Recent content by Beeza

Hi Guys, This question doesn't pertain directly to me-- since I'm not a PhD student until next fall. However, I do have a friend that is really struggling with a terrible PhD advisor, and I would really appreciate you guys opinion (especially those of you in academia). I'll try to keep the...

I'm on AOL instant messenger sometimes, but I always stay invisible and have a very big "blocked" list. This way only people I want to talk to message me :)

Cygwin + JGrasp if you don't feel like learning command-line stuff.

My friend Lewis likes to open glass beer bottles with his teeth :) It's always interesting waiting for him to break a tooth.

I'm ashamed to say that I live 2 hours away and I've still only been up there once in my entire life. I do remember there being snow up there right around the foliage season. It's a beautiful area up there though :)

I've done searching on the topic, and I really don't know where else to turn, so here it goes. I hope somebody can point me in the right direction. I've been working on using a shooting method to solve the steady-state spherically symmetric fluid equations for an accreting plasma. Basically, it...

Should you still write a note even if you still work for them daily? Does it make it awkward? Also, should it be written on a thank you card or type something up formally?

Congrats. Northeastern has one of the nicest city campuses I've ever seen. Stay out of trouble in Boston though :)

MathType is great.

astrorob, that kind of destroys the anonymity of the internet, but here are two papers I know for a fact do not require super-computers. http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/AND+au:+Rebusco+ti:+Abundance/0/1/0/all/0/1 http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9908199Vanadium 50, I'm sure they are extremely...

I'd be interested to see just where they put the "outlets" :-) I can think of two perfect places.

You do not need a super-computer -- or even a really good computer to write meaningful astrophysics simulations. I've written and been published (still submitted) for one last summer and will hopefully have another done by the end of this summer. Granted it was done under the supervision of my...

Look up Numerical Recipes in C or even the 3rd edition is really good, but is written for C++ I believe. It seems to be the standard introduction to numerical methods for those in research. I find the book a bit sophisticated sometimes, and their coding style is a bit awkward, so their example...

What have you taken for math and physics courses?

Start with something simple like solving heat/diffusion equations, then move into coupled systems of PDE's/ODE's. You could even write a code in a couple hundred line code for Bondi accretion.