Monthly Archives: December 2024

My tips for scientific conference presentations

Posted on December 3, 2024 by skullsinthestars

This semester, I decided to replace the final exam in one of my upper-level graduate courses with a short 15 minute presentation on a scientific paper related to the course topic. To give the students some guidance, I provided a … Continue reading →

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Hanbury Brown and Twiss and their impossible interferometer (1956)

Posted on December 1, 2024 by skullsinthestars

Update: fixed a mistake in my numbers for telescope resolution, which I had worse by a factor of 10. Science is in general intended to be a serious business, but every once in a while one comes across some serious … Continue reading →

Posted in History of science, Optics, Physics | 5 Comments