prof P Richmond
Agent models are now widely used to study socio-economic phenomena. In particular Alxelrod has recently proposed an approach to cultural evolution where the agents are characterized by number of attributes, eg religion, race, living preference, etc. The interesting phenomenon that this approach is able to explore is how, as local attitudes converge, global polarization can occur. The aim of this project is to explore the effect of wealth or income of individuals on cultural dynamics and segregation.
Knowledge of C programming is necessary.

cuckoo

ApeXaviour wrote:

The project titles for next year's SS are up.

This one looks very odd for a physics project:

13. Influence of income on cultural dynamics
To be performed at the Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB),
E07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Local contact: Prof P Richmond
Agent models are now widely used to study socio-economic phenomena. In particular Alxelrod has recently proposed an approach to cultural evolution where the agents are characterized by number of attributes, eg religion, race, living preference, etc. The interesting phenomenon that this approach is able to explore is how, as local attitudes converge, global polarization can occur. The aim of this project is to explore the effect of wealth or income of individuals on cultural dynamics and segregation.
Knowledge of C programming is necessary.

Is there a linky?

That project does seem a little odd for physics, interesting, but odd. Don't know how many people would have the requisite knowledge of C.

cuckoo

Found linky. Well, opened email inbox and found the linky there in an email.

http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/Local/Students/SS/projects/

I think picking a shortlist could be like a game of pin the tail on the donkey, none of them really stand out as being too terrible to contemplate or too 'project, i love you' either.

sleepingbeauty

no astro ones yet, though to be expected- espey so damn slow doing things. i want to stay in dub anyway so not to bothered bout them

ApeXaviour

sleepingbeauty wrote:

no astro ones yet, though to be expected- espey so damn slow doing things.

Walkin by him to day and he goes "rite dec" to me. Chap's actually pretty sound one-on-one.

Was at commons there yesterday (physoc), yis missed Pete Nellist's talk. Pretty good, turnout wasn't great but he stayed drinking with us afterward for a good while (also meant we had a lot more booze for less people). Pity he's leaving, was quite a slip up of the system that they're letting him get away. Since restructuring his contract has turned to temporary here, and he's been offered a permanent position in oxford (st johns I think?). He's a really nice guy, makes an effort to get to know you like.

cuckoo wrote:

Don't know how many people would have the requisite knowledge of C

Might be a project for the CP people? They'd certainly have it. (edit: nope they have their own project list) It seems almost badly aimed at us, more like a TP's project. But they don't really do final year projects (they do but not proper ones). I'm sure there are some hidden geeks in our class who are real whizzes at programming too

Barry Aldwell

ApeXaviour wrote:

He's a really nice guy, makes an effort to get to know you like.

He dragged me up in front of the class once to help him in one of those "Don't panic first years, this all applies to real life, just look at this!" demonstrations. For two of them, now that I think about it. He asked my name, and told the entire class to give me a round of applause, which was nice of him, I guess

(I remain "the guy who had to go up the front in physics" to this day)

Nietzschean

ApeXaviour wrote:

It seems almost badly aimed at us, more like a TP's project. But they don't really do final year projects (they do but not proper ones). I'm sure there are some hidden geeks in our class who are real whizzes at programming too

Well someone like me could easily be in your class...lots of physics heads end up having to know alot about puters(one of the big users of the HPC clusters are physics people...)


....Also emm i guess prevous to this year physics types would have all had 161...

Sophie wrote:

i want to stay in dub anyway so not to bothered bout them

Surprised ye arn't going for like a trip to hawaii to the observatories there if they had one When you heading off to Florida(it is florida innit?) ?

Nietzschean

Here i was talking to me lil bro and he was wondering , for physics heads where do ye's get yer transcripts? and does it include your grades from 1st and 2nd year from things like chem that ye'd no longer do?

sleepingbeauty

Nietzschean wrote:

Surprised ye arn't going for like a trip to hawaii to the observatories there if they had one When you heading off to Florida(it is florida innit?) ?

yeah was thinking of it originally but what with florida couldnt really be bothered anymore. going in july, the 13th to be precise! just a 6week thing but all good.

Nietzschean wrote:

Here i was talking to me lil bro and he was wondering , for physics heads where do ye's get yer transcripts? and does it include your grades from 1st and 2nd year from things like chem that ye'd no longer do?

when i applied for the sure thing i got my physics results from the physics office 1st floor sniams...they gave me a break down of physics results including labs projects etc. had to go to the chem office in the chem building for those results, and i ignored maths lol. but maybe for a proper transcript the science faculty office?? i dunno for sure really...

ApeXaviour

Nietzschean wrote:

Here i was talking to me lil bro and he was wondering , for physics heads where do ye's get yer transcripts? and does it include your grades from 1st and 2nd year from things like chem that ye'd no longer do?

When I applied for IESTE I went to the science faculty office and they got me a kind of printed thing (looked like a diploma) with this stamp on it and all my grades. It was supposed to prove that I got what grades I said I did. Dunno if that's any use

Nietzschean

Hrmmm between the 2 of ye's you've covered all me queries , ty:)

ApeXaviour

Anyone know when and or how they announce these? Results are out now there shouldnt be anything stopping them. Does anyone know how they announce them? Is it an email or a notice or what?

Edwardius

Ha, you and your having to bother putting in effort. All we had to do was sign a form!

ApeXaviour

http://www.tcd.ie/Physics/

OOOOOOhhhh swanky!

Edwardius

Nah, they shoulda had a backdrop of coey scratching his beard and muttering incomprehensibly.

ApeXaviour

I love this man...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPdvKB4GruI

ApeXaviour

This one's even better........!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfO5UModTXs&NR