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Jul. 17th, 2004 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meanfreepathI think I'm only realizing now how much work all this data analysis is going to be.
I just went over to the Java House and fortified myself with a hot chocolate. I can't wait for one set of analyses to be done before starting the next; I'll have to be working on several computers simultaneously. Thank goodness for John's IDL manual; I now need to look at, improve, and run some plotting codes written by my postdoc, who doesn't know IDL very well. Come Monday I have some codes to write, too, once he and I discuss the nature of the problem to be solved and I figure out an algorithm to implement.
The game plan is to work here until 11:00 or at the latest, midnight. Then home to shower and sleep. In the morning, I'll get an early start (7:30 or 8:00 at the latest), grab some more CD's, breakfast somewhere, crunch more data, and break for church and lunch.
I have to finish with the natural phonon data this weekend. That leaves Monday and Tuesday for analyzing the longitudinal and transverse pulses. Tuesday night is my drop-dead time; I then have Wednesday to prepare my final 10 minute presentation, due Thursday to the Sci Comm instructor. There's little stuff, like making a calibration measurement inside the vacuum chamber, and doing some calculations by hand (I already checked my advisor's theory on his new method). Plus we're set to move out of the lab on 6th this week, and into a new one. Oh yeah, eventually I need to prepare a poster, too, if for nothing else the Sigma Xi poster session back at Swat. And then there's the question of the paper for Physical Review E or Physics of Plasmas.
Only two weeks... good grief.
Enough of this. Au travail!
I just went over to the Java House and fortified myself with a hot chocolate. I can't wait for one set of analyses to be done before starting the next; I'll have to be working on several computers simultaneously. Thank goodness for John's IDL manual; I now need to look at, improve, and run some plotting codes written by my postdoc, who doesn't know IDL very well. Come Monday I have some codes to write, too, once he and I discuss the nature of the problem to be solved and I figure out an algorithm to implement.
The game plan is to work here until 11:00 or at the latest, midnight. Then home to shower and sleep. In the morning, I'll get an early start (7:30 or 8:00 at the latest), grab some more CD's, breakfast somewhere, crunch more data, and break for church and lunch.
I have to finish with the natural phonon data this weekend. That leaves Monday and Tuesday for analyzing the longitudinal and transverse pulses. Tuesday night is my drop-dead time; I then have Wednesday to prepare my final 10 minute presentation, due Thursday to the Sci Comm instructor. There's little stuff, like making a calibration measurement inside the vacuum chamber, and doing some calculations by hand (I already checked my advisor's theory on his new method). Plus we're set to move out of the lab on 6th this week, and into a new one. Oh yeah, eventually I need to prepare a poster, too, if for nothing else the Sigma Xi poster session back at Swat. And then there's the question of the paper for Physical Review E or Physics of Plasmas.
Only two weeks... good grief.
Enough of this. Au travail!
