I currently live in Seattle and am stably employed with a tech company. I've been thinking about going back for my phd, but the issue is a little complicated. I'm a US citizen and did my MSc in astrophysics at University College London. I've been in touch with my old adviser who would be happy...
From my very limited understanding of the subject, it does vary wildly between schools and even departments within a college. I'm fairly sure for schools that receive hurricanes of applications every season basically filter everyone by scores and chop off the ones at the bottom without even...
I did a similar strategy and was getting similar results: 990-ing exams that I had essentially memorized. It's okay in some instances, since you can clearly see which problems they basically cut and paste into the new exams, but it's never the exact same exam.
A better strategy would probably...
It depends where you apply. Germany seems to have the best funding for US students, with the International Max Planck Research School being high up on the ladder for quality and chance of career advancement afterwards. They will pay you if you get an offer, but it won't be as much per anum since...
If it's any consolation, I have a top-tier masters in astrophysics and I still failed it (0/2 so far). According to people I know who used to work on selection committees, they basically sort everyone by GRE scores first, drop everyone below whatever the average is (ie stanford would drop...
Master in astrophysics from a top-tier British uni (US citizenship) here. The only jobs applicable to my area of research (correlation statistics) are programming jobs. Since I never learned about linked lists or bit manipulation, I can't get a job anywhere close to home.
I'm either looking at...
How should I rank the following languages from low-level to high-level? Do I have the ranking right below?
----------high
Perl
Python
Java
C#
C++
C
----------low
Additionally, where do sed/awk/grep fall in line?
I'm interested in starting a project that goes through very basic functionality...
US citizen here. Just finishing my masters at a top English uni and am in a bit of a dilemma on where to apply: Europe (or non-US) or US.
My case for Europe is that I've already had a near-miss offer at Max Planck (I was third on a list that had 2 spots for my prospective supervisor) and may...
Homework Statement
Show that the Lorentz gamma factor in the decay
K^+ \rightarrow l^+ \nu_l
can be written as
\gamma = \frac{m_K^2 + m_l^2}{2m_K m_l}
where nu is either e or mu.
The Attempt at a Solution
I'm stuck on a part of the proof. I think I understand most of it...
So in that case, would this be a legitimate way of approaching the problem? I don't like the sines and cosines and I want to get rid of them, so
\left( \frac{2E}{c}\right)^2 = \left( \frac{2E'}{c}\right)^2 - \left( p'_{\mu^+} - p'_{\mu^-}cos \theta\right)^2 - \left( p'_{\mu^-}sin \theta...
Homework Statement
Find CM energy of a mu+ mu- collider, with each beam having an energy E of 500 GeV. The beams cross at a small angle of 250 mrad.Homework Equations
E^2 - p^2c^2 = m^2c^4The Attempt at a Solution
So I have a diagram for the lab frame which has the mu- coming in at a small...
I see. I was getting confused with a table I have as a reminder that: when you change particular flavor states (like from C to S or U to D) you emit a W+ and a W- for the reverse operation. I thought in order to go from like a U -> D, D -> C, C -> S you had to emit a W+ each time.
So the CKM...