Recent content by charndt

Whoops. Fixed. And yes, I plan on visiting both schools. Thanks for the general advice.

Deciding between U British Columbia and UC San Diego for graduate studies in physics I've been accepted to the University of British Columbia and UC San Diego for graduate studies in physics, and I'm having trouble deciding between the two. I don't know how UBC compares to UCSD...

Thanks for the advice, n_student. I have decided to not get a letter from Prof P.

Thanks for the reassurance. Hmm. I understand the difficulty in commenting. Let's assume that Prof P's letter would be rather glowing, but not too specific (which is likely and better than being more specific and "only" good/mediocre imo). Furthermore, let me change the focus of my initial...

Slight misunderstanding: I was a TA for Prof T, and I would be getting a letter from him.

Anyone? Any advice or opinions would be really useful (I've only been able to get the opinion of several peers).

I worked with a professor (let's call him "Prof P") at my home institution for an REU, then the following spring semester (~8 months in total). I didn't make much progress on the project for a number of reasons, but mostly because I was essentially working on it alone (no other grad students)...

Anyone?? Just a quick "no, that will not work..." or the like would be very helpful. I haven't been able to work on the problem much since I posted it, but I'm planning on using a Laplace transform for time and z, and a finite Hankel/Fourier-Bessel transform for the radial component. I'll...

I'm trying to solve the homogeneous heat equation of a semi-infinite cylinder in cylindrical coordinates for a semi-infinite cable (no theta dependence): \frac{\partial U}{\partial t}=D\left(\frac{\partial^{2} U}{\partial r^{2}}+\frac{1}{r}\frac{\partial U}{\partial r}+\frac{\partial^{2}...