cosmologist
This week was largely uneventful in terms of science, so instead this week's blog is about what I got up to at the weekend. We finally had two days of solid sunshine (my idea of typical Spanish weather has certainly been changed over the past six weeks) and I decided to head to a small …
Last week was a week of success for me. I solved a problem that's been plaguing me for about six months! I'm not going to talk in great detail about what exactly the problem was (I'm saving that for a post in a couple of weeks' time), but it was one of those small, persistent …
Continue reading If at first you don't succeed: Madrid week five
I didn't write a blog post last week as I was rather ill (fortunately not with coronavirus...) and consequently did not get up to anything of note. As of tomorrow, I'll have been in Madrid for a month, which seems rather unbelievable. I've been feeling a bit homesick this week. It's funny the strange things …
Continue reading There'll always be an England: Madrid week four
As of tomorrow, I'll have been in Madrid for two weeks! Time really does fly. The weather is still freezing and there's fresh snow on the hills behind campus (as you can hopefully see in the header image, which I took on my commute this morning). This week I made a proper start on the …
Continue reading Standard sirens, Cobaya and Beethoven's 9th: Madrid week two
Hello! If you're reading my website for the first time, I'm a third year PhD student from the University of Portsmouth, working on testing and constraining models of interacting dark energy. If you want to know more about my research, you can click here for an overview and here for some more in-depth information. However, …
With the arrival of the new first year PhD students on Monday, I can officially class myself as a third year. It's a rather terrifying thought! The past two years have raced by in a blur of reading papers, attending conferences and wrestling with code. I'm now starting to seriously think about my post-PhD career. …
This week I travelled to Aachen on the western border of Germany for the COSMO19 conference hosted by TTK, the theoretical physics department of RWTH. The conference, which occurs yearly in different locations around the world, has a very broad scope ranging from particle astrophysics to theoretical cosmology. Conferences are an important and fun part …
