Blogging has ground to a halt in recent days, as I try to get other things done, such as research proposals, reviewing a PhD thesis, supervising a summer student, and attending numerous parties. I’m off on holidays very soon, but will be back early January. I’m currently grappling with an ever increasing parameter space in […]
Continue readingMonth: December 2012
Verification and Validation
I’ve worked on a lot of computer models of physics things for my various employers to date. Although I’d describe myself as primarily a physicist, I’m also a computer modeller – that’s what holds together my work on mould growth in grain silos, dispersion of dust within pig-sheds, infra-red sensors, radar propagation, electrical behaviour of […]
Continue readingCelebrating Teaching Day
This morning we were treated to some talks by some of the award-winning teachers at The University of Waikato. It was a bit unfortunate that none of the talks were from the ‘scientific’ disciplines, but that’s not because none of the winners were from scientific disciplines. We have our good share of excellent teachers in […]
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